Quote from three_jump :

Porsche Cup last sunday in monaco, that was 2 tires over the curb on several places...

as example: http://www.motorsport-magazin. ... _75/sw_adrivo/0143633.jpg

Yea, but you should see his irating now... He can only race on the noob and wrecker servers.

Quote from nihil :

Danowat - we are the market. It may be that you wish to take a submissive posture in relation to how you consume, but others don't.



From a submissive position, obviously it doesn't make sense.

I'm struggling with the concept of being a submissive consumer. The alternative is to be an aggressive consumer? Do I have this right?

Submissive consumer
Evaluates the pros and cons of an existing product/service to decide if it's worth the money.

Aggressive consumer
Prior to a product/service's availability gives money to those who might produce it so as to influence the final product?

I didn't know I had a choice.

Quote from Christopher Raemisch :

http://web.ukct.net/ Have a read there and you will see what I am talking about.

Agreed, CTRA has done incredible things with LFS. And the potential exists for even greater things to be done with LFS (CTRA-X2, for example).

At one time some people were calling for the STCC system (prior to CTRA-X) to be fully integrated into LFS. I would be for that, especially if I could race Legend cars at South Boston Speedway and Spec Racer Fords at Mid-Ohio under that system. It appears that I need to buy a different sim to do that though.

Quote from danowat :

It's (iracing) is certainly not for everyone, that is obvious

Indeed, it's like they're intentionally alienating the entire cruising community, the entire drifting community, and the entire wrecker community. How dare they make a racing sim without those people in mind?

That's not to say if you don't buy iracing you're in one of the above-mentioned groups. I don't know if I'll buy it. I'm going to wait for some reviews before I decide.

Ooh, I like the "punishment options"! Can you add "slap upside the head" and "beat with a wet noodle"?

I did run into some errors tonight. Somehow insim got turned off in my LFS dedi, which of course brought down your app. I was able to restart it, and it worked for a while, then it started dying with this error...

LFS Admin & Race Rotator V1.0.4.3
Connecting to InSim....
Connected

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at ConsoleBase.Program.MSO (IS_MSO MSO) [0x00000]
at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_Packets/IS_MSO (LFS_External.InSim.Packets/IS_MSO)
at LFS_External.InSim.Events.CallEventMSO (IS_MSO MSO) [0x00000]
at LFS_External.InSim.ParsePacket.DoParse (System.Byte[] data) [0x00000]
at LFS_External.InSim.clsTCP.DoListen () [0x00000]

Not sure if that's the restart bug you mentioned above or not. I tried to re-initialize insim on the dedi and restart the app, but the same thing happened again.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Carmageddon 2 was rubbish :P


EDIT: So was 3.

I have to agree. C1 was very promising. C2 added bells and whistles like polygonal pedestrians who tried to limp away if you just hit them with a glancing blow. But the driving feel (although I hesitate to praise its physics) of the original was lost. I never tried C3.

I've been using 1.0.4.2 and then 1.0.4.3 for a few weeks now and I haven't noticed any issues with restarts. I'm running it on Ubuntu using mono.

It all works as advertised for me.

My 4 year-old drives occasionally, but he doesn't seem to get the "steer left, go left" etc idea yet. Either that or he just wants to crash.

Given his personality, I'm leaning toward the latter.

Kind of OT: A racing game he really likes is Racing Pitch - http://secretexit.com/games/racingpitch

Quote from alland44 :

WHY ??
Really WHY !

EDIT :
Americans just close their nostrals, and sing through their butts
Australian is the finest form of the english language, but swallow your cockney accent and send it through your ass - Then you are in bussiness

Ironically, there are Americans who try to sound British when they sing. Green Day comes to mind.

Regarding the song... great job on the lyrics!

That really is impressive. It reminds me of line rider.

http://linerider.com/play-line-rider-online

Quote from Gekkibi :

What if devs would remove autoclutch from all cars except XRR, FXR and one-seaters?

No, this was no rant. Clutch can be assigned as button, and usually wheels have several buttons that can be used... After all, blip was removed to make LFS more realistic. Next step would be to remove auto-clutch.

Agreed, that's not a rant, it's an interesting point. At that point I'd probably wimp out and set up upshift and downshift macros in my DFP software.

Of course at some point, realism gets ridiculous, i.e. when you click to go from South City to Kyoto, you can't race for another week.

I guess everyone has their own realism threshold.

I promise not to be hostile...

I don't have a clutch pedal either. It didn't take very long to get used to lifting off the throttle between shifts. In fact, I avoid driving the XRR and FXR now because you can (should) flatshift those, but I just can't force myself to anymore.

Give it try and I'm sure you'll find it's not that hard to adjust.

I also couldn't get this working under mono (Kubuntu), but there is a new restriction app that does...

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=749427#post749427

It also does some other things, like track rotation.

Talk about service! A fixed version uploaded while I'm typing up a bug report. Works great now. Thanks again!

I'm having a problem with the restriction feature. My rest.txt file looks like this...

FXO/0/20
LX4/5/0

!restrict shows me the correct values. But for me to join in an FXO, I have to have both IR and ballast over 20. Not 0% IR and 20kg ballast, as I expected, but I have to set it to 21% IR and 21kg ballast. The same applies for LX4, I need 6% and 6kg or I get kicked to spectate.

The limits appear to be tied to each other somehow. It looks very promising if you can sort that out though.

edit: beaten by 2 minutes! Getting new version now!

This sounds like exactly what I need. I'll test it out. Thanks a bunch!

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Haha, we have no idea.

CoRe was a FPS clan long before the racing division started, and we divorced ourselves from them almost immediately. It's just kind of a legacy name now.

Since there's no official acronym, that leaves us all room to make up our own. I always thought it was "Clan of Racing Enthusiasts", but it could just as easily be "Cadre of Rotten Engineers".

Congrats, and you don't look a day over 2!

Quote from Glenn67 :

There was a good one here in Australia a few years ago.

The two most popular local radio stations switched transmission frequencies for the morning, you can imagine all the people driving to work thinking wtf

Last year two radio stations did that here. The kicker was that one was a Spanish-language station and the other wasn't. Rather interesting.

Back when I used to drive from chase cam (used to, let's not open that can of worms again ), if someone was right on my bumper their name obscured 50% of my view. People with really long names could even be in my blind spot and have the same effect.

So to discourage chase cam drivers, change your name to something with 60+ characters.

Four years ago on April Fools Day, my 1st kid was born. His birthday suits his personality.

Quote from mcintyrej :

Seems like we're having server troubles. All the cars froze on track, dissapeared and now Dan can't get into RDC.

Still not positive whether its someone hacking into the server, or if the dedicated box is having trouble.

We'll update you shortly.

Hmm, the server dies on Friday only to be resurrected on Sunday. I've heard that somewhere before...

That is creepy. It would have been even creepier had it attacked the guy that tried to knock it over.

I can't remember how old I am, but I know I'm over 35. Good to see there are other grumpy old men around here.

Sam, got any more information to go along with that avatar? I know it will be released "when it's done", but maybe some hints at new features?