I hate drifting, therefore I am replying with a hateful post.

Grrr.

Yay, another person over the age of 25!

(no offense to anyone, but it is hard for this old man to relate to 16-20 year olds. :shy

Quote from funnybone2 :

Fictional Exauhst names that i made up tell how you think about them

I have got to say that the XRG sound is fantastic, hats off to you. It actually sounds like a 1.8 liter with weber sidedrafts and uncorked exhaust.

Curses! My attempt to use an archaic unit of measurement in a computer game has failed!

Simple, but it makes a point. I used an .eps file, makes for better resolution.

Quote from Gizz :

for some reason, to get the car to balance in turns i've found i need toe on the front!, i don't think i've ever added toe on the front of a set before until this patch, not complaining though, overall everything SEEMS more stable

AHA! I knew I was not the only one who had to do this.

Quote from lerts :

yes but as im not from botswana my other data is false, i dont like giving personal info

You...you LIED to me!!! You tease! You heartbreaker! I was going to move to Botswana just to be with you and your eight dimensional brain...we could have watched the sunrise while discussing pyramids in Croatia, discussed important issues like Brittany Spear's latest faux pas, and sung Christmas carols in Sanskrit.

Now...(sob) now I will never know true love....

Quote from lerts :

on the other hand its known online games are good for mental patients

(searching for words)

Nah, I'll leave this one to others.

How about it? Since when in real life, since this game is a simulation of such, are you unable to monitor these functions? You measure tire wear, suspension damage and what not by feel, not graphs. Obviously offline you want them for testing and accumulating data.

My speculation is that the extended part was made by Eric so Scawen could test the physics and the AI racing line first, then fill in the scenery later.

Quote from The Moose :

I think you'll find that why a lot of people race on CTRA...because they want some serious racing within as professional an environment as your going to get on public servers.
That is after all what the CTRA's aim is.

I have loads of fun chatting on Ventrilo with my team and fellow racers, but the racing itself i take seriously.

I don't see that as a negative thing, like you seem to be indicating.

I believe you may have misinterpreted me. There is a passion for doing all things well, then after that becomes obsession. I see a lot of obsession. People who get very bent out of shape if the smallest occurrence ever happens to them, or God forbid, all the cars, all the others vying for first place, do not move out of persons way, and I am not talking about lapping other drivers. You may not see this, but since I always find myself in the middle of the pack I observe a great of obsessive behavior.

How many times have you seen someone get spun, then during the whole race they either sit off to the side of the track bemoaning their fate, or go out of their way to exact revenge? Why?

-Were they injured?
-Were they killed?
-Did race spectators occur injuries or death?
-Did the player lose money?
-Did they player lose their job as a driver?

See? Again, it is one thing to have a passion for an objective, it is quite another to obsess, to the point that it controls your every action.

Quote from 1337sause :

this is the new rapid response car

You spelled "response" on the car wrong.

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

So thanks for tips and i wil remove the last bit of textr from the bumper wel the part that says owns you

Just remember that there are some who take this game WAAAAAY to seriously, and the CTRA races are full of them. Myself, I think your real bumper text is cute and harmless, but for some, you might as well put "I f***ed your mother last night, she's as wide as a ditch".

Some things just set people off, the word "owned" is one of them.

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

I wast just wonderinbg what you guys thought caus every single time every single race alsmost i get knocked of out of the races i did like 80% that happend to me

Ore i am victim of incidents of other drivers like a driver spins another one out and he hits me

Ore another case a a driver looses concentration hits barier after that spins wright into me,
and dont forget the famous turn 1 pile up at the ctra servers on south city always se to be near the crashes


Am i the most unluky racer

Greets Chris

I watched a few replays from yesterday, here is what I observed.

-You take a very odd race line in the first lap.
-you use your horn way too often. At one point you honked at no one.
-Having "CHRISUU OWNS YOU!" on the back of the car will only piss people off.
-You are too impatient, rather than waiting for someone on front of you to make a mistake, or for you to have a strategy you ride their rear, tap them and sometimes spin yourself out.

Well, then take the three weeks off and play offline. Sometimes the goal is more desirable than the end result.

Press the spacebar.

Here you go.

Last edited by jayhawk, Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:02.

Easy-peasy. What color are you looking for, insofar as the base color of the car?

Quote from mrodgers :

Oh how this brings back memories of playing video games at school. Only problem was, the bus drivers would get really ticked off as you tried to lug that huge arcade machine of Ms. Pacman or Donkey Kong Jr up the steps into the bus. Then you had to sneak the thing that weighed 500 lbs and was 3 times the size of you into the classroom and try to hide it.

Good one, Mike.

Quote from SamH :

That's Cook County for ya. Once you get north of Lake-Cook Rd, you can shave a few $ off that. But yeah, that's pants.. and that tax has more than doubled in the last 4 years.

I live in Kane and I am paying $4 for Camels.

I like that idea, plus it would be nice to have it measured in knots, as that is universal, with a menu choice like this:

low wind (5-10 knots)
medium wind (11-20 knots)
high wind (21-30 knots)

1 knot = 1.1 mile per hour.


Also, the direction the wind comes from.

The physics. The cars and track could be simple polygrams like how it originally was, and I would be happy because of the physics.

Quote from BMWM3GTR :

If there are any administrators for LFS, I think it would be cool to make a pickup truck in LFS. Maybe it's just me, but I think it would be cool, and I know it would cause a problem for people with slower computers. But even a huge off road track, with water and massive jumps, would be really fun. Or even having a dirt oval.

Quote from BMWM3GTR :

ok.....

Using all the periods in this quote, I redistributed them into the first quote.


Grammar...it can be learned.

Oh, and suggestions go here. http://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=8

Quote from legoflamb :

I made the XRG perform like my Miata. However there is still the weight difference that cant be changed with out changing the physics.

That is a lovely set. Perfect gearing for Fern Bay. I love it!

Well, I moved to Botswana today, lerts is my new neighbor. He uses a surprising amount of tinfoil on his windows.