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MaKaKaZo
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It was cool, but you should have used shift+F for the 4th little screen with the F1 on TV cam view. I liked it
MaKaKaZo
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Yet another frapsed mpr... I thought it had some edition or something
MaKaKaZo
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Overall it's not bad, keep trying!

Things I'd try to improve:
- Colors too hot, they give the impression it's a comic. I prefer colder colors that make it look more realistic.
- Aspect ratio looks odd, but maybe this is a vimeo thing.
- Sound. Volume is way too low, the music didn't quite fit the video as there are more slowmo parts than fast ones, and slowmo doesn't make drifting look better than x1 speed. I'd rather have a little slowmotion and a lot of fast parts.
- Drifting shown is not very good as you said.
MaKaKaZo
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Maybe a streaming version?
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from commandermas :They can run the same disctance on tires, BUT i had a stint of 1hour and 45 minutes and the tires of my XRR were still ok, but my fuel was low. I don't think, that any FZR can run more than 1 hour and 30 mins before his fuel is low.

Wait a minute! You're talking about GT2 there, aren't you?!? I mean, there's no way you can do a 1 hour 45 minutes stint with a GT1!!!
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from squidhead :Who let YOU out of the closet Squad_e? I thought I told you to stay there and make more LFS videos.... or did I say that to somebody else? Doesn't matter, all of you - back to the closets, make LFS vids!

(I'm off to my closet to make my own LFS vid now)

But please don't make more "I can dorift!!!!11!1" videos
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from DevilDare :OR you could write sms before your stint with something like "Come on server" and whe you ready to change, like 2 laps left, hit send and wait until he comes

Well, in our case sending an SMS costs money while calling and rejecting the call doesn't
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from Jonas8431 :I have a suggest. There is a rule that says 1 driver per team is allowed in the server race, and the replace drivers can join in the last lap of the teammate, so mine team have poor pcs, we can not race with lfs and ts or something else, would it allows 2 drivers per team??? 1 driver racing and other one watching every 1 hour to know what is happening with his teammate.

One method you can use is have a cell phone prepared to dial the number of the next racer in your rotation. When you want him to enter the server you quickly call him and leave the phone again. He rejects the call and joins the server. This is pretty fast and you don't need TS or similar.

If LFS remote is enabled the next player can also be watching your race at lfsworld, and he can thereby know if you are ok or you just crashed, slowed down your pace because of a puncture or whatever.
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from Geladric :You have asked me for this set, so here it is. Its possible to go under 1:18.40 with warmed up tyres.

Wooo thanks I'll gather some UFBR sets too, but I'm going to have a couple of tough months starting tomorrow, so I don't know if I'll be able to keep this post alive in this time
MaKaKaZo
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After a while all drifting movies start to look the same to me, so I won't judge the drifting skills shown. The movie is nice, nothing particularly special, but it's not bad either. I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5 because there's nothing new in this movie, there aren't great effects, and there isn't also a big work in audio/video synchro. But, what has been done has been done correctly.
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from SamH :These stats are still very much in their infancy. I now have the desired level of data capture established within the X-System, but we've a couple of weeks to wait, now, while we gather some data to copy over to development and use as a test harness. Once I have that, I can begin to develop the different methods of querying the data that we have, and the different ways of presenting it. I've deleted about 23,000 entries that are redundant since I increased the depth of data being captured. We're on target to launch these as usable stats by the new year

I don't get much of these, but today I checked my "top20" at the UFBR server, and I think that it's counting the GP points for today's races only. Maybe this has something to do with all that you've described.
MaKaKaZo
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Irl, they use slow chicanes mostly in F1 for safety reasons, to slow down some corners that in the past were ultra-fast-and-dangerous, and because if they don't add that kind of really slow corners then overtaking at other parts of the circuits is almost impossible.

What's the bad thing about "real chicanes"? They're boooooooooooring. You won't find a real life driver saying that one of those chicanes are in his favourite corners of any circuit. They're there just to them (the drivers) do a full braking, adn they don't like that. We wouldn't like that neither.

But, the fact is that some of the current LFS chicanes are worse than bad, so even making them into very easy, very slow chicanes would make them feel better.

So... all in all it's ok for me for some of the chicanes, but I don't think it will result in an awesome change.
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from rap-tea-kewl :hey, i have a quick question if anyone can answer, im just with my stupid isp representetive and i need to know a server's ip (not master.liveforspeed.net but the actual server im connecting to's ip)

thanks in advance, tried the search button didnt find anything so dont shoot me plz :-(

If you want to know the IP associated to a URL, you can use a "ping". For example, in XP you run a console window (start menu -> execute -> cmd) and type "ping master.liveforspeed.net". It will resolve the URL into its IP performing automatically a DNS lookup.

Now, if you don't know the URL or the IP of a server you are trying to connect you can use other tools.

The first thing that comes to my mind is to use TCPView (http://technet.microsoft.com/e ... ysinternals/bb897437.aspx). This simple utility shows all open connections you have. So, you run TCPView and then try to connect the LFS host you want to know its IP. If the master server is working and the host is up, then you'll find an entry in TCPView telling you that "LFS.exe" has a TCP connection with IP x.x.x.x. That's the IP of the host you are trying to connect.

As I said, I think this ONLY works if both the LFS master server and the host you are trying to connect are running. The master server is the one that checks the host for you and then tells your LFS executable the IP to connect. If either one of them is not working then your LFS won't know what IP to connect, and so it won't start a connection and you won't see it in TCPView.

I hope this is what you were asking for
UFBR gives less points than Race1?
MaKaKaZo
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This is just a question. I'm gold now but I've been playing @ UFBR for some days now with a teammate who is bronze. I've got to say that we really like the UFBR server, because of the car itself and because most people there are very clean racers.

Now, the bad thing is that he gets few points compared to what you can get at Race1. I think it may be because Race1 is always crowded and at UFBR luckily we are 6 or 7, and that's what gives more points.

Have you devs thought about giving more points when using the least wanted cars? Maybe that would be a way to increase usage of TBO, UFR/XFR, etc. I don't know if that would have a big impact on licenses though.

Btw, it'd be great if someone uploaded somewhere *GOOD* UFBR sets, because the ones you can find at setupgrid are far from capable of doing records (and we are already lapping quite faster than the times announced at setupgrid).
MaKaKaZo
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Tbh, I'd prefer that they add a completely new track layout to Westhill. The layout you're suggesting might be very fast, but it looks boring. I'd prefer something totally new, not sharing so many parts of the circuit.
MaKaKaZo
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This HQ direct download link should be added to the first post:

http://www.mediafire.com/?rjuxmmyupgo

(Thanks to Ciel for posting it).
MaKaKaZo
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The movie is awesome, I really love it!

But... I think the aspect ratio is maybe wrong? (on vimeo at least)

(downloading from megaupload...)
MaKaKaZo
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I've seen the first 2 minutes of the video and I don't want to keep watching it unless I have a full HQ version to download. It's looking amazing so far!

Please upload a HQ version somewhere!
MaKaKaZo
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The worst cases are when you skip the starting lights (or similar) and you have a big "30 SECONDS PENALTY" message there for the whole race. I mean, you don't even have to clear this penalty in any way, it's just a time penalty that will be added to your finishing time, you don't need to have that message for the whole race bugging you until you finish.
MaKaKaZo
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Quote from breadfan :the Forced Pit Stop notification is even less noticable

Indeed!

I like the original idea I had, to show the text and then move it to another place and make it smaller. It wouldn't just disappear, but you don't have it covering so much space.

The fact is that it being all big won't make you think that you have to do it now. I've had several friends or teammates that received penalties but didn't want to complete them soon due to strategical reasons, so they kept driving with the text on the screen. After a while they got accostumed to the text and in the end they totally forgot to complete the penalty and got disqualified. This is a true story, and has happened to several people I know With this I just say that having a big text on the screen won't make you read it again and again, and in the end you'll get used ot it, but until that moment comes it's very annoying.
MaKaKaZo
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I like the new Top20, and I like the features Sam described above. I'd like to make a few suggestions that might be already taken into consideration by the time being.

1. Right now you can see each server stats separately or all servers together. Maybe add the possibility to have "all race license servers" and "all single seater servers".

2. Possibility to swtich between sorting by GP points or sorting by standard CTRA points.

*. This has nothing to do with points, but to not open a new thread: Add the possibility to mark people as "clean racers". After a race you are given the chance to mark one or two people as clean racers (only if you want!). The system stores that info and when you go to your MyCTRA stats you can see how many people marked you as a clean racer, or when you enter a server the system tells you if there are any players that you consider clean racers, so you be more confident when being around them, greet them and be buddies!
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MaKaKaZo
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In the lap records pages you can select between several kinds of ordering, but then you have to use first/next/prevous/last to navigate. When I order it byt track/car or whatever usually I want to fgo directly to "SO1", or "UF-BR", and then I have to do qute some "next's". Would there be a solution to make this easier?
MaKaKaZo
S2 licensed
Actually it's not the X-System, but the lfsworld remote server tracker is not working. Maybe the insim relay has been reset or something in some of the servers. Currently it's showing CTRA SS1 and SS2, but not any of the other servers.
Penalties text is way too big
MaKaKaZo
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Hi, I've been thinking this for a while. When you receive a penalty the text shown is too big, it remains in the upper-middle of the screen and it only goes away when you complete the penalty. It's quite disturbing, and sometimes you have to do several laps before completing the penalty for strategic reasons or whatever.

It would be good if that text would appear as it's right now for like 10 seconds, and then it would remain as small text at the top of the screen, not disappearing, but clearing the screen so you have a better field of view.
MaKaKaZo
S2 licensed
Quote :Exception Was: System.InvalidOperationException: Bind has already been called for this socket

Looks like it's trying to connect twice. The socket has been bound in a first attemp to connect, and then it's performing the same connection procedure again and it tries to bind the same socket. There's also the possibility that they're two different sockets, but the arguments in the bind() calls are wrong and they're trying to bind the same socket.
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