Live for Speed Forum - Wann ist denn "early in 2009" ?

Scawen hat Folgendes geschrieben

Hi there.

I'll "break the silence"... though I do think I said something quite recently.

There's really nothing to report, that's why we don't report anything. I've been continuing with the tyre physics. It's a mathematically based model as you know. That involves assumptions and simplifications to make it workable. During testing we found some extreme situations where the assumptions used caused a breakdown of the output forces. It turned out that the extreme situations can actually come up quite often. I don't really want to go into detail, I've been working on the model and studying the situations where things go wrong.

My work rate has not been very high these few months, I admit. For a while I seemed to fix something, it started to look good then on further investigation and analysis, another problem showed up. That kind of stumbling block caused me to take a break while I tried to get my head around it, to try another approach. The new approach might work or might not and I needed to think again. In those thinking times I didn't just sit here pushing myself until i came up with answers, instead I just sorted out other things unrelated to LFS. At this point in life in am not motivated to sort of sit there and pull my hair out and bang my head against a wall until the solution appears, I'd prefer to just do something else, running the problem over in my mind until I know what do do. That way I can make progress gradually without the frustration that can be experienced by someone who is stuck but needs to produce solutions in a given time.

It's not worth releasing a model with fatal flaws that make it worse than the current model in some situations, even though the on-track normal driving feel is better than the old tyre model.

Unfortunately the slow progress with the physics does delay the release of the Scirocco and Rockingham, but it can't really be helped. What I really want to do is get those improvements out there and then work on some more fun things I've been thinking about. You'll understand I can't comment on future things that may or may not happen, but there are things I want to do but can't until this hard stuff is out of the way.

About slow progress... some people comment how progress is so unbelievably and ridiculously slow... well I guess that means there must be a whole lot of sims out there that have overtaken LFS in nearly every way. If so, you can use them for a while, that's why we have an email notification when a patch is released. If people "leave" LFS that is fine. That kind of thing really can't be something I can get worried about. All I can do is work on the things I need to do, to get LFS to a level we are happy with, then release the updates. Sometimes that is delayed by obstacles as I described before, and sometimes by other things that come up in life generally. With two children and a house to look after, things that go wrong, guests that visit occasionally and that kind of thing, it's true that I don't do the same hours that I used to in the early days, when LFS was my hobby, my passion and my work all in one. Now it's more my work, I have other interests as well and there are now other things in life that are more important, but LFS is something I want to be proud of. Something that I want out there and being enjoyed.

Anyway, we have not died and we are not sipping cocktails on a tropical beach. Actually we are working on LFS. I'm developing the physics, Victor is keep things running, Eric is working on things too. We've done a load of work that we want to release, partly for the excitement of it, but we also have mortgages and other bills to pay and the releases will increase sales, so financially it would also be a great idea to get it out there!

Nothing else I can do do really, I'm just trying to get my current LFS projects finished and released. Threats of people "leaving" LFS, predictions of impending doom and so on don't really make any difference. I'm not about to release unfinished stuff and I will still get plently of sleep and relaxation time, and look after the other things I need to look after and develop LFS physics in whatever time it takes. Then we'll get there in the end and we'll send a notification email when the patch is ready, so you can all have a go on an improved LFS with more content.

El_ Bitcho hat Folgendes geschrieben

mir macht der text angst. klingt so als würde er das noch fertig machen und dann wars das.

Scawen hat Folgendes geschrieben

Eric is working on things too.

aethelstan hat Folgendes geschrieben

Scawen hat Folgendes geschrieben

Eric is working on things too.

Das ist doch mal ne Neuigkeit! Ich hoffe natürlich, dass es mehr als atmen ist, Scawen scheint es ja auch nicht genau zu wissen.

El_ Bitcho hat Folgendes geschrieben

hoffen wirs! stand ja auch was von "funny things" die er einbauen will. hoffentlich hat er noch gaaaanz lange lust an dem spiel zu werkeln. ich hab mir nämlich schon oft vorgestellt wie lfs so in 20 jahren is ^^

D1ggA hat Folgendes geschrieben

El_ Bitcho hat Folgendes geschrieben

tot

Clonkey hat Folgendes geschrieben

wenn sich Scawen überfordert fühlt oder nicht genug Lust/Zeit für LFS hat.. dann wäre es vielleicht mal an der Zeit zu überlegen das Team auszuweiten. Ich bin mir sicher in der Community gäbe es genug Leute die liebend gerne helfen würden und auch könnten...

ZerFEr hat Folgendes geschrieben

und eDRX fahren is auch immer noch drin Sehr Glücklich

Clonkey hat Folgendes geschrieben

ZerFEr hat Folgendes geschrieben

D1ggA hat Folgendes geschrieben

El_ Bitcho hat Folgendes geschrieben

tot

Die Prophezeiung sagt, dass einmal im Jahr sich alle tapferen LFS Liebhaber und Ayer zusammen tun um 24h dem LFS Gott zu huldigen!

und eDRX fahren is auch immer noch drin Sehr Glücklich

Hermann A. hat Folgendes geschrieben

Clonkey hat Folgendes geschrieben

Der Müll würde es kostenlos machen... die wirklich guten würden dafür bestimmt auch Kohle sehen wollen, was dann LFS wohl auch teurer machen würde...

Mag ja sein das der ein oder andere ohne Probleme damit zurecht kommt, aber es müßten viele auch aussteigen wenn zb. ein Preismodell alá WoW oder IRacing entstehen würde.

@ll
Viele Köche verderben den Brei... daher warte ich lieber länger auf ein Update und kann mir dafür aber Sicher sein das es ein gutes wird, mit wenig bis gar keinen Fehlern und Bugs.

SiL-X hat Folgendes geschrieben

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