Quote from joen :

Very unlikely, a bit pointless and not that much faster.

http://www.rfactor.net/?page=news_07-Apr-bmwsauber

rFactor just received an F1 season update so I reckon one might be coming to lfs as well

Quote from Barroso :

having a look at the server list and i cant find a server that i want to go, its always Caribbean Cruise, city driving, a bunch of drift servers, the redline and conedodgers always in the same car and in the same track, and the ctra thing with people fighting for points. i have nothing against these servers and not everyone likes to race, i can understand that, but its unfortunate and everytime i fire up lfs and look at the serverlist i just loose any will i had left after playing it for such a long time.
theres alot more to say but id like to keep it simple without offending any of the people who generously run servers, without them we'd be nothing.

My advice is: list all the public servers, including the empty ones and join one that you feel would be fun to try and people will start joining that server too. Might take some time but sometimes just about 5-10 minutes will do.

If you can't find a combo you'd like to try then find a server that has voting enabled with the car (exclusively if possible) of your choice and change the track, laps etc to your liking.

I've used that method in the past and it has always worked

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Yeah I like the foreign people. I like most of them anyway, except the Spanish, French, German, Belgian, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Latvian, Estonian, American, Swiss, Austrian, Canadian, Russian, Danish and Australian ones. And of course the Norwegians - I haven't forgotten about you, Norway. Your time will come.


Oh yes.

Nice bit of Monty Pythonism there Graham

As for myself, I've always loved how the Internet brings people with common interests together, making the community bigger and more varied. Can't be that bad of a thing.

An absolutely awesome battle

I smell a troll

Quote from Paranoid Android :

He just means racers online record...it seems very improbable, that there would be a car faster than an F1, actually impossible...we have reached the limit on that side!

Could be a season update on the current F1 car.

But on the other hand, we also had many good things happening after that too, like the S2 release or the BMW / Sauber release and seeing all online records being broken.

And about records - they are bound to be broken again, so on that aspect there are more memorable times to come


A faster car coming? =)

Quote from DaveWS :

http://www.dailymotion.com/tag/F1/2 Check out Alonso drifting too lol.

Which one is it where Alonso is drifting?

Quote from ajp71 :

Had another round of votes (just clear the cookies)...

A pretty pointless poll then if you can vote multiple times

Last edited by Veracious, Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:25. Reason : vote -> poll

Also, a separe sheet for some text input would be nice á la Grand Prix Legends / Nascar Racing.

Hmm, suddenly I just lost connection to the server

Oh well, would have been a struggle for the last few places anyhow.

Quote from spyshagg :

The illegal DIVX movies everybody knows were to download have 700MB for ~90minutes runtime, and they look gooood so its possible in STCC too.

Here's a good explanation on why gaming movies are larger than regular motion pictures: http://www.own-age.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=5883&page=1

Check the section number 4.

The article also explains ways to improve image quality in encoding a gaming video.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Quality is something i'm trying to improve step by step, but it's pointless flaffing around with the same video, I make small improvements each time, it's a rellentless quest that runs side by side with the series itself. I hope this broadcast is the best yet in terms of quality, and next race I will try to improve a little again .

Did you read the comment I made about the last round? http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=274060#post274060

I'd like to participate as well.

Can't wait to see it! The broadcast has been excellent so far.

BL1 T1 = Banalot, T2 = The Squeeze.

I've been using 1.0 wheel turn compensation (full non-linear steering) setting happily in LFS with my Logitech Momo racing wheel ever since I started playing the game a bit over a month ago. Today however, I noticed for the first time that I need to lower it to be able to opposite lock more efficiently in AS3R with FOX when using a setup that oversteers only in slow speeds (under 100km/h) and understeers otherwise. I tried different settings and felt 0.5 was better than 0.0 and 1.0 after a quick test. 0.0 would be the most responsive, though a bit tricky if you don't have a 900° steering wheel turn travel.

The LFS manual recommends a value of 0.4 - 0.6, but I was wondering what values experienced/league drivers use. So if you belong to either category, I'd appreciate it if you'd answer the poll.

Quote from Becky Rose :

The output is 740x576 NTSC at 30fps, so I record at 800x600, but I cannot get 30fps in 32bit, so I have to use 16 bit.

What conversions do you do for the raw video output of the game? I mean it looks like you're doing something similar to "800x600@30fps (noninterlaced) -> 740x576@30fps (interlaced) -> 720x576@30fps (noninterlaced)", which could cause the aliasing effect that appears in all the STCC videos. In the round 3 video it's just more apparent than in the rest.

In an older version of Adobe Premiere there was an option that was defaulted to making a nasty deinterlacing effect on all video material that was timescaled (slowed down or sped up) in a project. I had that problem in a video I once did ( http://users.utu.fi/vaniem/video/aliasing%20problem.avi ). So maybe it could be something similar in your case.

Aside from the technical standpoint the videos are really top notch and fun and exciting to watch. I've never seen anything like this before based on a racing game. STCC looks quite promising as a broadcast league. Can't wait for round 4

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

You certainly do not drive like a first timer .

I have raced a couple of times in different games before, so I guess that might explain it. Namely the grand prix games, viper racing and nascar racing 4. In nascar I actually played in a league for a few races back in 2001, which did give me a lot of experience. I haven't played almost any racing games since, only a bit of gp4 each summer in a lan with a friend but I wasn't particularly good at it since I never took the time to actually practice it that much.

The games I've played have almost exclusively been fps games and they've been tons of fun playing competitively in a team. I haven't really done that for the past 2 years either however because it consumes so much time. I think it would be a nice change to see what the online racing community is like and get involved in a league where you can race other people and have some good and fun competition going on.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

There's not much to say about your driving, really. Though perhaps that you might be going into T3 (after the back-straight) a bit too hot. Brake a tad sooner and less so you enter and hold around 111 kph through the corner. Smoothness and stepping on the accelerator as soon as possible will get you fast laps.

Thanks for the tip. I'm still experimenting with different ways to enter the corners, so it's good to hear these.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Also, you may have found the pass on lap 4 easier had you eased up on the throttle a bit before you nudged the driver in front. When you are so close to someone's bumper at the beginning of the straight it could be better to drop back a metre or two to make most of the drag, and complete the pass before the next turn.

Yeah, those were my thoughts too exactly when I was bumping the car infront in the back-straight. From previous experience though, I did not lift the gas because I was afraid that he might get away so I would only be left with less speed. That's why I didn't lift it too much. Next time I will try a different approach however.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Welcome

Thank you

Hello people! Been playing the LFS S2 demo for almost a week now (since last sunday) and I just wanted to comment on what an awesome game this is. I've had plenty of fun playing it online against others mostly on servers with BL gp track with an XFG. It's nice that there are these low-powered cars that aren't awfully difficult to drive, even at first, so the learning curve to have some serious fun is lower as well.

Had a blast tonight playing quite late and the last 5-lap race was simply the best one I've experienced so far. Made a couple of cool and controlled passes after making one small mistake at the end of the first lap, which in the end cost me the race, but the cool racing that took place after that more than compensated for it

I saved the replay and put it online in case someone wants to take a look: http://users.utu.fi/vaniem/lfs ... ast%20for%20a%20noob).zip

Any tips on improving my lap time are very welcome.

I think I will buy this game soon, so I'll see you on the race track!