Quote from Iginla :

Why again BL1? Why the hell not for once BL1R? Much better track IMO.
Maybe WE1R? Maybe some new Aston for once, like 4/5?

I agree about WE1 and BL1 -- both was in the schedule last year.
There is also Blackwood historic reverse option (without chikane) - very challenging bumpy braking line.

AS7 was in 2011, so it is okay for me.

https://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=74351 MPR with SPR detail + Replay merge tool

Quote from Kristi :

The thing about LFS is the complexity of the program, that's the main reason Scawen wouldn't want anyone getting involved. It would take maybe weeks or months of teaching what does what and that means even more off-time and then you also have to coordinate all of the people not to mess everything up.

If you write it properly, you don't need much to explain. Most important thing programmer learns to -- write the code the way it self-explain itself. Otherwise you won't be able to understand what you did after a year or even after a month. So this might not be the problem.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

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No. You're incorrect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

Building software is not the same as bolting together a car. Building a car, adding more people can improve the efficiency. However, with software, communication is critical. With 1 developer, you have 0 lines of communication, thus that developer is aware of all design decisions and ramifications.

With 10 developers, you've made the lines of communication grow exponentially, which adds more delays due to requiring more meetings to coordinate 10 people, more time spent managing what each developer is working on, and more potential for conflicting design decisions to cause chaos.

It's a common middle management mistake to think that you can simply throw more developers at a problem to raise efficiency, defying logic, the opposite actually rings true.

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The things you say are basically true, according to my experience with programming.

But when you create such a big product like a 3D driving simulator, it might be better to contribute some time to declare strict guidelines and interfaces for the program, so you can involve more people into the work. Because there is always something that can be improved which requires not that much talent but amount of time... And it might be harder for 1 person to criticize his work. And it is hard to make a fresh look at some problem you been working on for past decades...

I am looking forward to LFSCART. And personally I prefer not to have Kyoto 500 in the champ schedule. Nothing wrong with ovals, but 2 hours race is not for me... Also, there will be lots of those who want to participate in Ky500, but not the LFSCART.

Having some usual ~145 laps oval race is not bad though.

Quote from Inouva :

i have to disagree with that, i have no problems driving the F08 or the BF1 with mouse plus i dont remember a race witch my tyres finished red cuz i'm driving with mouse, i dont know what are you talking about
you should come to CG and see that they are mouse driver faster much faster that anyone doing on wheel

Well I am not surprised that someone can do it Even I could do it with some success, but for me it was easier to learn the wheel.

UPD: I don't try to say that wheel is better for everyone. But wheel is more fun for me, so switching to wheel was good decision anyway.

Sometimes I look at mouse and keyboard drivers and it seems to me that they just love to drive that way -- it is cheaper, you can drive at any PC at any place. AND if you are faster than some wheel driver, you make him mad: "Hey, I spent 300$ for my wheel and you are faster with a mouse!"

Last edited by vitaly_m, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 19:31.

Quote from Kristi :

Will you stop basing opinins on games that you tried years ago the last time? I would be grateful if you only stated "facts" about stuff you tried recently.

Before you blame people u should first check if that was before or after latest physics patch.

Quote from giannhsgr1 :

one more thing is

dont play lfs and then jump to another sim or "sim" and try to learn it and then go back to lfs..especially when the other game requires learning like (simraceway and iracing..)

This is arguable. I recently played iRacing (on crappy Ford Specracer car)... The car is really ugly - it has neither power nor handling... Oversteers a bit on braking (u can't change brake power, so you have to use brakes very gently) and hell damn understeers on exits, like if you drive a UF1... After return to LFS I had a lot of enjoinment on FOX car (which I don't like much honestly).

I think other sims are worth trying at least, can give you somewhat bigger image on driving...

Some background: Before I bought my G27 I had 1:12.42 hotlap PB at Blackwood FBM. After switching to wheel I was barely doing 1:13.40 but with time I started to get 1:12.80 and could get more but I get bored from this combo very soon.

Another combo I had some decent experience is SO4 BF1. My new PB is done with wheel and I can't do any close to it with mouse.

I had lots of experience with mouse and then switched to wheel because I was 100% sure it will make me a better racer. And it did. Because you can't drive in a single file on mouse as easy and stable as on wheel. You will either burn your tires or lose the field and give up positions a lot on most of the combos - because you can't brake and accelerate smoothly.

Ofcourse you can try and even succeed but then looking replays and seeing how easy it was for wheel racers, you will frustrate and start saving money for the wheel

I am talking about powerful formula cars like BF1 and FOX (FO8 is mostly undrivable with mouse already). Wheel is better here in races IMO. The only advantage is that you can recover from spins better due to ease of lock-to-lock steering moves, but hell, you got hot tyres anyway...

Hotlapping is a bit different from that and mouse can get very fast because you can recoup early braking with a bit earlier and drifty accelerating while moving your mouse left and right like crazy and hoping tyres will last for the final turn

Quote from dekojester :

I've still got seven days or so

It is just that I need to practice A lot with this car

Any LFSCART news? ^^ It is end of april now

Was fun action in the middle of the field after my spin at first lap

Thanks Rony and everyone.

Anything decided about LFSCART?

Quote from N I K I :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkbAkM740JY
Tilke could learn that cambering track corners is also one possibility.

Why does it sound like someone drives it with mouse? Maybe engine works that way? Or did they do those short throttle presses?

Quote from N I K I :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y0ipydYKW8

well worth watching

Very nice thanks ^^

1. Who will win the drivers' world championship? Button
2. Which team will win the constructors' world championship? McLaren
3. Who will be the last finisher in Australian GP including people who: DNF, retire, get disqualified or are last to drive over the s/f line? Chilton
4. Will 13 or more cars finish the Australian GP race within two laps of the winner? No
5. Who will score more points in 2014? Bottas or Massa? Massa
6. Who will score more points in 2014? Grosjean or Maldonado? Grosjean
7. Who will score more points in 2014? Räikkönen or Alonso? Raikkonen
8. What will be the best race finishing result for Magnussen in 2014? 1st
9. Do you think Ricciardo will win at least one race in 2014? No
10. Who will be the first driver to lose his drive (or miss a race) during 2014? Chilton
11. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2014? Yes
12. Who will qualify on pole position on the Sochi qualifying? Button
13. Which driver from the four 'midfield' teams (Sauber, Force India, Toro Rosso and Williams) will score the most points during the season? Massa
14. Which team from the four 'midfield' teams (Sauber, Force India, Toro Rosso and Williams) will score the most points during the season? Wiliams
15. Do you think Simona de Silvestro will drive a 2014 spec F1 car during the 2014 season at any time? No
16. Who will win the Australian GP? Hamilton
17. Who will Win the Monaco GP? Button
18. How many points will the DWC winning driver have at the end of the season? 354

Quote from dekojester :

New Dimension Racing will probably return it's LFSCART Series for a 7th season in late April / Early May if there's still enough people in LFS and something like Assetto Corsa doesn't /kill LFS before then. It runs the FO8 in races that should be around 90mins each, mostly road courses but part of the LFSCART Series is the Kyoto 500 on KY1. In past it's had at least one other oval round, usually KY1R, but in past has had 4/10 rounds being oval, one being on AU1. Definately a multi-disipline series, but the road course races at least last season were questionable on fuel lasting the whole race if there was no SC, and I think we'll keep the distances the same for this season if we run it.

Yes, I look forward for that, watched some race videos, quite impressing stuff.

Quote from Aerogyry :

who can made new skin Martini Williams F1 ?

It is very complicated one. I lost like an hour and could only get this:

/me whispers continuously: FO8, FO8, FO8..,

Made as of this pic https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akam ... 943634845_678556780_o.jpg

Missing first small logo (which is on yellow stripe under GENII logo)

Link to SVG: https://dl.dropboxusercontent. ... 1906328/BF1_lotus2014.svg

Last edited by vitaly_m, Fri 7 Mar 2014, 00:53.

Quote from Dygear :

I'm pretty sure that the hosts command will give you all clients connected to all servers (that are not hidden servers).

I know that. But I want to know if someone online on hidden server... You can see that someone online (even on hidden server, but you won't know it's name) on user's page or in the Hosts/Online Racers windo.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Well, there's the buddy list and live alert window

Damn, how could I miss it Thanks man! Might switch to that

Quote from Flame CZE :

Some suggestions: You could maybe have a option to hide offline people.

Will do in next version.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Also, there should be a function to convert all characters to lowercase (looks like string.lower()), which would make it easier when adding people’s usernames - so you won’t have to know where the capital letters are in them.

This one is doable, but I was lazy to do so, as it is not that simple, I am lazy even to explain. Will do in next releaze

Quote from Flame CZE :

...I won't use it much, because I have my web browser with LFSWorld open...

Yes but there is no easy way to get list of online users you are interested about. The only one I know of is to collect a page with http://www.lfsworld.net/isonline.USERNAME's

Hi. I created an app that intended to show players' status. Here how it looks like:



But when someone is on invisible host, he doesn't shown, because I use &action=hosts... Is there any chance that we can have &action=racers stuff (like at lfsworld Hosts/Online Racers page)? It would be very usefull. Thanks.

About the program:
You need to enter your identkey in cfg.json. Adding friends and teams is done in that cfg.json file too (you can see there is Scawen, me and MRc team added). Beware that this file is case sensitive. The safe way to add someone here is to copy his username from lfsworld.net. Also be careful with commas, you should add commas between items in lists.

Written on python3 and Qt.

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