still 3 days to confirm

but lack of, and cancellation of, practise sessions caused lack of interest by potential participants

Fast And Crazy,FZR,45,Jettascuba,Gerrit Conradie,South Africa

I know exactly what is going on.

Quote as an example: "They are working on fixing this problem though. I expect it to work again soon, at which point the delayed emails should be delivered switfly"

A known issue, but no notification to users about it, only when people start to complain.

My complaint is not about DDos attacks or unavailibility of servers or issuesd relating to this.

My complaint is

1) No notifications about issues, but a pm "sorry, we are aware that the LFS Master Server has been down for the pas t4 hours, it is out of our control, but we are working on it" would be nice, or a note put on a back-up server, or even a note on an active server like cg.

2) In this case, I suspect my connection problems, like the email verification problem, is due to attempts being made to prevent or minimise DDos attacks.

Last edited by Jettascuba, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:00.

and since last night I constantly get the 'did not receive track info' message, so I cannot connect to any server. I never had any problems.

I am seriously getting fedup with all LFS's problems.

Since 0.6E everything got worse

Note: and now suddenly I can connect again, took 30minutes of trying, same as last night

Last edited by Jettascuba, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:34.

Full Name: Gerrit Conradie
LFSW Username: Jettascuba
Requested carnumber: 45
Teamname: Fast and Crazy
Teamtag: fnc /
Nationality: South Africa

Yes, the Storm250 was great, though my race snowballed into a huge mess.

LFSWorld Name:Jettascuba
In-Game Name: fnc / Gerrit
Full Team Name: Fast ands Crazy
Nation: South Africa

What are the requirements for this event?

Lap and skin?

Full Name: Gerrit Conradie
LFSW Username: Jettascuba
Requested carnumber: 45
Teamname: Fast and Crazy
Teamtag: fnc /
Nationality: South Africa

am interested

Just an honest question: How do you know not enough drivers? fnc had 5 drivers that wanted to practise, or did everyone else let you know that they cannot make it?

Just an idea: Have drivers confirm that they will take part in practise sessions, like in events.

Quote from Jonathon.provost :

Session Canceled until further notice.

dare we ask 'why?'

huh?

Thanks for the advice, guys.

I got totally fedup with my wireless connection, that is 80% of the time okay, and then randomly it goes to the pits like this week.

Now on a landline trial, ping down to 170ms, with 3ms jitter. Yippee!

Hopefully I will now cause less frustration to other drivers . Will see tonight at the RN Club series practise.

Am now evaluating different broadband suppliers, most here gives out a 7 day free trial.

yes.

BUT, I just connected via teamspeak to the RN server and my ping and jitter are like 450 ms ping, with 460ms jitter!!!

Connecting to any other European server (apart from LFS servers), my ping is half and jitter low.

Except if my ISP is limiting my game server access ATM - never happened before though.

Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

well thats high, how about speedtest?

same, but that is normal and okay and I can drive okay like that normally. Just got spectated due to lagging again from an MRc server, last night from FM Oval and also ETCC GT1. This is not normal.

Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

whats your ping to the average lfs server?

About 210ms with a 5ms jitter, no packet loss

Just wondering, my pingtest and speedtest results are normal, but my lag the past 2 days on lfs servers makes it undriveable - ping a bit higher, but jitter is galactically high. Any ideas, anyone found the same?

Quote from beckyanne19 :

Thanks again for all the advice - lots of friendly folks here. I started LFS as a way to get some autocross practice - looking to try out autocross this year, but I got hooked on the GP racing. Started with the XFG, but moved to the XRG since most of the other cars are RWD and I learned to drive on RWD cars.

It looks like the consensus is I need to watch / follow better drivers to get a better picture for what they do, and where I lose time.

BTW, 2 glasses of wine after work do not seem to help the lap times for XFG or XRG much at all.

Thanks again, and happy racing.

Drove some of my best quali times after a glass of wine

Quote from Jettascuba :

Desired Entry Number (00-99)*: 45
Full Driver Name: Gerrit Conradie
LFSWorld Name: Jettascuba
Nationality: South Africa
Full Team Name: South City Cab Company

Team change if possible: Fast and Crazy

btw, as long as you do not mess up other drivers' races, being courteous and cautious, you will be welcome on any racing server, never mind your times.

and the best way to learn is to just take the leap and sign up for a league!

I signed up for the OLFSL 2011 league 2 months after starting with LFS, qualified dead last, 95 out of 95, for the first race, but darn, I learned a lot during that season!

Hi

Just get onto a server and start to drive with other drivers. The AI's ignores the Clean Driving Rules and you will not learn a lot getting by them as they will stay on the racing line never mind what. Exception is when your AI's drive a lot and gain experience.

Anyway - first get yourself up to speed, learn to drive good lines, try to stay with other drivers, how to get out of the way of faster drivers.

Passing other drivers... first see whether it is really something to be bothered about at this moment.

Drop by at the Gentleman Drivers Club server when it is not private, you will learn a lot and get lots of help.

Good luck and welcome!

Sorry for dropping out of this session after 1 lap - was jealous not to be part of the race.

1) Took an afternoon nap and missed qualification.

2) Something I found more than once: Just before gridding, LFS gave me a competitor's car (had been given a pace car also previously) - this happened when admin did a 'END RACE'. Whether other car or not, I got someone else's skin on mine. So, a bit sleepy I jumped to garage and 'switched to my set'. Car and skin appeared to be fine. On pace lap I realised I was on R2's - no issue, just had to change it to R3's during pit stop. At pit entrance I realised I was on the 'race' set. No sense in continuing.

Congrats on a great practise session. The two car drafting was great!

Some comments:

1) When you get caught, just keep your line. Let the drivers catching you treat you as a car to be drafted and passed. If on a turn, just move away as during a draft.

2) Three car drafting - the FM Youtube video is a nice tutorial. The 3 car draft that took place never really got into a rythm - a bit of haphazard passing took place during the draft.

3) The longer the draft, the faster your lap times, even if you need to lift before passing.

4) Do short lifts, the FZR hates coasting - due to engine braking the rear gets unstable.

5) Select how wide a gap you need to give when being drafted and passed based on when you want to pass again - time needed to catch the driver you want to draft.

Regards

Cool video, nice syncronisation with music

Teamspeak IS required. You MUST be in a channel under "Competitors Room (General Race Chat)".

ok, master server is down, waiting... with 38 laps to go