Questions and answers

[tcq]

Lets assume stadium will be free. Will you shut down the TMNF and ESWC master servers while keeping the TMU one that contains the paid version of stadium? Because else I only see that you are going to split the whole stadium community even more. If you would make TM2 stadium costly, then this wouldn't be a problem. But 3 free environments (which are nearly the same), are really to much. At least this is my opinion.

[db89]

5. can we translators get 1 miljon planets ^^ ?

I'm a translator too and I've received some gadgets for the work at SM Storm (for example the mousepad that I'm using now, very nice, collector edition #220 ), you should have received something also you. And for Planets, because I play rarely online (maybe I don't play online since 3-4 months, apart the connection for login) when I back I have a great amount of new, fresh Planets.

My questions are:
1. In the Valley trailer there're animated items such as birds and falling leaves. We can edit their moves with ManiaScript? For example we can make birds fly around the car during a race... Or import animated cows on the farms
2. Is it possible to buy Valley paying with Planets? Maybe 1 million Planets could be enough
3. The SM Storm beta 2 will have unlocked LAN option?
4. TM² StadiumCar can be damaged?
5. Is it possible with ManiaScript edit the "terrain" in TM²? For example, it would be nice to create a title that adds the rain to the game, not only a graphic effect, but also a change of handling (more drifting car).
6. Stadium have to be considered the third TM² environment? Or there will be a new one probably in 2014? (Because in the past you have always said that TM² will have at least 3 environments)

Sorry if the questions were already answered somewhere.

[Hylis]

1. It's a bloc with birds, nothing really custom here. About ghosts in the maps, I don't know what will be the situation at Valley release.
2. Buying the game is what I would rather leave outside of the story of planets. Offering them would be cool, but where is the line?
3. Don't know yet
4. People I asked so far are rather against it, a little like me.
5. Not yet, don't know if it will
6. I would rather invite players to concentrate on what they have now than to make them wait again for something that I can not predict if we will do or when.

[Cerovan]

I have talked a lot with guys from the tm scene recently and almost everybody asked and said to me: "Do you know if they take 20€ for Valley and Stadium ? I´m really interested in valley and stadium but this would be too much". Are you aware of this ?

We don't know yet if Stadium will be paid or free (or both), we'll keep you informed asap.

[Zooz]

^^^^That's what I wanted to say Zooz : we have been able to import from TMU for the trailer, and had to do this mostly because the editor had so much evolved since TMUF that some blocks didn't appreciate the upgraded version and made maniaplanet crash to desktop. This is quite some work for Angry Duck and you can't be sure that import will still work when everything will be running fine.
And the most important is that Hylis has to decide if we keep this feature ,as he said; it's not an easy decision I recon.

Ah, okay. Well, I hope it will be possible to keep it for the release! I'm too lazy to make new tracks now

[FrostBeule]

I have talked a lot with guys from the tm scene recently and almost everybody asked and said to me: "Do you know if they take 20€ for Valley and Stadium ? I´m really interested in valley and stadium but this would be too much". Are you aware of this ?

We don't know yet if Stadium will be paid or free (or both), we'll keep you informed asap.

if you want to continue the esports legacy that Stadium has, then i think it needs to be free like its always been (with the possibility to buy a "better" version too, but not make it "pay 2 win"). im also concerned that Stadium would lose the sort of independence that it has had with Nations, which i think was a huge part of it becoming such a big game and esport. with putting it into TM2 im fearing it would just become an environment among others.

and also alot of people would just continue playing TMNF, which as some people said would divide the stadium community even further. that's never a good thing for an esport, and we are already quite hurt as it is.

basically for an esport you always want that legacy to continue over to the next game (BW to SC2, Dota to Dota 2 etc), and to do that you need the vast majority to switch over to the next game. making it a paid game i dont think will make that happen. and im concerned removing the independent Nations format might not help either. and i might aswell throw in the "steam-thing" in the mix too.

[Hylis]

Stadium will benefit of being with others games in Maniaplanet, like players will benefit to be with other players in Maniaplanet. Other people are good thing, they can bring stuff and visibility to the whole. A community that is friendly with others that play other things can really be a plus.

[wiidesire-2]

I have talked a lot with guys from the tm scene recently and almost everybody asked and said to me: "Do you know if they take 20€ for Valley and Stadium ? I´m really interested in valley and stadium but this would be too much". Are you aware of this ?

We don't know yet if Stadium will be paid or free (or both), we'll keep you informed asap.

it could also be a good idea to make Stadium not entirely free but for players :

Possibility 1) who bought TMUF

Possibility 2) who bought any Trackmania Game

Possibility 3) who have over 40k Points in TMUF/TMNF

Possibility 4) who are TOP 1000 in Singleplayer

And the rest has to pay 10€ or something like that. Valley should be fullpriced 20-30€

don't know if this makes any sense, but it is just an idea for you, Nadeo


But I hope that in future we will have servers, which can have mixed environments. I don't want to switch all the time through the environments..^^ This also gives some problems regarding the ladder system, seperate? combined? I am agog how Nadeo will manage that.

[Omnixor]

ladder points could be still given to specific environment ^^ or, possibility to make title with few envis and have ladder there...

[Chevron]

When will you implement separated inputs so we don't need to re-set them when we switch from Storm to Canyon etc.?