Quote from Gunn :

You used to be able to determine how active and experienced a racer was going by his online distance. Since the oval was introduced this stat is useless. You can accumulate a lot of miles in a short time on the oval without having much experience (or skill) at all. So, it isn't really a question of prestige, but rather a question of a once useful stat that has become watered down by one very small aspect of LFS.

if you wanted to know how experienced someone was you'd be looking at his laptimes. people have different amounts of talent. i know ernough people who have twice as many miles already (without oval racing) and i still drive faster on any given track/car combo.

people also joined at different times, so in order to get activity you'd have to start calculating. looking at the recent results calender is much more revealing there (and shows if someone was just racing oval as well) so practically you can attain that information.

someone could also drive thousands of laps at the same combo and be extremely quick there but suck at all the others.

therefore, to find any proper conclusion, you would have to drive together with that person or check through all the available stats, which is easily possible right now.

Quote from ajp71 :

I don't think that I've ever actually seen anyone cheating online, demo or S2.

me neither. i think there is way too much fuzz about this. seems like cheating is very rarely a problem in LFS. i guess this will be dealt with immediately and then we will have another year without any major cheats.

if you look at counterstrike, der are plenty of cheats and nothing much is really done about it except banning those who use them. there a cheater an enter the server anytime. here in LFS that only happens ever so rarely.

Quote from Tweaker :

Stats will be reset most likely. Why are stats so important at this time anyways? Oh that's right, you're the FM crew that ruins all the real road racing stat charts.

There ought to be oval stats, and road racing stats. Because if you want to keep 'true' statistics, I think it is best not to mix those two up. At the moment, a few of you have insane amounts of distance travelled, laps, etc etc. Leaves the people actually racing some other circuits way at the bottom.

distance is distance, why should there be a difference to whether its accumulated on ovals or on roadcourses?

its not like there is much prestige involved with having the most miles anyway...

thats how i played x-wing alliance, took a while to get used to but it worked quite well.
no i've got me a joystick for fs2004 as well, think i should get x.wing alliance out to play it properly once more.

too difficult to drive i suppose...

and consider that a german beer weighs two american beers.

but let me get this clear, you have to drink 4.9 beers in order to even get near you PB time, but as soon as you finish the fifth you fall of your chair?

usually i don't drink alcohol while racing...but i don't drink alcohol at home usually anyway.

on one occasion though, when there was only cider left at home, i drank a litre during the course of an evening's league race and it wasn't particularily good for my result.

Quote from gwendoline :

Scawen your work on autocross it be very appreciate, great job
Your router checkpoint is a great adding.
Any possibiliies in future we can pit to change tyres and refueling on autocross ?
Autocross is more used by drifters and they need changes often theyr tyres .
Actualy dues no possibility to change tyres we can race only short layouts races like 5/6 laps...its more fun if we can races more longer with pit requiered.
Please Scawen

maybe there could be some drift tyres with a harder compound so that they are not usable in normal racing but keep working for longer. i'm sure that would make the drifters happy.

i second that, a figure 8 track would be cool.

damnit! i only woke up at 17:00 and thought i had missed it...didn't knew that they were starting this late and so i didn't even bother to look when it was on...illepall

congrats italy.

Quote from ayrton senna 87 :

GGGRRRR i dont even know how to work that ****ING thing

me neither...illepall

Quote from joshdifabio :

Don't forget Lehmann he was superb throughout the knockout stages .

**** ME! i forgot lehmann...my very hero...guess i thought i had placed him first.

klose, podolski, schweinsteiger, frings, schneider, ballack, kehl, mertesacker, lahm, metzelder, borowski, odonkor, neuville, freidrich...well done guys!!!

nobody would have expected us to go that far...great job!

ij the end, it was pure luck on the italian side, congrats to italy and good luck in the final.
but iÄm produ of our young team!

deutschland ist weltmeister!

...and the RAF from england flushed one down...

for uk listeners only!?

can anyone record it and release it as mp3?
i would be very happy.

hi,

let me first say thank you very much for putting lots of time into developing lfsstats, its a great tool indeed.

one minor thing though...
i just downloaded it and wanted to use it for the first time, but it did not work..
every time i started it, it just showed "connecting..." and then stopped.
it took me a bit of thinking to figure it out, but in the xml file the IP adress had to be set to localhost "127.0.0.1".
i think that this value should be set by default, because most users, especially the inexpirienced will want to make stats files from MPR replays without changing any values in the xml file
it might say "set up the xml file accordingly" in the readme, but some probably don't know how to do it.
and those who want the tool to connect to a different server will have to change it anyway.
so 127.0.0.1 would be the best default value...

cheers,
patrick

there is a german speaking league running at the moment where the fastest 5 will be invited for a testdrive in a porsche 911 racer and then get the chance to drive in the alps-cup or even nurburgring endurance race.

i rode a proper rollercoaster once and was sick for three days afterwards.

hi guys,

in case someone is interested, i found a new way to fix the issues with the DFP pedals (rev. b) which is extremely easy to do, works marveously and is quite cheap as well.
all you need is a driving force pro revision B pedal set and a spare microsoft sidewinder (forcefeedback or not, USB or not, red or black).

my rev.B pedals have given me a lot of trouble lately, they were spikey, stopped working altogether at the start of a race or the gas pedal would get stuck when i was approaching the first corner.

thankfully i still had my old MSSWFF in the attic, so yesterday i took that and had a good look at it, the cables of it and the DFP and wondered how one could get a nice working pair of pedals attached to the DFP.
used sidewinders or spare pedalsets are going for around 10€/$/pounds, so you can easily get one.
finally, i just opened up both pedal sets out of curiosity (watch out for the hidden screw beneath the sticker on the microsoft) and the solution just struck me...
both use similarily shaped pots, although the DFP ones are attached in a rather flimsy manner, which causes all the problems. the sidewinder however, appears to be quite a bit more sturdy...

so i just took the DFP pots off, with all the wiring still attached and put them in place of the SW ones. they fit perfectly and there is no chance of them moving around and with the DFP's cable, you can just plug them into the DFP without needing a degree in electronics.
the hybrid pedals work like a charm, no drawbacks whatsoever and the stronger springs of the sidewinder even give you a slightly better feel.

the most difficult bit is that you have to unplug the wires from the potis, in order to get the cable properly through the small hole under the sidewinder set. you only have to remember which cable goes where though, which is hardly complicated if you write it down...just don't mix up the cables from the gas pedal's pot with the one from the brake pedal.

Last edited by vladimir, Thu 8 Jun 2006, 12:27.

lol, cool stuff!

those are pretty good for the kit lens! i like the first one.

here is something i did a few weeks ago with my olympus e500 @150mm:

Quote from spsamsp :

Looks good, well done!! I like the bit at the start with the slow wheelspin!!

...been watching top gear.

great vid bosse!

i especially loved the first camera angle right at the beginning. you should use more of these, i think it could work extremely well for those parralel drifts.