I was thinking about the kart/combat racing genre in general, and one of the major flaws it has is that, when you're winning, there isn't much to do. The genre is built on the combination of racing and combat, but when you're in first place there's no one in front of you to attack. Some games try to remedy this through rubber-banding or by giving people in the back of the pack better items so that the leader doesn't stay in front for long, but imho that's just trading one flaw for another.

So I was thinking that a way to fix this problem is by adding a new mechanic for the race-leaders to participate in by adding boss battles to the race. Essentially, there would be a CPU-controlled enemy that would always be just ahead of the #1 racer and the goal would be to defeat this enemy using the game's weapon items. Instead of the race being determined by whoever crossed the finish line first on the last lap, it would be determined by whoever did the most damage to this enemy.

Players would still be incentivized to race well, since only the top few karts would be in attack range of the boss, but it would mean that the race leaders would still have an interesting gameplay experience. Plus, as the racers are attacking the boss, the boss could be shooting back, and if a player gets hit it would behave as if they were hit by a player's weapon, potentially causing them to fall back in the pack and allowing another player a chance to attack the boss. This would create a more dynamic racing field while still incentivizing skilled play throughout the entire race since the longer you spend in the lead the more chances you'll have to attack the boss.

Just putting this out there as STK is gearing up for a major update with Evolution and this would be an opportunity to give it a feature that other combat racers lack.

I would like Penny to return to SuperTuxKart, because: she is a very important character in SuperTux, no character has returned from old versions and it would be perfect to give more variety of SuperTux characters in SuperTuxKart in addition to Nolok

The silliest and most hardcore SuperTuxKart mod is back!

STK: Tyre Mod Edition adds, among other things:

• Tyre degradation, with 3 unique compounds
  
• Tyre allocation system to control how many tyre sets can be used over the course of a race
  
• Fuel
  
• Pitstops
  
• Tons of gameplay tweaks
  
• Longer endurance races
  
• More options for hardcore players as well as people looking to make competitions, including ways of controlling collectibles and powerups dynamically over the course of the race with Item Policy, as well as setting up rules that mimick some real-life competitions (NASCAR stages forced restarts, blue flags, KERS, dynamic fuel/tyre settings...)
  
• It packs around 15 additional circuits including some real-life tracks. A total of 21 tracks support pit stops! (Plus a small number of add-ons)
  
• High moddability for all new features
  

A few weeks ago, I saw a video of kimden, wherehe did a 200 lap speedrun at "Toys Block Raceway", and the lap counter crashed around lap 130. The player "Frog007" told me recently the same, and yesterday, when I decided to test it at a 140 laps race on Olivers Math Class, it also happened.

So it seems like it happens pretty always when you startabout lap 130, that the lap counter disappears

Would be great if you could fix it for STK Evolution, or even the version 1.5

Thanks!

I have a question: Will the karts stay (mainly) the same for STK Evolution?

Will some get an upgrade or removed/replaced?

Would be very interesting to know.

My personaly wish would be to bring Beastie back

Hi there!
Are there any plans to let Online-Servers require players to have certain add-ons installed, and/or ask them to download them when they try to join the server? Xonotic does a similar thing - if you try to join a server where a custom map is running, you have to allow the game to download it to join. For STK, this clearly wouldn't work out - as it would delay the start of the game heavily - but forcing the download when a player tries to join should work out.

So, to be clear about what I have in mind. Assume I have a server running where the map "Museum" and "Lost Chasm" are installed, and I activate the option "Require players to install Add-Ons". Upon joining, the player who doesn't have these maps gets a message like
"This server requires you to have following Add-Ons installed:
-Museum
-Lost Chasm

Download | Cancel"

Any chance for such a feature? =) It would greatly improve the support for custom maps - as things are now, you can be sure that in a game with 6 players or more somebody has no add-ons installed.

Hi there.
I think some of you might already noticed it - a few friends and me are playing SuperTuxKart nearly every Monday (we had a pause this week) at roughly 20:30 o'clock (GMT+0). The game name is always "Mumbos Hut".

The skill level of us is rather moderate, but our games usually attract newbies and what I assume are top-notch drivers alike.

There is a semi-public Mumble-Server available at monkeytemple.hopto.org - the port is 64738. Using it requires prior registration and approval, you can either follow the routine described in the welcome message there or contact me here.

Edit: Oh, maybe important - I'm hosting from Germany; everyone is welcome, but people from oversea might have high pings .

Version en français disponible plus bas.

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New graphics will come at a cost of performance im guessing, will the game still be playable on a t500.

Hi,

I started playing STK1.4 a few months ago on Debian using its packages. In races chats I heard about Godette, but for me this kart is missing.

According to https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code...ANGELOG.md and https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2022/09/ it should be a new standard kart in STK1.4

It is neither listed in https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code..._karts.xml nor included in http://svn.code.sf.net/p/supertuxkart/co...ets/karts/

As there are no references and no assets for Godette it cannot be included I guess, but why was it announced for 1.4 and even improved for 1.5? What's going on?

CU