What is skillpoints...?? Race offical?? So lost :(

[Frank87]

HOKAY! Skillpoints, I do not understand. I randomly pressed around and suddently I gained planets, skillpoints and shit. I did search forum but no topic could find answer for it.

Is there an easy way to start in offical mode? I just does not understand why there is no "start in offical mode" when starting a new track.

Also, you canot veiw gold, silver and bronze ghost togheter, that I do hope you patch and fix Nadeo.

Other than that, great fun!

[flidd]

Yeah only some races I'm allowed to try an official time. There shoudl be an easier way to do this.

[Frank87]

What? How can you see what races that you can do offical mode in? For a n00b like me this is totally confusing and makes the player feel like an idiot

[cgb1970]

When the timer reaches zero then u are allowed to race in official mode,other than that you are training

[Frank87]

That makes... absolutely no sence to me. I played like 30% of the tracks allready, and gold in them. I want to just asap play through the tracks and gain planet, why there has to be a 4 min time limit before that is possible? :p
Strange rules are strange.

[cgb1970]

Dunno but thats how it is,there is another topic on the subject

http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic. ... 420#p63754

[Lonely_Hsan]

I think they are trying to stop drivers from spamming attempts when they go to set an official time. Get drivers to play the track a few times. Get a gold, then offer an official. I think you only can do an official attempt when you've spent 5m on a track and have a gold trophy since the timer wasn't showing up when I posted bronze and silver times in solo play but the time was still being tracked.

[Frank87]

This should be changed. This is how it SHOULD be:

To chose official mode you have to complete the track with eiter bronze, silver or gold time. To do an official race it costs 5 planets. If you mess up and have to try again - 5 more planets and so on.

By doing above you can prevent some spamming, and aswell that there is some at "stake". Beeing able to play the track first after 5 min... man come on! On some tracks it's 50/50% if you finish, I hate using my 1 5-minute atemt at crashing in T1, then have to wait 5 more minutes

Or just do as the other games, get the cobbers / planets right away as you earn a medal, why chaning something that worked neat into a shitstorm lol ? ;p Joke aside, I hope you Nadeo reconsider this, atm. it's not a good sollution as described above.

[AnthonyJellema]

I think its a pretty good idea, this way we dont have to spend any planets, and when u fail at a track in official mode, u can re-attempt by trying for another 5 minutes, and try again.

[Lonely_Hsan]

This should be changed. This is how it SHOULD be:

To chose official mode you have to complete the track with eiter bronze, silver or gold time. To do an official race it costs 5 planets. If you mess up and have to try again - 5 more planets and so on.

By doing above you can prevent some spamming, and aswell that there is some at "stake". Beeing able to play the track first after 5 min... man come on! On some tracks it's 50/50% if you finish, I hate using my 1 5-minute atemt at crashing in T1, then have to wait 5 more minutes

Considering how many planets I have at the moment, I'm not even sure there would be any stake unless I retry hundreds of times or they charge like 25 planets per attempt. If you can't wait 5m, just grab a drink or play a different track and come back. I just went to play against the #1 time on A1 and I could do official right away.