Hi

The LFS: GTR League is now open, if you want to take part please register at http://www.conedodgers.co.uk and you name will be added to the waiting list

ITS OPEN TO ALL

Thanks

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If you take a phote of anything, you have copyright to the photo as you took it. The copyright is yours as long as you can prove you took it, having a photograph that someone sends you will not do.

If you copy a design then the copyright is with the company you were copying.

In business i once got a warning from Land Rover about using thier logo on a sales leaflet and i was warned that if i did not remove it they would take action against me.

I proved to them that it was a photograph of the badge on my Range Rover and that i owned the car and photo.

Now that becomes a grey area and so they may not have the rights to have it removed, After several letters they never took action, however we did agree that i would not use it again just in case.

Quote from roo-boy :

birder u got alot of demands there!!
lol

u got all the files, re-compile it

Ask for a lot get a little, Sorry i am not a programmer so can only ask

Hi Monk

I am using LFSLapper and its a great add on. Could i ask for a few things to be added for your next update if its possible.

1) I am using the pb.txt to record racers above the MaxLapTime to qualify for a new league, but i have found that as it records the nickname rather than the username its causing me problems. Racers seem to change their nicknames as often as they do their girlfriends so the pb.txt has loads of double entries (and triples Blah Blah Blah) for the same person. The file also contains loads of ^x which makes it difficult to read. Can you make the output to the PB.tx username.

Maybe a setting PBname = username or nickname

2) Can you add LapRecordAction and LapRecord

LapRecord = 1.39.75
LapRecord Action = /msg New Server Lap Record {Laptime} etc

3) Can you add SpeedAction and Speed

Speed = 275
SpeedAction = /msg Wow {nickname} just hit {Speed} kph

Thanks again

I see some of the LFS Demo driver are doing Trackdays illepall

http://videos.streetfire.net/s ... f98-b60f-9841006c3234.htm

I often race on AS3, 10 laps with pit. Most people now put 28% in the tank and fill to 5% (The minimum). That means that they can do a pit stop without taking on fuel and the settings are not realistic

I say change it all to litres (and gallons) and have a settings in the garage for

a) Fuel at Start (In ltrs or gallons) - Fuel in the tank at start
b) Top Up (In ltrs or gallons) - How much to put in
c) Auto or Key - If auto selected amount in b) is added. If Key is selected the amount in b) would be added for each key press. (Set 5 ltrs - press 4 times adds 20 litres)
d) Low warning at - a setting at which a dash light flashes a low fuel warning

A driver would then have total control of his fuel strategy and could even make a "splash and dash" rather than the "ran out of fuel" message that we get all the time

To add real control and realisam the simple setting "Pit required" needs changing to.

a) Minimum fuel x - amount of fuel that must be taken on to satisfy the pit completed flag

This type of setting could also be used for tyres and pit window.

Hi

Is there any Frex SimConMotion users out there that can tell me the setting they use within the SimConMotion software and the OutSim section of the LFS cfg.txt file.

But where would you fit your DFP?

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=9672

Start at the back button has been asked for before, i still say it would help some drivers, and if it was a button you have a choice of not pressing it

Quote from tristancliffe :

I voted for leave it as it is blah blah. But I also wanted to vote for the Ban Cheaters indefinitely. I couldn't, so I said it here instead.

+1 to Ban Cheaters count then!

I am the same

Quote from wheel4hummer :

I use whatever the steering wheel lock is of the car I'm driving. 720 for all STD, TBO, FWD, LRF cars. 270 for MRT, 540 for GTR, 450 for FO8 and FOX, 400 for the BF1.

Me too, and i have a lob catching tail slides but its a simulator not a game so your controller should be that same a the car

Quote from VoiD :

+1

Normaly I only pit "out of garage" when I was taken out of race by other drivers in T1/lap1 or when i join midrace.

But I agree, this has to be solved!

Maybe this thread would fit better in improvement suggestions..?

With your lap times, perhaps you should do an extra lap anyway (Joke)

I often race a FZR on Aston National as there always seems to be at least one full server and some great races. Normally the race is 10 laps with a pit stop.

When I first started, pitting on the last lap was a problem but that has been stopped as it now carries a 30 second penalty. I use enough fuel for the whole race and the minimum top up so pit stops are as fast as possible. If I have not been side swiped at T1, I can make a pitstop with little loss of time. If i have been hit several times it will take longer as all the damage is repaired.

Now I am not fast, my best is 1.42:03 but there are loads of drivers much faster than that. I suddenly found that drivers in the 1.45’s are beating me and could not understand how. I would be in front of them and then when I pit they are suddenly in front yet they are slower.

As there is no way you can tell if someone has done their pit stop while in the race (Not that I am aware) I always expect they will need to pit and I should be in front again but low and behold they don’t, yet the finish the results say they pitted.

Watching a replay shows that at the start they pit from the line using Shift+S then move forward from the garage to a pit box which says they have pitted and then go out onto the circuit. Pitting like this means no damage plus they have missed all the fun at T1 on a clear track. They don’t need to catch or pass anyone but just wait until the other cars pit.

Even some of the super fast drivers are doing this.

Who agrees that this action should also get an automatic 30 second penalty or a pit before the end of the first lap not be counted as a pit at all.

Maybe we need a pit window to make it real interesting.

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If the F08 had a Le-mans prototype body everyone would race it.

a short guide here > http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=5776

Why not remove all the plates and let the user put his own on in the skinning process or simply have an option Plate [yes] [no] in options.

Currently (i think) if you place text in the skin where a plate would be, it appears behind the plate anyway

That way you could have a sponsor if you want on the skin, a plate if you want on the skin or as text or it missing all together if you want.

After all most of the plates online mean nothing anyway

Last edited by birder, Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:21.

Quote from Scawen :

I have just tested this and cannot reproduce. It seems to work fine.

Reinstalled U14 with all its contents and it now works fine

request

Please add ff_up and ff_down to the functions so we can assign < and > to buttons.

Question

fz5.lfs has "run road" inside
road.lfs, i have added "button 2 horn"

press button 2 and the horn sounds, fine

If i add "button 2 horn" and remove "run road" in fz5.lfs the horn does not sound when btn 2 is pressed, yet i understand fz5.lfs is run on car selection

It may be me but i just cant see why?

Quote from zeugnimod :

Yeah, looks like you do.

When you click on the "?", it also says, how many laps the race has or how long the quali is.

And behind the server name, there are the letters like VQS. And theres one small "p" and one big "P". I dont really know, which stands for what, but one stands for "private" and one stands for "pit".

You are correct, i had never seen that before, thanks

Just found this for others info

V - vote
S - select
Q - qual
M - Mid-race join
P - pit-in

I tried the wiki but it seems to time out?

Last edited by birder, Sat, 1 Jul 2006 22:59.

Quote from Becky Rose :

It's experienced players who do this. Why are newbies always blamed for T1 accidents? It's the veterans trying to get every last possible position by taking risks that cause the issue.

Only very ocassionaly I have seen new people join with contempt for other racers, most newbies are very slow and know they are slow - and try their best not to ruin their reputations in the first few days of owning the game.

Starting at the back is a system that works well in real racing for rookie license holders - you have to complete 6 races without causing incident before getting a full race license where you can then take your normal grid slot.

I've been in LFS long enough to recognise driver names, and more often than not T1 accidents are caused by experienced drivers - also the more experienced a driver is the quicker they are to blame other people (newbies tend to say "sorry" a whole lot more).

I too have caused the odd T1 pile up, not as many as some i'm sure, but I didn't cause any when I was new - I wasn't trying to get past "that" car when I was new...

I fully agree,

I find that most pile ups are faster drivers trying to get past the slower ones before T1 as the FZR is faster off the line that the other GT's

If there was an option then each driver could choose. If there are 6 drivers in the race they would take a chance but when there are 20 they may think again.

In my case i am hit from behind so many times that by the time i am back on track i am at the back anyway so a button would make it easy.

Quote from zeugnimod :

You can see all that in the letters behind the server in the server list and by clicking on the "?" next to the server name.

Am i missing something. The server list gives the circuit but the "?" gives a list of usernames and car types

However It does not seem to say if a pit is required, the only time this seems comes up is when the race starts but them its to late to change fuel.

Perhaps a better idea is to have a "Race details Button" in the garage

I have not seen these in any list

1)

For new (and slower) drivers online it maybe a good thing to have a "start at the back of the grid" button or setting.

They do this is UK short track racing such as hot rods so a new racer is not smashed on his first run and has time to get used to the track before the fast boys pass him.

This may help cut down on start line and T1 pile ups until they have had some prectice and when trying set's.

Even some of the fast drivers could use it to get better racing as they could then work their way through the pack from the back.

2)

When joining a server or even before you join it, it would be good if it gave full details of the race going on such as number of laps and if there is a pit stop. That way drivers can set fuel, select a set etc before they line up

Hi Folks

Since using a Momo or DFP i have always had a problem of wheel wobble and i am not sure what it is but i think it could be a bug in LFS

Try this. Set the BFI off as A1 on Aston National using your setup and watch it in cockpit view.

It does it on all cars but the BF1 shows it the most.

On my system the wheel goes mad in certain places. In this case its LFS thats driving and not me.

If someone can confirm this, if they cannot i will put up a replay.

Thanks

The big difference is that a Gamepad and Joystick are for Arcade games but your DFP is trying to Simulate driving a car.

Stick with it and all of a sudden (about 5000miles) you will get used to it