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17-10-2025, 01:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-10-2025, 01:27 PM by nomagno.)
In earlier versions, the purpose of what is currently the fastest lap message queue included showing funny messages and even digs whenever someone caked, gummed, etc. someone else. This gave the game a more lighthearted and community vibe. Would work even better with some tweaks now that online is a thing.
A primitive version of this system does in fact exist for the modern STK codebase. It's bundled in
risostk's "training mode" branch, along with showing collectibles on the minimap and usernames on the minimap (the latter's buggy and would probs need to be taken out, the collectibles thing works great and could be an option at least in artist debug mode or a regular setting tbh?).
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The messages could be quite funny, however there was a significant issue with them: information overload. The racing GUI is already quite busy between the indicators of the kart's status, the minimap, the lap/time indicators, the list of other karts... and those funny messages added something on top. If you raced with 4 or 5 karts it was still acceptable I suppose, but with 8-10 karts it started to be really spammy. You can pay attention to maybe 2 or 3 messages per minute, not 20 or 30. In the end when racing, they were mostly distracting or ignored.
If you are interested, you could dig in the commit history to find when it was removed and the reasoning that was presented at the time, but I think it's along the same lines as what I'm saying here.
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(19-10-2025, 03:05 PM)Alayan Wrote: The messages could be quite funny, however there was a significant issue with them: information overload. The racing GUI is already quite busy between the indicators of the kart's status, the minimap, the lap/time indicators, the list of other karts... and those funny messages added something on top. If you raced with 4 or 5 karts it was still acceptable I suppose, but with 8-10 karts it started to be really spammy. You can pay attention to maybe 2 or 3 messages per minute, not 20 or 30. In the end when racing, they were mostly distracting or ignored.
If you are interested, you could dig in the commit history to find when it was removed and the reasoning that was presented at the time, but I think it's along the same lines as what I'm saying here.
Hi Alayan, I have an idea for integrating those messages; they could be optionally integrated into the settings.
