What do you mean exactly? Country flag with the name over the car, or country flag in the ''n'' list? I'm not sure for a flag over the car, but it would be very nice to have it in the ''n'' list. Great idea, and must be pretty easy to do for Scawen (test patch!!! )

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Or even better, you all start in the pits, then you have roll upto the line up. And do all the stuff you see if you watch live racing. Sit around in the sun with hot females just there to be hot.
Then do the one lap behind the safty car, line up again, then wait for the lights :o That'd be soo hot.
Drag out the races a tad. But none the less

I don't expect this before S6

A safety car would be nice, indeed, but if you add a safety car, there must be a couple of things that come with it. I think this could be good:


- Better AI (we don't want the SC to be tard illepall )
- Remove all the things that are completly beyond reality of racing:

• You can't teleport to pit in reality
  
• Sometimes, the car could just stop moving if too damaged
  
• Unfortunatly, we can't live with a part of the top a the car into our heads
  
• A car can't repair itself only by standing in a yellow line box; a crew is needed

I forgot alot, I know it. But, you know, if devs are to remove things that are correct in LFS, there is a longer list:

• I don't think M.Shumacher can horn slower cars in front of him
  
• If I look over me, there is no name (okay, that might be usefull sometimes...)
  
• well... the list is much more long, but I gotta go to a lesson

To conclude, i'd say that before devs evolve lfs to a level with SC and this sort of things, there is an urgent need to correct some lacks of reality here (the wood in the fzr, for instance )

Quote from Lible :

Im not going to make a new thread, but these are my suggestions:

Possibility for free City Cruise
Possibility to go into shops
Possibility to open your window when crashed and scream YOU IDIOTS!
Possibility to fly!
Moving humans watching the race and if you are lucky, you can see a idiot running at the track.

LFS Sucks without this.

Couln't agree more... exept the possibility to fly, I don't really care. Free city cruise would be nice, but it would take a mmoooore larger map, which would take agggeeesss to load and considering that lfs requires cpu, it would take 555500000044444 mhz to run it

Quote from tristancliffe :

I agree with the tyre one, but no the repair one.

Think about it. You bend your car body a bit. At the moment you can carry on driving with no penalty at all. The ONLY penalty is 4 seconds in the pics. In real life, or in LFS when it's a bit more advanced, you bend your car, lose 10 seconds a lap cos the bodywork fouls the wheel or your radiators crack, THEN you can have the option to turn off the damage.

As it is now, the only reason NOT to damage your car (not including the suspension) is the pit stops, and I think you've got to have an incentive to keep it out of the walls...

Yes, you are right, but if we push a little further, there should be different type of damage for each car. What I mean is that damages are different for each cars and that they will not cause the same amount of trouble. For example, if you hurt a bit the front of a GTI, it's not that terrible, okay, paint is scratched :P, but if you crash a bit the front of a FO8, it's not even sure it will stay on the road.

So, it would be a good idea to have a function that allows no car repairs because sometimes it just doesn't affect the car handle.

Also, it would be nice to have something as a damage timer. What I mean there is that damages for a FO8 are certainly slower to repair that damages for a road car.

Just some ideas that we could devellop to do something closer to reality.

Well... I can't confirm that, Fonny, but I don't think it works. Even as an admin, when you just press ESC, it brings up the menu pannel (right, eh :shy. Anyway, that would be a quite nice function, indeed. I don't like when some n00bs just show up and restart the race for... no reason (exept their own fun) .

Besides, I don't think it would be a function that would be that hard to code for Scawen... maybe just an addition to some existing code. :faint2:

Quote from Fonnybone :

Sure, you can do all sorts of things with math, but being somewhat scientific, wouldn't you WANT to compare
your results to the actual data from LFS !? How else can you prove LFS is wrong/right

As for the top speed, i'd be interested in getting actual figures from the game itself, but i'll
admit it's not that usefull. Once you got the car to it's top speed, you note the speed,
then it's done. A long stretch of road leading nowhere WOULD be a waste in that case.

So in that respect, i think a BIG oval would be better. I mean 2 long stretches, very long, with
2 banked high-speed turns. Something more along the lines of the Gran Turismo TestCourse.

Kyoto is nice and all, but it's simply not big enough, i'd take straights at least twice that long personally.
I'm not sure what's the maximum map size LFS can deal with, maybe that's part of the reason for it's size.

Yeah, I think you are right. A big stretch of road would be quite useless. The idea of a huge oval is more interesting. It could even be considered as a ''race'' track on which you can do some races ( well, I don't believe thoses races would be quite fun... but, anyway ).

Besides, I think there are more important things to know before the top speed of a car. I mean... it could be an interesting statistic, but I'd rather have tire finalized tyre physics than this. Tyre physics are more important to do a good race than... top speed... (who cares about top speed of a car on aston club?? ).

Anyway... that's just an opinion.

Quote from DodgeRacer :

No, its not stupid, but just a big plain asphault strip is not very practical for the devs to spend their time on, now this airstrip idea I think thats got some real good vibe to it...

It would indeed be a nice waste of time, but I sometimes wonder if the devs really spend their time correctly ...

The idea is not stupid... it could be fun to know the top speed of each cars, but I agree with Chaos... it's sooo useless to know the top speed of a car; most racetracks don't even allow to go that fast.

Well... this is a good idea, but is it really usefull? I have no knowledge of hacking and kracking in LFS ever. The way the game is unlocked, I don't see how it could be possible. If someone buys a voucher, the server has to give the unlock key and allow it to be used to unlock a version...

Maybe i'm know, tho... anyone knows about kracking in LFS? :faint2: I mean... I don't think it ever happened.

Quote from bbman :

Let me tell you that: GTL costs 55 € now, even when I would have bought S3 right away, it would have been 5 € cheaper AND I have the knowlegde, that I'll get steady, actually improving patches or updates with new content... Who says, that this would also be the case with GTL?

Okay, then I ask this: is it really a good deal to save 5€ on LFS if it takes something like 8 years to be completed? I mean... it's a better deal to pay 5€ more and to have a game in about 1 year than to save 5€ on a game that you just can't know when it will go out.

I bought S2 and I will probably buy S3, but the developpement of that game is pathetic.

EDIT: btw guys, I don't think a country war is a good idea :P

Last edited by boosterfire, Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:34.

Well... actually, LFS isn't cheaper than other games. Other games that are coming out are generally full versions. Theses days, a game costs about 50$ USD when it comes out. Considering that S3 will be the full version of LFS and that each part is 12£, it equals 36£. 36£ is more than 50$ USD... so lfs is more expensive.

It's understandable considering that the devs are living on that game and that they don't have as much customers than another game such as GT4 because it targets a smaller market.

Quote from _rod_ :

i know that, but i think its because and his attitude that every1 gets pissed and write a anwser telling him how wrong he is, and how childish he is...

I'd simply say that this thread is a great occasion to post something useless in a useless thread... it's fun, isn't it?

Okay... this is just (O.o) pathetic... I just can't believe some people are complaining like that to get something free. Man... get a job, sell something or just make yourself a whore to make some money. You could also hack some US bank or the FBI to steel a 20bucks, but I wouln't recommend it.

Oh, btw wouln't it be nice if all would be free? No more money problems! We could take everything that we want from everybody...

Oh, I almost forgot: I'm sure this guy goes every saturday to a supermarket (for instance, clubprice), to eat the free demos, you know... as Homer Simpson does. I don'T think eating lfs demo will help, tho...

Last edited by boosterfire, Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:27.

Quote from Scawen :

Yeah, don't worry, take it easy Dappa.

There are thousands of people in the community and it's just a few guys who voted to ban you from one server. That kind of ban lasts for 24 hours.

If you drive sensibly then you should be welcome on most hosts. Sometimes, some users vote to ban a bit too quickly because they have had bad experiences in the past. It's unfortunate if one crash got you a ban. Maybe you bumped someone who was in a bad mood.

I think Scawen means that pressing '1' is a reflex for some people :faint2:

I cleaned up the old drivers, got new ones and I now get from 20 fps to 60. It's a bit better, but I think it could be even higher...

I tried to install it another clean directory but it doesn't affect the fps. The vertex shading was already on. I'll try to look for a process or something. I upgraded to the lastest drivers, for the mobo and the gfx, but it stills the same.

Okay, done it... the results are pretty pathetic. Here they are:

Min: Frames: 4642 - Time: 103485ms - Avg: 44.856 - Min: 29 - Max: 61

Max: Frames: 1548 - Time: 103406ms - Avg: 14.970 - Min: 9 - Max: 23

It is crap, isn't it?

Slower car doesn't mean closer racing. It's all about racing times. If you get on a server where there are 6 XRRs that are all running the same time as you, there is a possibility that you'll get close, clean racing.

Obviously, closer racing with slower cars is more easy, because the times are more constant and more close from each other. For example, if you run 1.41 with the uf1 on bl1, there are alot of chances that the other times on a server will be around 1.42, 1.43 and 1.44. Besides, if you run 1.09.00 with the FOX, I can bet alot that times will go up to 1.14 or 1.15, which is obviously not good for close racing.

This is why racing in leagues, with pools is nice, you qualify on a server where people are around your times, which is a good way to get close racing.

Boosterfire.

Hi folks, I've been running lfs on a couple of computers since I play. The first one was crap, the second one was average and the one that I have now is technically good, but I wonder if things all are set the the correct things.

Here's the thing: I get about 50 fps max and 15 fps at the start of a 16 car race (in the back) with that configuration:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1024MB RAM DDR
NF4 PCIe socket 939 mobo
PowerColor ATI Radeon X700 series 256MB
Two hard disk, one 40gb and the other 80 (I think they both run 5200rpm)

So... it's not so bad. I've read a couple of thread in this forum where people say they have 40 fps all the time with 2.2 ghz computers and 128MB video cards.

I don't know... maybe my LFS options are set not OK, but I think it's pretty good. I know LFS requires a good CPU more than a good Vidcard, but I think athlon 64 3000+ isn't that bad... right?

Actually, the anti-aliasing settings are set to 2x performance.

Anyway... if you guys could just help me clear this out... I don't even know if it's a problem or if the computer can't do anything better than this.

Thanks, Boosterfire.

There might be something wrong (or it's just me). I had to reinstall a couple of things that caused my lfs to be locked. Obviously, I tried to unlock it but when I type my password and my username and then click on 'unlock' it says unknown command

I think the French button is wrong to. It's spelled 'Français'. There's quite a big problem in there

Nope... reinstalling the patch didn't work. I extract all of the files to... i'm not that stupid.

I know that other people got that error to... it must come from the lfs somewhere... with specific PC parameters.

Hi! Something just came up when I ''upgraded'' to patch P4. I had P2 and everything was working well, but after installing P4, LFS crashes at the start and shows message ''Could not load font''. I tought this was about the patch for sure, because it was working well before I installed it and this patch is mostly about language or font things... Any idea of what is the problem? (don't ask me my PC spec illepall)

Here are mine:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.81ghz :really
1gb ram DDR
MSI NF4 PCIe
Powercolor X700 PCIe
120gb hdd
benq705 LCD screen
integrated realtek 3.1 audio

Just read that topic, it's funny schtuff :P

Here's my conclusions: Scawen, even if i'm amazed of this news, is a man! :faint2:

Secondly, Vykos's avatar is really funny

And also it's damn hot here :melting: (Okay, I just wanted to put that smilie, it's funny )