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rethink impact of vehicles "looking like" running on fossil fuels #4825

Closed kolAflash closed 2 years ago

kolAflash commented 2 years ago

I'm playing SuperTuxKart for over 10 years and I really love that game! 👍👍👍 I especially like playing Beastie. But I recently read about the sobering results at the COP27 climate conference. So I got to think when I saw the big exhausts at a lot of the carts, especially Beasties. (it's sad Beastie had to be moved into an addon in STK 1.4 becuase of legal reasons, but that's another topic)

I think these kind of exhausts, the dark smoke coming from it and the "engine sound" clearly mimic engines running on fossil fuels. So I thought maybe SuperTuxKart should replace them with something else. Putting the idea of "powerful engines running on fossil fuel, being loud and making smoke" into peoples (especially childrens) minds isn't helpful!

So I'd like to make a suggestion to the great people developing STK:

 

I know, it's not clear what are the best alternatives to fossil fuel. Electric cars also have some environmental problems. But I'd say it's a step into the right direction. So the carts currently featuring exhausts could instead look more like being driven by electric engines.

Hydrogen based propulsion may also be a thing. Yes, it also has a small exhaust. But I'd say there's an optical and acoustic difference to fossil fuel based engines. And it's just white steam coming from Hydrogen engines 😉

Maybe also stuff like racing bikes could be added!? The people at Tour de France reach amazing speeds. And those velomobiles (bikes with aerodynamic fairings) have been brought up to 145 km/h!!! For "normal people" it's being said, that you can reach 50 km/h with those velomobiles.

And magic based propulsion like GNU's flying carpet is definetly no problem. (where can I buy that carpet in the real world to replace my car!? 😉) So I'd say: Just remove the exhausts from Peppers broom. It doesn't need it! 😉

 

And maybe also the NOS bottles could be repalced by something else. Maybe batteries 🔋or little suns ☀️🌞 !? NOS is also something clearly related to burning fossil fuels. _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide_engine_

Benau commented 2 years ago

Suggestion belongs to https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewforum.php?f=16&sid=3d453d14a07c9a9978d8b7a92c05e387, thank you

kolAflash commented 1 year ago

Moved here: https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19169&sid=2afb99e3f89c7360bcc11c4214cce977

 

P.S.

@Benau
The https://forum.freegamedev.net/ phpBB forum seems a little abandoned and partially broken.
And it links to https://freegamedev.net/ as "New Freegamedev.net forum". (Flarum based)

So shouldn't new stuff be posted in the https://freegamedev.net/ Flarum based forum?
Or is SuperTuxKart only happening in the old phpBB forum?

Benau commented 1 year ago

SuperTuxKart only happening in the old phpBB forum