demo users can only use 12 cars, or 13 when the host is racing too

what a nasty thread lol

Well I just drove a couple races on the CTRA whatever server and only 30% of the people there could be called drivers. 30% were just as slow as my grandma, and the other 30% seemed to have most fun driving against walls and other cars. After a while I really thought I clicked the wrong icon on my desktop, launching a slalom simulator rather than a racing simulator. What I did mostly was driving slalom around all the wrecked cars that were baisically all over the place.

After my 1 year break from LFS racing, I must say the quality of racing has decreased a lot. Now S2 racing is like demo racing used to be. About 1,5 years ago I drove the same combo (FE club GTI/GT) also on a public server, which was full all the time, and the racing was brilliant - lots of cool and close fights with many random people, clean racing in general.
But today people wrecked me in the last turn in order to win, or - of course - I got wrecked mid race by people that seemed to have no brakes mounted at all.

I guess most people dont realize that their nickname is always visible. Some even left the server, and rejoined with another name, telling weird stories of their so-called lives.
Maybe it would already help to put a big sign somewhere telling the user that his lfsw nickname is always visible. Otherwise we will need a system to track wreckers and cheaters soon.

Quote from MAGGOT :

My only fear with getting new tracks is that they will be done like the S2 locales; wide, fast, un-interesting. I want more tracks like fern bay; narrow technical, and have a wider variety of corners. They're more fun to drive on and more fun to race on. Throw in some different elevations and scenery, too. Maybe a track in the Canadian Rocky Mountains next? That'll be a change of pace

I have to agree there

Well we'll see what the next patch brings to us... maybe the updates to the current tracks are so cool that the tracks feel like new. I mean, the new Blackwood is also very different to the old one (even though i liked the old one more cause it had more of the "good old lfs feel")

However, one wouldnt need to ask me twice if a track editor was released

Quote from BlueFlame :

PS. What about Fern Bay GP or Fern Bay Kingston

Well Corsair and Ballistix are better anyways :P

Well with 34.2 at kb you are really fast and can easily expect 33's with wheel
Swiching to wheel takes its time though (and you will suck at first), but in the end its really a lot more fun and faster aswell

I havent seen the backend code of LFSW, but I dont think its hard to change the kilometeres and driven laps, even though the stats for your account would not be consistent anymore (still showing the old races history for example).
I mean, the drag statistics were reset a couple years ago because of a bug. It all depends on a) how much which things intertwine with others and b) if the devs want to allow the users to get those settings changed.
You know, if one driver may change this, everyone wants. I remember the time when the German Community started to use their real names in LFS, and everyone wanted to change his account name from nick to real name. Vic was lucky he said 'no' to the first one who asked, because otherwise, there would have been a couple hundred others who wanted the same. I already saw them moaning and crying "oohhwuhhh he is allowed to get this and Im not wuuuuahhhaaaa"

:P

hm

Im wondering if there are also highres versions of the ones posted by deggis
damn those are really cool

can someone upload it so another webspace? I cant access it somehow, even when I enable cookies...

I could offer an ftp or upload script, if someone wants to upload to my server

ATI tool will help you
check for artifacts

ask vic
but dunno if its possible

just installed the game again only because of this thread, and tested with my new DFP... didnt like the FF at all, it seems unreal and has nothing to do with the car on the track. Same for the tyre sounds and other things. Really strange. Things just dont 'fit' to each other lke in LFS.

Very nice but you should make the pictures a lot larger, so one can actually see if its well done or not
(the ones when you click the thumbnails, not the thumnbails themselves)

Also, you could add some of your brilliant LFS edits/renders, and mention that LFS contains your skin

Quote from Victor :

so this bot exists for 3 years now and still it's behaving in the same rediculous manner? Heh, goooooooooo MS!

well, intercrap exploder exists since 12 years and its still bugridden rubbish

saved the page from above, even though I just read you already read it...

hm I havent had problems with that one yet, but another bot downloaded my whole website like 4000 times in a row, causing about 33GB traffic in a couple hours...
However, its not new - this thread is from 2004:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/2451.htm

Quote from Jakg :

IE works

not really

Everyone who is still asking where the devs are hasnt understood what LFS is.

Well, if you have steam, you dont need any antivirus software, because steam kill al the virusses already lol

lfs + steam = NO WAI

Quote from felplacerad :

Now all we need is a profile option to disable the display of the Thanks element.

Edit: Here you go, use this if you think it's better:

Yea this image is already a lot nicer, and what about changing the background color of the post (or the header) to green, the more thanks its got, the more green?
And just put a little number somewhere on the left, and show the names as a popup like its done with the popup for the username above the avatar aswell.

Alongside with that, that about a feature where you can do the opposite of saying thanks, for useless posts (header color in red then). To make it perfect, we need a slider to control which posts are shown, by there "rating". Just thinking of the meta forum thingie again vic

However, nice work so far!!

Last edited by ORION, Sun 5 Aug 2007, 11:08.

Hey Becky, that looks pretty fun

hm i liked only 2 skins... oO

Last edited by ORION, Sat 4 Aug 2007, 09:35.

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

Looks like some kind of Ion Cannon Frigate. I guess game is kind of similar to homeworld ?

Yea, even though we are forced to use 2d, because we havent had a 3dsmax yet... lol
So its gonna be a 2d - bug nice 2d - shooter with some strategy and economic elements.
Nothing big really, as we have only 3 weeks to make the whole game inclusing manual, DVD case, website etc. (2 programmers, 4 artists)

[EDIT]
cool stuff there Madman!

Last edited by ORION, Fri 3 Aug 2007, 18:10.

quick render I made for a game project we are doing in uni right now... about half a day work

Quote from BruTaLysT :

[...]Oh btw, this example is low resolution, i will upload a 1600x1200 version to the same location.

http://members.home.nl/stefankoopmans/LFS/FOXCELL_L.jpg

thank you