Maniaplanet Forum

novationx wrote:It would be nice to have a NADEO made map-editor that can automatically publish the maps you made for everyone to see/download/award/comment on. That would be awesome.
But this would most certainly mean the end of mania-exchange. Let's be real honest here: If all documentation + the functionality of these websites ( maniapark & mania-exchange ) would be ingame then this would have a positive impact on the game. How big would this impact be? I dont know how big, but it would be a step forward.

Certainly!
In earlier times, it was possible to upload some selected maps to the TrackMania community ingame.
Why not add a function to publish & update directly to Mania-Exchange? Steam Workshop? Maniapark? etc.
And also the way around: a ingame browser for Mania-Exchange maps & tracks, Maniapark vehicles and modes.
As example: there was already the random map picker manialink.
Then those great sites would not even survive, they would enrich much more the game.

I think Nadeo is pushing the Github documentation forward, since everyone can simply register there and then can edit whatever. Then there is a review by Nadeo before it gets published.
For a more community driven documentation site, either there should be no review, or some "senior members" should review and approve new content.

I don't know if the same is possible for the Wiki, but up to now, and except a few links, it was the official game wiki, therefore it is natural that they don't want any content which is not professional there.

oliverde8 wrote:I thought it was copy © and the link wasn't suppose to be accesible to public until the tutos were extracted from the © part of the website?
But yeah it would be great to be able to re-use those and put them in the current doc.

Copyright or not... Some people made those tutorials so the only copyright might be on the website part and not on textual rights.

w1lla wrote:

oliverde8 wrote:I thought it was copy © and the link wasn't suppose to be accesible to public until the tutos were extracted from the © part of the website?
But yeah it would be great to be able to re-use those and put them in the current doc.

Copyright or not... Some people made those tutorials so the only copyright might be on the website part and not on textual rights.

I am 100% with you on that one, I think it should be public.

spikeballthehedgehog wrote:

Omnixor wrote:yeah w1lla, remove that link pls.

Why? it's an almost exact copy of MT

Yes i know it's sad that MT shut down, but the fact that there is an archive of it is a great resource, if someone can complete the tutorials we could have an actually great option for newcomers to learn

P.S. Does anyone know why MT shut down TstarGermany didn't exactly give a reason why I don't think

1. It is MC (ManiaCreative). MT stands for Mediatracker.

2. Lack of motivation. Many older TM members either just got old enough to have other priorities or just aren't used to a big change like this (maniaplanet). TStarGermany, afaik, lost motivation.

how much motivation do you need to simply keep a website alive?..

Omnixor wrote:how much motivation do you need to simply keep a website alive?..

If you loose motivation, you probably also loose the willingness to keep paying for the website to be online.

Or maybe integrate somehow thoose articles in documentation?

TheM wrote:

Omnixor wrote:how much motivation do you need to simply keep a website alive?..

If you loose motivation, you probably also loose the willingness to keep paying for the website to be online.

there are free hostings... I use one for the backup, no problems so far.

Omnixor wrote:

TheM wrote:

Omnixor wrote:how much motivation do you need to simply keep a website alive?..

If you loose motivation, you probably also loose the willingness to keep paying for the website to be online.

there are free hostings... I use one for the backup, no problems so far.

We need something professional Not this free shit