Quote from Scawen :

[b]I don't know if this will work out or is easy to do, but if someone could make a forum thread which lists the currently active events and popular servers and times when it is likely to find a race on those events / servers, I could do a tweet to point people to that thread. It might get a few people in, from the nearly 1500 followers.

A forum thread to list all the race events would be a step backwards.
Before the leagues section there existed such thread(s) and it was always a mess:
The problem was that only the creator of the thread could update the list. And so the list was always outdated.

Now with the league section at https://www.lfs.net/leagues, each organizer can keep his entries updated.
However, from time to time the leagues section MUST be *moderated* and cleaned because sometimes people enter nonsense.
(races that never happen or just server advertisement. some people also seem to confuse it with a "teams" list)
If there are too many nonsense entries in the list then it makes the section unattractive to use because one has to filter through the spam..

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Lfs for me has only one problem. And that is getting new guys in, and getting them to respectable level. Because nowadays, on competitive races, if you are too slow you dont even qualify for a race. Skill level is quite high overall.

At Absolute Beginners league it is easy to get started with racing.
https://www.lfs.net/leagues/489-Absolute-Beginners-Racing-League www.absolute-beginners.nl
Tuesday funrace too: https://www.lfs.net/leagues/241-Rony%27s-Tuesday%27s-Fun-Race (but sometimes has bit trickier combos)

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if you are too slow you dont even qualify for a race

That is not true. Usually the requirements for being allowed to race to not include a minimum speed.
True, there are races with laptime limits but those are not so common. Usually it is enough to show that you can control the car and be friendly around others.

I tried on an empty page (my user page) to insert an re-sized image, very basic without the templates, and it was always full-size there, too.
So I think it is maybe a problem with some setting in mediawiki.

I found this: https://mwusers.org/topic/77-image-resize-is-not-working/ ,see last post:

in LocalSettings.php set $wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = true; 

Quote from Evolution_R :

Does it work with 0.6U? Because I'm getting this error: InSim : unknown packet (48 bytes) - Cameronaut!

Seems like it does not work with 0.6U then.

I hope to have my desktop PC repaired in the next weeks or so, then I will have a look.

It has been difficult to keep up with forums in the last months, so is The_Great a new troll account of cargame.nl or what is going on?

Quote from Silverracer :

Wow, good stuff!

Was this the biggest LFS-related prize? There was a VWS given out back in the day, too, right? What else have been noteworthy prizes?

A M6!

Around 2009 when ESL was still a thing, the finale was at CeBIT (computer exhibition) and the winner won a BMW. (some roadster, Z3 or such)

In 2016 there was 5000€ / 2500€ / 1250€ for P1,2,3 in that fininsh TV show thing with the cockpits in the studio. (I hope they at least also paid for travel and hotels?)
Last year they changed it to racing over internet and was price money of 10.000, 6.000 and 4000 €



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaB4szWCF4

I am not sure if that is a good deal. Definately calling it "a full sim rig" is pushing it a bit.. It is a mediacenter-device built for streaming video that might also run LFS at low settings.

- WLAN only
- Onboard Intel graphics are terrible and not upgradable
- nothing is upgradable or repairable
- only has 2 USB slots (so you can not even connect keyboard, mouse & wheel without an extra USB hub.)
- you also need headphones/speakers (if you also want a microphone for chatting then you need a bluetooth mic because there is no line-in)
- keyboard&mouse can be found cheaper if it does not have to be "gaming keyboard" with lights

Quote from sermilan :

He was crossing the line with the speed bellow 80kmh....

Isnt pitlimit 60 km/h at Rockingham?
edit:
ops, it is Westhill.
Maybe check with "F" tire forces view, to see if car was sliding.

Quote from Racon :

I dunno, I think there's something to be said for a preview of the possibilities of objects and layouts. Maybe just the small Blackwood carpark, so they'll always want the extra space of Autocross or Westhill carpark?

I think demo has a few driving school lessons that show some possibilities of autocross layouts.

Quote from Bass-Driver :

Its a systemmessage from LFS and i think you cannot hide that message.

I think shift & - hides all systemmessages? But it will hide chat too.

Quote from AfterAll14 :

Also when driving in cockpit mode camera is shaking too much. That doesn't help at all to control the car given limited field of fiew. I didn't try advanced camera options yet so maybe it can be fixed.

If you do not like the default camera settings then why do you not change the settings?
If you have problems to figure out the options then just ASK, instead of wording it like a "review"...

Quote from Flame CZE :

Side-by-side comparison for those interested:

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=2703f5ca-8e92-11e8-b263-0edaf8f81e27

Quote from THE WIZARD DK :

nice comparison. but pussles me a bit why you didnt just upload the pic here instead of a link ? could have wished to see a little more of the old one. but very nice.

You can move the white slider between old/new image.

I have never used it but there should be a radiochannel/playerlist editor in LFS. Options -> Audio -> Channels (the button at bottom right)



No need for external program.

Nice work, that should make it much more useable.
Cool that the tool even found some "real world use"!

I had win 10 briefly installed to see what it was all about, LFS worked normal. I do not remember doing anything special..
Might be better to look into what your problem is?

Those hardware all seems good enough to run LFS or google earth. Does the card already have extra power-connector and is it connected?

2008 was already towards the very end of windows xp.
Radeon 6000 series was after xp, google says in 2010.

Anyway, I would just google "high end cpu 2008" and similiar.
How much can those parts possibly still cost...

Realistically the limitation will be what you can find used on ebay, because no shop will be selling 10 years old hardware.
Or complete system: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-4x3-2-ghz-6gb-geforce-gtx-280-500gb-windows/885545438-228-5665

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Also why there are different formats for single and multiplayer?

Singleplayer replays are more accurate. The car's movement is saved excactly as it happend, that is important for the hotlap validation. In multiplayer replays the paths of the cars are a bit "compressed", because clients only send their car position a few times per second. (Would be too much traffic to send car position dozen or hundred times per second)
That is smooth enough for online racing but for the hotlap validation it needs to be more accurate, for example to decide if a wall was touched or missed by 1mm.

Most popular usecase for singleplayer replays is probably hotlaps, there you only have a few laps per replay and the slower rewinding does not matter so much.

ps:
There is also this unofficial analyzer for multiplayer races:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/85079

In this forum: https://forums.naturalpoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3122 someone posted:
"Okay have played this game some now. That mouse gear shift though utter useless was a funny idea though"
That might confirm Cross Racing Championship 2005.

CRC did definately make it out of demo state however, it was a full game and not too bad for LAN actually when playing with gamepads. It had some special multiplayer modes if I remember correctly, similiar to 1nsane.

different time zones maybe?

Enviro-Bear 2000, the realistic simulation of a bear driving a car, has changing gears via mouse.

upload here: https://www.lfs.net/account/skins

nice videos and driving XRT is difficult I think, it is so big.

the whole channel is interessting

I think that happens because in multiplayer replays the car's movement is not stored as precise as in singleplayer.
However the movement of objects is not stored in the replay, instead objects physics are calculated anew every time the replay runs. So when a car's movement is just slightly different than in actual race it will hit the object at different position/speed and the object will then move different, too.
Sometimes if you rewind the replay you get different outcomes for the objects. (also sometimes one is the original behaviour)

By the way thanks for the videos, my LFS computer is still broken, via videos I can at least follow races a bit

After being caught the confession does not mean much. There was already so much proof posted that a confession was not needed anymore to know what he did. Maybe an apology would still have been nice, but it is just "I forgot that I had a cheat installed", the lamest excuse possible.
Why does he only talk to the admins but not one public post to players?
When will he talk to the other leagues where he cheated, too?

Quote from Bila_KHS :

South speked to us first and confes about it, explained and sayed that he forgot he forgot that he have that on PC. Thats a better position that caught by us.

Hm, but when did he message you?
In post # #334 you wrote that you are still investigating and have no proof yet. So I assume by then he had not confessed yet. But RC-Maus and expr had already caught him by watching the replay.

Also, nice race video and good commentary.

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However, putting the capacitor in parallel with the computer also puts it in parallel with everything else on the bus, which means it would have to provide power to everything else for 100ms as well.

I think not, the diode you have there should be enough to prevent that.