We have the same topic every week
Maybe a pop up on this part of the forum, the first time someone come here, to tell that they should read the suggested improvement first page and use the search engine before posting anything would be a good idea !

Quote from fthsjustin :

R E A L C A R S


N O T F A K E
*REALCARS IN LFS AS OF NOW= 3

Real cars don't fit into an ordinary computer. They are just too big. We also tried to pass a car through the phone wire but without sucess so far. If the providers decide to enlarge their wires (at least 2 meters in diameter) we may have a hope to get a real car transmitted from one computer to another

Seriously, did you consider the possibility that you bought the wrong game?
BTW, there's no real cars in video game, only real names and close designs.

Last edited by Maelstrom, Sat 28 Jul 2007, 02:10.

I'd like it to compensate for the reduced FOV we have because of our small screens. I mean that whenever a car that doesn't appear on our screen enters the normal human FOV from the driver's eyes it should be shown on the screen as you describe it.

I really hope too that we will get a race truck in S3. The ultra heavy experience . It would be a great improvement for the diversity in the game and there's not many truck simulation out there ( a very old one and a crapy mod for Rfactor)

Here the test have become harder and harder over the years. Passing the test in 3 weeks wouldn't even be administratively possible. IIRC the theory test can be taken only 1 month after they registered you to the "prefecture" (so expect at least 1 month and a half) and you have to drive for at least 20 hours before taking the exam (if you can schedule them over less than 2 month you can consider yourself lucky; at least near paris).

Learning to drive the car is the easiest part. They are very pernickety. If you didn't slow down before a street that have the priority (i mean even if you don't see a car comming) you can say goodbye to your licence. If you forget to watch your mirror before slowing down it might achieve a similar result (And you better move your head so that they can see that you did it), even if you watched 10 secondes ago and there was no car comming 1 kilometer behind you, if you look like you're not confident bye bye, if the examinator don't like you... etc,etc...

The stats are funny, around paris IIRC ~25% succeed on their first try.
I passed my licence in march, we were 3, I'm the only one who got it. According to the driving teacher, the other guy drove perfectly but the examinator kept yelling at him and ....

I really love my country

It is more a chemical engineering contest than a sport. A new step is going to be crossed since soon it will become a genetic engineering competition

Quote from gohfeld23 :

IMO, if you don't feel like racing, get out of your house a bit and have a cup of joe with someone.
If you feel like chatting, IRC, IM and chat rooms are great.

The only time I join those servers it to outrun cops with FZ5's with my stock UF1.
Also, I know people dislike drifters, for some weird reason, but at least they are doing something that requires skill. To top it off, a drift server doesn't prevent me from grip racing there. Many times, people will join you in the race. You can't do that in InSim cruise servers.

We don't live in the same place I guess
If i go outside it's to go far very far, cause outside there's nothing but grey building and gloomy peoples here

It's funny to see how many people are pissed by the crusing/city driving servers. Hey it's just a relief tool, a great one. When I was not in the mood to do a race I used to drive alone offline with winamp running in the background. Now I can do the same with many other players around. Some of you complain that it steals drivers from the racing servers? If there was no crusing servers they would probably not even be online at this time, maybe not even playing LFS

On the web site's main page, you have a "Contact us" link! It's the better way to solve your problem

Urban terror
A free online only FPS.

http://www.urbanterror.net/page.php?6

I think they should give the patches girl's names and the first after the patch Z should begin by A. Any suggestion for a name

Thoses days! Planescape torment and Urban terror 4.0

Quote from Speed Soro :

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"But what you would except when majority of players are immature hormone driven teens or even younger kids that don't have never even driven cars, then there is few exceptions again."

Another lie. The majority of players of rfactor, gtr2 and gtl community are made of mature users, many of them more than 40 old, and many drivers from real racing world. Here in brazil LFS community is made in its majority by teenagers while rF and GTR is the opposite, and I think this is a fact in the rest of the world.


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A fact yes

If we had rally stages I guess we would need a rally stage builder! Part of the fun with this kind of event is that you drive blind. I mean you hardly know the stage.

Quote from Count Duckula :

I want to know how much S4 is going to cost !!!

LFS is not supposed to go that far! If the Devs continue after S3 final, I guess it will be a brand new game (probably using the LFS physics engine as a basis).

Quote from tristancliffe :

Nope - best looking sim yet in my opinion. rFactor, GTR, GTR2, Netkar all look a bit rubbish. GPL is nice in some ways, as is NR2003. Netkar is the closest of the ugly ones, and has some really nice graphical touches, but overall looks fake and artificial. ISI sims have always been more about audiovisual bling than simulation, but always look awful (without exception). RBR doesn't look real either.

So yes, I think LFS looks closest to reality at the moment.

I agree for the sim you quote. But if you consider arcade games like colin mac rae dirt or forza 2 the graphics are a blast.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Am I the only one who thinks that actually, LFS looks quite nice?

No actually i like it too! It could just be better and I don't see how getting better graphics could be bad!

Quote from mcintyrej :

Don't over-do it though.

If LFS converted to the likes of DX9 and/or DX10, I can quickly see it becoming a GTR2 type simulator, which people with low end computers (whop play lfs with a good FPS) will totally lose out on playing properly.

I say, a set of adjustment tools within LFS. Such as Contrast and Brightness. Even with a little more contrast LFS can look like a more real game. As well as adjustments to things like motion blur, (possibly) High Dynamic Range Lighting (HDR).

Just the simplest things can make the biggest differences.

We can't just stay with pehistoric graphics only because some players still play with over 5 years old computers. Things have to move on. I'm not saying it is that important in a racing game but the computers' age is just not a good reason to keep the game that way. And actually my computer is a dinosaur

http://stage6.divx.com/user/je ... 8/Project-Gotham-Racing-4
Very impressive!
I loved MSR on dreamcast! I haven't played its sequels

If the content was something like:
2 rally cars, a hillclimb rally car and a buggy
+ Many tight rally stages with different surfaces ( dirt, asphalt, snow,...) + at least one hillclimb
I would be glad to pay 12£ for it!

Last edited by Maelstrom, Wed 11 Jul 2007, 14:33.

Quote from Linsen :

It is (or maybe: was) more than racer's fantasy. In 2005, the devs gave teamnic an interview and Eric there stated that they had been approached by a "well-known rally-team" and that, "if everything goes to plan then we will have something interesting that rally fans can look forward to."

As of now it seems that not everything went to plan, but who knows.

I hope it's still planed even if we would have heard more about it if it was, I guess!

The cockpit view is unrealistic because we see 2 time the ~50cm space between our eyes and our screen!

The custom view (when moving the camera forward) allows us to get rid of that problem but creates another unrealistic issue which is allowing us to see things we shoudn't be able to see from our sit!

Could we have a zooming tool inside the cokpit view? The view wouldn't be different than the cokpit view but would focus on a particular part of the screen

What do you think?

Quote from SchneeFee :

i thought i already heard something about an Rally Addon! :rally_dri

Some racer's fantasy (including myself) I guess! Never read anything from the devs about it

Quote from Gunn :

Yes it would be a solution to a problem that doesn't even exist.

A 30% complaint! It's true it doesn't even exist. They must be ghosts