You wondefully described it. Yeah, I've been in the zone for a few times. I'm still looking to find the way into it ever since. I broke my pb in every lap, everything was so perfect. I went to sleep, only to find the next day, that it's over, and I'm as slow as always, and just can't do it again. :/

I've read most of this topic, but I didn't notice anyone mention this: in the old system different cars had different multiplier, like XRG > XFG, XRT > RB4 > FXO. I know that the TBO class is now balanced, but it's still harder to drive an XRT than an RB4 or FXO, so it should be awarded with more points. Is it still like this on this system, because I've not found any info on the site about this, sorry if I overlooked it.

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That wouldn't help you that much, they argued in Italian.

Then tell us pls what they said.

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I was just looking at the top racers list and noticed that I'm not in that list. I have a Gold licence with 4709 points. I guess I should be in between them:

123. 3laurent 7caplain France 4,735 Gold
124. Martin Macjon Germany 4,666 Gold

Well, after I watched it first, I thought it's driver B's fault. But watching it again a few times from the helicopter view, I don't know. As Tristan said, you have to have an overlap at the turn in point, not at the braking point. It seems to me that C started to turn way too early.

Since a while I've got a problem with LFS: every once in a while it can't connect to the master server. It looks as if the firewall is blocking it (Jetico fw) but it should not. If I delete the rule which allows LFS to access the net, and set the fw into "ask" mode, it doesn't popup a window that LFS tries to access the internet, as if LFS doesn't even try... Though if I switch the fw into "allow all" mode, LFS works fine. Oh yeah, and a reboot solves this problem. Today I was experimenting with it, and noticed that if I want to start a server while this problem persists, it says the following: "TCP socket: bind failed". Any ideas? All other programs are working fine with this firewall, even LFS worked fine until some time ago.

Edit: just as I posted, I got an idea. I shut down all the unneccessary programs, and voila: LFS works fine. Now to discover which particular program it is...

Edit2: I think I restarted all the programs I was running, but LFS works fine still. Hm.. Well, next time I'm gonna get ya!

Last edited by Iron, Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:00.

I would have to skip 4 races out of 7 so I decided not to sign up. Damn work.

Great movie! We need more of these "just racing" videos.

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Think this video shows pretty good that the standard cockpit view isn't that realistic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ;mode=related&search=

It isn't LFS, but it have the view at the same position.


Doesn't look right when he is steering his wheel and you can see the guy on the screen doing exactly the same. The view should have been right above the steeringwheel or something.

Yep, that's exactly why you should use a realistic low fov with cockpit, like 60, and then you see almost exactly what you would see IRL. As for mirrors, use the virtual one, it's not realistic, but you need to sacrifice something if you have only one monitor, and it's better to be the mirrors than the whole view.

What a cool idea it is! I've had this on my mind too, not a game, but only asking judgement from my incidents without disclosing the other drivers' usernames. Maybe if you run out of replays, I can give you some of mine.

It's already highlighted in the finishing order, but the point of this suggestion is to be able to see it during the race.

Oh, and a +1 from me too.

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I dreamed about replacing Eric as LFS's modeller last night funny since I cant model for poop But I can gladly say you all loved me when I added a Tank to LFS

Quote from DeKo :

Nah, the person at the back of the grid would win every race.

LOL, that made my day, thanks.

Holy cow, I didn't know this either, always wondered what that option does. Nice feature it is.

It would be interesting to see in the table that how many "laps" each player has completed.

What if I can't make it to all races because of my work? Am i allowed to participate this way?

It just caught my attention:

Best racer of the moment
Racer 3ttan
Driven Distance 0 Km
Laps 29
Races won 3
Second 2
Third 0
Finished 5



Edit: I guess it was just not updated, because now it seems ok.

Last edited by Iron, Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:48.

Well I'm still fairly new (only 9700 km driven) and still learning the cars, so my favourite car so far is what I'm just happening to drive at the moment. Really, I tried all the cars except the XRR and BF1, and loved each one of them. My current favourite is, guess what, the LX6. I did 360km on BL1R yesterday on a quite busy server and it was a blast, improved my pb quite a lot too while having close battles. Though my stats indicate that I drove the XFG the most, that's because when I got S2 I immediately went to the STCC/CTRA servers to play. If that hadn't went down, I would probably still be driving the XRT. Or perhaps the LX6 on the LRF silver server.

Well yesterday I was racing on KY NAT rev (iirc) with XRG (10 laps, "long" races ) and pretty much along the whole race I was in front of garph alias ATC gAg, i couldn't pull away, and he couldn't really get into take over position. In the 8th lap or so i came up to a backmarker, at a corner, i was gonna overtake him, but on the corner exit he braked, so I rearended him. I thought my race was "over", but ATC gAg was so kind he lifted, so we could continue to race. Though that didn't save me from screwing up the next couple of corners, so he eventually overtook me. I guess that incident took me out of the zone (yeah yeah, the excuses :P ).
Anyway that was really kind of him.

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I think that the best solution is to behave the way you want the others to behave too.

I fully agree. However the majority don't think like this. Treat others they way you want them to treat you. Maybe they want me to wreck them?

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My way of surviving the races is not getting angry when you are shot down (hey, why let anyone to ruin your day?! take it easy - self-discipline is a way to go) but trying to climb back to the position I deserve and finishing the race in a respectable way. For me, it is almost the same fun as winning itself (which rarely happens because I'm still too new to LFS :-)

Shortly: don't go for a win, go for the racing itself!

I don't get angry because I don't win if I get taken out, but because of the way others think. It simply gets me angry that how selfish they drive, only thinking about themselfs, and not about the consequences of their behavior. It gets me angry if I have to back off because the other guy doesn't give room and if I don't back off, we'll crash. So they think 'See! If I drive this way, I'll get rewarded.', because it's always me, who backs off.

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Take the win as a bonus of having the fun of racing.

But the thing is, for me the fun of racing lies in close battles. Otherway the racing is just hotlapping. If i get taken out, i obviously don't get close battles, and if the other drivers are driving they way I described it i don't get it either.

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I also agree that a lot of T1 wrecking in the crowded races may be due to hardware/lag/framerate/FOV issues because it has happened to me too (sorry!) ... and realizing this may help you in coping with it mentally. Nothing is perfect. Have fun!

I know this sounds harsh, and I'm not even really sure that I mean it, but: If your equipment doesn't allow you to race properly, than you have to do something about it. I could compare it to something like a broken brake pedal. I'm sure if I were telling everybody that I keep ramming them off the track because my brake pedal is faulty, they would tell me to go repair it.

I know my nickname doesn't sound pretty smart if you don't know the idea behind it, but it dates back even before I got internet. My real name is Áron (or Aron for those who can't see the first letter) and it came from that, my friends started to call me Iron IRL, I use it everywhere on the net. Unfortunately it's pretty common too, but then my surprise was even bigger when I discovered that it was not taken here. Btw it's supposed to be pronounced like irony (without the y of course), not iron.
So no regrets here, maybe, maybe if I could go back in time I would choose a self-made up name, to make it unique.

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How do you get the exact page like that to come up? Use firefox and tried it, and it stayed at www.lfsworld.net, like it should. But how do you get the specific URL?
-LoganC-
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Answered my own question. I just replaced my name with his! lol

Click on the upper left corner on any lfsworld window where that little icon is, and right click on the "link url" link and copy link location.

Nice pic Don, as always! My new wallpaper.

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So if you go on the grass, it'll be there untill you pit??

No, why would it? The dirt comes off after a few (or more) corners. I guess he meant that the tyres always get dirty homogeneously, ie: the same amount of dirt on every part of the tyre contact patch. But the tyres are turning around rapidly so they gather dirt evenly i guess, maybe it's not that wrong. I also noticed that sand traps give more dirt than grass, so the amount of dirt depends on the surface too, not just constant.

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Wow I must say I am truly shocked as to how some people manage get a silver license.

At least he realized that it was his fault, and even showed it by action: left the server, and didn't continue to race like nothing has happened. As for T2, I don't think he was at fault, he kept his line, but the driver left of him turned into him.
And as Kev said, naming is really not welcome on this forum.