SwitzerlandA Night Mode in Stk would be really neat Lol Or something like the textures/lighting changing with the System Time :p
Alayan has indeed an history of disappearing for months then suddenly reappear, though this time, after a full year of not logging in here, not sure if he will ever come back... Nobody has any news from him. You can try to send him a message here or on GitHub, who knows...
Afaik Benau is the only remaining Stk Core Developer right now, so expect the development to be slow... And we are not a company with billions to spend, programmers and artists also have lives and there might be long cool down periods where not much happens. Who knows, maybe the situation in a year will be completely different.
Stk is a community project where everyone can contribute, so if you want to speed up a bit the development, you can yourself help if you have some programming or artistic skills and make concrete contributions. But there is no use in pointing out the fact that things are currently slow and posting on several forums to get answers that don't exist or that you already know.
Of course that is not what I mean. At some point someone used the popularity argument to include Mod Circuit to Stk Addons, I was referring to that. What I mean is just because something is popular, does not always make it a good idea to include it in the game, I was responding to your "on the other hand online players seem to favour it and they are the much bigger group" phrase. The community will make propositions and influence the game, but ultimately it is the developers that make the final decisions based on practical and technical rationales.
Well there are a lot of simple improvements that could accompany such track changes, like some balancing (make Heavy/Lightweights speed +/-4% rather than 5% or so), reduce the number of Ai karts in Story Mode, put the new Shifting Sands that everyone was talking about at some point, scale Zen Garden properly, maybe add some good Addons Tracks... In that case, and assuming that 2.x will not be out until years, then I would actually support having a 1.4-1.6 category or something like that. We should just ensure that after these changes, we are good for at least 3-4 releases, with no compatibility breaks. The point would be to have some significant 1.x turning point. Otherwise if it is just updating the tracks like that, I am strongly against and would rather wait years before a new category.
Regarding the versioning, it is the same debate as the Linux kernel that was forever 2.x, then suddenly someone decided that it should be 3.x now, and now we are at 5.x and soon 6.x. Or FireFox that used to remain for years in versions like 2.x, 3.x... then started to inflate that number for some reason, and now we are at 100+... At the end it is just a number...
Wax sent me some screenshots so I saw the changes more concretely. The changes are certainly debatable. It appears to improve the issue of the first person monopolizing the Nitro due to the long respawn time, but adding Nitro at more places will also still tend to favor a frontrunner that does not have any competition, and I don't see the need of doing that or adding Bananas. I would be slightly in the "against" side...
I just express my opinion, if a large majority of people like that then fine. Though I also remember Alayan saying that the development should not be affected just because a change is super popular. With this reasoning we would have added Mod Circuit as a Standard Track, but I am sure that nobody plays on that anymore now... Technical and practical aspects must be considered, and regarding that, the compatibility break is concerning and I am strongly against this. And we should certainly not make such decision on a whim over the course of just a few days!
Frankly, if the changes are not groundbreaking like that, yes, I would wait forever. Unless there are enough versions planned like 1.5 and 1.6 before 2.x, AND you guarantee that there is not any compatibility break in 1.4-1.6 or so. But in that case just name 1.4 2.0, take the opportunity to make some more improvements, and keep the super big ones like new Story Mode for 3.x.
Affecting unexpectedly the compatibility would also create a bad precedent... Many people are for some reason still using old versions too and if it becomes the trend to add or move a few Bananas or Nitros every minor version update that would quickly become a huge mess. There will also be servers that are slow to upgrade, etc.
Where can I see the changes concretely?
This is surprising, wasn't the game supposed to maintain compatibility until 2.x? Is Alayan no longer developing? I am sure that he would strongly oppose to this...
With such changes, we would likely need to create a new/separate 1.4 category, unless they are not that important, after all, in 1.x, there were Iirc some shortcut changes in Xr591, and other menu changes that made one save a few s or so in Story Mode. But if you made this post, I suppose that they are significant enough.
The invalidation of older records is solved with that new category. But what I would really not like is to bloat the Leaderboard with 1.0-1.3/1.4/2.x categories... Once 2.x is out, there will probably be nothing in 1.4 and nobody would run that I think. I don't want to have another Misc category like 0.9.0-0.9.2 to manage... That would also be really annoying to regrind to make 1.4 runs if you made a lot of 1.0-1.3... An option would also be to ban runs starting from 1.4 until 2.x.
My opinion is that we should not make track changes until the development for the 2.0 release starts, so 1.4 runs can be included in 1.x. I posted it in the Irc.
Regarding your i) point, I would need to see the changes concretely in order to make my own analysis about this. Wax also gave me some details, like how it would favor Heavyweights even more, so if they frontrun like you say, that would indeed be bad...
Welcome to Stk speedrunning! A few "formalities" notes if you plan to submit more runs in the future:
- Disable Debug Mode while running, it is normally forbidden;
- Try to record directly with a screen capture software in your computer rather than using a phone/camera. If that is not possible then try to also record the sound and show the screen in its entirety.
Otherwise, the moderators may decide to reject the run, especially for better times.
Good job! Not many runs lately, so pretty cool to see a Full Run :D !
Attention à la qualité des vidéos ! Pour des temps plus de 10% plus lents que le record, on accepte à peu près tout, mais pour des bons temps, ça aurait été rejeté. Beware of the Video Quality! For times over 10% slower than the record, we basically accept everything, but for good times, this would be rejected.
Excellent! I actually wondered whether doing the Story Mode's Strat (as you are required to get the 3 Nitros in the pyramid) would be better and this run perfectly answers the question.
Insane run, you never cease to amaze me!
Given all the Zippers and Plungers you got in Antediluvian Abysses, I wonder if it could be a good strat to try to get them and hope that others don't destroy you much instead of keeping defense items...
It was fun when you hit Nolok, a few frames later and you would have been squashed and missed out the Sub 46!
Looks like there is not much left to reasonably save now.
I wonder what happened to the camera at the end Lol A division by zero will have to be fixed somewhere in the code :p
Well I know that I am often annoying about things like that, but having set up the Ghost to help you breaks the rule "A run gameplay must not be influenced by actions done before it.". The idea is that you may not set up anything before the run in order to be advantaged (here, with a very useful visual indication), unless some specific rule allows it. This is also similar to use Debug Mode or making a Texture Mode to show Checklines, which is forbidden, though technically these rules were not broken. In this case, there is room for improvements so we can be lenient and keep it verified, but please keep this in mind for future runs.
Otherwise, this is a good find, and nice explanations!
