It is in my estimation rear engined as the Porsche 911 is, which is the feel they were going for i believe. Its certainly not the best design, but its a heritage thing with the 911. Technically most of the front engined cars are mid engined in LFS.

I find it hard to belive the force feedback the wheel creates can actually damage it, i have a logitech as well and i have it cranked to 200% and have gone way past its force maximum (felt it slip) and its never messed up, however i have been hit right before a race restart and it nocks it out of calibration, once i recalibrated all was fixed.

if it did actually happen, the odds of that happening have to be a million to one man...but it doesnt seem to add up, they wouldnt create a wheel that the force feedback could destroy itself...

it is on the other hand VERY annoying with immature people do that, but there isnt much we can do about it besides go to pit road after the race.

Fox So Town

F08 WE

UF1000 SO Long

Yeah, but you cant just kick people out of the race if server changes cars, personally I think a server should have to close before changing cars to be fair to the racers. I remember one time a server got very upset with me because they switched to F08's when the race was done and i was going along in the fox just trying to finish the race...

Quote from Scawen :

A formula one car is said to do 0-100 mph (0-160 km/h) in less than 4 seconds, quite amazing acceleration... so our GTR cars have a much slower acceleration than a F1 car (not surprising as they are heavier and less powerful). F1 cars - with light weight, massive rear tyres and extremely powerful engine, are of course hard to beat on pure acceleration, by other cars that go round corners. Their launch control does not reduce their acceleration - it is designed to reduce wheelspin to an optimum level to get the maximum acceleration.

But (OT) F1 cars have so much downforce that their top speed is quite poor and on some tracks, the bikes go faster down the straight. I don't know what percentage of tracks the bikes can go faster, but presumably it would be anywhere that the track requires a high downforce setting, and has a long straight. In these cases the F1 cars sound terribly hindered, driving along the straight, stuck at a constant speed with all that power being used to beat the huge wind resistance.

malaysia, the moto gp bikes go blindingly fast down the two straights, the F1 cars have to carry a lot of downforce and they go a little slower..

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i don't like it, people should be able to setup a car the way they like it. In real racing with equal cars (like a1) the driver and team setup the car the way they think it's fasted. Slower guys should practice more then i think.

Ok not everybody can setup a car but you can always ask a fast driver for the set and most of the time the driver will sent the set

I think you misunderstand the idea of making it a server option, not manditory in all servers, if its anything like NR2003 was it'll be 75% open setups anyway..

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It would indeed be a nice waste of time, but I sometimes wonder if the devs really spend their time correctly ...

Hmm, I think its their game and they spend their time on what they is important to make this game the best sim it can possibly be. Gah i sound like a politician, but tis true Ive been playing LFS since Early on in demo days, blocks for cars and bumblebees for sounds, with every new update ive seen i cant say i have ever been "dissapointed" with what they decide to focus on, because I know they will just get to the other stuff at a later date

Personally I would think they are more oriented on getting everything in the game working as they wish before they tackle the smaller ideas such as this. But its not bad to throw it out there so they know how we feel

No, its not stupid, but just a big plain asphault strip is not very practical for the devs to spend their time on, now this airstrip idea I think thats got some real good vibe to it...

Unfortunatly it happens booster, and even if the download was limited I dont feel it would stop them, people will just put full version up on all those file sharing things

I'd love to see an Airstrip based "autocross" track, just a big airport no set course, so we could make our own layouts on it (saves devs work, creates more things to do) Its certainly realistic, closed airport near me is opening up to be an autocross/race track. Would certainly give you what you want, nice long straightaway (with bumps and crowned though) to test out your speed and it gives us creative junkies a chance to somewhat make tracks for lfs

Just as I suspected, 50/50. I would love to see it but I guess it doesnt really fit a "true sim" to have it as an option for all the time, because only very limited series in the world use it.

Watch some touring car races, those things are rockets untill the downforce/drag kick in. Those numbers dont suprise me, some of the road cars do though, seem a bit fast considering the cars hp/weight

Only one way to stop these riots..

Quote from pb32000 :

Seems not

this is why i asked if it was a supra celica or not, >86 ones are supra celicas, with 2L and >86.5 are 3L

Is this a Supra Celica or a Supra ? I beieve the regular supras were 3 Litre Inline 6's not 2 Litre, just for future referance.

edit? i think so.

oh my, quite smashing.

Definatly Nascar Racing 2/1999 was the biggest influence on me, that was basicly the first sim I played and that game really taught me a lot about how a race car works and got me into racing.

GT1 Got me into cars, I learned more about cars from that game than I had ever hoped to learn about everything, and If not for that im not sure I ever would have gotten interested in them.

Nascar heat- First sim like game I Ever played online, got me into online racing. (word to any IRF racers still hangin around)

Nascar Racing 2003 first game I ever had the privlage to mod, and really refined my driving.


LFS- Taught me what sim really meant...



non racing


Sim City 2000-This game was basicly the first computer game I ever played, and i still play it to this day.

Earth 2150/C&C: generals-Only RPG's I like because I enjoy playing em on lan against my brother.

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personaly as a whole i think the draft is way to strong up close and way to weak after a little distance

351 so far! good work guys and galz


and thats weird man, i did the same thing in mozilla and it showed people there, but not when i go through the links you have

Nice work! Now if we could just get rid of that blasted 60 second per post deal..:P

I think the date is the date we joined LFS not RSC, as in made a LFS account, most likely thats about the same date though :P

I've got another 60 years in me according to that

I am somewhere north of GWB's IQ...


18...

Yeah that seems like a fairly simple improvement, there is probably already a template for that hidden in the lfs code

I'd love a a track that ran along a long stretch of very wide highway or somthing then turns off into a windy two lane narrow road through the hills or somthing....that would be a dream

Quote from XCNuse :

well.. what i hoped to be a 1 hour messaround with an LX6 turned out to be 3 hours work and 1 hour rendering 2 images.. but hey.. its not to bad looking imo
obviously since its put together stuff and not a real model, i wont be releasing it lol because its a peice of crap with parts just moved arond and whatnot, but if there were to be an LX8 GTR spec thing.. i think it should look something along the lines of this:
[well i guess the hood and front should change slightly.. that, and laugh all you want at the front wheel covers lol they add a nice little touch to it i think]

That is increadible man! Nice work!