The dedicated host has no "S" mode and no license check. You just set the car/track combo. Hosts are visible to players only if they have the required content. Sorry if I shot you.

edit: I should say, the dedicated server is the same program, whether it's demo, S1, or S2.

Last edited by Danke, Tue, 1 Dec 2009 01:03.

Quote from MudPuppy :

I'm stuck; I got S1, I don't want S2 yet as there is no rally cross content in it yet.

If S3 comes out and there's RC content then I don't want to buy S2 to get to S3.

IMO it would be logical for the devs to allow people to get S3 without S2 content, or even without S1. A user with the "S3 only" license would have demo content + Rockingham + the new mystery car. Most would opt for everything, but there are some who would want to pick and choose.

That's not to say it will be that way, but it makes sense to me.

These guys who have never raced ovals before have a huge disadvantage IMO. Most NASCAR drivers started out on < .5 mile ovals in their teens. Say what you want about "how hard can it be to turn left all the time?" The guys who grew up on short tracks get a lot of practice running in constant traffic for 25+ laps.

He's going straight into the Nationwide Series, which I think is a mistake. Whoever set up Scott Speed's "intro to stock car racing" course did it right. Start out small (ARCA) and work your way up. Of course, what former F1 driver wants to travel with a touring series to exotic locales like Salem (Indiana), Mansfield (Ohio), Berlin (Michigan), and Springfield (Illinois)?

I wish all these guys well, but I'm afraid they're doomed to fail unless they "serve their time" in the much lower series.

How barebones is the linux installation? I'd be curious just to try it just for that aspect.

Quote from Mojo1987 :

Well, 18 years old guy in the oncoming traffic drove to fast and lost with about 140 km/h the control over his Golf 3 and missed a turn. His Golf overturns 3 or 4 times and get pushed back to street. While he flipped back on street, me and my car came around and get hit by the flying car.

No chance to avoid anything. Damage on Scirocco about 16.000 Euro.
Really crazy moment, flying cars at 7 o'clock at morning...

One week ban for the other guy for rejoining into traffic. Glad you're ok.

Quote from danb1986 :

shut it yankee! does it matter what license i have? really?? im basically asking for everyone not just myself, do you not think that the waiting time for this is going too far now??

In that case, thank you for asking on our behalf. I'm surprised nobody else has thought to ask for that yet.

Crackers asking for more content... what's the world coming to?

Nico's Organ

Mattress Tag Thieves

Free Beer! (looks great on the marquee)

Quote from BOSCHO :

LFS scirocco will beat the real life VW

Agreed, take your car on a trackday at Blackwood and let us know the laptimes.

If you want everyone to start the race at once, you need to NOT set a start point and leave the default starting point there. I think that's what you're looking for...

True, and if it's during a replay, LFS already knows the future, so to speak. So it could start the animation .5 second before the shift in a replay. I'll agree that it would be cool to have. I wouldn't put it near the top of the todo list, but then again, we don't get to order Scawen's todo list anyway.

Somewhere around patch z20 or so, the host list check was changed to use UDP rather than TCP. I'd guess that your firewall doesn't like UDP as much as it did TCP.

The problem with a shifting animation or clutch animation has been mentioned before here somewhere. You actually move your arm/leg BEFORE you shift. LFS has no way of knowing that you're about to shift. It can only tell when you press the button/pedal. So the animation would either be incredibly fast, which would look comical, or it would be delayed, which would be confusing.

I agree 100%. You guys run a very nice server.

A lot of times in oval racing, teams tape up the radiator and/or brake ducts to gain a little aero advantage during qualifying. Currently LFS doesn't model engine or brake heat, so it's not much use at the moment.

... and so begins the very long F1 offseason. Next topic after geography lessons: unicorns nearing extinction, is global warming to blame?

Quote from Jakg :

But obviously you dont want to listen to the fact I didnt actually go over (hardly) any speedbumps on my old tyres so meh.

Perhaps some speedbumps are sneaking under your car while you're sleeping? They're tricky little bastards...

Rfactor is great for filling in those bored-of-LFS-content phases. Just about any track you can think of is available to download. There is virtually no pickup racing, so you really have to find a league to race against others online. I'd recommend Race2Play, but I don't think they have a whole lot of leagues that are good for Aussie timezones.

Now I'm back to racing LFS for a while, but I'm sure the pendulum will swing back to rfactor sometime.

Quote from RedStarArmy :

As an aside...what are some of the American leagues? or atleast ones that race with doable hours for us 'yanks'? I've tried looking through the list on the forums but couldn't find one.

LOTA - League of the Americas runs some great leagues on Thursday nights, sometimes Mondays too.

There's also my UF Baby-R league on alternate Wednesday nights.

Quote from Bean0 :

S3 is a level of content (Rockingham + Mystery Car).

You've let the cat out of the bag on the new car - The Mystery Machine

One can also infer from this that a new passenger type (dog) will come with S3. Someone make a cruise insim with Scooby Snacks, quick!








kidding of course

+1

Those of us who've been around a while know an XFG from an XRG, but you're right. Something more memorable than the alphabet soup that we currently have would give the game some more character.

We have a lot of creative people here. I'd like to see a dev- or mod-sponsored competition (making it official) to come up with fictional car make/model names and even logos to be used in some future patch. Heck, do it like rfactor and have fake websites for the fake car manufacturers.

I don't know about rockets, but I did see a jet-powered golf cart when I took my kids to a monster truck show.

http://www.megasaurus.com/teed.html

It was in an enclosed hockey arena, and I swear I could feel the pressure change when he fired it up.

OT - Megasaurus the car-eating giant robot was there too! Good times...

I guess I picked a good night (last night) to turn some laps on race center by myself. I kept on seeing the support points and wondered what they were. I assume it's a "thanks for sticking around and racing here to draw a crowd" thing?

To follow up on this question: I have a 22" widescreen that does 1680 x 1050. If I buy a 17" 4:3 (roughly the same height as a 22" wide) that supports 1280 x 1024, I could reduce the resolution of the widescreen to ~1600 x 1024 and Windows XP would could see my monitors as one 1880 x 1024? Which would then allow LFS to span them as well?

I know going to a non-native resolution on the widescreen will lose some quality, but it probably wouldn't bother me in LFS.

Quote from Crady :

Well I don´t know if it is a bug - and if, if it is known... But I bought a new 23´´ widescreen today and I am running it at 1920x1080.

However, while racing I often check my tire temperatures - but I only realize the colour - not the shown temperatures. But using this resolution I am not able to see the colours because the temperatures are shown at the tire surface showing the temperature in colours... (see screenshot)

Do I have to live with that issue, or might that become fixed?

It's a widescreen thing. I noticed the same thing when I first got my 22" wide.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=840239#post840239