both,
the more cars the better

Quote from Tweaker :

Emailing someone to send you a high quality skin is not that hard

The problem is not on my side, but on the other...

A button in the conn list, maybe next to the SS button, that would mute the player (i will not recieve msgs from him)...

In leagues, this would help the players not to get lost in chatter, because you could mute all players except the admin...

Works well with me, changing ENG>CZE>GER ...

You can set the hotkey to change it in windows, I have it on left alt+shift, and it can be set to ctrl + shift...

It works also when LFS is running...

Last edited by Chaos, Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:58.

Quote from al heeley :

If all you really want is higher quality screenshots to show off ads from some sponsors, then you must surely already have access to the 1024 skins? If not, how many skins are you talking about? I would have thought that getting access to all the 1024 skins within LFSW is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Why not just get the people concerned to mail you the skins, unless for some reason, they don't want you to have the full res versions?

Well I only have access to the 1024 ad template for everyone to use, not the actual skins... I guess we will have about 60 drivers (skins)

Well as I said I can tell everyone to mail me their skins, but I know I will not get every single one, although the skins will be on LFSW (without skin the driver can't race), because some people are just too lazy, believe me, I'm organising leagues for over a year now and some can't even read the rules of the league... So getting them to mail me a file can't happen...

What I'm asking is: add a link to driver skins maybe in online stats on LFSW, I'm sure not many people would use it anyway and because the 512 skins downloaded ingame are enough...

This weekend we had the "GTP Weekend" event at the race track I work at and guess what raced here

LX6-R or what?

Quote from Tweaker :

Victor has already explained that they are doing the 512 download on purpose as a 'first step' into seeing how the features works and how much bandwidth is requires. It would cost them double what they are paying now probably, and the server would constantly require more and more space. Allthough I recall Victor saying that they could just keep putting new harddrives in... that is still not something that should be needed. All I have to say is, is if you want 1024 skins they should host it elsewhere. The 512 skins downloaded online is a perfect and quick size for everyone that is using upwards of ISDN speeds.

This has been discussed so many times before, everyone knows some people want to download 1024 skins, but it is just the fact that it costs the devs more and requires more than what we have going on now. And I think Victor said that in the future he might consider raising the size/quality, but not anytime soon I guess. Also think about future releases of LFS, which would most likely include more cars... again the space required is raised, and things become bigger and bigger. Eventually things will have to be upgraded, but in my opinion it isn't absolutely necessary right now, it is perfectly fine what we have now.


LFS Files will not be hosting anybody's normal old personal skin files in the official download sections, there will be personal garage sections in the forum to post your skins there seperately or in a zip. This is due to the fact that LFS Files was lacking in the ease of finding quality skins at 1024 size. This also makes it easier for people who 'want' their work in the official download area to actually recieve comments and to improve, so they could possibly get their file showcased. Hard to explain, but you'll see how it works soon

I think you did not understand what I thought. I meant to be able do download the 1024 skins via browser from the LFSW. The files are there (because you can download your own 1024 skins in a .zip) so the space question is not in place. Ingame downloading of 1024 skins is not necessary, I agree, but I would like to do some screenies and because we have sponsors who gave us prizes worth of $1000 I need all ads to be clearly visible...

I can ask everybody to send me their skins via email, but why should I do it this way, when the 1024 skins are on a server, but I can't download them... Asking people to send them is a option, but i'm sure that I will not get everyone's skin... Some people are too lazy...

Last edited by Chaos, Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:17.

Is there a possibility to manually download 1024 skins from LFSW from drivers I choose? I looked all over LFSW and only found the possibility to download all my 1024 skins in a .zip ...

(I would like to make a 1024 skinpack of league skins for everybody to download...)

If it is not possible, I think it would be a nice feature...

Last edited by Chaos, Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:14.

Happy Birthday Fordman!

Happend to me too, but I think the program "forgets" where the car's position is (for displaying the track), because when the car made one whole lap (from the lag point) the track reappeared and everything was ok.

I even have a replay where this is happening... but finding it will be tough maybe impossible... i got around 300 replays and i can't remember where it happend...

Quote from LRB_Aly :

On the other hand on public servers the only challenge i have is when i start from behind

That's why I always set the start order to REVERSE on servers where I have the admin pass. Everytime there are a lot of people and it's great fun! Also when racing on other servers, once I get to start from the first row, I jump to the pits and start from there, because I don't like "hotlapping" on the first position...

Scawen, please would it be possible to set the REVERSE starting order as default? IMO not many people change the default dedi-server settings and with the reverse starting order there is much more fun and a bigger challenge in the races...

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

I need to get laid aswell.

who does not?

It took some time, but the video is done! My thanks goes to Jet for making this awesome video!

Download at LFS Movies Pit

VHS footage from the prizegiving is at the end of the movie :magnify: .

Enjoy!

Quote from Bob Smith :

OK thanks. There was no need to translate my name though. Boba Smithe, lol.

All in all looking good, I don't know Czech so I can't really comment for it's accuracy but it's quite different to MadmanCZ's version so I can see you've been at work.

I think I'm gonna have to make the whole application window a little bigger so I can spread things out a bit, otherwise it's going to get too cramped. I'm going to wait until the other languages are ready though so I don't have to repeat myself.

Cheers.

hehe, i understand that your name sounds funny this way , but in our language we change all the names... and females get a +ova to the end of their surname, so be glad you're a man

Translated almost everything (except imperial units) and made what was translated sound more czech

please NO turbo in the LX8, it would possibly make it almost undriveable! I agree that a race version would be nice. But not make it out of the LX6 but add it.. the LX6 is a blast on KY nat versus the FZ50 and RAC! You get overtaken on the oval part, but take it back on the inside part of the track.
So leave the LX6 as it is now and add a LX6-R with slicks...

One sentence to sum a lot what was written here:

First learn to drive your car and stay in control at all times, racing will then come by itself.

Quote from FM-Failure :

This guy is weird...
First i got a message from him inquiring how i am able to drive 100 km within 5 minutes. I tried to answer him asking where he gathered that information from but the system just said user not found. A few days later he sends me another msg telling me in a rude way that i am sick and need to get a life. Obviously he was refering to my LFS addiction and the statistics for this month.
Now he sits on his own locked server with his friend wusel on a 1 Lap race, currently getting a win on the monthly stats every other minute. I assume just to pi.. me off and to prove his point of being the best LFS player? With people like him the monthly stats are pretty useless.
Try to access his online race statistics and you shall see that this user cannot be found - what is he hiding? His glorious 1 lap wins?
That doesnt sound like a fair player, does it??

just ignore him, he's not even worth the few keystrokes to write this msg...

I'll do the czech version tommorow at work should there be noone faster that is

could be that i'm a alien rwd fool, but I love the lx6! Not many of us out there, but I have met a few online

Quote from colcob :

I dunno, Renku isnt doing too bad. He's an average of 0.7 over benchmark accross all 744 laps. Which is not bad going at all really. He's also got 11 world records, so it obviously just a matter of time before he gets that figure down.

The other guy obviously needs to get a life though. He's an average of 7.4 seconds per lap over benchmark. I'm sure how its even possible to be that slow, even if you only drove a couple of laps at each track.

:doh: oh I only glanced at the times and saw eighty something and didn't search for Renku's details on lfsw...

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

On a side note/idea would it be possible to have a nutter/vehicle LFS rank (MHR is only 18 which is good)
It would be a greatway to see all the nutters in they car they love, all nice and neat.

There are per car ranks also... Just click on the desired car and you can see the chart

Last edited by Chaos, Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:13.

Quote from three_jump :

1 Renku +8:20.810 744
2 robnewman +91:15.650 744

imo nothing to be proud of... they just run one lap of each combo just to have 1st and 2nd place... the handicap tells that their times are pretty bad...

Congrats Scawen Eric and Victor! Excellent job done and I'm sure more is going to come!

Quote from CharlieP :

Theres a nice idea for us noobs....

A track guide, showing overtaking points, best lines etc.....

A nice jpeg would suit

Anyone of the 'good people' up for that ? aliens or otherwise

just use the AnalyzeForSpeed tool to see your line and a reference line (i.e. WR)

Last edited by Chaos, Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:39.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

I don't think they should be counted if they lose the connection right before the finish line. What if IRL a car was in first before the finishline, and then spun out due to transmission problems? They would be DNF for not finishing!

IRL its done based on the last completed lap, so>
If a car is on the first positon and does not finish the last lap, but has lapped someone during the race, then he is in front of these cars on the final positions list... (he did 25 laps but on the final (26th lap) he crashed, the ones who were lapped did 25 laps only and saw the chequered flag, so the leader did those 25 laps faster then the lapped racers did)
This does not happen in LFS. I run the 1st Czech LFS League and I have to go through the replays and manually check these situations... (it happened several times already)...