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Meanie
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Keep pushing "N" till you get the connection list.
Then press CTRL+SHIFT.
Meanie
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Press CTRL+SHIFT with the connections list open.
That way you"ll see their logins instead of their nicknames.
Meanie
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Quote from NelsonGPV :
:smash3d:Meanie (marlon) (goese)
Everything you mentiones line by line I will answer it for you

(Then a lot of confusion happenened.
I saw some accidents of people who were doing some pretty awful manoeuvres: using some racing lines which do not "exist", doing some turns at various "exotic" speeds (too slow, way too fast)

If you on the champs you have raced does not have accidents then this is not a champ for you, if you were expecting to see perfect lines for every single pilot then this is not a champ for you, and about exotic manouvers
sorry men we are not so perfect like you.

The only thing I know is before the pace car you were behind me and you couldnt pass me you better went to pits wise decision.

I think you are over qualify for this champ so go and race with the great ones.

Ah come on man, that was totally uncalled for.
Why that attitude towards me? :/

Any championship has it's accidents. It's normal.
And no, not i'm not "perfect" or have "perfect lines".
It's just that a little more respect (in the track, this time) goes a long way.
I've saw a lots of silly accidents, touchs and stuff, who just don't happen on a "serious" public server, let alone on a league/championship!

Why? Because people know the car and track but more importantly they do respect each other, as to not the race of both. I didn't see that and that's why i commented on the "exotic driving". Repeating myself: I was saddened to see what i saw (and i'm not talkin about lap times, i'm talking about accidents which could've been easily avoided), that's why i commented that.

No need to be sarcastic about me or my so "perfect" drive. :/
Pretty sad about this now too.

I hope the event itself improves and we can have some good races and specially for you or whoever is contacting the TV and all that stuff i really hope the racers get their act together on the track or this will be a major disaster.

I'm not using my free time giving suggestions to the championship and practicing for it if i were not to take it seriously. If you guys don't want this "type" of people, just let me know and i"ll go.

No need to go into that defensive stance when i told about what i saw on that sad, sad warm-up and offend me. I just told what i saw and aiming to improve it, that's all.

There's no need to exaggerate and assume i said that i wanted something with zero incidents (tho i want, i know it's highly unlikely).
There's no need to be sarcastic about my driving (perfect lines, "perfect like you"). Then being sarcastic again and saying that im "over qualified" to the championship and should go elsewhere when in the lines just above that statement you said i couldn't "even" overtake you and that i did better going to pits then.

What was all it this for?

I'm bothered about it (not only me, the other 2 brazilians too).
If it's not welcome to try and improve what we saw by commenting here and trying to understand what's going and having such responses to us i really don't know what we should do.

Hope someone could clarify it for us then.

Have a nice weekend, all of you.
Meanie
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+1

The one with the flags and without border / background sure is a keeper!
Meanie
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Well, if i'm not mistaken you can do it today already.
With an admin account you can give a drive-through or stop and go penalty to any racer on the server and you can spec them too...
It's the marshall call what to do .

So... well, i guess i didn't get your question quite well!
Hehe.

I'm sorry.
Meanie
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Quote from NeoArnold :Que mamila, para la proxima TODOS deberian estar en el TEAM SPEAK obligatorio y si no saben español, aprendan !!! o consiganse un traductor...

Are you really serious about this?
(Don't know if you're "joking" or something)

If that's the case, why didn't anyone warn us about it?

And more importantly, if that's the case, i guess we're out of the championship, sadly.

No international event requires any language which isn't english but more important, no RACING event should make it obligatory to be on a VOICE programs hearing people talk while you're trying to concentrate yourself (let alone talking in a foreign language not know to the one listening to it), that's just plain absurd.

I'm hope Nelson can come and clarify once the "warm up" is done.
Meanie
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Don't know what happened today but i'm not very pleased with it.
We came for the warm-up.
Did some laps and then the qualy for the 35 laps started.
We qualified and started the race... right?

Then a lot of confusion happenened.
I saw some accidents of people who were doing some pretty awful manoeuvres: using some racing lines which do not "exist", doing some turns at various "exotic" speeds (too slow, way too fast).

And all that coming from people who qualifyed and theoretically had some experience on the track.

I know this is just a test but there wasn't anywhere near all the pilots which are displayed on the website as contenders.

Some backmarkers not only didn't yeld at blue flags but even tried to cut the way and overtake back the passing cars!

I saw some really ugly accidents too, some people not giving enough room to the others.

Then came the safety car, outta nowhere.
What was that?

I mean, if you guys intended to use (test it) couldn't you guys warn us about it?

Shouldn't the SC come before the race leader?
Shouldn't it keep a steady speed?

Anyway, you guys didn't warned us about it and it became a mess too.
It could be tested in a much more intelligent way. I'm sad about it.

So in retrospect, it was a great lack of respect with us (we had to get on the server at 11pm, our time, some guys even later i guess) to be part of a such poorly organized "warm up".

No race till the end.
Lots ofs accidents (cause by pretty poor "racingship"), confusion, lack of communication.

If the event is anywhere near this "structure" (or lack of it), we Brazilians will have to retire.

I really hope to hear some explanations for what happened tonight.

Pretty disappointed,
Marlon Göese
Meanie
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What do you think about the hotlap idea, Nelson?
It's doable as the lapper. I mean, it doesn't bring any problems with anyone's schedule. And everyone would agree that it's a lot more fair.
What do you think?

As for the qualify this next thursday...
What exactly this "qualify" is about?
It's just a greet and meet on the track...?
Are there penalties to the ones who might miss it, etc.
I'm not totally sure if i understood it (specially for the term "qualifying") perfectly.
Please clarify.

Thanks for the effort.


ps.: just a suggestion, i think that you should start giving out times based on GMT, since there are a lot of time fuses involved and some countries run "saving times" at some parts of the year so that can't make an one hour error, without something "stable" like GMT.


edit: Nelson, just a question i forgot to ask.
In what version will it be run?
Patch X? (I think i've read it somewhere).
Because of the advent of the pre-load, sets can be modified... (and people must practicen with it then, hehe)

Hope i'm not being a nuisance for all my questions and my firm point of view about the lapper.
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Meanie
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Well, i don't think that 15min is "too little" time for a qualify.
And it's not just my opinion.
Most leagues use 10-15min qualifys nowadays.
Some use 20min but the majority uses 15min.
You can check on that. It's the norm.

15min is more than enough.
Even in the real world, you could see Formula One for instance;
The really "valid" laps are made at Q3 and usually are one, or two at the most, laps.
Which don't take even 5 minutes.

I think that a serious championship really can't do without a proper qualify.
A small, small draft on the straight can gain you anything from .3 to .5s. And the guy can spend the whole day trying to make that "perfect" lap.
It's not really sporty, i guess. And that's taking "shortcuts" out of the way.

One should be able, it's a measure of skill too, to do a fast lap "on the go" (15min is enough for at least 6 *good* laps, having 2 stints of 4 laps, one outlap on each and then 3 valid laps) and that's a really important part of motorracing. I think you guys agree with that.

If it's not possible to have a qualify cause it would take time and thus cost (the TV thing) money there are some other ways to do it.

There could be another date (one day before? or really anytime prior the race) to have a qualify, not on the race day.
If everyone has time to practice (this is a "high level" championship, right? so people do practice for it) and run on the event server too to set their laps on the lapper, surely they could do that same thing, for 15min, on a pre-determined day.

One could even arrange (if it's hard to coordinate a day/time for everyone - but the same happens with the *race*, remember) more than one ocassion to qualify.
Say 1 to 3 qualify sessions. Each one with 15min. On different days/time.
One could join any of these (one time) and qualify himself for the race.

I must be sounding like a broken record and maybe being too insistent on this matter but that's because i really can't fathom a serious event having it's start grid determined by a lapper. The motives for that lack of fairness are descripted on my earlier post. I just can't.

If nothing else, it should be arranged by hotlap then, not lapper.
It's a lot more fair and it is pretty much the same as the lapper, one can do his lap at anytime (and consuming any given ammount of time too for that) and then just upload it on the site.

I must insist on a serious "look" at this matter.
I just think it's a really serious issue. That's all.
A lack of proper qualify (remember, if not possible, at least let's have some hotlaps defining it) would take away a lot of the fairness of the championship, even some good deal of "emotion" and "fighting" from it too.

Hope i made my "point" clear.

Cheers from Brasil.
Meanie
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Most leagues use a system (be it a lapper or a hotlap thing) to filter out who can race on which server or at all.
And that's a pretty fair way to do things.

Since this championship has it's pilots "locked" no matter what... don't you guys think it would be wise to have a 10-15min qualify run?

A lapper isn't the most fair method to organize a race starting grid.
One can get a lot of benefits from draft or even plain taking "shortcuts" (on some tracks) just to mention the most important elements.

Such a serious event should consider a qualify run.
It's the most fair (and true to the "real thing", after all this is a simulator) method and has a lot of potential for good television, because of the suspense from it.

Anyway, it's just an opinion.
But i really think you guys should consider it, it would have a lot of benefits for the event and for the pilots.


More to the matter, the Brazilian racer Leandro Krissak asked me to ask you guys if the following is possible: to have a backup racer for him (me).
He's running two league championships as of now (and will be for some months) and just had a baby (in fact that was his wife but you get the idea hehe) so he may not be able to race at every (considering that even the dates weren't made public yet) race.

I would like to know what could we do about it.
He suggested that maybe i could take his official place and be placed as a backup racer for both the brazilian racers (Diovane Blasquez may and may not be able to compete on all races too).
More importantly, before anything is "done", i would like to know what you guys think/have to say about something like that.

Do you guys have any estimate of when the calendar will be published?
It would be really useful for us.
Do you guys know the day and time of the races at least? If you do, please tell me (GMT format, please).

We're kinda "in the dark" over here, hehe.

Thanks for your attention!

Carry on.
Meanie
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Quote from Victor :do you happen to know the version of LFS that the host was using? There is a known bug in hosts using versions older than V3.
In time this bug should disappear when everyone uses a newer version.

Ok. That's cool then.
The server was running under V. (no "number version)
Just for the record.
Meanie
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Hey Vic!
Just wanted to let you know that the progress thingie isn't accepting "special characters" so well it seems.

It accepts spaces and all that but for instance a friend of mine which has this login: Motörhead V8, appear just as Mot on the "progress" names' list.

Just thought i should let you know.


Meanie
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Quote from XCNuse :
if i miss it then i start using my handbrake to slow me down faster

If the handbrake actually slowed down your car faster we would be all braking with it...
Meanie
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Will it change track for tomorrow (saturday)?

I've got online at it at 11PM or your guys time and therefore couldn't get much racing...

Here's hoping that track stays up for a couple more days if possible.
It's one hell of a great great combo for close fighting.

I"ll try to join a lot earlier tomorrow.

Thanks for the server, either way
Meanie
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Danny "SK|Husky" Engels:

Living the good life...
Meanie
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What track will you gentlemen be using tonight?
Can you guys give me an estimated time of "usage" of the server?
I'm at GMT -3...

Which server?

Cheers.
Meanie
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Cara, vem pra LFSBR!!

http://www.lfsbr.com/

Vai ser muito bem vindo.
Abraços.
Meanie
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Quote from Sternendaal :When you press a few times in a few seconds, alright. But I left enough time between when I refreshed, and I still get this :/

Man, i refresh like mad and NEVER had this message shown to me...
Meanie
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The way i see it it's possible to have 2 "ovals" on that.
The little one and a larger one...

It's only a matter of seeing where those streets ends and if they can be connected with a "tightish" oval corner, i'm no SO expert.



Black line being the small one, Brown line being the longer one.
Meanie
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:bananadea
Meanie
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Quote from JTbo :Just use this area (worth to check elevations from google earth )

Some really TIGHT nasty turns, eh?
Meanie
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I'm sorry but you guys seems to underestimate the benefit of photo realistic interactive pit babes.

I won't lose my time with noobs like that.
Meanie
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Quote from Jakg :nope, only way is to follow them an have a go at them - and to make sure your skins have private written on them.

What i did when someone who refused to talk to me about nicking my skins was rather cunning - re-upload a new skin to LFSW, they will see the skin on their PC (as LFS will not download if a version exists in Skins), while everyone else see's the new one - here is the new skin

HAHAHAAAHHA
Meanie
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Quote from Victor :ok that's implemented now.

Thanks Victor!
Really appreciated it.
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