LFS noob, some stupid questions

[I_HATE_EPA]

Hi, i have being playing this game for 2 days now, and it's great fun. I'm planning on purchasing a license in the near future, but i dont want to until i can actually drive the cars properly, so i dont ruin everyone else's fun!

I just have some basic questions:

1) How do i keep my points from drifting? I've being around the loop and it appears like i should have points at the end, but then it says i dont have any? I've being told you need to stay above 50km/h, but if i hit a wall during a drift at 50+, do i still get the points?
I really dont understand how the drift points system works, could someone explain it in newb terms?

2) what does the yellow flag mean?

3) those penalties you get, drive by and failing to stop or something, how do i get rid of them?

P.S im on the ausdrift server, so if you see me, go easy on me :p

[Xaid0n]

i'm not sure about the drift points but the other two are fairly easy, yellow flag basically means there is someone on the track/grass who is travelling slow or has completely stopped and is causing an obstruction, the drive through penalty/stop go penalty are easy to sort out, drive through, is where you drive through the pit area (keeping under the speed limit) to make it go, Stop/Go, is where you stop in a pit marker and wait til it says Pitstop[Finished] :) hope that helped:)

[Tweaker]

1) Not sure. It seems there is some drift points thing for online servers, but I don't know how it works, sorry.

2) Yellow flag usually means "CAUTION" or you need to be careful in the turns you are approaching. It usually comes up when there is an accident with one or more cars. Usually it comes up if a car has spun off the track and is off to the side sitting there. It is just telling you to be careful.

3) The penalties are easy to NOT get, as long as you follow the rules of racing.

Always stay at 48 MPH / 80 KPH when in the pitlane. When you pass the exit lines you can speed up. But if you are going faster than the speed limit, you will get a penalty. If you speed up for a short moment, you will just get a Drive Through. To get rid of that, you just enter the pits, go the speed limit, and exit the pits. Just a "drive through". If you get a Stop and Go, you have to come into the pits, stop in a pitbox infront of one of the garages, and then once the penalty timer is done, you can drive away at the speed limit, and then exit the pits to continue your racing.

Usually these penalties need to be taken care of within 2 laps. If you keep racing and do no comply with the penalties, you will get disqualified.

Happy Racing :checkered

[I_HATE_EPA]

Ok i understand the flags now thanks guys :)

If anyone can answer my question about the drifting (which is what i mainly attempt), i'd be grateful.

[mrodgers]

LFS doesn't intend to be a drifting sim, so there isn't anything in-game for drift points. It just so happens that you can drift as it simulates as close as possible to real car physics and you can drift in real life as well. I'd say, the server you were running on had LFSLapper or Racemanager (2 unofficial add-on mods) that announced points depending on the angle you got your car sideways. That is a server add-on using Insim/Outsim and doesn't have anything to do with the actual purchased LFS software.

That would be a good suggestion for the developers of LFSLapper or Racemanager (which ever one it was) to be able to keep the points stats. I know RaceManager (I think) records your PB time for the server it is running on and holds it even if you disconnect.

[S0ul]

when you get drift points, you should not spin,crash or get too slow,or else youll lose of of your points...if the limit is 50kmh....i dont know,just be quick :)

[I_HATE_EPA]

Yeah, I just assumed the drift scoring was part of the game, it's the most fun IMO.

In some servers it does record your PB, and has a drift scoring ladder, i've figured out how to do it now, but thank's to anyone who replied. :)

[Slidaaaa]

i think the drift scoring thing is pure crap and spam

[george_tsiros]

Your nick is "Slidaaaa" ...

[NotAnIllusion]

LFS doesn't intend to be a drifting sim
Maybe not specifically, but I do not understand how much people keep saying this despite the LFS Official Website LFSW acknowledging drifting as a distinguished type of driving and supports it by doing so (see attachment)

[AdamW]

Your nick is "Slidaaaa" ...

Baseball fan, maybe? :)

[Slidaaaa]

Baseball fan, maybe? :)

Only Swedish people know what it means :haha: lol

[RedStarArmy]

:scratchch