I think FBM was packed also - or close to it?

Scawen : Is it possible to make servers accept more cars and clients?

Like 60?

Dont know if you are aware, but last 3 days we had full servers - so people couldnt even spectate a race because they couldnt join. Many wanted to race but couldnt because of the 40 car limit.

Its funny - i own AC and dont really play it much. On the instances i did play it i found the field skill level and driving experience shambles.

LFSW name: numbertwo
In-game name: [FFM]^Number
Full team name: Fu**ing Fragmaster
Nation: Croatia


Oi, it doesnt let me post my full team name!!!

I'm scared of prospect of seeing Fern Bay - the track i love the most being savaged and left in past, never to be seen again.

As much as I long for one more race on old Westhill...

But im interested now. What you do differently?

And as for FBM - yesterday we had MRC KY3 race. You take advantage of high rear grip while sliding in turn 1, turn 2, turn 3 and last turn.

Turn 2 being the most evident, step on brake 50 meters before turn, have your setup that way that just as you want to turn in rear tyres lock a bit, lift off brake and watch the car slide perfectly into a turn while you instantly can go on full throttle having the car in superb position just as it stops sliding with rear.

Its just a bit trickery with brakes and differential.

Its evident even in FBM, i dont know how you can say its not.

To better demonstrate MicroSpecV's note, I'll just link this video here. I made it cause that stupid kerb spun me, but case in point mr. Nova wants to make is the first turn in the video.

Driving it like a rally car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwrmeiaPgNk&feature=youtu.be

Had great fun in race, pushed hard after last Safety car and got up to 3rd, then fought hard to keep that place but it wasnt meant to be.

To anyone reading this and thinking if they should participate - i urge you to do. This was my first race with FZ5 and the guys, and i can say that everyone raced hard but fair, with great skill and pace all the way to the finish.

Cool stuff. Love the fact that youre going to use more cpu cores, it might mean that LFS will not be much more cpu intensive.

One quick question, when tracks get updated, old tracks will be gone forever? I still sometimes wake at night and cry for old westhill. Would be cool to somehow still have old tracks to race on them too. Maybe I'm just creature of habit, but i like the existing old tracks all more than updated westhill and blackwood.

I just want to say that when you find time to organize it, we will come and race.

There is also CESAV league with GTR, Absolute Begginers league with various combo's.

There is a big race every day, except wednesday.

I'll just point out that I tried Project Cars.
I BOUGHT and tried RFactor2 when it came out.
I BOUGHT and tried Asseto Corsa, along with 4 DLC's.

But when I have the time I play LFS. And I really believe that of the times I managed to hold the car in slide in real life, most of the time I did it cause of what I learned in LFS.

Ii like this new page. Will enter fox friday info later today.

If you press 4 in game, you will see driving line. Just by trying to drive that line you will improve alot. Next thing then is a setup, ask someone online for a set and im sure you will get one.

So now you got basics of circuit (driving line) and a setup. The rest is hard work and practice. Just remmeber that overdriving makes you slower... Dont brake too late, dont floor the throotle too soon, dont steer too much. Smooth and easy wins the race, especially in fox.

Know what, since we started this leagues discussion, I see that some people added their leagues into that page.

I did my part and added Fragmaster's Fox Friday, will update it every week with fresh info.

Maybe Scawen could just tweet the leagues page for the people to see some of the races.

Quote from Scawen :

I don't know if this will work out or is easy to do, but if someone could make a forum thread which lists the currently active events and popular servers and times when it is likely to find a race on those events / servers, I could do a tweet to point people to that thread. It might get a few people in, from the nearly 1500 followers.

Well, leagues section should be for that, but Its not as visible as I'd like it to be. A schedule that is on lfs.net is a better thing I think, but I've never really put any attention to it, cause I've been lucky (or ignorant) to mostly race FOX, and I always knew where to find that.

https://www.lfs.net/leagues

This page seems OK, its just that leagues owners dont put in the needed info.

I dont know why people moan so much. I use LFS as a means to relax myself after hard days work.

In thursday, there was GTI Oval race, with packed server. And i do mean packed, 48 conns. Then on Friday you get Fox, that is usually packed also - last week many people couldnt even join, so Scawen should maybe think about making servers stronger, so we can have 50 racers on grid and maybe 60 connections.

Yesterday i raced FBM with Mrc. Very fun race, i think it had over 30 cars on starting grid. Today I just might race LX6, but could also race XRT if I'd like that more.

Lack of races you say? I hardly have enough time to practice and race in all the races I'd like to race.


Lfs for me has only one problem. And that is getting new guys in, and getting them to respectable level. Because nowadays, on competitive races, if you are too slow you dont even qualify for a race. Skill level is quite high overall.

Quote from Scawen :

I don't suppose it does any harm to let you know where we are with the tracks, as I think you can work it out anyway. The South City and Fern Bay are not yet done. Kyoto has taken longer than expected because Eric is working to a high level of detail, and the track covers a vast area. He wanted to create interesting buildings as part of the job because as an artist he wants to create good looking work.

It's similar on my side, things have taken longer than expected and one thing leads to another, so I end up working on things that were not planned in the first place. Maybe if we had a project manager they could keep us to timescales and limit our work accordingly. But I think it's a good thing that we can experiment by going down unexpected paths of development, although it does take longer, the end result can be more interesting.

I know people may say "if you don't release it quickly it will become irrelevant and obsolete" and so on but I don't really mind about those kind of opinions. We're trying to create a nice game that we are happy with, and I know a lot of people will be happy to have a go when it's ready.

Thanks for the update, fe and south look like they need most work done on them, so i guess it will take more time to update them than some newer tracks.

Did you guys find out how to protect from recent outages of master server?

Was there anything resolved form the attacks? I seem to have missed scawen even noticing that there was something wrong.

Is a fix to prevent future attacks in place? Or do we just hope that who ever did it has better things to do next time we try to organize 40 car race?

Master server doesnt work for me, nor for any of 40 people trying to race on FM fox server.

It happened yesterday also, LFS.net also didnt work.

I dont see where the problems is...

You dont like that you get only Rockingham in S3? Dont buy it... I for one would like more effort from devs to give them my money, so I dont give them my money.

I do hope they will make LFS a bit than it is now, because i tried PC, AC , RF's and LFS still feels most natural to me.

it will always be friday?

Cause it clashes with FM Fox Friday Events.

im using chase view + aonio and it works great, i cant really remember when was the last time i crashed because i didnt know that someone is alongside, behind or trying to pass.

so for every chase view driver, i recommend aonio. it also has many more usefull stuff

Quote from farcar :

I don't understand.

I don't race online frequently any more, but overall I have a very positive view of LFS.
I have been closely following development of the sim for years, and am a huge fan.
There are numerous other people here who I can say the same thing for Tristancliffe would be the first to come to mind.

Why do you think we should not be allowed to post in the forums?

its not about you, its about other kind of inactive lfs players, that are here for trolling and trolling only.