Hi, this is not a big issue at all but I would like to know if there's a solution to it. The thing is that when I start LFS with my DFP wheel and PS2-like controller both connected and working LFS detects both of them in the controllers option screen (i.e. "2 controllers detected"). The problem is that LFS picks the gamepad as the working controller, so I have to exit the game, unplug the gamepad and then restart so the game only sees the DFP.

As I say it's not a big thing, but I'd like to know if there's a way to tell LFS that I want to use the wheel and not the gamepad so I don't have to worry about what controllers are connected or not

Quote from burnsy1882 :

originally posted this for CSU1 when he asked for something similar:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=366004#post366004

That guy was looking for a "team", I'm looking for a league. I already have a team and don't intend on leaving it. It's just that we want to compete and not just run in friendly races.

Hi, I'm looking for a league like this:

• Races every week (very important, not one race every two weeks).

• All kinds of cars (not "only TBO", or "only open-wheel", but all kind of cars take part in the league).

• All kinds of tracks (not Blackwood League or similar).

• Races about 45 min ~ 75 min in a single round, which take tyres to the limit, and sometimes pitstops are obligated because a single set of tyres won't last for the whole race.

• Near to full grid in every race (15 ~ 20 pilots), and if possible differente pools so people with similar skill levels are gathered in the same pool.

• Very clean racing.

Is there anything like this? This is the format we were using at lfs-spain and it's the most fun I've had playing LFS, but due to technical issues our great admins are rebuilding the site so I need some adrenaline!

Last edited by MaKaKaZo, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 17:45.

Now that they've made lapped cars appear as grey in patch V8 -which I really like-, they could as well make cars that are a lap ahead of you appear in another color like red or whatever. That way you know if you are catching a pilot in your same lap or you are just going to un-lap yourself with that pilot.

Oh, thank you tristancliffe, that's faster. I didn't know about right-clicking over names

Ok, the ctrl+shift thing worked. But clicking on the kick button only starts a vote even if you are admin, so that's not a solution. Anyway, with ctrl+shift I'm fine :-)

Hi, I was having problems with a player yesterday in our team server, but I didn't get to kick him (it was my first time).

Today I've been trying to do it with a teammate again, but I'm still missing something.

I only get it to work with "/kick lfs_username", but not with "/kick current_player_nickname", so I guess the only way to do it is using their lfs names. But the problem is that I don't know how to look up those names. I've tried the command "/names" which is supposed to work as a toggle switch between player names and user names, but it won't work, or at least I don't know where the change takes effect -not in car names and neither in the connections list-

Our server is the latest dedicated server version.

Any help? I really need to know how to find a player lfs name, because guessing it is... impossible most of the times.

I've seen that Fusion RT uses joomla, but I don't know about anyone else. The fact is that I'm interested in joomla but I had a quick look at it and found out that it has too many third party modules distributed with a commercial license, which I don't like. It's gaining strength as a candidate though as I think it has very indepth decoumentation about it's architecture and module developing.

...which CMS do you or would you use?

I'd like to know about people who are running league, events or private-team based websites, if they use any particular CMS for any given reason. Or those people who were to run a site like what would they choose and why?

In our team we are using Xoops, but I don't like it very much.

The reason is I'm developing a league management module for Xoops, but it really lacks the basic documentation on developing third party modules, so it's being a pain in the ass.

I'm thinking about developing it well enough to make something useful so anybody could install it on their site and run and manage LFS leagues/events with it (at least simple ones). And I'm thinking of doing it for the most common or well received CMS amongs the LFS community (maybe even porting to a couple of them). It woulnd't be the ultimate league manager but would allow anyone to run a league without much effort (everything is done through forms and results are taken from lfs_stats results files -html-).

So I'd like to know about your impressions on how well a CMS would perform for a LFS competition site. At least it should have a forum, private messages, articles, a calendar and a shoutbox.

If you know of teams or league with big and well managed websites please tell me about what they use too.

Smith I sent you this in a private message but maybe someone can help me

I'm developing a LFS league management module fos the Xoops CMS and I'd like to ask you for a little reference about LFS Stats.

I use LFS Stats files to automatically upload race results by parsing them. I had taken into consideration DNF and DSQ, but there are more penalties and race situations which I don't know about.

As an example I have this in a file:

16. pilot 1. DNF. (no penalty)
17. pilot 2. +2 laps. (DT penalty)
18. pilot 3. DNF. (no penalty)
19. pilot 4. DNF. (no penalty)

I don't know what that DT penalty is, so I don't know how that pilot should score, as DNF pilots don't score a single point (in my module).

My question is if I could have some kind of reference about the 'penalty' column and its different cases, and other special situations like DNF, DSQ or others that may be shown in other columns.

I could always make it so you can manually alter those results and set it to desired value, but of course the ideal thing would be to have it all done automatically.

Hi, is there a way to find out in which position I am in any of the ranks? I'd like to know where I am in the MHR but I don't know if there's a way to do it performing a search somewhere

Oh, and it would be nice to know how many points you're contributing with to your nation ranks!

Last edited by MaKaKaZo, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 12:18.

Thanks for the info android. I'm not touching the torque split, this is a WR set and I'm already used to its handling so I just want to adjust the tyres' temperatures by fine tuning the things that will affect other aspects of the set the least.

If the air temperature affects the pressure, then I guess I should have it green so the pressure is high enough to give me those little extra kmhs at straights, and that little plus of handling at the corners.

Hi, I've read posts about tyres sometimes but now I'd like to know a little more in depth about temperatures and how they should be distributed.

When I'm hotlapping I always warm up the tyres nicely before going for the time attack, but I'm always confused when it comes to long races.

Currently I'm driving the FXR at Aston Historic for a race next monday which is scheduled for 27 laps, about 66 min. As I cannot warm the tyres before for the race, they get like this (all tyres R2):

- Front tyres get green inside (not the inner surface), but too hot on the surface at times if I brake too hard. The inner surface is quite hotter than the outer.
- Rear tyres won't get green on the inside, they remain quite blue, but the surface is in a nice green in the inner side, but blue in the outer.

I'd like anyone to explain what's the effect of the inner temperature. When I'm hotlapping I get the rear tyres get all green nicely both in surfaces and the inside, but the blue inside during race simulation worries me a bit. I think that although the surface is green the tyres are not responding as they should.

I think that reducing camber (in the rear) would get the inner warmer as the heat distributon in the surface would be more equitative, but I don't know if that would take away too much cornering speed.

Any help with temperatures?

Could anyone tell me the IP address of the old master server so we can edit the hosts file in case we need to connect to it instead to the new one?

This is not anyone's fault, we'll try to find a solution.

I thought about editing the hosts file, but in that case we first have to make sure that our servers are all listed in the same master server, cause it would be way too much to get 50 people to edit the hosts file in a way and 50 people to edit it in another way and still get everyone to do it the right way and without anyone picking the wrong master server for their race. We're discussing about it but it looks nearly impossible to me. Re-scheduling the race looks like the better option to me.

Mmmm... We're having our last championship race in 7 hours and this is what I've come to, correct me if I'm wrong.

We are about 100 racers playing in 6 servers. There's no way to make sure that we will be viewing the same list of servers when the time comes, and we can't be sure of all of our servers being connected to the same master server neither.

But anyway, we can join any server online using directly its IP address no matter what master server it is connected to. Please tell me I'm right

Hi, I'm looking for G forces tables, both lateral and longitudinal depending on the car and tyre type, to use with LFS Setup Analyser.

I have a lateral G-forces table that comes as an appendix in Bob Smith's Advanced Setup guide, but I have no clue on how to find out the longitudinal G-force of my current car, so that¡s why I'm looking for tables.

Hi, I'm fairly new to LFS S2, but I'm already running quite well in my local league races. Now I'm doing research about setting the cars. I've downloaded basic and advanced setup guides, setup analysing applications and such, but I have a basic question.

I understand how most of the things works, but I would like some help and tips about the procees I should follow. I mean, there must be some basic things that you should adjust in first place. After that you work on secondary settings. Then you just start fine tuning everything until you are satisfied.

There are lots of things that can be changed, so I think there must be some kind of "basic" settings, while the other should be changed after the main ones are OK.

Any help?

I found this image: http://www.thenextfuture.nl/users/marco/dfp/dfp3.jpg

I wouldn't say they're buttons, but neither they're paddles. They're like button/paddle hybrids. I don't mind as long as they don't break easily.

Do the DFP have sequential shifting paddles like the Momo or just the stick? In the official site it says that it has paddles but a friend of mine says that they're just buttons.

Thanks for your answers. Now I know that both choices will be fine, so I'll look for the cheaper one I can find

The fact is that I've found some Momos from an ebay shop at good price, but they won't ship to Spain (I even tried contacting them with the "hey you ship to France, it's just a few more km!" but that didn't do).

I founf DFPs for 100€ and under with shipping fee included, and maybe that will be my selection.

Anyway, I think I'm going to wait a bit so everyone can get their brand new G25s and sell their Momos and DFPs at lower prices And I'm getting an old FFB Thrustmaster as a present from a teammate who got a G25. As I'm playing with mouse right now, anything with pedals is great. My team is great!

Hi, I'm thinking of buying a wheel and the G25 goes TOTALLY BEYOND my money budget, so please don't say "get the G25 instead because it's better". Actually I'm looking for second hand wheels as I can't even afford a new one. (And Jakg please don't link me to your signature I've already read it :P)

I'm looking for Momos and DFPs, but I find it strange that the DFP is cheaper than the Momo (both new, prices from the official Logitech website). Why? The DFP has 900 degree rotation, and overall I can't find a reason why the Momo is more expensive.

Maybe the reason is that the DFP is designed for the PS2 and not the PC. And here comes my second question: Are there two different versions of the DFP for PS2 and PC or is it the same? Is this case, how do you plug it to your PC? Does it use a USB connector for both PS2 and PC or do you need an adapter?

Thanks in advance.

My teammate is trying to say that all repairing tasks are done in the moment you stop, and if someone pushes you then you can go all repaired and refueled in one second. I don't know if this really happens, but if it does then the logical thing would be to have repairs happen in a progressive way as it is announced in the screen, and if someone pushes you you have to resume the repairing until it is finished. In any case, I think that pushing someone who is pitstopping should be penalized at least with a pass-through boxes, as you ruin his stop.

Just a little thing. I don't have the time to read through all the posts and maybe it's been asked before. When I installed patch U32 over U0.5 (i think it was that one) I had to unlock my S2 license again, but I didn't have to do it with the automatic updates (U33 and U34). Will I need to unlock everytime I install a non-automatic patch?