Quote from BlueSkunk :

i signed up

Must be something wrong with emails cause nothing came trough. Try again please

Got agree about a LMP car. We got all kinds of racing possibilities in LFS now, but we're missing those LMP900 and LMP675 cars. Imagine a field with mixed class racing running LMP's, big GTR's and small GTR's
But we should probably ask Scawen very nicely if he could increase the number of possible cars on track at once before such a race

Doing pretty stable mid to low 43's here. I count on being left behind after a few corners and will try to beat the competition by being consistant and don't crash into anything

Yeah, where are they? I know of at least one more Canadian probably signing up. That would make it 3 to 1 on track for Canada against USA. Can't have that now can we?

Indeed it is, and the previous plate has been replaced with this one. Thanks

Indeed it will be interesting. And since the signups are starting to drop in, it might be crowded in turn 1
North American division could use a few more drivers though. Plenty of time to sign up and start practicing

I've tested a bit and the race length will be around 40 minutes (give or take a couple here or there) which means that for the Eastcoast, the race will end around 10:40pm. I know this is a little late for some, but since we should give the Westcoast guys a chance to come home and have something to eat after work, it's actually the best we can offer.

You're welcome

IMO, Nascar Heat has the best AI solution. You simply run a clean lap as fast as you can. This creates a ghostcar file (.GCF) for that specific track (and mod), which then are used as "guide" for the AI cars. They don't follow this path exactly, but usually stay within two meters of the center line. The AI also uses the setup you used when creating this .GCF

If LFS could implement such a thing, you could creat good custom AI's for any track in no time at all.

Ok, here it is. The North American race can start exactly six hours after the European race, which should result in these times:

EDT (Eastern Dayligh Time, New York):
9:30 Server opens
9:45 Qualify
10:00 Race

CDT (Central Dayligh Time, Chicago):
8:30 Server opens
8:45 Qualify
9:00 Race

PDT (Pacific Dayligh Time, Vancouver):
6:30 Server opens
6:45 Qualify
7:00 Race

This is the latest possible for the North American Admin, and I think it should prove to be allright for most

Will talk to the server admin for North America right away
I'll get back to you.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Pit Spotter! Racing online without it should be penalised by castration !
http://www.kegetys.net/lfs/

I agree. It's a great help and should be implemented in the game by default

Yes, a confirmation mail is sent withing 24 hours, usually a lot faster. I can tell right away that your application didn't come torugh. Try not using the form, but just send a plain email with the info needed

Quote from Cropsy :

I've been looking for a league like this, will be signing up soon. Just out of curiosity, why are you only using the shorter tracks?

edit: none of the pictures seem to be working on the site...

The pictures arent there cause I have no "DTM pics to put there yet
Will post them as soon as there has been a few practice runs.

The shorter tracks are seldom run (everyone race at the long Aston and Kyoto tracks in the GTR class cars) and I also fear that we might not be a big crowd racing on weeknights. So I chose the shorter tracks to tighten the fields a little

They should be. All times listed on the schedules are GMT (Zulu time). American server will host the races at 7pm EST, which is 23:00 Zulu (Daylight Saving Time accounted for).
Visit www.timeanddate.com when in doubt

And... You could just keep an eye on the count down. When it's 15 minutes to race, you should be able to enter the server

There will also be a mirror of this series for the American/Canadian crowd. Everything will be axactly the same, but on times that better suit drivers on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Easy to do it yourself with this:
http://www.electracode.com/4/j ... y%20English%20Version.htm
Have fun

The only feature I missed (and still miss) is a replay viewer that allows for demo users to watch full S2 replays. It would be so much more easy to convince some people that LFS is worth every penny.

SCORE is proud to announce the Fake DTM series.
Easy to understand race format - 100km and two mandatory pitstops.
One car only allowed - The FXO GTR will be used for this series.
Carefully selected tracks - All the shortest tracks in LFS is being used.

First race is due Tuesday, May 2:nd on South City classic. See you at the grid at 21:30 Central European Time. Welcome!

- Al Heeley -
I think that was this month most informative post. Keep it up please

Problem is that the regular LFS "Team" is nothing but a clan, like you see them in Counterstrike or Unreal Tournament. Personally I think it's silly to call these "clans" a team, when they really are racing clubs.
But a "virtual" team with two cars flying about the same colors, just like in real life motorsport, sure, I'd be up for that.

The pitstops as they are now, are almost like real ALMS (GT racing in general?) pitstops, but reverse. They Fuel the car first, and while they do that, no one else can touch the car. Once they are done refueling, they start changing tires, doing repairs and such.

In for example DTM and F1 they do the whole thing as fast as possible, and in DTM they are down to 5 - 7 seconds for a pitstop, changing 4 tires and pumping in 24 (about) liters of fuel. Doing no repairs unless they absolutely have to.

This site is what helps me do my setup these days. Since I can't cope with most posted setups out there, I have to make my own. In return, not many like my setups much, but I am about as fast as most the guys (the real humans, not the aliens who drive 5 seconds faster than anyone).

Thank you so much Eric, Victor and Scawen for this patch. I have only driven about 30+ laps yet, but I think I can tell right away that my favourite cars (the GTR's) are much more even now. And the increase in grip makes close racing so much fun. Awesome job all of you

My well thought trough rules wishlist:

1) Drive Trough for crossing pit line on exit.
2) Drive Trough for passing under yellow.
3) Drive Trough for hitting from behind. *
4) Time Penalty for constant cutting.
5) Time Penalty for ignoring blue flag. **

* There would of course have to be some realy clever coding involved in this, but I've seen it in other games. If repeted enough times (say three times or five times) the Drive Trough turns into a disqualfication (kick from server?).

** The blue flag should have two modes. One static and one waved (as in real life). Static blue flag is only telling there is a faster vehicle behind. Waved blue flag is telling you have X number of "nodes" to find a place to leave room.

These are things that would make any league admins life a little easier