So far 9 people have signed up as I post this. Lets get some more participants!

F1 Race Manager is a good choice. Has a little more depth by having to buy some cheaper stuff, and I like the features and how it works.

Signing up there :up:

This is my how I ignore posts:

Quote from squidhead :

wrong music... such action should have been accompanied by Yello-The race

Yet more people like this video than your self-proclaimed masterpieces

Nice BigTime, and yes, the oval camera shaking was a nice effect.

Quote from Riders Motion :

Without the profiler it's like I had no steering wheel, LFS doesn't detect it.

I find that hard to believe.

LFS should detect any controller in the game, even if it doesn't have drivers installed... or profiler software :doh:

Well if you want to start one, make a decision!!! What is there to figure out? You keep saying you are undecided.... lets get this show on the road so we can get plenty of sign-ups.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Tweaker, if you want to make your own manager game league, at least make it in your own thread.

Geez, a little selfish? It's just something to sign-up for, who cares who makes it. Being proactive is a bad thing? :rolleyes:

Last edited by Tweaker, Sun 17 Feb 2008, 08:20.

Why are you even using the profiler?? There is NO use for it! You don't need profiles, the application just causes more trouble than you think it does good.

Using 64-bit XP here, and virtually 90% of any drivers/software I download will work, even if they don't support 64-bit OS.

Thanks for the update.

I went ahead and made an LFS League on www.f1manager.info and if you want to join it, here is the info:

http://www.f1manager.info/
Name: LFS F1 2008
Pass: lfsf12008

Not hard to guess, but like it really matters .

Question though, how much money do you guys start off with to build your team? Mine seems bugged....

Last edited by Tweaker, Sat 16 Feb 2008, 14:36.

Couple nights ago I actually had my first go at Forza 2 online... (on a 108" display at 1080p )

Aside from the tuner noobs that always want to drag race on Nord's long straight (lol), the netcode was quite good and racing wasn't so bad.

Pretty good broadcast footage here, great to watch. Except it is quite clear most people need wheels . I could never find a serious race on Xbox Live, so this is cool to see, and I wish I were there to race against you all .

Last edited by Tweaker, Sat 16 Feb 2008, 12:38.

400 bhp??? No way!

If any Formula BMW car had that kind of power, they are probably thinking of some other formula car. F3000 are like 460-500bhp or something?

Champ Car Atlantics are 300bhp.

EDIT: And Formula V6 Asia are 370 bhp

Last edited by Tweaker, Sat 16 Feb 2008, 10:17.

I dunno what it is, but uncontrollable laughter kicks in when I watch this.... like when in old school 80's movies where a team wins a championship.... hahahahah.

At higher res it will look strange, it is really only made for tiny graphics imo.

I found that in my early S1 days, I was getting better and better in the MRT, up to a point where winning was all I wanted to do. But now, there is a newer generation of LFS drivers each year, and in S2 good competition is so rare I find. There aren't many drivers that are at my level of pace, and very few that are faster than me because they all only play in leagues -- uber pros. So lately I've been quite bored with some car classes because there are too many people that don't want to (or can't) have a good race , or they're off cruising :doh:.

It's fun when I do get a good race with someone though. Otherwise, winning all the time, or having huge gaps between podium finishers is pretty lame

I'd have to say the competitor's poor consistency is a big problem 90% of the time.

Quote from deggis :

Good idea. Then we just need a badly designed car and everyone can virtually be Peter Dumbreck for a few seconds.

That was actually also attributed to the GTone in front of it, so not entirely the hump . Passing cars ahead of it created turbulent air.

Last edited by Tweaker, Tue 12 Feb 2008, 06:08.

You're missing the all black one

Also some mopeds are prone to a lot of carbon build up inside the exhaust pipe... specifically in the catalytic converter. It kind of looks like a clogged artery so to speak, and it will greatly decrease your power. But I am convinced your bike is screwed up because of the actual engine changes.

Still, this is something to look out for. I had 2 mopeds that had this problem, both 2-stroke which are pretty messy. As a temporary fix, draining the whole pipe with paint thinner will dissolve most of the build up, but it's never better than a brand new pipe.

lol. You guys suck if you don't Ask! Jeeves

j/k

Quote from Bawbag :

Wow, what an awesome day! Many thanks to Jay again for inviting us along.

I have to apologise though, we got some pictures and videos of us on the simulator but when we got home we realised the SD card wasn't plugged in properly. Tried saving all the stuff from the cameras memory to the card but it would only show as 1 picture. Typical that the 1 picture is crappy but i'll upload it later...

Worthless without pics!!! zomg!!

Dunno if it has been mentioned before, but how big are the paddle shifters on the wheel? Sod the stupid shifter, paddles shifters is what makes you fast. So are they tiny little things, or wide enough to fit 3 fingers on them?

Because small paddles = big failure

Quote from Linsen :

But a little short on good taste, it seems.

I do like the Force India livery, though.

lol yeah.

But a pretty nasty looking Hotel room to match

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

If you mean your personal avatar, just right-click on it and go to properties. Look for image location. You can copy this and then use that as the address to your avatar...

But once you change your avatar your old one is lost, and you have to repeat the process...

However, that is hotlinking, and I don't think Victor wants to have people doing that.

Besides, the avatar URL will change each time he uploads a new one, because the URL is unique each time. I don't see why he can't upload the avatar himself on the other forum, or on Imageshack (using the direct-link URL after you upload) for example. All very easy.

Quote from frokki :

You have a point, actually a good one. But calling names didn't help to deliver it, at least for me.

Sorry for the poor English ^

Well I don't care, March is just another brainwashed "realism" pundit anyways.

It doesn't take good English to understand a usability flaw in a video game.

What pisses me off and drives me up a wall is the passionate players who suggest great things that would indeed improve LFS... then for their suggestions to be downplayed and disregarded by tons of other LFS players who seemingly don't want LFS to change at all. Like nothing can be made better of LFS. Such people need to really open their eyes and realize what people expect more of in LFS, and in how many areas LFS could improve. If we just carry on and continue forgetting about these improvement suggestions, there's a high likelihood that the devs are reading and seeing it is a much lower priority altogether. And trust me, the devs read A LOT.

Well... you tell me...

Lets all just be completely blind and totally disregard an improvement suggestion and go about our way by having to switch an option to completely remove the steering wheel in order to see what gear you are in? Are we seriously THAT reluctant to have this game improved?

Gimme a break. I'd rather not want to see LFS be the same old piss crap where we have to use workarounds to get rid of a blatant poor design. Isn't it clear enough that people want to see LFS improved, and not have people muddling around with options to make things 'appear fixed' ?

And the last thing you lot can say is "I prefer not to show the arms" :rolleyes: Yes, and?

Last edited by Tweaker, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 10:41.

Quote from March Hare :

@Tweaker
Well most people who drive with wheels have their wheel turning less than the on screen wheel. How is that realistic?
Besides no one is asking for the hands and wheel to be removed from the game. Just that if you want to see the gear indicator you should click the box to not show them.

I just knew someone would mention that, especially you. Hopefully you will grow up to be part of Ajp & Deggis' realism squad.

But I don't care if they aren't turning their wheel 2 full rotations, fact is, I care to see actual steering movement than nothing at all. It is quite easy to analyze someone's driving and their setup if you just watch how they steer the car. Oversteer is very easily seen at any rate of countersteering at the wheel, I don't see how that proves my idea wrong.

And you shouldn't have to remove the steering wheel/hands to see the gear indicator. "How is that realistic?" :rolleyes:

Ahh yes here it is.... lemme just turn off driver names so I can see roadsigns Bill!!! :rolleyes:

If you're going to come up with more asinine ways to completely ruin a video game's usability features, feel free to make a list, it is all quite laughable how you think people will conform to your own views of how-to play this game. Let's all just turn off our wheels guys, come on!!! March is leading a revolution here!!! I never knew real racecars have hidden gear indicators that the drivers cannot see, so they have to forget about steering the car with their hands/arms, and remove the steering wheel completely just to see it!!! WOW!

idiot

Last edited by Tweaker, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 10:18.