Mate, you really should have a shed load of servers coming up . . . .
Done the Firewall thing? Idiot checked your settings?
Cable company missold you?
Done the Firewall thing? Idiot checked your settings?
Cable company missold you?
FZ50 is a car with the engine riiiigggghhhhtttt out behind the rear axle, which means the rear is always gunna want to try and beat the front to the scene of an accident.
When your driving it try and feel which end is slipping out first, if it is the rear (Probable) then retreat the antiroll back a bit to make them softer (Does the FZ50 have anti roll?) and soften the rear, this will mean the car trys to push the rear tyres into the tarmac more whilst under load, should help allieviate some of the stepping out. Decrease the rear bump and the front rebound damper settings, this will increase rear grip again, but go too far and the car will be unsettled again.
Just try playing with a few settings and see what responses you get. Feel free to ask more questions. But as a mouser my setup will be different from a wheeler anyway.
When your driving it try and feel which end is slipping out first, if it is the rear (Probable) then retreat the antiroll back a bit to make them softer (Does the FZ50 have anti roll?) and soften the rear, this will mean the car trys to push the rear tyres into the tarmac more whilst under load, should help allieviate some of the stepping out. Decrease the rear bump and the front rebound damper settings, this will increase rear grip again, but go too far and the car will be unsettled again.
Just try playing with a few settings and see what responses you get. Feel free to ask more questions. But as a mouser my setup will be different from a wheeler anyway.
Get online now. In fact why are you reading this. Go, now. You still here?
You gone?
Right: Turn your sound up, tyres squeel when locked and if you F9 you can watch your tyres turn to red, thats bad. V bad. Your aiming to keep the tyres in the green, so if you think your brakig to hard, lower the braking force untill your more comfortable with your pedals.
Online overtaking ain't like the AI. Get online. But then you should be already.
The crash physics and car reactions arn't quite there yet, LFS is only an alpha and it's still being worked on. It'll come though.
My birds just kicked me into touch. So I'm the last person to be giving advice about computer games and relationships.
Most servers run very short lap races unless you are in a league or something so just join a server and get some laps in. The race will be over and starting again soon enough. Just stay out of the leaders way unless you want a quick and generally annoying lesson in track etiquette.
With a 3meg pipe you should be getting better pings than that. Have a look at your settings again, do an idiot check on your connection and your filter settings. Is your firewall interferring, try turning it of and refreshing the server list. See if that makes any difference.
I have a 1mb connection and I'm always getting between 30 and 40 mps.
And yes, a race will start when people vote for it. If noone votes you could be waiting a while, but there's normally a good reason for it.
There really must be something up with your connection, not LFS server side. you should have loads of servers to choose from.
With a 3meg pipe you should be getting better pings than that. Have a look at your settings again, do an idiot check on your connection and your filter settings. Is your firewall interferring, try turning it of and refreshing the server list. See if that makes any difference.
I have a 1mb connection and I'm always getting between 30 and 40 mps.
And yes, a race will start when people vote for it. If noone votes you could be waiting a while, but there's normally a good reason for it.
There really must be something up with your connection, not LFS server side. you should have loads of servers to choose from.
Hehe . . . giggle . . . . snort.
Keep it up lads and ladesses. Although it does appear some of you have glossed over the 'humour' part and gone straight to what you really do when going down the straight. But hey, it's good to now . . . .
I'm still deciding what I do.
Keep it up lads and ladesses. Although it does appear some of you have glossed over the 'humour' part and gone straight to what you really do when going down the straight. But hey, it's good to now . . . .
I'm still deciding what I do.
My doctors given me pills . . . .He sais the swelling will go down, the temperature will drop but the 'brmmm brmmmm' noise is all my own doing and that I need to see a shrink about that . . . .
It's a very loooooooooooooonnnnnnggggg straight.
Apart from the fact you got no damage from that, I could almost imagine that happening irl.
IRL you would have broken your suspension for sure and probs would have dug into the dirt a bit more, but otherwise that looks pretty special.
IRL you would have broken your suspension for sure and probs would have dug into the dirt a bit more, but otherwise that looks pretty special.
Ahhh. Well there you go . . .
See . . retorical Nooby questions. You only had to say it out loud didn't yer and you know the answer . . .
WWW.Zipit.Com
Oops, thinks it's a URL!!
I wonder . . .
*Edit* HAHA, it's a dating agency . . . wicked.
Any Mods see this, I ain't spamming, just don't know how to not have it as a URL . . .
Oops, thinks it's a URL!!
I wonder . . .
*Edit* HAHA, it's a dating agency . . . wicked.
Any Mods see this, I ain't spamming, just don't know how to not have it as a URL . . .
Humour - What do you do on the straights?
Just bumped it into top gear, got a few seconds spare on the back straight.
How do you fill your time?
Sip of Coffee? Bite of a sandwich? Quick buff of the moniter?
Humourous answers only. A prize to the funnniest*.
*Ok, not so much a prize, more just the honour of having the only fully working funny bone in the comunity . .. .
How do you fill your time?
Sip of Coffee? Bite of a sandwich? Quick buff of the moniter?
Humourous answers only. A prize to the funnniest*.
*Ok, not so much a prize, more just the honour of having the only fully working funny bone in the comunity . .. .
I think it's a case of who you are racing with and against . . . .
If you a in a very close race with a fellow racer that you know and can race very well with then by all means use everything that your disposal . . .
But, if you are racing against much faster drivers who are themselves racing others then maybe your actions could just be taken as being stubborn and dis-courteous. There is a time and a place for everything . ..
If you a in a very close race with a fellow racer that you know and can race very well with then by all means use everything that your disposal . . .
But, if you are racing against much faster drivers who are themselves racing others then maybe your actions could just be taken as being stubborn and dis-courteous. There is a time and a place for everything . ..
Gunna hold the world to ransom? For 1 MILLION DOLLARS?
You know, Iwas thinking this very thing after watching the SPEED channel last night. They where showing Ozzie truck racing, but it's something I've thought about before. Would there be technical limitations in adding a truck to LFS, wieght limit and stuff?
Would be a right hoot though.
Plus some nice big Ozzie V8's too. Not just for the racing but for the sound. They sound gooood!!
Would be a right hoot though.
Plus some nice big Ozzie V8's too. Not just for the racing but for the sound. They sound gooood!!
Awww, get out of those open wheelers and into some proper race cars . . . The GT's are top notch racing machine's with none of those open wheel shenagins going on . . . . They got downforce too you know, lol.
But whatever you drive, welcome and have fun. Tis a good crack, as the irish say . ..
But whatever you drive, welcome and have fun. Tis a good crack, as the irish say . ..
Keep at it Bobby boy.
If you are a fan of racing then LFS will really come into it's own if you give it some time and learn about the cars/tracks/setups. The racing is second to none, which is what most of us are here for. Don't worry about times and the like, it's the racing that counts.
Even if you are a bit new, if you are courteous online and are willing to learn then many of us will have a lot of time for you.
Avoid the crash fests of teh moew popular Combo's and try something a bit different. Spend some time getting to know a car/track combo and developing a setup system and you'll soon be getting the most from LFS.
We are (mostly) all here to help you. So please don't run away yet. The learning curve maybe a bit steeper than most online racing games, LFS makes no bones about being a simulator and not a racing game, but the community is great and the racing better . . . .
If you are a fan of racing then LFS will really come into it's own if you give it some time and learn about the cars/tracks/setups. The racing is second to none, which is what most of us are here for. Don't worry about times and the like, it's the racing that counts.
Even if you are a bit new, if you are courteous online and are willing to learn then many of us will have a lot of time for you.
Avoid the crash fests of teh moew popular Combo's and try something a bit different. Spend some time getting to know a car/track combo and developing a setup system and you'll soon be getting the most from LFS.
We are (mostly) all here to help you. So please don't run away yet. The learning curve maybe a bit steeper than most online racing games, LFS makes no bones about being a simulator and not a racing game, but the community is great and the racing better . . . .
Rather than taking the WR sets and Inferno et al (don't get me wrong, these are very good sets) try and develope your own. Read a bit of the manuals around and learn what the components do, then you can adjust the car to your own driving style. Just because the WR has a particular set working for him don't mean you are gunna get the same speed out of it. Especially if you are not using a wheel.
Don't be afraid to experiment, it'll be frustrating at times when you just can't get the times in, but you'll learn so much more and eventually you will be able to knock up Setups for any given situation.
There are so many things you can do with a car to make it 'just so'. You might find you find something that just suits your driving style and you'll be knocking out the PB's in no time . . . .
Don't be afraid to experiment, it'll be frustrating at times when you just can't get the times in, but you'll learn so much more and eventually you will be able to knock up Setups for any given situation.
There are so many things you can do with a car to make it 'just so'. You might find you find something that just suits your driving style and you'll be knocking out the PB's in no time . . . .
If you have a problem with wreckers it's time to take a look around . . .
The're are other car/track combo's that offer so much more than the AS-Nat/GTR and the BW/BF1. Yea, sure. You might enjoy the amount of people and the tracks and car, I sometimes do too, but there are sooooo many other combo's out there. And with those other combo's you will find cleaner, closer, better racing than the crash fests on the 'usual' suspects.
Unfornuatly we are never gunna be rid of Loosers Of Over-the-top Wrecking (Or LOOW's) but get on some of the lesser known tracks (Or more technical so therefore needing better setup understanding and driving ability, meaning you won't get the usual bunch of sunday drivers.) and your racing will only get better . . . .
The're are other car/track combo's that offer so much more than the AS-Nat/GTR and the BW/BF1. Yea, sure. You might enjoy the amount of people and the tracks and car, I sometimes do too, but there are sooooo many other combo's out there. And with those other combo's you will find cleaner, closer, better racing than the crash fests on the 'usual' suspects.
Unfornuatly we are never gunna be rid of Loosers Of Over-the-top Wrecking (Or LOOW's) but get on some of the lesser known tracks (Or more technical so therefore needing better setup understanding and driving ability, meaning you won't get the usual bunch of sunday drivers.) and your racing will only get better . . . .
Reading this thread and thinking over somoe of the comments again I can't help but think that some people want the cake and too eat it too.
I mean, maybe LFS is ALOT more like real life than anyone suspects. You can't expect any car, even a F1 car to corner like it's attached to rails at greater and greater speeds. There will be a limit at some point. But it's the nature of cars and tracks that nothing will ever be perfect. They may be trying with the new F1 tracks to give them Snooker table surfaces and huge run off areas but even those tracks still have imperfections. Ripples, bumps, huge **** off holes, barriers, change in tarmac, off cambers, blind corners, bad setups, bad driving; The list is endless. All these things conspire to make driving, let alone racing driving, difficulty at the best of times. Driving a car is an insanly complicated thing, that even the most experianced get wrong sometimes.
So when people critizise the handling of the BF1, or any car in LFS for that matter, they need to take into account so many factors before berating the cars physics and aero. Take that double apex hairpin in Kyoto GP. Maybe it's difficult to control a car through there because it's difficult to control a car throught there. The problem is as simple as that, it's up to you to come up with a fix. Test and test some more. Prehaps lay off the critism untill you can drive and setup the car properly.
In regards to the comparision of Flight sim (Xplane was it?) aero and the aero needed for something like LFS, they are very different things. A car has so many things to deal with than just 'air'. Air behaves differently at ground level than it does 'up there' espeacially when you add in some serious F1 speed. You also have ground effect, lateral movements, rapid changes in direction, vertical movements, rapid decceleration and raped acceleration and basic mechanical grip.
Anyway with this new patch, although not perfect, it's still such an improvement and the theory behind everything so evident that how anyone can seriously critisize at this moment in time is beyond me.
I mean, maybe LFS is ALOT more like real life than anyone suspects. You can't expect any car, even a F1 car to corner like it's attached to rails at greater and greater speeds. There will be a limit at some point. But it's the nature of cars and tracks that nothing will ever be perfect. They may be trying with the new F1 tracks to give them Snooker table surfaces and huge run off areas but even those tracks still have imperfections. Ripples, bumps, huge **** off holes, barriers, change in tarmac, off cambers, blind corners, bad setups, bad driving; The list is endless. All these things conspire to make driving, let alone racing driving, difficulty at the best of times. Driving a car is an insanly complicated thing, that even the most experianced get wrong sometimes.
So when people critizise the handling of the BF1, or any car in LFS for that matter, they need to take into account so many factors before berating the cars physics and aero. Take that double apex hairpin in Kyoto GP. Maybe it's difficult to control a car through there because it's difficult to control a car throught there. The problem is as simple as that, it's up to you to come up with a fix. Test and test some more. Prehaps lay off the critism untill you can drive and setup the car properly.
In regards to the comparision of Flight sim (Xplane was it?) aero and the aero needed for something like LFS, they are very different things. A car has so many things to deal with than just 'air'. Air behaves differently at ground level than it does 'up there' espeacially when you add in some serious F1 speed. You also have ground effect, lateral movements, rapid changes in direction, vertical movements, rapid decceleration and raped acceleration and basic mechanical grip.
Anyway with this new patch, although not perfect, it's still such an improvement and the theory behind everything so evident that how anyone can seriously critisize at this moment in time is beyond me.
lol . . . Can't remember what time of day I did it. Maybe if I tried again late at night I might get better pings
We try. Some need to try harder than others, but at least we try . . .
Then use that setup you have for fast tracks and find another more suitable setup for slow corners . . . .
I don't see how you can get anything more accurate out of LFS. After all, hace you driven an F1 car to corroborate your supposed discrepancies?
I don't see how you can get anything more accurate out of LFS. After all, hace you driven an F1 car to corroborate your supposed discrepancies?
Sometimes my own genuis disturbs me . . . he keeps prodding in the back when I'm trying to sleep.
Lost one packet out of 100, 37ms average . . . .
That using NTL 1MB Broadband in the middle of Cardiff . . . So I' assume I'm failry close to a major pipe . . . .
That using NTL 1MB Broadband in the middle of Cardiff . . . So I' assume I'm failry close to a major pipe . . . .
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