Friday night 'Tour of .......'

[The Moose]

LFS stuff........

I'm right with you there Obs.    LFS is actually way better in the usability stakes than most other sims on the market.  But it's now lagging badly behind in the sim side of things.   I have a feeling it will never catch up.  I really hope it does though.

 I'd be back to it in a flash if it had some physics updates, a graphical overhaul and updated track surfaces/new tracks.

[Seany]

Someone mention TVR? :norty:  I'll be along

Mille, I felt the same after NKpro.  I suggest you give this a shot, its very different to LFS and is a nice change of pace and racing on real tracks is just the icing on the cake.

[Doorman]

Britain's sand traps eh? Perhaps we can arrange for you a...wait for it

















Golf! :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

[The Moose]

Britain's sand traps eh? Perhaps we can arrange for you a...wait for it


Golf! :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

Don't give up your day job........ :narnar:

[Doorman]

A mention for Friday's foray. Good turnout and it must be said, some jolly good racing. A far as I was concerned anyway. Seany and I locked horns for a while till I did a Doorman (fell off).  I learned something important as well, don't put Oulton Park Fosters C on the menu ever again, aaaaand... the Capri 3.1 is a doosie!

[Doorman]

Don't give up your day job........ :narnar:

I try to liven the place up and that's all the thanks I get! :sideways:

[XLR8]

I learned something important as well, don't put Oulton Park Fosters C on the menu ever again, ...

Why, what's wrong with it? I enjoyed throwing the Escort round there and had a good battle with Moose

The only thing I would say is maybe not to mix the Escort and Capri with the other cars as they hugely outclassed them. Would be nice to see everyone trying to manhandle the TVR's or E-Types etc.

[Jamin]

I don't think I'd have turned up if the Capri wasn't available, I see it as a handicap type of thing.

[obsolum]

Would be nice to see everyone trying to manhandle the TVR's or E-Types etc.

Aaah yes, I said as much on Ventrilo that night Somehow I don't think many people would stick around long :g:

[Doorman]

There is so much diversity in HistoriX that if you select one or two cars you're alienating 50% or more of your audience. Given that that audience is small compared to LFS we can't afford to do it. For my part, I take my competition from where I can. Winning really isn't important to me but having a good tussle is. Besides, aesthetically, it's nice seeing different cars on track.
:2cents:

[obsolum]

You do have a point, but just because the HistorX audience is pretty small it's important that all the available cars are at least somewhat competitive. Otherwise you'll have 1 or 2 guys in really fast cars, a couple more in medium-fast cars and then a few more in slower ones, thus greatly reducing the number of opponents you can actually race.

I found those predefined car classes that you had on your server a while back to be very well balanced. They allowed for a nice diversity of cars on the track and there was never one that was far superior to the others.

[Seany]

Aaah yes, I said as much on Ventrilo that night Somehow I don't think many people would stick around long :g:

wusses :devil:  Best thing, I find, is having a proper go in a car I have never raced in because I thought it was crap.  You always learn to enjoy it/how to drive it....mostly

[The Moose]

You do have a point, but just because the HistorX audience is pretty small it's important that all the available cars are at least somewhat competitive. Otherwise you'll have 1 or 2 guys in really fast cars, a couple more in medium-fast cars and then a few more in slower ones, thus greatly reducing the number of opponents you can actually race.

I found those predefined car classes that you had on your server a while back to be very well balanced. They allowed for a nice diversity of cars on the track and there was never one that was far superior to the others.

Agreed.

 If the choice is there i will always take the Escort...not because its fast, but because it's the car i most enjoy driving. I just love the way it handles.   I was kind of hoping last Friday that a few more people would choose it so we could have some tighter racing.

 I'll happily race some of the boats if that's all that available.

 So..I'd rather see a single car choice or those nicely grouped classes we used to have.  Certainly as long as we only have <10 people on the server anyway.   Anything that facilitates closer racing has got to be good imo.

[XLR8]

Don't get me wrong, I really like the Escort and Capri, but mixed in with other cars they just blow them away, so as other people have said above, you don't get such close racing. And good, fair, close racing is why I'm in DMR because you guys have the ability and attitude to make it fun

The last race on Friday at Donni was mainly a mix of Escort/Capri and it was great fun, so I'm quite happy to see a field full of those cars too.  But also I think it's fun to try and 'tame' something that you don't normally drive.

As long as it's a level playing field it should make for better racing and that should increase the smile factor rather than alienating peeps IMHO :g:

[Doorman]

It's nice of you two to lump us all together but the fact is whichever cars are on offer or if we all drive the same cars, there will always be two races in one and you know it's true. The cars are a small part of the equation it's the driver mix we have that dictates the level of competition.
A case in point was the nkp fTarget race last night. Four fast guys light out into the sunset(would have been five had not Tjeerd messed up somewhere!) and the rest of us follow along.
In any event I'll try to mix it up as best I can. I'm running out of ideas for the theme though. U.N next