Really having a great deal of fun using the LFS Editor, and playing about and learning the modelling side of it! This is just the kind of thing the game has needed for a long time, I can finally go ahead and create my own virtual fantasy car company!

Looking forward to the additional updates that are coming soon, keep up the good work Scawen, Eric and Victor! I've admired the game and the ethic of the team to keep it independent and old school.

Here's something I've been working on, the Scavier XR Turbo S, a 3.6L Turbo V6 monster producing over 500hp and a top speed of nearly 190mph, banned from sale by the British Government after backlash by the tabloids over it's "unnecessary" speed and power being a menace on public roads.




Once I've done tweaking the handling and interior are cars like that welcome to be submitted to the Mod Directory?

It'd be no good a map for cruising without a McDonalds car park and a retail park though! Great work, you guys are an inspiration to indie developers everywhere!

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In fact we do need income but less than a lot of people do. As we want to eat good quality food, keep the kids in clothes as they grow and keep our houses running and it's almost 'necessary' to keep a car on the road (though less so these days, with food delivery services). In recent years LFS income has indeed been a bit too low but the great thing is that people do keep discovering it, so there is always income. It would eventually reduce too much but I'm sure the new update will get it up a bit for a few more years.

Still, without debts to service and if you don't need to go on expensive holidays or keep buying the latest telephone then it's possible to have a very good life even while earning less than most people would expect. Though I am fully aware that my family and I are very lucky, living in a rural part of England, we can go on walks and bike rides on wooded trails and field edges so we don't need to spend a lot of money for entertainment. Though that's not really pure luck - we chose to move away from London 12 years ago because this job allowed it and we knew we would have more space, less pollution and so on.

Through my life I've never cared about wearing clothes with a fashionable name or having a big watch or owning the latest gadgets in order to impress other people. Actually I would find that kind of thing embarrassing. I've always wanted to pay off any debts as soon as possible and only buy what I can afford. So I've not ended up enslaved by the system, having to earn loads of money to be sucked out of my bank account all the time. When I worked as a motorbike courier in London, I was happy any time to work less and earn less. I've always thought that time and peace are more important than money.

Off topic but seemingly somehow related: I hope that when world economies get going again after the social distancing, we may rebuild and run our countries in a slower and less polluting way. What is really the point of traffic jams, crowded trains and long journeys to work in polluted cities?

THIS ^.

I've met people who buy clothes left right and center to try and fill some sort of void in their life, spend spend spend and have nothing to show for it. I was like that for a while, then quickly realized there's more to life than that.

I've met people who on the other hand live a pretty normal life on around £6000-7000 per year, still go on holiday, still socialize, still drive, etc. Having the latest phone, latest TV, latest fashion isn't the key to living life.

Scawen - I very much admire the direction LFS has gone in during its development cycle. Staying completely independent, a very small number of staff, self distributed, imaginative and original content, the excellent, clean and polished feel of the game. Of course, I'm a little impatient with the progress the game is making as are a lot of other people but every time new things like the open configurations and graphic improvements come out they're absolutely brilliant.

I've been meaning to reach out to you a while about, basically what's been said above. I've been following LFS and it's development for about 13 years, and one thing I've recently thought would be a good idea, if possible, would be some sort of behind the scenes interview / documentary of LFS's development, its history and its future. Doesn't need to be too long, not only would it probably be interesting to a lot of the community it may bring in some new people and hype for the future.

They see me rollin', they hatin', patrollin' and tryin'a catch me ridin' dirty!

For those experiencing this logon issue try running LFS as an administrator.

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FZ50 weight distribution: 38F / 62R.

What makes you think its front-engined?

A nice lightweight aluminum block in the front, then some big ass heavy leather seats and a fat subwoofer in the back xD

You can already do that, as of 0.6B.

According to this having a larger fuel tank makes your car more economical.

Great work anyway!

You can replicate diesel engines in LFS using tweak software, I hope the Scirocco on LFS comes as a diesel, it's a much better type of engine.

F-F-F-F-Ford Transit 85T260

M60 ring road

It would also help give a theoretical top speed of the cars, if aerodynamic drag and grip wasn't a problem.

Escort Van 1.8 non-turbo diesel

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

This was kinda suggested in other thread, not exactly this idea. But thing interesed me a lot, since it could definitely help in racing and setup development.
Well my idea is to have shown speed which you can achieve in individual gear at maximum RPM. Check attachment. For example in first gear you can maximally go up to 90 km/h, ...

This will be easy for Scawen to implement in LFS, seems like few lines of code. What do you guys think about this?

It would not take a lot of code to implement, and it's a good idea.

It would have to take into account the final drive, max rpm and the wheel size, anything else? Those are all variables in this game, so it wouldn't be hard.

Ford Escort Van, with steel wheels and no back windows. Engine tune can be the standard 1.8 TD engine as well as a kind of GT edition which features leather interior, as well as a tuned 200hp 1.8 TDi engine, and a gearbox to suit.

Quote from lol37 :

4wd would be useless if the car is wheeling, also at the start downforce is not made and when it does i don't need it anymore..

well don't do 4wd then, but you won't get better grip with rwd.

I seem to find 0 camber, 0 toe, low pressure, 4wd with clutch pack diff on all wheels and all the sliders set to max, vicious centre diff, have the car fairly stiff suspension, downforce max if applicable.

Sometimes when I'm talking to somebody and I need to go away from the computer a moment in a server, other people have posted stuff and even pressing H will not let me see the entire conversation.

In another game I play, you can see all the chat history by using the Page Up and Page Down keys, and that lets you scroll up the page history, a similar feature in LFS would be nice, since the chat transcript moves pretty quickly in some servers.

I'm having an issue with the latest version on LFS 0.6B on a 32 bit Windows 7 machine, it's telling me everythings fine on the console but only the buttons are coming up on the game, not the reading.

Oh and everythings set up how it should be.

A mile long extension to the Autocross Dragstrip would be useful though.

Anyone want to try and create an LFS car in real life, for example the FXO

Buy a Vauxhall Astra like this

http://pictures2.autotrader.co ... rvlet/media?id=1887625083

Remove all the Vauxhall branding stuff and use existing panels to modify the look of the car to be similar to an FXO.

In my opinion the engines in the cars are unrealistically powerful, for instance in the FXO the 1.9 petrol produces 234hp and over 300nM of torque, so unless you're not bothered about replicating the engine size (I've just noticed the Vauxhall is only a 1.8) you'll need to do a fair bit of tuning to get the power output to that figure.

Other than that it's a case of dossing up the interior to roughly match and adding an FXO style spoiler and alloys.

If you have the money and are dedicated enough it'd be a very nice unique car to have on the road, a real life FXO lol.

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Whats the FPS score? 10, 12 fps?

The usual 30fps I got before I reinstalled Windows, I usually get slightly less online for obvious reasons, I wouldn't have thought it was a graphics problem.

Well, no because it's Christmas Eve today!

I've just reinstalled Windows 7 and can play LFS fine in Singleplayer, however when I try to play on a multiplayer server once it has downloaded skins and connected, just before it starts the game I get a BSOD and the computer restarts.

The laptop is a Pentium Dual Core T1600 processor with 1gb DDR2 RAM and onboard Intel chipset.

Does anyone else get or has had a similar problem?

Thanks