Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] What happened to wheelies...

[Constantin P. <con...@ru...>]

Wheelies were temporary replaced by "nitro", meaning you can use the 
same button to speed up as long as you have enough coins. Currently, one 
coin lets you accelerate for 1 sec.

The reasons for doing this are:
1: Wheelies made people racing very straight. We found it not intuitive 
for beginners and not fun for advanced.
2: Wheelies are a very artificiall physical situation. It is pretty hard 
  to make the rest of the physics behave forseeable in this situation,
3: Coins were rather useless and boring with their old use. You can find 
proof when looking at some of the newer tracks in the forum. Designers 
add weapons and bananas, but forget coins.

Jump-button was replaced by a skidding-button. That was long-time 
announced and reasons are hard physics-debugging and keeping the number 
of keys. Maybe we should collect some ideas about needed buttons and 
usefull combinations.