Looks like you've fitted on the grid, welcome

From another forum...

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I have access to the so called "members area" and its aload of rubbish, Its all 1 big con. There is 6 useless links to 6 pieces of software to watch some junk and links to a p2p program 'to download your favourit tv shows'

Pity, you would have been most welcome. The intention is to have fun, as long as the racing is clean, everyone has fun.

I bet with a little practice before each event, you would have been competative and find some good battles in the pack.

I'm surprised that no-one from your team has signed up for the upcoming ESL UK league. http://www.esl-europe.net/uk/lfs/errc/
Open to UK and Ireland racers. Would be good to have BRT represented in this league. Good things are planned for LFS at ESL

Give it some consideration, signup deadline Wed 25 Jan.

What you need is this stuff fitted on the back of your desk - slotted cable trunking. Easy to add and remove cables, and I got this cut-off from work
Need some for behind the telly now!
(sorry about the crappy camera-phone pictures)

Anyone tried this, sounds too good to be true for such a small sum of money?
www.freeskypc.co.uk

Quote from Cue-Ball :

You could take the "unofficial" S2 DVD cover and cut it down a bit.

This one? http://arse.norbtech.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=44456#44456
Yes it looks very cool, worth putting the CD in a DVD case instead

Also from Blackhole Motorsports site...

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Live for Speed is developed by a handful of people, who are determined to succeed in the racing market, dominated by big publishers. Live for Speed Development Team plan to release their products without a publisher. What makes LFS more of a "user friendly" product, is constant support in the form of frequent demo patches and regular updates to their website. And exactly how do they plan to release it? Instead of releasing it as a complete game, it will be available in 4 downloadable stages. Each segment will comprise 25% of the total price of final release. Each of the next three 25% releases will contain updates (cars, tracks, physics, new features and will come out at intervals of 2 or 3 months.

Hmm, not quite right!

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While using a wheel is no doubt more realistic and more immersive, I beg to differ on the consistency.
I have, and continue to use a dual analog pad, and I am pretty quick and consistant, it all comes down to what you are used to I guess.
Do not discount a pad, it can be as fast as a wheel, I would say a pad is a bit more easier to use than a stick.
A pad is a lot cheaper than a wheel, plus it takes up a lot less space.
There does seem to be a bit of "controller" snobbery

Dan,

Just the way I see it, Danowat. I was capable of getting decent times with my analogue gamepad, but I would regularly mess up at least 1 turn. (this was back in 2003).
Got a wheel and it helped me to be consistently fast.

Big difference between joystick and wheel. I started with a gamepad at the beginning but eventually got a wheel even though it was my only racing game.

Never regretted it, it gives you more consistency in your laps, more emersive feeling in the sim, and of course faster speed

Logitech wheels seem recomended here, MOMO Racing or Driving Force Pro.
Whatever you get, make sure it has force feedback like the 2 above.

I'd just like to send birthday wishes to Hoffmann.
Not around so much now-a-days, but have a good day if you read this

You can hold down the button for your gear-change (or paddle with my wheel) which keeps it in neutral until you let go. Sometimes handy down the straights, as pointed out above, when running low on fuel

Quote from MyBoss :

I'm quite shure that the British Racing Green color is much darker than that

As far as I know, there isn't one definitive colour for British Racing Green. Throughout it's history it has appeared in several shades.

When the list of names is shown, hold Ctrl+Shift to display account names instead of display names. This applies to S1 and S2 licenced servers only, of course.

Quote from Tweaker :

On the subject of some girls playing LFS... I haven't seen one in a long time since I knew about tiny. Back in S1 there were a few, but they haven't been around much anymore.... it's a shame, cuz some girls do like racing cars. Givem a wheel, pedals, and a BMW, and they will surely cut you off online

I remember before S1 was out there was someone (Russian name) that would regularly wipe the floor with everyone in GTi.
Then someone else explained that Russian name translated as 'little girl' (or something similar)
Sure showed me up on the track!

The Ford family is growing fast.
Big congratultions to you and your wife. Now bring the pedals nearer.

Big thank you to the admins for such a well run league, to ESL for supporting it and putting up prizes - we didn't expect them.

Pity is wasn't as well attended as I expected. Come on UK LFS'ers, you can race anything if you put your mind to it!

I really shouldn't have ended in 3rd position, was only because of others unable to attend the final event at the last minute
But, my gain

Ah, but ours is planned maintenance... Honest

These meddlers are scum of the earth!

Congrats to team and driver!
Sure you'll have fun

Here's the keys and commands on 1 sheet

Quote from Chaos :

backspace doesent work when typing messages ingame after pressing a name of a player so his name appears before the actual message...
if i just press T then backspace works...

Did you left click or right click on the name?
Left click means you can't edit the name, right click means you can

Excellent news!
Make sure they have a force feedback steering wheel this time, and an unlocked copy of S2.
Oh, and a nice big sign above the screen with 'Live For Speed'

Hmm, not sure.
I know that when you create a new player they start on 0 points (so you can swap between people on the same installation, saving preferences for each). Maybe you have created/used a different player instead of the usual one?

Best wishes Shaun, have a good birthday!
I know you're going to have a good year with all the things you have lined up