Huh?

The season will finish as scheduled... we have 4 more races left to complete here. I am working on the skin stuff simply because it needs to be done... not because the season is going to end :doh:

We are talking with a few people that are offering to help, and have already accepted a few I think. Just prepare for the Westhill race as planned, we should be ok when that time comes.

Question regarding the newer templates I am working on...

Would you guys prefer to have different color sunstrips for each class? Examples of this are in Super GT (white & yellow) Or all one color/theme for every car on the grid? I ask this because I am curious if you think it is necessary, and if you think it might conflict with your team's skin/theme. I don't think it would be that bad, it would just be easier to tell the difference of the two classes.

I don't know what two colors we could try, but I guess if we have blue for GT1, and red for GT2, would you want the sunstrips to be those colors? Or something else? Suggestions & comments please!

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And some other thoughts about the number plaques I am making. I am thinking of making a standard design with just the MOE title on top, and number placement on the bottom. Then, for something on the side, have a colored GT1 (blue) or GT2 (red) sticker to show what class the car is in. Either that, OR we have a special number plaque that is colored for whatever the class is and/or make the number itself colored blue or red? Ideas welcome.

I have so many ideas made up here, but not sure what most people will like to use. So please post some ideas with what you think would be a nice arrangement for the MoE number plaque, and I'll have these templates ready for you shortly.

Last edited by Tweaker, Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:57.

I am having similar problems here. For me I have noticed it depends on how many people are on the server... so if the server has like 15 or more people online, my chances of disconnects are greater. A server filled fully will have me disconnected in about 2 minutes or so. Pretty unstable. (Not good, especially since I admin the large endurance races for MoE, and now can't do it anymore)

I have not changed any settings or anything either, and all other games don't have these problems either. Very frustrating, and I don't know what to try. I wish I could have some really indepth debugging or something, so I can watch what is happening via my router or any other kind of activity.

I'd like to think it is the latest X version of LFS, because earlier versions were never like this, but not many people have this issue as far as I can see, and I may be a bit irrational thinking LFS is to blame. However, I do believe that LFS is very poor in handling disconnects or people with a tiny bit of packet loss --- It isn't very good in keeping people connected.

Quote from Kryten :

Aw, bless him.

I'd have to say the same thing myself...

Wouldn't want to make fun of his poor english, but he sure is cool "Because Bruce Willis is suck!!!!"

However, I think this is fake somehow. Because I hear his friends or someone in the background giggling, and it looks like this guy is trying not to laugh. (at the end)

Quote from MAGGOT :

AFAIK, Smarties are only available in Canada, so this poll will be lost to most people.

lol what???? Smarties are everywhere here, and made in NJ. I don't buy the little kids pack ones too... I get MEGA Smarties

M&Ms are so-so... I'd really only like to have Peanut Butter M&Ms or Reeses Pieces.

Quote from Smurfen :

no, the grill is just a small bit of texture which tiles itself

Hmmm that sucks. Scawen must've made the texture tile now... because it used to be able to be edited fully to make a nice custom grille. Damn this 'optimization', damn it to hell!!!

Why did you put the 7 grille on the radiator texture???? :zombie:

Why not just make a proper grille, it is possible you know....

No point to use a PNG format anyways, Scawen decided to convert anything to DDS with its compression, so you really don't gain from having some other kind of format.... we'll always have crappy DDS from now on it seems (unfortuneately ).

Quote from wien :

No we're not. All skins downloaded from LFSWorld are in jpeg format and LFS then re-compresses them to a format native to the graphics card (DDS) to make loading them at run-time faster.

Only reason LFSW still accepts JPG is for ease of transfer and storage. Filesize can be much lower. LFSW wont magically upgrade to super high filesize skins guys :doh:... Victor has sad these things cost money...

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It's like he is running on a very hard rubber tire, at high pressure, or the thing is also made of plastic :zombie:

Quote from duke_toaster :

For challenge rather than sheer length I've always preferred Sears Point

I fun track sure, but a true challenge is memorizing 50-100 or more corners on these kinds of tracks..... Or in Targa's case, 900 corners (1 lap = 44 miles)?

This doesn't look like anything special.

I'd rather have hopes for Pescara or Targa Florio back.... or something similar. Those are the only tracks that could compare or at least dominate Nordschleife's superiority.

Any help would be appreciated.

My connections issues are strange, and I think it is in part due to connecting to servers over in Europe. But my ISP is really lame, and people are filing FCC complaints over all the crap they are limiting. I just cannot stay connected in a server with say... 20 or more people. If I join the MoE races, I just timeout/get disconnected in about 5 minutes or so. It's not my LFS install, nor could be anything else hardware wise I think, because other games work fine. Something is just not handling LFS properly... or feels overloaded. The same applies for any other server with multiple people playing on it (eg Conedodgers or CTRA). I've been able to play LFS online, but that is with a small grid.

Strange, but I could very well just be reviewing replays . This is also why I was not in the server for the 12hour race, I was out in IRC handling things, with Alex handling everything inside the server.

Another thing to note, and I feel it is important... is that my time spent on MoE for the last few weeks was to try and get sponsor deals for MoE. Being a little late after the season started, I figured it wouldn't be a problem, but still hard to obtain (hence the post about my "surprise"). I have good connections through Logitech, and they told me they'd surely set us up with some sponsor deals, and we had the potential to get prizes, easily. I was excited about this, and pursued it. The further down the line I got to someone 'official', I was soon rejected for various reasons. The web stream was not active for these last two races, and they want a large amount of website hits. They prefer to have massive amounts of website hits, and I already know our site does NOT, sigh. So it was really spun back around at me, and wasn't what I expected. Because some employees there said it would be really easy to setup, apparently not. That said, I was also preparing all the car templates to have a lot of Logitech material on them, because it is what they would've required. All that work down the drain, so I am in the process of starting fresh and basic ones with just the MoE logo .

This doesn't mean I am just going to give up with sponsor ideas. I was talking to Vykos about all this, he was shocked at the bullshit too.... so what I have in mind to improve things around here is going to take some time (new site, new look). It may even only be around for next season (or the remainder of this season), so if we get plenty of support to keep this running I can be assured my time spent to improve things will be worth it, and you guys can get your sponsors/prizes and such .

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Hmmm Lewis did say he was coming over here to the states after the season was over, so this might be one reason why. Wish I was working at EA (only 15 mins away), I'd probably get to go seem him .

Hell if he did smile on the front cover, they'd need to photoshop the gap in his front teeth!!!

Stick to Tiger Woods, EA.

Quote from SamH :

Our American friends probably don't realise how difficult it is to get a personalised "cherished" plate in the UK. It's not at all as easy as it is in the US.

In Chicago, I had "EE BY GUM". I just had to declare that it wasn't a swearword in a foreign language

It isn't easy here either really, we have the same declaration thing, and pay a ridiculous annual fee for anything custom. And it takes a LONG time until you get the plate.

There is a HUGE master list of the unaccepted/unacceptable plates on a government site somewhere... forget.

This is the most requested plate:

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Teh massiveness is shown here: http://www.lfs.net/page_images/screenshots/anni33.jpg

There are lots of people out there that actually don't have a problem hosting a server for someone.......

But yeah, let people know the reasons for using it, and you'll surely get a helping hand.

@drone wolf: They aren't mods of the game, they are mods of the forum.

As with every patch, always open up the NVIDIA Control Panel to check and see if your settings changed for the LFS Game Profile under "Manage 3D settings" and then the "Program Settings" tab.

Or make your own profile by browsing for the LFS.exe and put in some of your own AA and AF settings you want.

Quote from Bob Smith :

I dug up an old shot of the specs of the beast and can confirm things could be getting saucy on the horizon.

By the looks of it, tire size needs to be wider if you want to recreate the LX8

I saw some cocky Prius with a plate "GR8RMPG"

I completely forgot about OLFSL :Kick_Can_

Bawbag clearly looked like the true winner all season, I guess he lost the chance with missing one too many races.

LFS will and always will work better with 270 degrees or around there. I have noticed that you really cannot drive LFS to its limits when you use a higher steering lock because you'll be so much slower in catching the tiny little snappy slides LFS creates while you drive. You need a faster and more direct response by using a lower steering lock range in order to be the quickest.

Though I personally don't think the force feedback return-levels at a higher steering lock are at fault for why 720 degrees doesn't work well. Using 900 degrees isn't a good idea either, no car has that steering lock in LFS. 720 Degrees can feel fine, however the one reason I notice why rFactor gives better return feedback is because the steering is so rigid and the FF always feels rather fierce in that game. With or without the ReelFeel plugin, it doesn't matter, rFactor has always felt like it has a harder FF bite. I've liked LFS's FF feel simply because it is smooth and a less strain on my hands and arms. But nothing is wrong with rFactor's either, it just feels different. I can be fast in rFactor too, but in all sims, you can never be faster with a higher steering lock, so, sadly your test doesn't mean much . But still interesting to see.

I've grown to dislike the BF1... it is terrible for a league.

You need cars that get more into the thick of the action. Basically everything from FO8 and below .

To be honest, and as whacky as it seems... the MRT5 on small short/sprint tracks (not autocross ones) running sprint races would be my next ideal league to join simply because they are like a uber fun Formula Ford style kind of racing. They are slow, easy to bang wheels with and you can fit a lot of them in tight spaces . With the right setups, it is a really stable car too.

I left my comment on Youtube :o

Feel like I am collecting coins as it plays.

It was my understanding that we'd have a broadcast for all the rest of the races in the season... but I haven't heard anything, I really don't know what to say .

Is the exhaust pipe coincidentally rotated for the picture?

Very funny picture