I enjoyed the redline servers... until one of the redline admins started cussing and causing a big scene when it was his fault in the first place and then proceeded to kick people he felt like kicking. But other than that I enjoyed the servers =P
@Hallen The Devs have already said that LFS will be moddable when S3 final is released. To what extent I don't know but your ideas are certianly possible.
As for RFactor Vs. LFS how could you even think of compairing them? I think BBT's saying says it all =P
GTR2:
"It's like heading down to the bar and picking up some hottie bar fly chick with fake boobs and daisy-dukes, and getting a quick romp in the hay; leaving you with nothing more than an itchy crotch and an empty wallet in the morning. LFS is more like the medium-pretty girl who has character and substance underneath... You should marry LFS, it can only get better with time like a good marriage, because it's not built on superficialities. The bonus with LFS is that one day it'll turn into the hottie just to finish it off. Conversely, the "sim whores" of the world have no hope of ever having the substance they lack which is tragic indeed."
Like any slut, GTR2 has sex appeal that can make you crave more. Once you "go around" a few times you realize the relationship between you and the ... sim ... is shallow and only based on depraved desire for a few moments of extasy instigated by a lust for extreme sensory input.
Sounds like the power connection came unsoldered from the circuit board. It's an easy fix but you need to know how to solder =) That is an option, other than sending it back.
Thanks for the update Scawen =) In my whole gaming experience I have never seen a game go to this personal of level as the LFS Dev team has gone! Its new territory in gaming and it brings a personal touch to something that is basically at the end of it is a bunch of 1's and 0's. It makes me feel that I am part of the developmet in some way, making the game mean much more than just a game, then add on the great people that play LFS both casually and hard-core, you just cannot beat it even if the other games come with every Real Life track and car imaginable! To me people make the difference.
It doesn't matter what a game has and doesn't have so much as the people who make it. Without people what would there be? To me an update like this means much more than an update that just says how the game is progressing... it brings the game much closer to home.
Unless in the case of the XRR, then your just slow With a racecar that you can change the gearing yeah 1-2k is enough. But in a production vehicle your not going to be able to be in that 1-2k all the time.
Still, I am not a fan of waiting and I will stick with my V8's or engines that produce power figures like V8's. American V8's that is =)
Well this stock engine has a very flat torque curve.
Blowtus: I agree with you on that you have to compromise, but peak power means nothing if you only have it there for a 1-2k RPM. To me it does not make sense to create the most power out of an engine if you can create a smooth power curve that has an even and/or smooth amount of power over many RPM's giving you much more flexability on how you drive and setup the car.
Maybe I am missing on how exactly VVT works. I have always assumed that it was for people that wanted a daily driver that got good gas milage that when you stepped on it gave you some more ponies to work with.
Maybe part of my problem is too that I grew up with American V8's and I never had to wait for the power to come in like you have to wait for in a VVT engine. I hate having to wait, no matter what RPM I am in I want some kind of power, be it either torque or HP.
I looked at some VTEC dyno's they are not as peaky as I thought. I just don't like having to revv the crap out of something to have anything to work with.
Vain: I know they do but I am still confused as to why someone would want to race an engine like that, but alot less confused now. I think it's more down to now that I just hate the idea of waiting. True in racing you would normally be in the higher RPMs, but nobody is perfect and especally with production classes you are not going to be able to change gear ratio's to make sure your in your power band for every corner. Maybe if I took a Civic Si out on a track it might be different but I just don't think the Civic engines are the best solution for a race engine.
Tristian: maybe thats why I thought they were peaky, the new dyno's look good, but you still have to wait until 5k to get any power. I mean jeez I am already close to my peak power by then =) Turbo kicks in at 1700RPM in the SRT-4.
I am still confused as to why someone would want VVT in a race engine? Can someone help me with this?
With VVT you get less power and less torque than you would if you had a cam that was perminent. With this you get a very peaky power and torque curve, I have never heard of any racers actually wanting peaky power.
It would make sense to be to have a level torque curve with a linear power curve just after the troque curve that is present through all RPM ranges.
That is a possability too, but with my Motherboard manual requiring at least a 550 for my processor so 600 might have been just too small. I don't know I will never know but thats what I am sticking too =P
Reading through the posts for MoE I thought of an idea.
I see that there are people saying that they are being treated unfairly with regards to MoE choosing their teams in who can enter. I love this idea, but for the teams that cannot compete could there be something like how they do the football leagues? Have the teams that would like to race in MoE have an opportunity but only after they prove themselves by running LFS GT first and finishing in the say top 2 or 3 and they recieve an invite to the next season of MoE?
To me this would be logical for these types of teams that need to prove their race worthyness in the eyes of the other racers and league officals, but maybe have something offically setup for this purpose?
I see too many teams out there that do drive fast times but they don't know how to race without pushing someone out of the way. Those are the types of drivers that MoE is trying to prevent and I feel are doing it in the only way possible to ensure 99.99% that the races from the drivers perspective is perfect.
I was just curious if Muroc's invitation was extended to race 2? We are sorry we could not make race 1 but many of us had prior commitments that weekend and could not make it.