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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

Post by Zooz »

Some sort of interface redesign with more of a focus on actually playing the racing game and less of a focus on all the useless extra ManiaPlanet crap would be nice... 95% of people who buy this game just want to race a car, not see ManiaLinks or local rankings or title packs or whatever other confusing crap gets shoved into their face before they get to race a car. If they can even find out how to get to a server... The user-friendliness is terrible.

I guess the people at Nadeo are used to navigating such interfaces from years of experience, but try to ask your mother to play Stadium and see what happens (probably clicking random manialinks) :roflol:
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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

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I feel the same .... it seems illogical to have to wade through all of this stuff just to play a game. And when I leave a server to try and get to another one I don't want to be confronted with yet another box asking me if I really do want to leave that server. If I have just clicked to leave it why do I want to be asked the same question again ...
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I appreciate all of the massive work nadeo :thumbsup: do but I don't like having to complain in topics about something which should be improved upon. If we could have shortcuts for our Favourite servers or a shortcut for the Stadium environment on our desktop it would solve a lot of problems.
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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

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HawkGer wrote::thumbsup: hylis
Now the only thing bugging me is the image (ads and tips) popping up every time you connect. You always have to move the cursor to the tiny X in order to close it. Why not have the image disappear when clicking somewhere on the background. Or when hitting the spacebar. Really anything is better than the current method.
Try Esc. :o
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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

Post by coolsnake »

What about https://player.maniaplanet.com?
You login, select a title under "play online" and you directly get a list with servers.

Unfortunately you still have to mess with filters a bit. It still defaults to your specific regio even if it says zone: world in the filter options. I also need to manually filter for the title (with the sole exception of Stadium).
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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

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That's a great tip, thank you for this. :3
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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

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I wish launching through Steam would bypass the ManiaPlanet frontend automatically (allowing you to go back to it from menu later if you want), launching Stadium means I want to play Stadium, not Canyon or Storm :P
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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

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Try Esc.
Esc. doesn't work for me. Is that a bug? Even if it worked it would still be annoying to have to move your finger to the esc key every time you start up....
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Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

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HawkGer wrote:
Try Esc.
Esc. doesn't work for me. Is that a bug? Even if it worked it would still be annoying to have to move your finger to the esc key every time you start up....
my tip: buy the game :D best working solution you will find :p
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    Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

    Post by HawkGer »

    Doesn't work for my wallet though. If there are for example 10 titles to buy in the future then that's 200 Euro total....just to get those messages removed . Yep, that's worth it :clap:
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    Re: 10 Mouse clicks before you can start playing

    Post by Qual »

    Yep, i dont like maniaplaniet, since i only play ELITE.

    We should be able to create custom shortcut to directly launch the title we want.
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