Can't believe how much I messed up at the end there... Grats to the podium.

Great summary again. There was a lot of action up front...

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

You probably mean that your tyre pressures were too high.

Yes, whoops, too high.

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

My race surely didn't go as planned. I was involved in several racing incidents during the race. Still, when it was around 10 laps to go, I managed to get in the lead, because I wasn't the only one having problems. However, when I was leading I went out of the track, because I didn't (or my car didn't) downshift in last turn and that cost me the win. Don't really know how that happened and actually noticed it only after the race from the replay. Very mixed feelings after and during the race.

It happens I guess. You had a very eventful race but ultimately you got a podium and you take the lead in the championship. I enjoyed my race-long battle with Niko, but ultimately my race was written when I chose my setup before the start, the tyre pressures were too high and I couldn't keep them switched on after lap 40. Wasn't expecting to be on the podium today, let alone leading most of the race. I wish I had more time to practice and prepare these days.

Last edited by mbutcher, Mon 1 Oct 2018, 09:29.

@scawen: Might it be worth adding a disclaimer to some of the screenshots (https://lfs.net/screenshots) saying that it's WIP and not actually part of the game yet. It seems some people are getting confused about that point, seeing it as false advertising.

Quote from Scawen :

But what I do plan to do for now is share lighting between tracks, so each track doesn't have to just have 3 weather configs, but they can all use any of them.

Awesome.

Quote from Stölzel :

@mbutcher: Currently there is no Water.

Of course, but look at this screenshot:

https://www.lfs.net/static/screenshots/-1511439%206831570%20550636%2022144%20922%200.0%2060.6.jpg

That's some sort of water effect for sure.

Last edited by mbutcher, Mon 24 Sep 2018, 17:00.

Is that actually water? It's in the wet grip area.

Quote from Scawen :

Strangely the kerb glare in LFS looks more realistic than the real thing!

The real life image looks slightly over-exposed to me so that's why the kerb looks overly bright.

Nice comparisons again Mo. Stunning work Scawen and Eric, can't wait for what October has to show.

Nice summary and nice shots. Roll on round 2.

Quote from ImudilaSkyline :

aren't u like 11 tho

He started early.

Quote from Botswanan Salama :

Early christmas present from Pete was also welcome

That's the last free position I'm giving away so make the most of it!

Quote from Forbin :

Testing to race distance, and then some, is always super important if you intend to do a no-stop strategy. You find out how much margin you have before tyres pop.

I normally would, but I was limited in the practice I could do leading up to this race. It's been a while since I did any FO8 races where tyre life was marginal.

Amazeballs...

Good first round.

It was a shame about the terrible etiquette in qualifying and hopefully we don't get a repeat of that in the remaining rounds.

I was bamboozled by my tyre wear in the race and I'm kicking myself that I chickened out ultimately losing second place. Well done to Botsi and Adam though for having more faith in their tyres. Looking forward to a close points fight with you guys.

Sounds good! My eyes are ready.

There's plenty still going on if you know where to look.

Rony runs events every Tuesday night: RFTR & RTFR XL
(FM) GTi Thursday's happen at around 7:30pm UTC+1 and last for an hour
(FM) FOX Friday's happen at around 8:30pm UTC+1 and last just over an hour

Then there are leagues like the upcoming VERL

Generally check out the events sub forum and join the LFS Discord

Quote from Mikus1212 :

Change sim instead

Congrats, you've had iRacing for 5 minutes, now stop posting unhelpful messages here.

I'm increasingly finding myself needing to use the virtual keyboard during races because although I have a wheel with many buttons, there are still times where I need to fiddle with other settings during the race via the virtual keyboard.

The current placement of the keyboard means I have to look into the sky and focus on where I'm pointing the gaze-cursor rather than looking where I'm going which, as you can probably imagine, is tricky, even on the longer straights. With the keyboard lower down, it would be possible to use the gaze-cursor and still be able to keep an eye on my general heading.

As I mentioned at 2:18 in my recent video, it's my only complaint with the virtual keyboard. It would be nice if we could adjust its position (along with the text input field) via a set of controls like the new mirror controls:



Or by just letting us set a Y offset.

Cheers.

Just out of interest, what's the default UDP buffer size on Freebsd?

Run this and paste the output here:


This article might be your answer (see the BSD section on increasing the size of your UDP buffer): https://medium.com/@CameronSparr/increase-os-udp-buffers-to-improve-performance-51d167bb1360

The LFS website and forum were only updated a couple of years ago. The LFS forum used to use vBulletin but Victor and the team decided to do away with it and rolled out their own forum which has simplified the experience at the expense of a few fancy (essentially unnecessary) features.

To say that updates to the forum and website are 'overdue' is daft, both are still fit for purpose. That said, I wouldn't be against a mobile site though, at least for the forum. It shouldn't be too hard to throw in a few media queries to make the forum more user friendly on mobile.

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Quote from Tomislav531 :

Yeah I really should since the start of this month my free time is very unbalanced i jump on lfs from time to time when I can. Maybe I could of catch the start but barely but qualifications no chance.

Grids are small these days, start at the back and battle through, that's more fun anyway.

Quote from gu3st :

I can't even determine how old my original account is. https://www.lfs.net/profile/29607

I got my S1 license 5 days after you! In that time, 314 others also registered accounts. Yikes.

Edit: Interesting, we passed 2m registered accounts in June.

Last edited by mbutcher, Tue 11 Sep 2018, 22:35.

Quote from Tomislav531 :

This is worth the try i just need a damn reminder tried to catch Rony s races few times already but always fail... I do not want to miss this.

You really ought to add these races to your calendar and get it to remind you a few hours beforehand.

You can thank Lucas for that

Poor Adam...