Quote from dawesdust_12 :

It wasn't mine, it was my Mom coffee (required a supervisor who's 25+ and holds valid licence for first year of driving). It has changed my perspective on my shitty LFS driving style though atleast. (You cannot left foot brake, and heel+toe is a bad idea)

Atleast I didn't hit any shopping carts which were stray and in plentyful quantities, although I have the usual teenage symptom of paying attention to the bit of road that's 5 feet in front of you, rather than looking far ahead.

Don't forget to hit your "BLUE FLAG FFS!!!!!!!" macro when you get behind someone who's going too slow.

Quote from lerts :

i just had to change nationality to be correct

as i understand if i buy a vocheur ill be sent a paper to my adress and if the other option i get a password in my email, is that correct?

When I bought a voucher for someone else it sent me an email with the voucher info in it.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I (finally) have a layout to submit for B&J. Better late than never I suppose.

This is inspired by the original Daytona Beach course - an oval with tarmac on the front stretch and sand (well, grass in LFS) on the back stretch.

I think it's probably only suited for UF1, XFG or XRG. You'll want to use hybrid tires.

Enjoy!

Quote from lerts :

i was sent a really bad girl to test the new hardware and it turned out amazingly well

I think I saw that in a magazine once

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To comment on the "chase cam gives you an unfair advantage" stance...

I used to use chase cam because that was what I had done in other games, and it was the only way I could "feel" what the back end of the car was doing. But, since the chase cam in LFS doesn't have a mirror and doesn't let you look right and left, I was loosing time being too careful not to bump into people I couldn't see - either behind me or to the side.

So I decided to switch to the "wheels only" view (not cockpit due to lots of the reasons that others have stated in the thread, i.e. my real windshield is bigger than 17" diagonal, etc, etc, etc) so I didn't have to tiptoe around traffic. After a few months, I was actually faster than I had been in chase cam. I found that the biggest adjustment was relearning all of the braking and turn in points from another angle.

I can see how chase cam would help if you've never seen the track before, but c'mon, I'm pretty sure the first turn at Aston National is a right-hand sweeper! It just looks different (not better!) from higher up.

I'm glad I don't use chase cam anymore because I can be more aggressive in traffic. If someone wants to use it and can use their Spidey sense to know where other cars are, great! If someone wants to run a forced cockpit view server, I'll either adjust or go somewhere else.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

If you mean england by that island, it's off the coast of The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark... Just a little part is off the coast of France, but that's the only country Americans ever heard off

We're also taught that there are only 3 countries in Europe. France, Germany, and DenmaSwedNorwAustriBelSpaItaly.

I guess I just picked France because of the chunnel.

It's really not the OP's fault, it's the American education system. Here in history class, we're taught that the British Empire folded after the American Revolution. Now there are just some uninhabited islands off the coast of France.

Just kidding of course.

I wanted to add my kudos to the Fallout Cup people for "inventing" the baby R (or whoever should get the proper credit) and the CTRA for putting up a license server for it. It brings back the glory days of the UF1 server for me, and I think it's a great starting point for people who want to get points without having to drive demo cars.

I say leave it as it is now, no need to add a restricted XFR to the mix or make it multi-class.

Great work, take some time off and enjoy the rest of the year!

I'll set a reminder for myself to start another "LFS: Nothing new for a long time!" thread in two weeks

Thanks for the confirmation, Stu! I guess I could have just posted in the team forum then...

I'll check out that 28" LCD. I could always add an HD tuner card, but then LFS would get jealous that I'm using its PC for something else.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Sometimes I sacrifice speed for realism (most of time actually), and use three pedals, h-shifter, realistic (ish) setups etc. Other times I want a fast paced, speed orientated arrangement, where all the cars are paddle shifted, I left foot brake (no clutch), and use any setup 'exploit' to my advantage.

I am more likely to run the latter in a league or competition.

I figure I'm in competition every time I log onto a server, so I use whatever is fastest, whether it's (pre-x30) flatshifting, locked diffs, etc.

The CTRA system doesn't award points for "the most realistic driver". I'm hoping patch Y will punish infidels (like me!) who have been flatshifting, but as long as it makes me faster and I can finish races, I'll do it.

Ok, one exception, I won't switch my driver to the other side of the car depending on the "handed-ness" of the course. I guess that makes me something of a hypocrite.

I'm also thinking of somewhere between a 26 and 32 inch HDTV for a monitor/TV.

Seems like most HDTVs under 50" are 720p and have 8ms refresh rates. Is that really good enough for LFS and occasional normal PC use? (emailing about LFS, for example!)

You'd think my pixels would double in size if I get 2x the monitor size and don't significantly increase the resolution.

Awesome vid. 10/10!

Quote from Cue-Ball :

As for the rallycross races, they seem to be pretty much ruined by the clutch overheating using the X33 system, as many people here will attest. Not even the AI and their perfect shifting technique can go more than a few laps on any of the rallycross tracks. I personally haven't tried rallycross in X35.

I think the rallycross problem is almost exclusive to the XFG. I got 5 XRG AIs to finish a 15 lap race on the same lap as me in X33.

Quote from Cue-Ball :

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You're a braver man than I.

I agree that the XFG clutch is very weak, but I'm willing to accept that as a limitation of the car (it's not my favorite car). Maybe the XFG factory was skimping on parts that year?

Quote from Barn :

Good,
so now WE have established that the XFG clutch is faulty, can we please get the damn thing fixed,lol

some people actually like to do more than 4 laps in bl2.....................................

http://www.airattack.co.uk/clu ... topic&p=315366#315366

I didn't say it was faulty. I said it overheats when you do things to it that you wouldn't do to your own car. How it reacts to abuse compared a real clutch in an underpowered FWD car - I don't want to kill my real clutch to find out.

I was able to complete 15 laps of BL2 in an XFG without roasting the clutch simply by feathering it during upshifts and when landing from jumps and bumps.

I was withholding judgment until I got my 90 degree view back. Now I'm in.

The clutch heat introduces a new dimension - now you have to be nice to your car or it won't last. I'm anxiously awaiting brake heat and fade now.

Quote from JTbo :

Haven't found to clutch being a problem on LX cars on tarmac really, with autoclutch it is easy to slip it a lot and there is slipping if clutch bar has even a little visible.

XFG on gravel is much worse, you can't keep throttle floored on single gear at gravel sections and I don't mean jumps.

I did some testing this morning with both XFG and XRG on BL Rallycross. The XFG clutch does indeed heat up pretty fast there, faster than the XRG does for sure. I found a couple of things that really make it cook.

- Flooring the gas between shifts. If you feather onto the gas between shifts you're fine. FWIW, I don't floor it between shifts in my "real XFG" (Mazda hatchback) either, for the same reason.

- Standing on the gas when going from a lower friction surface to a higher friction surface (i.e. from dirt to tarmac or from air to dirt). Not that I get airborne IRL, but I do feather the gas when going from snow to tarmac, for example. Again, feathering the gas keeps the clutch cooler.

It's not just the big jumps where that's an issue. There are plenty of little bumps that get one or more wheels off the ground temporarily.

The XRG will eventually heat up the clutch from the same situations described above, but not as fast as the XFG. I'm not sure if the clutch is weaker in the XFG or it's a symptom of being FWD.

If it gives the XRG an advantage over the XFG on Rallycross, I'm all for it.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Yeah, I think it's just a texture rather than a preview of dynamic filth.

When I'm surfing for filth, I'm looking for dynamic filth.

Oh, you mean the dirt... nevermind.

I thought I heard Scawen saying something like "the fastest way to drive is with a manual clutch and letting off the gas slightly between shifts" in the video. Did anyone else catch that?

I guess you want to encourage guys with clutch pedals, or at least not hinder them. I just hope the unwashed masses like me with DFPs can still use auto clutch (now with throttle cut on so as not to fry the thing) without slowing us down too much.

Quote from ajp71 :

Yep it's not that big a thing I think half a second from not lifting is way to optimistic.



There are no limiters in the LFS cars, they do rev right into the redline when flat upshifting for this reason I always lift slightly in a long race and it does make a (small) engine damage in most cars, matters much more in XRR and LXs IIRC.

I finished a GTR league not long ago that had 1 hour long races. I had throttle cut off in my FZR and never had a problem. I do look forward to the day when engine/clutch damage is modeled to the point where I can't do that.

Nice job on finding that. Now can you make a batch program to add a female passenger to a real car? I'm sure that would be in high demand

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