Great team... Sure going to gain you a lot of respect amongst the community!

http://360team.forum5.com/view ... hp?t=9&mforum=360team

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Maybe we could get a dedicated Local Host so we can all play S2 whenever we want, but for now im gonna put the non-cracked .exe in my folder so i can play online (with the demo)

http://360team.forum5.com/view ... =crack&mforum=360team

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You have been banned for the following reason:
Asking for crack

Date the ban will be lifted: 27th July 2007, 21:00

dats y i got banned lol

The joke was on him really, asking for a crack on the offical forum...

Your logged into the forum with that account... Your forum username and password is the same for the liveforspeed.net website...

http://www.meshcomputers.com/

If you want pre-built systems they are pretty good. Had two from them and so far have had only one problem. Which they came out to us to replace a HDD free of charge.

Not that I'm an expert on computers but their prices seem good to me for complete systems.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

I thought the F1 rules stated that there has to be a detectable/measurable interuption of power during gear shifts.

I'm pretty sure that is correct.

I'm sure the teams have to demonstrate to the FIA officials that there is a interuption of power between gear shifts.

I'd have joined had I noticed there was another ESL on the go Are you allowed to join mid season?

Enjoyed the ESL UK last time round.

I guess that one went *whoosh* over the top of your head... Think about it a little harder

Quote from corsair_bs :

Hmmm, this is kind of annoying to me... :-(

The main advantage of LFS was that it is NOT an arcade-like game, that allows you to hit obstacles without getting any damage and pushing some marvelous buttons that resets everything (i wish i had one of those in the real life, sometimes).

Will the arcade option be turned off by defaukt on multiplayer servers, then?

greets from germany,

corsair_bs

As far as I'm aware the arcade option is off by deafult. I think Scawen's thinking behind the idea is servers will hopefully all go down the `hardcore` route rather than just keep the same setting as there was before hand.

On hire karts wire and tear is pretty easy going, there is a reason them things weigh so much compared to there racing counter parts .

Those Honda engines will run forever in a day so no need to worry much about them. Usually hire karts have (forgot the name of the material) special toe rods on the front that will just absorb the impact and spring back to shape. Maybe chains would be the part most often changed, but again usually hire karts have pretty heavy duty chains and are just run till they break.

Only thing I'm not hugely sure of is clutches as you often get the people who seem to press both pedals at the same time. Can still smell the burning from my local kart tracks open day last year where they gave free shots of the pro-karts

A local indoor karting place near us, they have just moved to a new place and they've laid this very grippy surface which they are regretting. They are just chewing tyres up compared to their old painted tarmac floor.

Quote from CSU1 :

Last Sat night policeman knocks on the door:

What time did the police come get you?

There is no point on judging a driver by overall raw lap time. If you can lap 0.5 off WR consistently over an entire race then your going to be a strong contender in most races that go on in LFS.

Consistency is what wins races.

Quote from nikimere :

I think that was a mistake by logitech as both and a friend of mine have got 2nd wheels from logitech and both have come with the 3 pin...

Nope, I was told over the phone that I would have to use my current power supply. Could be because they were running down their last stock of Momos or something.

Quote from theirishnoob :

more cars ?? thats all people talk bout but nobody seems to notice that most the cars they request are well rubbish cause after all who would want a go- kart when they could have a bmw gtr/ toyota altezza instead ?
its makes no sense to me what so ever


veiws anyone ??

You make no sense to me... What is the point in simulating similar car types over and over again...

There is no point... LFS should venture into other areas of motorsport such as karting, prototypes etc. I'm sure from what Scawen has said this is where he wants to go with LFS, I get the idea he probably enjoys trying to simulate other areas of motorsport. For example a kart will require chassis flex to be taken into consideration.

You obviously have no idea of the performance of proper karts and especially superkarts... Also the great racing they can bring because of the fact they are basically all about mechanical grip.

Quote from geeman1 :

And reverse gear too. Or atleast add a virtual pit crew that will come to push your car backwards

Why? F1 cars have a reverse gear...

Quote from SKaREO :

Crashing still happens in that server, and I think I need a replay or something to report it. Either way its silly to buy an S1 license and then be forced to drive the slowest cars. Not sure what that is all about.

What's silly about it? You pay half the price you get less content... Why not go moan at SimBin for charging you another £35 for a patched version of GTR 1...

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I agree with the guys who are saying "Don't bother selling S1, it only discourages your customers." S2 price is also too high for an online distributed game with very little content. I mean the price is comparable to Gran Turismo, but the game itself clearly is not. Also, I buy Gran Turismo in a box, not through a web site.

Why? S1 is still an option, what I hate is seeing S1 users moaning rather than getting off their back-sides and doing something about it. What stops you from getting a server and using the forums as a method of advertising it... S1 users should be glad that the LFS philosophy doesn't follow every other game such as Grand Turismo, at least S1 users get the latest of everything except content. Name me another game where you get continuous updates for the life of the entire product, not just V1.

I just love how people like you obviously fall for the EA games/SimBin strategy and don't appear to realise it when you come here calling LFS expensive... Which it isn't to any stretch of the imagination, console games here are £40-45, PC games £35 and how long do they last you? a month at best... LFS has kept me entertained for what must be coming on 2 years and I've yet to drive half the combos so no lack of content there...

Quote from goode400 :

Congratulations! What a great event!....Just begs the question...when is the UK going to have a similar event? PR for LFS would be enormous, bringing many more racers on-board.

Germany has a considerably larger player base than the UK according to the stats on LFSW.

To my knowledge Vykos has done a lot for LFS, such as this Intel deal to get the BMW F1 car in the game. There isn't really anyone that springs to mind who has such an active involvement in pushing LFS out there in the UK... Sorry if there is but I can't think of anyone off the top of my head.

Quote from Gimpster :

And once again the failings of the sim comunity are clearly spelled out.

If I mis my braking point that I have no worries as I still have ample room to slow down and make the turn because I was smart and had the forthought to allow some margin for error unlike 95% of the people that race here and bitch when they get taped in the ass under braking because one of their fellow racers pulled the all to common bonehead move of not leaving any margin for error.

Growup and race smart. Then maybe T1 won't be just a cluster every single god dam race.

If your racing with good drivers then leaving ample room to slow down is not an option if you don't want to be left for dust. The only way to go faster is to push the limits...

Lap 1, T1 I can understand taking it a bit easier but not a lot. Considering you are usually approaching T1 at a significantly slower speed. The problem usually occurs when someone brakes far too early and very hard. A lesson people need to learn is if your going to brake early or are not sure then brake gently to begin with. As if you brake hard your just going to cause a chain reaction all the way down the field.

If I slip up and run into someone I'll take the blame, it's part and parcel of racing. The whole fun in racing is to push each other to the limit and at the limit accidents will happen. If someone hits me and they say "Sorry" I'll just give them a "" as I'd rather they pushed me hard than follow in a train like fashion.

Everyone also has buttons they can assign to left/right.

It's a skill in sim racing to use the information available, such as left/right and your mirrors to find where the cars are around you. Why take that away? We already don't have to deal with any G Force so why take away the immersion of being on the edge looking around for other cars?

If you have a HUD showing you how close a car is then that's as bad as giving all the cars TC and stability control IMO, takes away the skill and challenge.

Congrats!

Quote from glyphon :

crazy. that looks like water color. is that because of the type of medium you were painting on? looks like paper. still, pretty good.

Thanks , never done much painting before so have a lot to learn me thinks. They are water based oil paints, which appear to be nothing like real oil paints I did water it down quite a bit though.

Our college wont let us use turps for health and safety reasons .

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Is that a McLaren pit crew dude? That's pretty nice, Keiran.

Thanks, yea it's a McLaren dude watching Montoya.

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I never had you down as an arty type.

Guess you don't know I'm studying an HND in Art and Design then . Want to go into either graphic design or animation so need a portfolio of work, those people who do non art related subjects have such an easy time applying to Uni!

Quote from glyphon :

i've been lazy recently, and haven't done much, but i do have these...this one i've posted before in a different thread.

and this one i haven't posted before...

both done in photoshop.

Good stuff Always nice to see others work .

First attempt at oil painting.

Never really posted anything I've done before, not quite a car (except the reflection ) but it's related to F1

To my knowledge LFS kerbs are very smooth compared to most you'd see on real race tracks. The problem with making them sharp edged like real life is the tracks wouldn't work in reverse unless LFS could reverse them.

I'd personally like to see some kerbs become more viloent than what we have already so you'd have to learn the ones you can and can't run on.

Quote from BigDave2967 :

I saw that coming, I bought the wheel from Savastore, which became out of business. So I explained that to Logitech. She asked about the calibrations patch, I told her I tried everything, gave her the details, from underneath the wheel.

She gave me an address in Switzerland to send them the "9 pin cable". I'll find out more when the new wheel arrives, I got the RMA number, and telephone number to call them, to double check to make sure I have what they need, seems fair since they are sending me a new wheel. *Shame it's not a G25*

I never cut the wires off my wheel as I couldn't understand the person on the other side of the phone. He randomly would spell the words out and read them so I had a pile of letters mixed in with some words

To answer your earlier question I got mine in a week I think. Although the power supply is only 2 pin, you'll need to use your old one.

Quote from Leifde :

Niko missed his flight, well, that's what he told me.

Also, PICTURES!

LOL, if he was going to use that excuse maybe he shouldn't have been posting on the forum around the times where he probably would be getting a flight .

I did think it was strange that some 14 year old from another country was confirmed as tbh I very much doubt many parents even in the UK would let a 14 year old to something like this on there own. Yet alone another country. How was he planning getting from the airport to the venue etc?

Maybe Niko will realise that he shouldn't use events like that as an opportunity to boost his spam count (find it quite funny how he posts anywhere but here, usually grabs an opportunity to post with both hands). Especially when people could be worried and delaying the event because they are expecting you to turn up, not to mention the guys probably had to pay more than excpected judging by the website.

I guess the major reason skins aren't deleted is to save bandwidth on LFS World, doesn't make sense to delete it only to re-download it.

I've had S2 installed since the day it was released and have never wiped my skins_x folder clean and it only weighs 361MB. Considering LFS is only what, 250-300mbs on it's own it still comes in a lot smaller than most modern titles.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Keiran: Isn't every driver who makes it to F1 pretty much equally well prepared for it? I mean, they've all been karting since childhood, they're all loaded with sponsorship, they all come from reasonably well-off backgrounds - it's not like half the field are working class heroes who never got a chance to race until they were old enough to pass their driving tests and take their mums' Novas around Sainsburys car park.

That's not what I'm saying though.

Hamilton has been brought up in such a manner that he has always been in top teams (to my knowledge), many drivers haven't been so lucky. As ITV showed Kubica wasn't exactly in the ideal place to start his career.

But the point I'm making that I feel sets him apart to any other `rookie` as Ron said he has been made to fully understand why everything he does in the car influences it and how it influences it.

To drill that sort of knowledge into a drivers head is going to be very beneficial. You don't have time to think what to do you just have to do it and I think Lewis is probably the best prepared in that regard. Okay, all the drivers he is racing just now probably know as much as they need to know to go quick but chances are they learnt it through trial and error rather than from the `book`.

I just personally feel he has had a head start in that he has been very well trained compared to most `rookies` such a Rosberg (only recent driver I can think of who has gone straight from one category to another).