Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Is that before or after she said she's already taken?

And to be honest, apart from a few members (I won't name any names), I think the LFS forums has a pretty good general attitude towards the few female members (in regards to their bodies and stuff, just stay out of the Inevitable Picture Thread, but then I guess there's a time and a place ).

Saying you're a lesbian won't help either, most guys are even more turned on by two girls than the normal pairing of a bloke and a bird, or a girl on her own (or a guy if you bend that way. :razz

lol at this.

and yes, she's taken, by me! for the last 2 years anyway...

both our general lap times are improving somewhat now too

Let the Threadnought continue!

Woohoo, my gf starts her very own Threadnaught! Epic

She's actually starting to get looaaads better than either of us imagined she'd get so early on...

Thanks for the friendly welcomes again guys. Community here seems so helpful

(other than that french tard in that CTRA race 1 server who tries to voteban everybody)

Quote from mathew4445 :

Now now EmilO, Dont lie to the poor guy,


He's gonna lose it eventually.

Lol, well, i went online, first race was fine, second race, i got rammed so hard it flipped my car, and then some french idiot decided it would be epic to voteban me, so i left.. pfft

mmhm.. ill definitely look into that,

thanks

Quote from Gil07 :

You can pretty much always find a full XFG/XRG server (CTRA), and those cars have shifters, so you should be ok :P

Awesome, Thanks

Quote from senn :

some sort of short tag team enduro where u take turns driving would be kinda cool

somehow, i kept reading "short tag team" as something else altogether

Quote from dmwright :

You just gave me an idea! How about

Wait for it

A Couple Championship?

LOL -- that would be a laugh, and something we'd both be up for!

(boyfriend signing in)

hey guys, thanks for giving laura such a warm Welcome

As soon as she gets her G25, she'll be upgrading to S2, but for now she can just carry on hogging my G25/account lolol!

To one of the above posters, i'd doubt we are the first LFS couple, but i'd guess its a pretty small category!

Hah, well enjoy your racing guys, see you online.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Hehe, np. I thought I stop spamming the forum for a second and write some actual helpful posts.

Now back to spamming.

RAWR

ahh, was just checking on some other threads and noticed a common theme..

zeugnimod

You've helped me in almost all of them, this post is a thanks to you for that help (setting up my G25 pedals properly etc etc)

Quote from zeugnimod :

It's about time you start doing that then.

im barely more than 24 hours into my LFS experience with practically zero racing experience before this, however i am making progress, and will probably be online monday evening (in laws round this weekend)

thanks for the replies guys.

the hardest choice for me is choosing a type of car to "settle down" with
I'm a fan of actual gear shifting with clutch, 6 speed tops.. but id also like to get into a good amount of online racing, which i fear may be more Sequential gear based cars?

Could anyone advise me on this please?

Quote from garph :

What he said.

You're right you probably have missed the point.

The slower cars generally make the racing much closer, easier to pick up, better for public server racing and much more exciting.

Try racing the BF1 and you'll see that it is very difficult, you need to really trust and know the people you're racing with and even then it can be very tricky, hence the reason it's not really used (public BF1 racing is not much fun).

Makes sense now

thanks for clearing that one up for me.

(havent done any onliner stuff yet)

The Scirocco is based on the current Golf GTI, but it's wider, lower and lighter. Sounds like a recipe for a car that’s great to drive, right? It is: the Scirocco darts into corners and hangs on tenaciously – there aren't many cars at this price that are as much fun on a twisty road.

sounds ok i guess. hmmph

Who wants to drive a family Coupé anyway.. We can do that in real life

i suppose i am missing the point somewhere, but when the choice of cars seem to range from tuned racers to F1 style cars, whats the excitement about a 2 door comfort cruiser style thing? :O


/flame suit
(just incase)

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Check out http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Guides and also the section on driving tips

AWESOME thanks very much

i accidentally found the "racing line" button and was having fun getting an idea of the suggested route through, but i also accidentally turned it back off -.- would someone mind pointing me in the right direction?

Last edited by Blakey., Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:39.

thanks guys.

and to MR.B when i say "switching over" i mean.. maybe i played GRID for about 40 minutes on Donnington and got bored.. and the others i hadn't really spent much more than an evening on!

I juat had this "itch" for the G25 for about a year.. finally scratched it, my only regret is not giving in sooner.

Quote from bbman :

Right below the list of setups on the right part on your screen there's a button labeled "new"... Try it...

check my edit.. beat you to it

update

just watched DrDrivers video on Blackwood
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QXK7mysi-xw

unfortunately i havent gotten into custom setups yet, sticking with stock however unwise that may be.

Hopefully i'll stumble across a decent guide on the basics of setup's... at the moments i get the most stupid errors ever "cannot change profile [DEFAULT] but i simply can't fint a "new setup" button, or anything to that effect



hahaha what a terrible noob i am..

alt tabbed back into game.. first thing i see is "new Setup" button.. epic now to fiddle..

Last edited by Blakey., Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:17.

Soo, i started playing this fine sim at around 11am GMT this morning, it is now 7pm.

This was the first day of using my G25 aswell.. an early xmas gift for myself.

I did some general reading up on the forums and hit the track in the "newbie car" Blackwood specifically, hitting 1:40 laps.

I check the forums.. notice some guy whos been playing 6 months can do blackwood in 1:14 with a mouse.. i begin to sob...

then i notice.. FXR is the car of choice he is using. I hop into an FXR, and on the second lap Hit 1:15. I'm pretty damn proud of that. this is my first day of playing any sort of serious SIM, and im loving it -- moved over from GRID/others with an xbox pad :P

Please rate my time! :P as soon as i can figure out how to save replays and where to upload them etc, ill bang out as best a lap time i can manage, hoping to beat 1:14!

Great game so far, loving it. even the Girlfriend is getting involved

good stuff

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

come to visit my server, named kyotoracing I can teach you something there

Will do.

thanks for the replies

loving it all so far, hard work though eh!

Quote from amp88 :

The only people who normally chat to each other in a race would be teammates.

This is sort of what i was getting at, in an awfully haphazard way.. so there really are teams awesome.

to the 1st reply, thanks for the help, will check that out now

thanks for this...