Quote from Scawen :

Is that really true? If that is true, then clearly LFS must be very far behind all the other sims by now. But I don't feel it is.

I think that when you work with a large team, you can sometimes progress at a good rate, for some time, as long as there is a lot of good morale in the company (and that is not a consistent thing). But later, as different people's code gets interwoven with other people's, and some others leave the company, and the new guy can't see what's what, and redevelops his section from scratch, and some things can't be updated because they affect too many areas and the company needs to call meetings all the time to try to figure out what's going on... finally they aren't progressing so fast any more.

Sometimes game development houses can actually go backwards. They can work on something for two years and what they have at the end is worse than what they started with. It's very hard to see how LFS can go backwards, because there aren't any other programmers to leave. And that's why LFS continues to go forwards while the development of other games and sims can sometimes just slow down or stop.

There's more...

http://www.simbin.se/main/technology.htm

http://media.iracing.com/downl ... ds_Irwindale_16001200.jpg

Quote from Tweaker :

I dunno... LFS has one of the easiest systems for managing both the skin and setups, I don't know why this person would have a problem with it. I guess the author could only explain it better.

Actually, one way to improve the setup selection and storing would be to have one folder for each track(track as a whole, aston, kyoto, bl, and so on). Or mayby you could define the folders yourself.

So you would only be seeing contents of one folder at a time, and not ALL the setups for that specific car. And of course you could copy and move the setups around between the folders.

Example:

Main(defaults&generic sets)
|
|-Aston -> sets for all Aston layouts
|-Blackwood
|-SouthCity
|-Hotlap -> hotlap setups
|-Rally -> Rally setups
|-Autocross
|-etc....

I can whole heartedly agree with the post by Richard

I'll drive if there is still space left

Requested by [dSRC]BOGEY, here is my XRG set for the autocross.

With minor tweaks and a faster driver it'll do low 1:59 for sure.

Did this really need to be a whole new thread?

Looks great!

Can't wait to get some more

After being S1 licensed since August 2004..

I'm still here! and not going anywhere

:inq:


PS. Hopefully somebody sees the humor in this

There always could be a rule that you have to drive certain percentage of the race distance to be scored in the final results. I know this is common in the real racing world, and in quite many sim racing series I have driven in.

Although this is something to consider more in the longer events rather than these sprints.

I do understand your point about this issue, just wanted to discuss it abit

Quote from Mrs FienDi :

Parking is not allowed. If your car is damaged, but you can still drive it without causing accidents, you're allowed to do so but if it's disrupting the race AT ALL, you must spectate. If you don't, it will be considered unsportsmanlike behaviour (which is in OLFSL rules).

In extreme situations the host has the right to force a racer to spectate if he refuses to do so himself. This is valid in every OLFSL race so it's not a change of any kind.

I don't see how a car stopped out of sight and out of the track is disturbing anybody and so on.. but if no parking allowed is your ruling, ok. Mayby write it in the rules then too. To make the matter simple and clear, and not simply a vague mention about disturbance

EDIT:

Slightly OT, but kind of relates to this matter. Currently if you get a disco in the middle of a race, that is it, you are completely wiped out of the results even if it happens 1m before you cross the finish line on the last lap.

As an example the Aston GP race we had, my computer crashed when I was in the lead on the last lap, and I only get the 30 points for a DNF. What would happen in a real race, would be that I'd be still scored for the final results(if the car broke or something), and everybody on the same lap and 1 lap behind would be of course scored finishing ahead of me while I get whatever points for that position(exception being Le Mans for example, but that is a special case). For that Aston GP race, I would have scored being 10th, and 71 points.

Anyway, just something I thought I'd bring up

Last edited by Z0iC, Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:52.

What I mean is, if you damage your car, but can still drive it.

Could you drive to one of those spots, well off the driving line and in no way interfering with the race. And just waiting there untill others have driven to the finish so you can cross the finish line and recieving the points for position on the track, rather than spectate and get a DNF.

With no pits to go repair damage and quite a narrow track to keep driving around with a damaged car, is it allowed to park the car in one of the run off areas and wait untill others have driven to the finish, and then limp around the track to finish the race and get the points?

With run off areas I mean like before turning up into the highway, on the right there is an area where you could safely park your car and wait. Other places like before the last corner on the right, and after the long left hander on the left. Probably best place on the main straight a bit before the finish line, on both sides of the track in the crossroads.

Last edited by Z0iC, Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:09.

1st race I was under the impression that there we were doing a lagstart(like clearly stated in the race announcement thread). So I half heartedly drove to t1, and while I got a little tap just let it spin because it wasn't for real.. so I thought. Dropped to almost last and a long way behind while others kept going and decided just to spec.

Come 2nd race I started at the back, in what seemed to be a non-reversed grid(might be mistaken), after a few laps my computer crashed. So that was it for this time

Quote from HeerBommel :

Ok this is a dirt race. Can anybody explain to me why I get a "hotlap invalid (ground)" message! We are supposed to go off the tarmac .

Don't touch the grass, that'll trigger the HLVC ground invalidation.

Didn't put much effort at all to the qual lap, so ended up in pool3. Race went ok till about 20s before crossing the finish line. PC crashed and I started laughing. :ices_rofl

More of these 2h races, 40mins just isn't long enough

Only for Finns

It was a good race for me. Starting from the pole I didn't have any problems except for a little bit slow start from the line.

Unofficial stats I made link Edit: Pool3 stats to clarify. (obsolite, official ones on league website)

Cya next race

Last edited by Z0iC, Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:33.

Sure

Seeing as csimpok posted a time with plenty penalties, I uploaded a time with some too

Note: Or atleast trying to upload, as the OLFSL website isn't working properly

Ok.. I drove a clean replay now, with no penalties. And deleted the first one I uploaded which had penalties

How are penalties looked at? As the penalty seconds don't affect the laptime, which we are ranked on.

I do try not to hit them much, but on and above the limit, it is quite easy to hit them :bump:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=3209

Just go into your hotlaps list(Racer details tab in hotlaps window)

And select del for that illegal lap

Quote from XRRoy :

it does as the race admin had logged on as a racer

Well.. would it be beyond the realm of possibilities that the admin was logged in as an admin