Quote from Zen321 :

So basically, you're trying to create a virtual FIA? ^^

basically yes, but it should be from racers for racers

I like the idea, but I'm sure every league has its reasons for having a certain restriction for the GT2 (per say).
Maybe you should try to speak with them and find a mutual agreement on the restrictions!

would be hard, i know but everything is possible, right?

For the general rulebook (apart from the sporting guide), it's a good idea, however, please make sure to let it a bit free, so as to adapt to the evolutions of LFS, or the upcoming of new leagues .

i want that this organisation should give only the base, not more, but good enough that customization should be as easy as possible.

Finally, maybe you could give your "organization", the idea of a "quality stamp"? Like "The MOE is supported by <insert your name here>". And I'm sure that it would be possible to make some money with sponsors
If you need some help, I'll be glad to join

this i meant with a certification ...i think about sponsoring when the project starts

my two cents are bold

Hi racers,

i have a plan to start an association of teams to make following things for new and existing leagues.

- a standard sporting codex for racers
i know there is a sporting codex in all your minds, but it never has been written down.

- partial standard regulations for leagues (interesting for new leagues)
i am thinking about a bunch of standard regulations which can be used to build your own regulations as easy as playing with lego blocks, so everyone has a chance to make a reliable rule book by themselves.
the procedure should be like this: choosing qualy mode, choosing race mode with pitstop regulation, car classes -> rule book ready for use!
maybe as a small honoration that they use this system, they can get a league certification.

- standard restrictor based classes (like babyUFR and GT2)
this is a thing i hate especially the gt2 class is different in all leagues.... ctra has another system as moe, moe has another one as gtcc.... for all leagues you have to build another setup and so on. my dream is that i dont have to make 3 sets for one car

- maybe you have suggestions?
its just an idea for now, so suggestions are welcome

here the steps for demo racers (without wheel):

-buy S2,
-go to an online shop and buy a wheel of your choice (for beginners i recommend the formula force ex, its cheap and FFB is good)
-make sure you really have bought s2
-eat something
-look at your order status for your new wheel
-activate your s2 account
-wait some days and have a surprise how good the feeling is with a wheel in combination with s2

its just joking, but i can recommend following wheels:
-logitech formula force ex (cheap wheel with good ffb) about 40 €
-logitech dfp (good wheel, many buttons, excellent ffb) about 90€
-g25 (the heaven of racing!!!!) about 230 €
-911 (good wheel with good ffb) dont know the price, but i have heard only good things about

alles gute zum geburtstag SCAWEN
that was german for "happy birthday"

Quote from Furiously-Fast :

This hasn't got much to do with the game itself. It's just what they see on their monitors. They just aren't allowed to be shared on offical forums though.

it HAS: just watch the improvement suggestions section how often engine tuning, choice of rims/wings/bodykits was suggested, what they do with their models i their cup of beer and i cant see it on my client.... so where is the sense behind model modding?

Quote from NoYPiDRiFTER :

Hi Live for Speed Racers,

I have noticed around this LFS community, that a lot of people are just getting flamed for no reason. I've seen reasons like someone made a topic for something and there is already another topic for that something. Then when someone bumps that said topic and its very old, that person gets flamed again. I think people really should be able to say their thoughts without getting flamed or dissed. We should all be friends. This is really unacceptable in my opinion. If there is more flaming here, then I would suggest a mod to close this thread.

-NoYPiDRiFTeR

i am with your opinion, the agression factor got very high in the last year and i am somtimes disappionted that some posts reaches counterstrike and WoW nieveau...
but why the choice of words go so negative? i dont know why some here got so agressive.... even some mods... its inacceptable!

so here are my two cents i write as a racer:

to the racers: accept that there are people out there using this racing simulation for drifting and cruising and stop this flaming on counterstrike nieveau!

to the drifters: accept, that this game is a RACING simulation and drifting is normally not a feature of the game. use what is in the game and please forget wings, spoilers and other tuning parts.

to the cruisers: same i said to the drifters, except the tuning parts

to the mods: you are responsible that this forum should be clean of flaming and "f" words.... dont get agressive and stand over all posts!
in the last time i saw some things i would better forget!

to the flamers: shut up and drive!

to the devs: good sim, take it further please

omg, the fish 'n' chips have a champion ^^

congrats to Lewis and GB

Quote from SamH :

Now implemented

thanks dude, now there are two bottles of beer in my fridge for you

Hi CTRA Admins,

we from Lightning Racing thought much about he new GP Points System and we think that the Bump n Jump drivers have big advantages to "win" the overall monthly statistic.
The races there on Bump n Jump are only a few minutes depending on track, but a CTRA or SS race is about 10-20 minutes. You get less points if you race on CTRA or SS servers.

-I think there are two solutions atm:
The Bum n Jumper should get less points depending on race lenght on the other servers.

ee: Race 3: race lenght aprox. 10 minutes, BnJ race lenght aprox 5 mins = half points for BnJ!

-Invert the first solution.


Then there is another thing which is a bit unfair:
Racers can do races alone and get full GP points (especially at night)
Peter Link from my team had a great idea to solve this problem:
Full points only for 8 racers or above (actual point division)!

here a list of winner points should be given depending on race starters
1 drivers = 1 pt
2 drivers = 2 pt
3 drivers = 3pt
4 drivers = 4pt
5 drivers = 5 pt
6 drivers = 6pt
7 drivers = 8 pt
8 drivers = 10 pt

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:35.

we have made the same a long time ago
for the german speaking people here: http://forum.lightning-racing.de/showthread.php?tid=138

Quote from [GR]Evolution :

+1 but i don't think FXR will be much better with just better engine.

watch hotlaps, the fxr has only no top speed in relation to the other ones

the balancing of small gtrs is ok i think, the times are track depended very close to each other.

the big ones are good on a distance more than 3 hours.... but for short races the fzr is totally imba. followed by xrr, which is much slower than fzr but much faster than fxr...

the fxr needs a bit more engine performance
the xrr should stay as it is (as a base)
the fzr should be slower and the fuel consumption has to be lower

look here for the "balancing" in qualyfying:
http://www.racing-minds.net/16hpage/?page=qualresult

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:01.

While i have watched a replay my computer gets a bluescreen on every time i watch it (shortly before lap 5 starts)
Link to replay: http://www.raceauthority.com/r ... _KY3_13_Sep_2008_2228.mpr

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Problemsignatur:
Problemereignisname: BlueScreen
Betriebsystemversion: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Gebietsschema-ID: 1031

Zusatzinformationen zum Problem:
BCCode: d1
BCP1: 000000000000008C
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000001
BCP4: FFFFFA6002A3B521
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Dateien, die bei der Beschreibung des Problems hilfreich sind:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini101908-01.dmp
C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-52119-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\WER952.tmp.version.txt

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System:
Windows Vista x64 Home Premium SP1
Intel C2D E6750 @ 2,67 GHz
2 GB Teamgroup RAM
Geforce 9600GT
Intel P35 Chipset
3x 500 GB Harddisk (Samsung)

If the files listed above are needed, contact me via PM.

track for server 1 changed to as7 with gtrs

Quote from Shadowww :

If you want stress test,say me server IP's, i will do ping -f IP from all school PC's.

better drive

Hi guys and girls,

i would like to make a stress test of our new windows server for our team LFS servers.
Anyone is invited to take part

Servers are:
Lightning Racing Public 1
Lightning Racing Public 2

Server 1 has KY1 with BF1
Server 2 has AS2 with FOX

I made this because the races should be short for now

Thanks to everyone who takes part!

Stress test is running, i am keeping an eye on cpu, ram and bandwidth

Con: Like in rFactor and GTR 2 you have to download Gigabytes over Gigabytes ofcontent only for joining a server....this is because i dont race them

Quote from SabersKunk :

a computer

good one

Quote from mcintyrej :

I loved that game but I lost the disc a while ago and havn't been able to buy it again. Some great times playing it online - first played it years and years ago and loved it straight away.

same here....
lost my cd but i still have my cd key

Quote from haelje :

i run lfs on vista64 without any problems

same here

i am using Jakgs way since my thread which is linked above, works good because the stealer is a good brake for all the others
WORKS and PWNED

The only way to prevent skin stealing would be an own fileformat where the skin is in and a list of LFS usernames who are allowed to use them (like an encrypted ZIP or RAR archive)

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:24.

Quote from slugz :

This game is pretty old, and the graphics are terrible. But I downloaded it because it supports the clutch for my G25.

Yes the game is old, but LFS mostly supports new technologies first in all Sims (i. e. TrackIR).

Now the training exercises are pretty kool, but the racing itself is far from realistic.

You have only tested XFG, XRG and FBM... i.e. the FBM... have you ever seen a race in TV? Compare it with a replay from V1 Challenge and make your points then before writing such critics like this.
The XFG feels like my VW Polo GTi with Standard Setup... its campareable because the weight and the engine specs are similar. So i think its realistic too. For XRG i have never driven a similar street car.

First of all, the AI aponents love to bump you off the track, and that is not realistic.

I agree, but AI is updated in since patch Y, see patch X and you know what real wrecking is!

Second of all, your car skids and loses traction when going 20-30km/h.

Try it with your real car... drive 30km/h and make a hard turn und kick the pedal onto the ground... you will see what happens... YES YOU LOSE TRACTION.

that is NOT realistic. This game has obsolete game physics. The only thing I can find that's realistic is the gear shifting, but you can't tear your clutch. So once again, not realistic.

LFS is one of the most realistic games out there... sure there are some failures in it, i.e. our good old moonphysics barricades, but Scawen works on it and mostly in new patches we have physics updates.

I hope GTR 2 will seem more realistic, a good thing this game is torrent'ed because it's not worth buying.

GTR2 and realistic? With all driving aids off its drivable, but if you race with aids, you maybe have choosen the wrong game genre... its simply boring with driving aids.

I find GRiD to be 100x more realistic than this game.

Pedal to the metal with over 300 hp and nothing happens (slides etc.)??? THIS is not realistic! Its simply easy driving.... i got 100% there in 2 days...

My 2 cents are bold

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

http://manta.univ.gda.pl/~tsulkows/lfs_strobe/

LFS Strobe is very horrible to use.... a better one would be nice, maybe with an insim button to activate so that no shortcut has a conflict with strobe

Quote from JCTK :

a little bit OT...
but that car's basically same everything as the Golf, which means next to zero development cost on anything mechanical (well they did improve on a certain areas and added some extra bits somewhere, but u get the idea), design a new body, and that's basically the same car with a wider appeal. Those that didn't like the Golf might perhaps go for the Scirocco instead.

that's how car manufacturers do business these days...

watch the scirocco 1, looks similar to the golf 1 at the front

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fire on my cigarette and mostly i have my cup of coffee in my other hand