Ideas for a new version of STK comming

[dany777]

I were thinking for some ideas for new versions of STK.

Number 1: Adding an option to download music addons, so before you can start the race, you can choose what music you want to play, the default track music, or a different/custom one

Number 2: An option to change music while in race, maybe it sounds stupid, but whoever wants to do a music change, just like in some games

Number 3: When the multiplayer online mode is released, including the idea number 1 that i said, people can vote for the music that they want to hear

Number 4: Again, when the multiplayer online is released, for the people who join someone's server, and they dont have custom cars/tracks or music, they can download it automaticly, so you dont have to go to the addons list and download them, i have almost all the addons, but not the repeated characters, bad looking karts and warever

Number 5: Maybe bring back the old STK maps?

And i guess that is all my ideas, dont blame me for this please, i need to get used of what to type on a forums

[Uni]

Actually all your ideas have been brought up before (except the voting for which song is playing in an online race.. but music should be a local thing, not a synchronized thing). Number 4 will definitely be implemented (once we allow addons for online-play). Number 1-2 depends a bit on who is willing to do that. It's doable, but is has definitely no priority over other issues.

Number 5.. Aren't they just placed in addons?

Anyway good list of ideas, keep them coming, but most rational ideas have probably been proposed before. As always it's just time and people we need .

[samuncle]

Hello

I have never fully understood the reason of the idea #5. Many people ask this but you can find old tracks in addons and you can still find all old versions of supertuxkart and even try tuxkart.
Newer tracks are better and they are often based on the path of ancient ones.

We're trying to keep the game small (more tracks = more data). Just imagine how the game would look if you can choose between the 4 versions of fort magma.

[NeonKnightOA]

I agree, bringing old maps back is pointless with the addons section.
Besides, STK is going forward, not backwards. And I like that.

[hiker]

Hi,

some additional comments:

Number 1: Adding an option to download music addons, so before you can start the race, you can choose what music you want to play, the default track music, or a different/custom one

Supporting addon packages is something we want to do, though it's rather low on our priority list at this stage (contributions welcome). We already support randomly selecting music if there is more than one for a track. I am not sure that I want to add more keys or a menu entry to change music ... STK is not a music player
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Number 4: Again, when the multiplayer online is released, for the people who join someone's server, and they dont have custom cars/tracks or music, they can download it automaticly, so you dont have to go to the addons list and download them, i have almost all the addons, but not the repeated characters, bad looking karts and warever

I don't think we will support automatic download. The karts and tracks will be synchronised, perhaps a message that some tracks are not available on all clients (or what tracks you have missing compared with others). But automatic download would mean that everyone in a race might have to wait for a minute (or 5) for someone with a (very) bad internet connection to finish. Perhaps offer a track/kart package - "favourite online tracks and karts"? Though that would potentially change over time, i.e. more work for us.

One point to think about might be: perhaps someone running a server should be able to specify which karts/tracks need to be around, so that his favourite kart and track can actually be played. But, that's very low priority as well.

Cheers,
Joerg