Thanks to all who showed up for the first event on South City Classic. All the results are as of now available on www.score.does.it

Long story made short...

Logitech Wingman Formula Force GP:
This is the most stubborn wheel I have ever come across and the pedals do not suffer from any of the glitches that the bigger brother has, namely failing pedals. The only thing that has gone wrong with it is the "paddle" shifters that stopped working.

Logitech MOMO (black).
This wheel served me well in almost every aspect, and I have had luck with my pedals, they have never faild (so far). The only thing that has failed is the the sequential shifter springs (on both sides), but I don't bother much because...

Making your own budget six speed or sequential shifter:
Take a joystick (almost any flavour will do) and mix it together with a program called "Joy2Key 3.7.9". This will allow you to map anything to any axis on any wheel, button or joystick on any controller connected to the PC, which in reality means "You got anything you like as long as you got mappings for it".

The bottom line? Get a Logitech Wingman FF or MOMO + any Joystick + Joy2key 3.7.9 = Better than most out there for less than half the price.

I've been known as X-Ter ever since the Amiga reuled the demo/intro scene. You have to be from sweden to know what it means

Sadly it's not a very US friendly time, but if you can make it, it's every Tuesday at 20:30 Central European Time, which is 2:30pm Eastern US time.

Since it seems just about no one cares much about stuff posted in the leagues section, I feel I have to post a plug for it here. Take a look at this link: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=25647 or visit SCORE right away, and then come join in for some fun. Newbies are most welcome as long as they follow rules

While waiting for race day, server is open 24/7, running Vcom server tool that rotates tracks and allowed cars after the schedule set on SCORE (Qualify, two races, rotate to new track etc.).

Most welcome

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3) Borrow ideas (never copy without permision) from sites you like.
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Anything else? Just ask

The idea isn't bad though. A Hillclimb could be used for a competition much like the AutoX competition that's going on right now. Pikes Peak anyone?

One more week before series start. Sign up today and secure a place on the server.

A cup of coffee and a smoke right before qualify does wonders for the concentration. I usually don't go faster, but I make less misstakes trough out the event.

Hmm... one more reason to not stop smoking

Quote from Punchy :

So far m8 it's working quite well, myself and Silver tried to get the rotator working on the demo between BL2R and BL2, 4 races of 8 laps, qual=0, bias 1 then rotate, unfortunately it rotates after one race, we can't figure out why as silver had it working fine on his own pc.

Have gotten this too and it seems as it happens after new pople join while others are racing. If there's a stable crowd of drivers it rotates after the number of races set in the config.

Quote from al heeley :

There was also plans for a working cigarette lighter in the XR cars.

That's just great. Just when I was about to try to fix myself some backbone enough to start thinking about quitting the smokes... :irked:

Vcom also have that feature.

I'd be more than happy to help you test. I just select a time and a day

Well it seems as a complete vipe of the Vcom tool and a re-install did the trick. Now hte track rotation works as it should. Thanks for the tip

Thanks for the reply and the hint. I'll try and put a fresh copy in there and also put some more people on the server to test with. I'll updated you on how it goes

What am I doing wrong here? I can't get the track rotation to work and I've read trough this thread twice, looking for the answer. The rotation part of the setup looks like this:

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rotate{
races_per_track=2; // races before changing track
//races_per_track=2; // min 2 and max 5
randomize=0; // 0=in order, 1=randomize, 2=randomize, not same track(entry) twice
wait=10000; // millisecs (1000..10000) - how long to wait track changes etc
track{
id=SO1; // SO Classic
qual=5; // minutes before the first race
laps=8; // race laps
bias=2; // bias used in randomizing new track (0=not used)
wind=0; // 0=no wind, 1=light wind, 2=strong wind
weather=1-3; // 1=day/brigh clear, 2=evening/cloudy, 3=dusk (usually)
cars=XRG;
mustpit=0;
}
track{
id=FE1; // FE Club
qual=5; // minutes before the first race
laps=9; // race laps
bias=2; // bias used in randomizing new track (0=not used)
wind=0; // 0=no wind, 1=light wind, 2=strong wind
weather=1-3; // 1=day/brigh clear, 2=evening/cloudy, 3=dusk (usually)
cars=XRG;
mustpit=0;
}

--

After two races, the changer kicks in, but selects the same track again, not the next in the list as it should be. Please help me out here

Thaks for posting the right link

I can only find the 0.455 version... you got a link to the updated version? Thanks

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and the link I have to the LFS database is outdated or wrong... have they moved it?

Does this work with Patch X2 or is it only good for version before the insim change?

It took me only a day and a half to get a ratio of 3:1 on that site. If you got no restrictions on your monthly bandwidth, just leave the computer turned on for the night and that ratio will take care of itself.
Torrents are great, even if it's sometimes slow a little slow

Only 20 days left to sign up if you want to participate from the beginning of the series

Thanks for this. Even though LFS is my favourite sim, I also use rFactor and other sims as well. I'll see if I can't help you seed some

XRR because it's a drivers car. Front engine, rear wheel drive, just as a car was meant to be. It takes both skill and passion to handle it properly and I always admire those who can. It's also a beautiful creation and it's easy to paint to look simlar to many real cars.

And as I see I'm not alone in this thread liking it, I might as well announce the upcoming XR Challenge on SCORE, featuring only the XR series of cars. The league has been anonunced in the Leagues section but I think few look in there to spot new leagues
Link to SCORE in the signature

These are the rules that I use for most series on SCORE.

Quote :

General Race!
§ 01 - No contact is allowed at any time. Due to the fact that neither humans, nor internet is perfect in any way, a nudge or a scratch is not deemed as contact. Anything harder may render a complaint and a punishment.
§ 02 - Contact from behind is always more serious than contact side by side and will be punished thereafter. Any contact deemed deliberate will result in an instant ban from the series.
§ 03 - The lead car has always right to a corner. If two cars are alongside, the inside car has the right to the corner and the corner exit. Cars are not alongside until the front wheel is beside the opponents door.
§ 04 - If you spin off track, safe return to the track is your responsibility. Do not reenter the track when there is incoming traffic. Even if this means letting by the entire field of cars. Even if it wasn't your fault you spun. Penalty for not following this rule is a one race ban.
§ 05 - If you spin and remain on track, you should remain completely still until all incoming traffic has passed. Even if this means letting by the entire field of cars. Even if it wasn't your fault you spun. Penalty for not following this rule is a one race ban.
§ 06 - Overtaking is the responsibility of the overtaking car. Do not make a pass unless it's safe to do so. Even if the car in front is slowing you down and even if the car in front is a lap behind.
§ 07 - A driver may not sway back and forth on straight's. One 'change of lanes' is allowed to line up for next corner. Deliberate blocking is not allowed and will most probably be punished.
§ 08 - Cars being lapped must give way to lapping cars. A car being lapped should be able to find a good spot to let the lapping car overtake in about three turns, or at the most one lap.
§ 09 - Sudden braking on straight's to get an opponent to drive into you (idiot braking or brake checking) is not allowed and is most probably going to get you banned from the series.
§ 10 - You should at all times try to keep two wheels on the track or curbing, or directly above if airborne. You may use runoff areas and all parts of the track, but may not constantly cut corners and chicanes.
§ 11 - When leaving pits you need to stay inside the blend line. Cars on track, coming up on a car leaving pits must stay outside the blend line. Cutting the line will result in a one race ban.
§ 12 - You may not switch driving position during the series in order to gain weight distribution advantage. A driver caught doing this will gain 30 seconds added to race time.

You may argue this and that, you may talk about how it is in real life and you may also dig deep into the rules and regulations on the official FIA site (like I did a couple of pages back in this thread), but the fact remains. If you come to race on my server, in my league, you go by these rules. If you don't, you're history.

Rules are rules and they differ form series to series. I have my rules, Clean Racers Club has their rules and STCC has their rules. Bottom line is, read and understand and then drive. Don't argue about something you can do nothing about.

Quote from Becky Rose :

woohoo safety car, Aston have it now

shhh... don't jinx it. It ain't over until the checkerd flag flies.