Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] My thoughts on the latest development

[Josh M D. <jpe...@cl...>]

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n Dec 19, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Joerg Henrichs wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> [...]
>> Also I want to add the reason why i raised the standard steer-radius:
>> it's much more beginner-friendly, esp. when beginners use digital  
>> input
>> devices. Since the day I've introduced those values, i let about 10
>> persons from my family and friends test the old values compared to  
>> the
>> new one and all of them simply drove much better with the new values.
> Thanks for doing these very thorough tests! The main point is that I
> don't think any of us regular developers and testers can pick up  
> things
> that a new player will. E.g. I am just used to the somewhat slow  
> digital
> steering (and while a lot of people complained about it, no one ever
> supplied new or better values after I send them instructions ...  
> perhaps
> it's the fault of my instructions?  ). Our goal of course is that  
> it is
> easily accessible for new players, and interesting/challenging enough
> for experienced players. It might take some time for us to actually  
> get
> used to changed parameters.
>
>> With some of them I've further tested different values and they  
>> either
>> said it was hard to keep the kart under control or to keep the  
>> kart on
>> track. The current values, esp. for higher speed, seem to be somewhat
>> optimal.
>> We might shrink the steer-radius on lower speed to some extend and  
>> also
>> the drifting-ratio might be further tweaked.
> I suspect that the time-for-full-steer was the most important issue  
> (did
> you try just changing this parameter?). It takes a while to get  
> used to
> the rather slow steering. I think the ideal set of parameters would be
> that some turns don't need skidding, most do. Recently we increased  
> the
> effect of skidding (but let the turn radius bigger). From feedback we
> had so far skidding is actually fun :)
'Skidding is fun, but we mustn't overdo a good thing
>
> Cheers,
>    Joerg
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