How many players are there so far in TM2?

[Fijut]

Oh right, what other games allow creation of maps for a FPS?

Pretty much any game worth playing... ut series, crysis, portal, cod4, look on google the list goes on.

Yes, but how many of those maps have an easily accessible editor, like the Mania series is known for? None. I tried the Halo editor--it's -way- too complicated for casual map-makers...

You have your opinion. People who have the intelligence, patience, and time, and those who put the effort in, will succeed with editors that are not quite as simple as the one we have here. I can't talk either, I don't have much patience, however editors in other games are complicated and require a lot of time, but at least that opens the possiblity for much more detailed and advanced creations if someone does put in the effort.

The lack of that in TM2 disappoints me slightly.

[xis101]

It´s quite easy to determine the recent number of players. Just go to Multiplayer and look here:

so, there are 46510 at the moment

[Slig]

You have your opinion. People who have the intelligence, patience, and time, and those who put the effort in, will succeed with editors that are not quite as simple as the one we have here. I can't talk either, I don't have much patience, however editors in other games are complicated and require a lot of time, but at least that opens the possiblity for much more detailed and advanced creations if someone does put in the effort.

Yes... and no.

On most games (race and fps), there exist several or many maps that's right (well not so many compared to TM : TMF+TMS+TMO has more than 500 000 maps !), but only few are played a lot, most are nearly not played.
And that is a huge difference with TM : making map is really easy, so really many people makes maps, and put them on servers, and all players are used to play many many different maps, of various styles.
So other games can permit more variations in how the map is made, but very very less maps are made, and only few of them are really playable.

Btw, i'm curious to see if such thing will work for SM : a fps need more knowledge of a map to allow some correct tactical playing than a race map.
I guess that it will highly depends upon competition managers : if they change matches' maps regulary like on TM, then players will be used to play various maps. Else, like for most fps, a very limited number of maps will really be played.

[Xymph]

well not so many compared to TM : TMF+TMS+TMO has more than 500 000 maps !

Even more, there are nearly 655000 tracks on TMX alone (as of just now), and I regularly encounter tracks when hunting cheater suspects that haven't been uploaded to TMX (which is rather annoying btw, because then I have to find them in a server that's hosting them to check a suspect record).

[pedmacedo]

"some conflict"
As far as I know, there's nowhere to see just how many have bought the game so far. The other numbers just give us minimum numbers. We know at least 40,000 have bought the game, because there are 40,000 on the multiplayer ladder.

Every player is registered on the medals ranking, even if they got 0 medal.

[eyebo]

Oh, I never thought to look there.

But then how come I see at this very moment:
40,724 in the medal rankings.
47,080 in the multiplayer ladder.
22,165 in the solo skillpoints ladder.

Why so many more in multiplayer if medal rankings counts everyone? Perhaps it's just an inconsistency. Although over 6000 missing players would seem to be a lot.

[Cerovan]

Oh, I never thought to look there.

But then how come I see at this very moment:
40,724 in the medal rankings.
47,080 in the multiplayer ladder.
22,165 in the solo skillpoints ladder.

Why so many more in multiplayer if medal rankings counts everyone? Perhaps it's just an inconsistency. Although over 6000 missing players would seem to be a lot.

The medal ranking's list only people who are unlocked medals (so if you don't have started the solo by winning medals, you're not counted in the ranking).
Same thing for the multiplayer ladder, you have to start to play on the multiplayer mode to be counted
Finally for the SP ladder, you have to win SP to be listed too (and so doing at least one run in official mode)

Consequently, there is more than 47k players who play to TM2

[eyebo]

Thanks Cerovan. Good to hear.

[AlexKF]

Consequently, there is more than 47k players who play to TM2

That's awesome! Thanks for clearing things up!

[pedmacedo]

wow, how come there are 6k players without a single medal? Someone tell them there is single player as well