Questions and answers

[tcq]

I know Nadeo doesn't like to announce future release dates and I totally understand why, but I was half expecting to see TM² Lagoon before the end of 2015 and now here we are nearing the end of 2016. So... Is it planned at this time to release Lagoon before the end of this year?

As far as I recall, not really. You need to wait until the beginning of 2017 as first comes MP4 and then/or at the same time will lagoon be provided.

[TrackFreak]

Hello to all of you.
My question is, why is there such a big difference between the Serverviwer Rank and the Rank in the Game.
In the Game my rank for Europa 3252, Austria is 78 and Tyrol 7 but on Serverviewer Austria is 117... Why? It says that the Serverviewer will be actualize every two minutes...

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Rene

[tcq]

Hello to all of you.
My question is, why is there such a big difference between the Serverviwer Rank and the Rank in the Game.
In the Game my rank for Europa 3252, Austria is 78 and Tyrol 7 but on Serverviewer Austria is 117... Why? It says that the Serverviewer will be actualize every two minutes...

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Rene

I think it works the following way.

Day 1: You have place X and Y points in the RANKING that was calculated at the beginning of the day. When you gain Z points during the day your points will be Y+Z and your place X will be changed according to the points shown in RANKING.
If you have for example + 200 points, the system looks which rank is given for "X+200" in the RANKING. This is done for every player, but the results are not synced during the day, which means you can have players with the same rank.

Day 2: All the points gained by all players in the last 24 hours are combined and this results in the new RANKING. Which means that you might loose ranks, even though you gained points, if there are players that gained more points than you in the last 24 hours.

Now the discrepancy between the in-game rank and the Serverviewer rank. Server viewer fetches the players online and actualises this data quite frequently, but as the ranking isn't updated more than once a day by NADEO, Serverviewer can't fetch new rankings thus showing you the ranking without your points gained during the day.

[Hylis]

Vulkan: we are working on it but can't not say when or if we will release it. We would like to do it, of course.
MP4: still 2 previews to do, the beta, the release & updates. I would say around 1 month->2-3 months->1 day->2-3 months

[tcq]

Vulkan: we are working on it but can't not say when or if we will release it. We would like to do it, of course.

Thank you very much for this answer. It gets my hopes high and I'm looking forward to it and would love to see an implementation to allow maniaplanet on linux. An of course, Vulcan would allow to port maniaplanet quite easily to the Nintendo Switch as it is supporting the Vulcan API

[Hylis]

Of course, we would be closer to support linux since we already have the dedicated servers on linux that runs all of our engine but graphics & audio.

[hackie]

Vulkan: we are working on it but can't not say when or if we will release it. We would like to do it, of course.
MP4: still 2 previews to do, the beta, the release & updates. I would say around 1 month->2-3 months->1 day->2-3 months

"or if we release it" ?

explain please : if we

[Hylis]

To release it, it would mean that we finish it. Other priorities can come accross and makes this path obsolete. This is why, that it's always complicated to talk about what we are doing since priorities can change. And we are talking about a quite big dev here, so it's hard to tell.

[hackie]

"it would mean that we finish it"

Isn't that the main goal , finish the game ?