+1 Maybe so you can see who's in the pits, too. 
The voluntary air restriction is great. 
One thing though, the MRT5 is already intake-restricted. Should this now be somehow indicated? Or can it be that it is an "involuntary" air restriction?
What I'm getting at, since the extra restriction is now adjustable: in LFS the MRT5 is at 64 horsepower with 0% restriction, when in actuality it (the real MRT5) has 64 horsepower @ >0% restriction.
I 'suggest' that it should either be able to go no lower than "x%" restriction, or that it should be able to go to 0%, while the default setups remain @ x% restriction.
Only problem is I'm not sure what "x" is, however I distinctly remember reading (and I'm sure you could ask them to make sure) that the MRT5 had upwards of 80 horsepower unrestricted.
One thing though, the MRT5 is already intake-restricted. Should this now be somehow indicated? Or can it be that it is an "involuntary" air restriction?
What I'm getting at, since the extra restriction is now adjustable: in LFS the MRT5 is at 64 horsepower with 0% restriction, when in actuality it (the real MRT5) has 64 horsepower @ >0% restriction.
I 'suggest' that it should either be able to go no lower than "x%" restriction, or that it should be able to go to 0%, while the default setups remain @ x% restriction.
Only problem is I'm not sure what "x" is, however I distinctly remember reading (and I'm sure you could ask them to make sure) that the MRT5 had upwards of 80 horsepower unrestricted.
Your eyes don't really have a frequency per se... photoreceptor cells each have their own response rate, but we've got about 130 million of them so there is considerable overlap. Turns out that we only see this effect (as you suggested) when we're looking at something that is in fact flickering (such as street lamps).
I'd like to see most of the textures in LFS upgraded. Maybe as an official 'expansion pack' available for downloading? Electrik Kar has a few good'ns, too.
GOOD GOD, I didn't see the year. :doh:
Turbocharge 9th April 2006, 03:22 Post #81
DJMOZ 8th April 2007, 20:00 Post #82
The least he could have done was wait 8 more hours!
P.S. wtf BAN! castration!! ... double castration!
Oh, gee. Sure nuff!
Someone needs to look it up in the Bosch Automotive Handbook, though. Dictionary.com is fully shite.
Edit: M-W says:
-"to bring to a standstill : BLOCK; especially : MIRE b : to cause (an engine) to stop usually inadvertently"
-"to come to a standstill (as from mired wheels or engine failure)"
Well, the word IS older than the engine... but it must have adopted a proper technical definition.
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I think you hit the nail on the head with that one, Hankstar.
But although the date of DJMOZ's post is earliest, the post number isn't (wtf?) so, uh... well, I hate to point fingers, but it looks like Turbocharge bumped it and DJMOZ is laughing at him.
But although the date of DJMOZ's post is earliest, the post number isn't (wtf?) so, uh... well, I hate to point fingers, but it looks like Turbocharge bumped it and DJMOZ is laughing at him.
Totally nitpicking, but you could just as easily argue that everyone is an idiot once in a while.
Everything's possible! There are absolutely no absolutes!
Sure you can, if you slip the clutch just right!
And it is this dictionary's opinion that a blown engine is intrinsically stalled:
-"The sudden, unintended loss of power or effectiveness in an engine."
-"To cause (a motor or motor vehicle) accidentally to stop running."
-"To stop running as a result of mechanical failure: The car stalled on the freeway."
Yeah, but cars have more than one gear (they're adjustable, too).
Just pretend the cars are already tuned, and we're using the devs' standard--cause they are, and we are.
AndthisthreadisoverayearoldGOSH!
Tried shifting to 6th in a 5-speed recently? :dunce:
But going with that train of thought, LFS is a racing simulator, therefore it should simulate what and how people race (probably under at least mostly ideal circumstances).
I've said it once, and I'll say it again: It is harmful because,
1) If the auto gear shift feature LFS currently has were to be removed, it would be totally shafting the aforementioned guys who actually need it to race, because an accurately reproduced slushbox is that much worse.
2) It would take way too much of Scawen's valuable time to accurately create this, a chunk of code so massive, and yet so despised and so unused. Not worth it.
How can you know the drivers will never find it helpful when trying to pass?
Lines work well in the grooved tyres, but on slicks? How about making it say on the sidewall next to or instead of the brand?
Natheless, +1 for something or other...
Natheless, +1 for something or other...
I meant IRL. The bit about toaster beating me clouds that up I see.
My own mother must drive slush boxes due to nerve damage. That's not funny. Able-bodied people driving them are!
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Automatic transmissions are for cripples.
edit: duke toaster beat me
edit: duke toaster beat me
TBH I hadn't looked at that thread in ages. Maybe the 300+ replies scared me off. Though now I can see that you are really doing a good job with it, and keeping it up to date, so keep up the good work.
Perhaps it was my fault for not looking in there before posting this thread. The irony.
Perhaps it was my fault for not looking in there before posting this thread. The irony.
You have a reply in the relevant [garph] thread (read: your context). You still don't know what I'm getting at? I'm sorry, I thought you were joking. 
I will elaborate: no one is going to read through a list of everything that has been suggested before including the good, the bad and the downright ugly suggestions.
The list I am suggesting would probably be somewhere between ten and fifty items in length if up-to-date. This would give any viewer a good idea of the kinds of suggestions the devs actually found useful. I for one would be a lot more curious to read such a list than a list of wild and crazy plebeian dreams.
Unfortunately, to bring such a list up to date would take a while when done from memory. Notwithstanding, anyone who has made a suggestion to later find it implemented has probably not forgotten it.
The philosophy: The higher the number of items the list contains, the more likely it would be, statistically speaking (and in the mind of the poster), that the more common suggestions we see in this forum would be implemented. My hope (I thought obviously) was that anyone who saw the list comprised of a whopping seven-or-so useful suggestions would be thoroughly discouraged from making his "typical, annoying suggestion."
Is that so hard to understand? No? Then is it still hard to understand why I thought you were trolling?
I will elaborate: no one is going to read through a list of everything that has been suggested before including the good, the bad and the downright ugly suggestions.
The list I am suggesting would probably be somewhere between ten and fifty items in length if up-to-date. This would give any viewer a good idea of the kinds of suggestions the devs actually found useful. I for one would be a lot more curious to read such a list than a list of wild and crazy plebeian dreams.
Unfortunately, to bring such a list up to date would take a while when done from memory. Notwithstanding, anyone who has made a suggestion to later find it implemented has probably not forgotten it.
The philosophy: The higher the number of items the list contains, the more likely it would be, statistically speaking (and in the mind of the poster), that the more common suggestions we see in this forum would be implemented. My hope (I thought obviously) was that anyone who saw the list comprised of a whopping seven-or-so useful suggestions would be thoroughly discouraged from making his "typical, annoying suggestion."
Is that so hard to understand? No? Then is it still hard to understand why I thought you were trolling?
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At the moment all you can do is vote yes; if you could vote against a motion, problem solved.
How bout just an option to share setups with all racers. If they want to get it they can then get it normally.
Gee. I'm guilty of using an idiom.
My target audience was the English-familiar type.
Maybe you can understand it better in this example: Any attempt of mine to feed your trolling is a vain ambition.
My target audience was the English-familiar type.
Maybe you can understand it better in this example: Any attempt of mine to feed your trolling is a vain ambition.
I bet it's loud enough to cause some "clipping" in real life, too. 
Though most, I imagine, like to race from a helmet/ear-plugs perspective...
Though most, I imagine, like to race from a helmet/ear-plugs perspective...
Vain: ineffectual or unsuccessful; futile: a vain effort.
Ambition: to seek after earnestly; aspire to.
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