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CageHound

23rd March 2006, 04:43

I've searched the forum but came up empty handed. Once a race starts everything is good to go, then you crash your car and make a pit stop. When you come out of the pit the car won't go above 45-50 mph depending on the car. Is this by design?

need

23rd March 2006, 04:44

Some of the cars have a pit limiter, so you need to switch this off when your exiting the pits.

Goop

23rd March 2006, 06:03

press 'L' to toggle it on/off (better yet, map it to a wheel button :) )

Unofficial LFS Manual - http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=1738&highlight=manual

It pays check out the stickies etc... some of the more frequent blokes around here can be pretty unpleasant :D

Funnybear

23rd March 2006, 08:58

Goop

23rd March 2006, 12:32

a wave or a smile, never both.

You can all do whatever it is you do anyhow, just giving him a warning :)

Blackout

23rd March 2006, 13:40

AndroidXP

23rd March 2006, 13:57

You forgot that most people who ask such questions never read a manual anyways (no offence).

Blackout

23rd March 2006, 14:13

You forgot that most people who ask such questions never read a manual anyways (no offence).

Well yeah, but we could all shout "read the manual"! :D

Forbin

23rd March 2006, 15:42

RTFM - Read the "Friendly" Manual. ;)

CageHound

23rd March 2006, 16:47

Some of the cars have a pit limiter, so you need to switch this off when your exiting the pits.

Thanks 'need'!

For the rest of the great comments, can I recommend that you shut down the forum and simply place a link to the manual, that would remove all the stress to each of you that feel obligated to help someone new.

Good day. :thumb:

Goop

23rd March 2006, 23:48

oh go on... this was all pretty light-hearted, no need to play the victim ;)

Shotglass

24th March 2006, 01:22

We really need manual to LFS itself, "getting started" or something like that. It would show the features, the keys and LFSWorld thingys. These thread are very common, wich is good...people are buying LFS.

i dunno ... i always sort of assumed that its common knowledge that race cars have pit limiters and the first idea would be to either look in the /docs/ folder or in the controller settings to find out how to switch it on/off

Madman_CZ

24th March 2006, 01:35

yeah common knowledge but just imagine if uve never seen motorsport,, heard anything about race cars and they u but a game like lfs!!!!! ud be pretty lost.... just wait till he/she gets to the setup page :D

glad people didnt flame him.. people in this forum are very quick and good at that "flaming" !

and yes Noobs manual is needed!

mad

Shotglass

24th March 2006, 01:43

well i also assumed that if youre not into motorsports at all youre not the type to buy a hardcore sim on the internet

Madman_CZ

24th March 2006, 01:48

what was that line!!! assumpion is the mother of all f********s :D damn trying to think what film that was from now!!! was it under siege??

hmm

mad

NotAnIllusion

24th March 2006, 01:55

Undersiege 2, the one on the train ;)

mrodgers

24th March 2006, 02:50

I never knew other motorsports had pitlimiters. I come from a Nascar background and they don't have them.

Z06Vette

24th March 2006, 03:31

I never knew other motorsports had pitlimiters. I come from a Nascar background and they don't have them.

Yep agree! NASCAR background here too! So what motorsport has pitlimiters and how do they work? Never heard of such a thing and figured it was a in-game thing just for LFS.

I did actually stumbled upon it when I was setting up my wheel. Then I read the manual on it.

Ok question with me CageHound! Welcome.

sil3ntwar

24th March 2006, 06:35

F1 has pit limiters and v8 supercars have them as well. Those are the two sports i follow that have them. silly americans ;)

Chaos

24th March 2006, 09:49

the FIA GT Champ cars also have pitlimiters

Funnybear

24th March 2006, 10:29

Goop

24th March 2006, 10:52

Most series will have a button on the wheel to kick in the limiter. It's just makes so much sense and with all the new safety regs involving pit speed and the like they are pretty much de rigour. (That last bit was french by the way. It means part of the course, things that generally just are . . .stucff like that.)
Couldn't you have just said "par for the course" or whatever then, saved yourself typing? Woulda saved me typing too :D :D :D

Pretty hard to find a professional-style series nowadays that wouldn't have pitlane speed-limiters, I'd reckon. I think they work by retarding fuel or spark, or some necessary engine-related thingie :)

Becky Rose

24th March 2006, 11:10

I thought it was just a rev limiter that was set by in the EMS uplink according to gearing, but it probably depends upon the series.

I wish karts had them, I sometimes loose a lot of time to my rivals because of 'walking speed'.

Vain

24th March 2006, 11:14

I don't like speed or rev limiters based on sparking. I always believe the car is going to burst into flames when I hear those in action. Poor car... :)

Vain

Scawen

24th March 2006, 11:32

We're not all bad. I had the same limiter trouble when I started . . . . But I read the stickies. It's what I do as a noob. Quite often thats why they are called . .

'Read this thread'

Or

'All you Noob questions answered'

But I guess thats just me. Doesn't mean that I'm gunna flame a guy for not doing the same though. Maybe his logic processes just work diffently from mine, or something.

Am I allowed to just smile and wave?

Is that too rude?So... where's the sticky that is so easy to find, that mentions the Pit Limiter?

It's easier, quicker and nicer to just help a beginner. Just say "It's the pit limiter, press L", or don't say anything at all if you are a bit annoyed that a beginner hasn't been able to find the answer - maybe he has looked in the wrong place, searched the wrong keywords, etc. Why can't he just ask a simple question? This is the beginner's forum, where beginners can ask questions and get some help!

Anyone who says "read the sticky" should provide a link to the sticky, if it's so easy to find!

ORION

24th March 2006, 12:58

The problem for a newbie is quite simple (just as Scawen said):
If you dont know anything, you dont know the correct technical term, which you will need to find the thing you are looking for (if it's there at all).
When your car is too slow, this could have several reasons, maybe it's even a bug (you cant know really, specially when ur used to games from EA :P).
However, I have been talking to vic lately about this problem of not finding anything, and what we need to do is:

1. start some sort of SEO (search engine optimization)
All content on lfsworld is for example generated dynamically (client side that is - javascript), and google's spider crawler bots cant find ANY of this content when looking through your page. This might be minor important, because lfsworld contains mostly stats, but it's never bad to be found more easily by google users.
A good idea would be simply putting the url of the official LFS pages onto any team page. This helps a lot to improve a page rank ;)

2. make some public faq which is maintained by admins/mods
This thing should be implemented in the Forum, or some equal database. You can post your problem there, and if it was fixed (or not), it will be put into a big list where all problems are listed. ALL in ONE list -> easier search.
This list must be sorted logically of course. That means, if you have a problem regarding your wheel (let's say Force feedback doesnt work), you will find links in many different sections, like general hardware faq, a wheels thread, or in the explanation of the menu.
Many ways lead to Rome :)
I would say, if this is done nicely, it will work alone, without help from the devs. You can't demand that they write complete user guides and also keep them up do date. You have no clue how damn much work this is. Ok, other community members could write this, but it's much nicer is it's completely dynamic, and any user can post a question or add content.
It's a bit like the LFS wiki, which is a great project, but it doesnt work like it's now, because nobody knows the link. Also, you cant really ask questions there.
The newbies most likely dont even know lfsworld...

GP4Flo

24th March 2006, 18:01

It's a bit like the LFS wiki, which is a great project, but it doesnt work like it's now, because nobody knows the link. www.lfswiki.net (http://www.lfswiki.net) :D

There is already a sticky in the main forum, but maybe someone can set the URL in the title? Mentioning the wiki on liveforspeed.net could help as well.

Funnybear

25th March 2006, 13:35

So... where's the sticky that is so easy to find, that mentions the Pit Limiter?

It's easier, quicker and nicer to just help a beginner. Just say "It's the pit limiter, press L", or don't say anything at all if you are a bit annoyed that a beginner hasn't been able to find the answer - maybe he has looked in the wrong place, searched the wrong keywords, etc. Why can't he just ask a simple question? This is the beginner's forum, where beginners can ask questions and get some help!

Anyone who says "read the sticky" should provide a link to the sticky, if it's so easy to find!

Oops. Got told off. Sorry Boss.

IT was kinda toungue in cheek.

Sorry again.

Won't happen again.

Sorry. Sir.