Happy birthday!

Quote from spankmeyer :

I just go straight for the ass.

Often when I hug someone I fall victim to "the shopping cart syndrome". If I go left, they go right and we crash. But that doesn't have to be too bad, depending on who I'm hugging.

Very nice coverage! Good job, and an entertaining race

Yes, Rise of Flight looks very promising indeed. Their developers are very open, too, giving detailed blogs about what's going on. Recently there was even a video presentation of the guys working there and what they were doing. There's a lot of people in the sim community who hope to use this to shorten the wait for Storm of War: Battle of Britain.

Gets a bit long, though.. 90 minutes of interview is a lot. But I listened to some of it, and it was pretty interesting stuff. Especially when he compared the behaviour of the iRacing cars to their real-world counterparts. That is insight which few people can provide, and he sounded honest about it too

I would assume so. Sounds pretty clever.. but if it is, how come nobody has thought of this before?

Well it's better than Michael Paaassinghaaaam.

Nice report and good show as always.

EDIT: 400 posts!

Quote from spanks :

Its because iracing has the ability to knock the wind out of your sails without warning. Win the last 4 races, then out of nowhere run in the premier field and run around in last place for the whole race.

Also there are people waiting for the race where the strength of field will be high enough that they will earn lots of points for their first race, and then not race again the whole week.

See, that's exactly what I don't understand. If you "cherry pick" races where you'll have a good chance of improving your iRating a lot, and then don't race again for the whole week, you're not fooling anyone but yourself. An artificially high iRating will make for boring races where you're pitted against racers who are so much faster that there won't be any close racing. And close racing is what it's all about for me in terms of fun.

Oh well... I'll try a monthly subscription after Christmas and see for myself.

Quote from Jertje :

(...) somehow I'm reluctant to enter races now with more 'at stake'. (...) All I have now is the goal of raising my iRating to the highest I can, but that alone won't keep me going.

I see this attitude very often.. seriously, what's up with everyone being so super-cautious and nervous about racing?? I'm going to try a one-month subscription after Christmas, and when I do my focus will be entirely on having fun. Close racing and good fighting is all that I'll be looking for. What's the point of racing if you're not having fun, and just worrying about stats?? It just seems like a completely wrong attitude if you ask me.

(Yes, I understand how iRatinga and SR works!)

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

t does get frustrating, for instance at the end of a few sections, you'll come up against a Tank, which is basically walking mass of muscle that can kill you with his tits

Seriously, that's how I first misread the last bit.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

Based on my first hand experience from taking tyre temps after sprint runs it is the other way around. Heat is generated by the tyre tread and sidewalls moving about. The lower the pressure the more movement and the more heat is generated.

Based on nothing, I'm going to toss out another hypothesis. Flame as you see fit:

*drumroll*

Low pressures --> large parts of the tires will flex (including sidewalls) --> the flex is spread over a larger portion of the tire --> little flex in the tyre tread --> lower temperatures on the contact surface

High pressures --> less flex on the sidewalls --> more flex in the tyre tread --> more local heating on the contact surface.

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Plausible..?

Oops..

Quote from Anzeee :

BTW gnomie, i hope i understanded you well... If wheel is standing (spectating in-game and stuff, while i am not using it (turning wheel, switching gears, pushing on pedals)) it dont getting warm, what mean that there's no problem if profiler and other things are turned on?

Yes, that's right. The only thing that makes it warm is the FFB motors working. And that only happens when you're driving.

Well I never unplug mine or turn off profiler unless I'm done racing for the day. I can't see why it should be getting warm just by standing there.. the AC adapter is external, and that's where the heat is. Plus, if you unplug it while in LFS you might loose your calibration. (at least I do)

Good to hear you like your wheel!

I decided to try Mozilla a few weeks ago. First I had to download all the add-ons necessary to bring it up to the same functionality Opera has. That meant downloading the following:

• All-in-one sidebar. Gives you a nice set of thumbnails in the left margin (bookmarks, downloads etc)
  
• Mouse gestures redox. Adds mouse gestures for navigation. Irreplaceable once you get used to it!
  
• Simple Mail. An e-mail client which can check all your e-mail adresses (POP and IMAP). Comes with a very nice e-mail editor too, and filters. Highly recommendable!
  
• Fast dial. When you open a tab, your favourite webpages will be displayed as small images on your screen which you can click on. Basically it's just a really nifty, easy way of displaying bookmarks
  

Once that was done I also installed AdBlock plus, Imageshack toolbar and NoScript.

Only to find out that Mozilla is terribly sluggish compared to Opera. So I switched back.

Quote from Anzeee :

Greetings,

I ordered my G25 and i am expecting it in one or two days. I readen few sites of this topic and i saw there's some "revision 101", what is updated version or something like that. Well i am pretty confused about it becouse i cant find any "revision 101" on any Slovenian site, where G25 is selling.
Can anyone please explain that thing and tell me other things, for which i need to care, when i will be G25 owner. I saw there're problems with shifter, but i ordered my G25 from site, where is 24 months of guaranty, so i dont afraid for it.
I was pretty confused about settings in Logitech profiler and LFS too, becouse i was in afraid, for difference between GTR's, formulas and normal road cars, but i found some settings:

540° in Logitech profiler.

720° in LFS.

Wheel turn compensation 1 in LFS.

I will be realy glad for any screenshots and stuff.

Thanks !

If you want realistic turning, just use 720 degrees in both profiler and LFS, and wheel turn compensation 1. Then it will adjust automatically ( so GTRs will have 540 degrees, road cars will have 720 etc)

How come episode 32 hasn't been released yet?

Quote from Tege :

Maybe the first reason would be that I studied in the school where is car is designed and manufactured. Main reason is that part of my thesis is to compare the real car against the LFS version. That's why I arranged the RA to be in LFS.

Awesome! Then I'd like to thank you for providing me with countless hours of fun, driving the RAC in LFS.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Maybe it's a bit different things to different people. I really dislike the way the cars move in iracing, like no mass or inertia, the cars almost like transform from one place to another, like what you see the car doing in front of you is never what the car is actually doing. In LFS you can kinda see what's going on by looking at the other car. Maybe I'm so used to the LFS netcode that I just can't "see" the jerkyness but most of the time it doesn't bother me at all.

How can that be? The way I understood the interpolating is that everything just gets delayed a tiny bit. That shouldn't make the other cars look like they're moving all wrong, should it..?

I have plenty, but they're only funny in Norwegian, I'm afraid.. Oh well, here they are anyway.

That looked sweet!!! The car movement was very smooth, like iRacing (judging by videos). What is this "interpolated stuff" you talk about Wien? Would that be an idea for LFS too..?

Is Crema still the demo track, by the way?

Nice video! How come you got to drive it?

I have zero experience with real life racing, but I've always thought that the RAC is one of the most realistically modelled cars in LFS. By that I mean how it is very "snappy" and responsive. The way it understeers on corner exit if you give too much gas, and all that, feels very realistic. The FZ5 feels a lot less real, because even when you race it properly (the WRs and such) the back end will be sliding around on the road as if it were made of gelly. I don't think you'd see that in real life.

The RAC has always been my favourite car in LFS.

Quote from mikemav :

Glad you got it working. Yep, something about the belt-driven smoothness and the strength of the FFB that makes it something special. Also I just got into shifting with the H shifter. The non-beta (production) one came in a little stiff when in neutral and going to the 5-6 gates, but now it's "loosened" up in use and is really smooth with a nice firmness and click to engage a gear. I'd love to try the Porsche wheel more with PC sims too when I upgrade my PC to handle the latest offerings from LFS and iRacing!

LFS doesn't require much of a PC, really. It runs decently on pretty old hardware. You might wanna try it. (if you haven't already, that is. )

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Use 200% force in game, be a man.

It's not that hard, once you get used to it

I disagree. If you use too strong FFB it will saturate at once, which means that any minor vibrations and stuff get totally quenched when you're turning. I normally adjust the FFB for each car.

I think Inside Sim Racing will do a review of this game in their next episode, which is released on Friday.