This is literally like, the biggest deal in the entire world.
Be Good To Yourself - Journey
yes yes yes
yes yes yes
I can't wait for the thrilling conclusion of this forum drama!
Can we make something that aims to look realistic, or does it have to be in various shades of brown with copious amounts of blur, like all current racing games? 
Onboard John Reynolds' Suzuki GSX-R750 at one of the best tracks in the world. Taken from the 1996 World Superbike round at Laguna Seca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3eA2f4H7LM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3eA2f4H7LM
The one on the visor is NAGT, an rFactor league. The numberplate says Expertshop, presumably another rFactor related one.
Hi Dave
I'm going to be honest here: You will meet people who get on your back over nothing, and take the game too seriously. It's only happened to me about three times since I started playing, so don't get worried about that. It's just something that happens occasionally and if it happens on a crowded server, the guy who's berating you for no reason usually gets called out by the rest of the server. People will stand up for anyone who's been wronged, but I feel that not telling you about the few individuals who make this game less fun wouldn't be fair.
The vast majority of people who play this game are great, very friendly and understanding towards people who are new to it. The problem is that in racing games, much more so than in other genres, people get very caught up in the moment and get riled up easily. It's why they're extremely wary of newcomers. Opinions are formed before you even prove yourself, and a lot of players seem to equate fast lap times with good driving when it's often quite the opposite. The best racing I've had is with drivers in the midfield or towards the back, because they concentrate more on being fair towards others and avoiding contact. This is the key to gaining confidence online. As long as you can hold one line and let other drivers know where you intend to go, they will do the same for you and before you know it, you'll stop worrying about getting in others' way.
I can see how it's intimidating for new racers. The most popular servers greet you with something like "Welcome to our server, if you do any of the following things you will be banned". Frankly, seeing the word 'banned' appear the first time I join a server is enough to make me doubt my own abilities and think that I'll inadvertently get myself kicked out. It's like the general attitude is that if a new guy makes any kind of mistake, he's going to be one of those people who gets in everyone's way. Definitely not the case, but try telling that to everyone on a server.
I think what I'm trying to say is that, even though online racing in LFS is very daunting at first, if you can just prove yourself as a clean and fair driver it doesn't matter how fast you are. It might take a bit of practice in single player, but that's worth it. I'd second the idea of choosing a car like the XFG to start with, and just learning about it. I also think joining a server and introducing yourself helps immediately. People will be more than willing to help you get going online, as well as on the forums. For what it's worth, just making this thread says to me that you're thinking more about others than yourself, and that you're already much more polite than half the people I race against. As far as I can see, you've no reason to doubt yourself.
I'm going to be honest here: You will meet people who get on your back over nothing, and take the game too seriously. It's only happened to me about three times since I started playing, so don't get worried about that. It's just something that happens occasionally and if it happens on a crowded server, the guy who's berating you for no reason usually gets called out by the rest of the server. People will stand up for anyone who's been wronged, but I feel that not telling you about the few individuals who make this game less fun wouldn't be fair.
The vast majority of people who play this game are great, very friendly and understanding towards people who are new to it. The problem is that in racing games, much more so than in other genres, people get very caught up in the moment and get riled up easily. It's why they're extremely wary of newcomers. Opinions are formed before you even prove yourself, and a lot of players seem to equate fast lap times with good driving when it's often quite the opposite. The best racing I've had is with drivers in the midfield or towards the back, because they concentrate more on being fair towards others and avoiding contact. This is the key to gaining confidence online. As long as you can hold one line and let other drivers know where you intend to go, they will do the same for you and before you know it, you'll stop worrying about getting in others' way.
I can see how it's intimidating for new racers. The most popular servers greet you with something like "Welcome to our server, if you do any of the following things you will be banned". Frankly, seeing the word 'banned' appear the first time I join a server is enough to make me doubt my own abilities and think that I'll inadvertently get myself kicked out. It's like the general attitude is that if a new guy makes any kind of mistake, he's going to be one of those people who gets in everyone's way. Definitely not the case, but try telling that to everyone on a server.
I think what I'm trying to say is that, even though online racing in LFS is very daunting at first, if you can just prove yourself as a clean and fair driver it doesn't matter how fast you are. It might take a bit of practice in single player, but that's worth it. I'd second the idea of choosing a car like the XFG to start with, and just learning about it. I also think joining a server and introducing yourself helps immediately. People will be more than willing to help you get going online, as well as on the forums. For what it's worth, just making this thread says to me that you're thinking more about others than yourself, and that you're already much more polite than half the people I race against. As far as I can see, you've no reason to doubt yourself.
People find old threads by using the search function. If they'd made a new thread, guess what everyone else would have told them to do.
ah man why did you help him he can't even form a proper question
Out of interest, can we have a bit more le-way on the swearing thing? "Cock" is generally not regarded as kick-worthy as far as I know. I was greatly amused that I could say "knobjockey" though.
Use a 16bit screen setting, rather than 32bit. Gives me 40fps as opposed to 8, of course everything has a slight green tint but it's not too noticeable.
my short film collection
a few racing stories detailing one driver's battles with adversity, suppression, and severe physics glitches
a week in live for speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtXxY0nKSo
true sportsmanship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2G3vMTolk
a week in live for speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtXxY0nKSo
true sportsmanship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2G3vMTolk
XRT was a demo car up until Patch Y.
I was going to make a post saying "It was only removed one patch ago" but then I realised it's been over 2 years since Patch Y.
I was going to make a post saying "It was only removed one patch ago" but then I realised it's been over 2 years since Patch Y.
"Why do you insist on seeing the anus as some kind of human USB port, just waiting to have all kinds of hardware plugged into it?"
I'll need your approximate height, chest circumference and inside leg measurement.
When you find a blind corner in real life do you phone the council and tell them to bulldoze it so you can see the exit?
I was thinking about that today. It's simple things that have been ruining races in the most annoying ways for years.
Case in point: the armco on the bridge at Fern Bay. Touch that even slightly and you get launched into the air with your suspension completely destroyed. To me that's worse than a crah with someone else, because it's completely down to the physics bugs and it's a punishment that doesn't fit the crime. And surely it can't be that hard to fix, since most of the rest of the armco is fine.
Case in point: the armco on the bridge at Fern Bay. Touch that even slightly and you get launched into the air with your suspension completely destroyed. To me that's worse than a crah with someone else, because it's completely down to the physics bugs and it's a punishment that doesn't fit the crime. And surely it can't be that hard to fix, since most of the rest of the armco is fine.
While this is true, how many games get released in their alpha state? It should be a given that an alpha game gets updated and eventually becomes a finished product.
It's been over 7 years now, maybe the devs would rather do something else, but they feel bound to LFS by the promises made to the community. Certainly with the addition of real cars and laser scanned tracks it seems they'd like to go in a different direction.
You need new friends I reckon.
That's what I did, ditched my old friends and made new ones at college. Mostly a good idea I think.
That's what I did, ditched my old friends and made new ones at college. Mostly a good idea I think.
Someone once told me I sounded like Lily Savage.
That hurt.
That hurt.
These are great edits, but something's a little off about them. I'm not quite sure what, could be that the backgrounds are a bit too crisp but I dunno. I'm liking the de-saturated look though, particularly with the XRR.
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