Free driving on STK in a virtual world of STK

[Arthur]

Whatever.

[Hero]

Thanks for the commission , I'm on it!

[monway]

Just a note: I donated to this project for this kind of reason. I'm going to donate a whole lot more times if the developers feel my ideas are worthwhile who knows maybe a financial investment might happen. There shouldn't ever be a reason why people can't support in order to get what they want right? even Hero is willing to contribute that's already proof that there would be a ton of submissions and creations by happy players and independent tech savvy people. I'm pretty sure I could encourage the developers with donations being sent to them showing support right of course!

[Auria]

well thanks for the monetary support, that's highly appreciated. But also please do stay realistic, implementing network play is an enormous amount of work, so it will take time

[monway]

Indeed and I'll keep encouraging an supporting as it develops.

[hiker]

Hi,

I admit I can't really see any even mid-term enjoyment of just driving around - the tracks are only so big, it's not like there is an open-world. You will only discover that once you go off the beaten track (i.e. where the actual track is) things will look less polished, and there will be problems (falling of the edge of the map, perhaps even things disappearing due to culling, ...).

Also the argument that there are certainly at least 5 (or so) people who are currently interested in that is no point - just compare: do you want drive-aimlessly-around(da2) or online play? Do you want to da2 or online highscores with ghost replay? da2 or voting for addon tracks in game? da2 or different kart physics for different karts? Even if the 5 or so people should prefer da2 over one of them, what do you think will the majority of STK players prefer?

Having said that, I actually intend to add a game mode which will give people the opportunity to explore tracks a bit more - which you can use to drive around aimlessly. I can't say atm if it will be available for all tracks (due to the problems mentioned above), only for overworld, or a selection of tracks (tracks with a well defined border will work better since they don't have the falling off track issue ... so mostly tracks on islands ). Nor can I exactly say when I will find the time to add this. But it's something I would love to add, since it would be a nice kids-mode

Cheers,
Joerg

[monway]

fair enough you're the man.

[Hero]

Agreed.

Just a note. I think ones that would be good for exploration (and possible) would be:

Overworld (of course)

Old Island

Green Valley (a river practically encompasses it so some caves and a path to the stone circle would be good. I'm actually working on these changes right now)

Amazonian Journey

Zen Garden (this is already easy and fun to explore and no problems that I can see yet)

Lighthouse

Old Mine (perfectly enclosed in # pounds of dirt)