Maniaplanet Forum

Demented wrote:Right now I almost always go into Canyon, so opting for the game to load directly into Canyon would be a convenient time saver for me.

eh... you can... just copy your ManiaPlanet desktop shortcut,
and instead of ManiaPlanetLauncher.exe you let run ManiaPlanet.exe /title=TMCanyon

or full path e.g. C:\Program Files\ManiaPlanet\ManiaPlanet.exe /title=TMCanyon

Edit: The menu is started, but it still says "not installed in a station" when I try to launch a map... grrr

why nobody said it earlier???

perhaps nobody really tried?
after all it is a dedicated server parameter.
I'll file in a report about this.

Interesting.
I've never heard that before. Thanks.
EDIT:
Yea... That didn't work for me.
Also, is there a way to not check online connection every time? I seldom play online.
If I untick the box "Check for internet connection" it still comes back to "you are not online... do you want to connect...?

for the info, I would like to have an automatic login of the last profile and selection of the last station played, unless a key is pressed

Hylis:
Good to know. I think it's worthwhile to add that to the game.

I really like the mouse navigation in the menus inside a title (side buttons of the mouse makes you jump forth and back through the menu structure). Makes the switching between different menu levels really fast. Same goes for the switch between the loaded title and the title selection view.

Hylis wrote:for the info, I would like to have an automatic login of the last profile and selection of the last station played, unless a key is pressed

This is, for people that select multiple profiles in the launcher or for all user?

Or for those who have only one login like me

TMarc wrote:If you did not ask for nor bought a beta key, there should be no ShootMania station at all.
I guess latest when all beta keys expire, it will be removed (automatically?).

Had a compulsary update today and SM has now gone

Just as an off-the-cuff query (I was asked this question and couldn't answer it) ... If, when we want to play Trackmania 2, we boot up MP we get a compulsary update for SM or QM ( say 80mbs in size) .......... why do we need this if we have no intentions of ever playing either SM or QM, and does this mean that those files are sitting on the PC hard drive doing nothing other than taking up space? Or are they files that MP need to also run TM2?

The small updates when you launch the ManiaPlanet client are updates for ManiaPlanet. They benefit Canyon, Storm, Valley, Stadium, etc.

To receive updates that are specific to a title, you load that title and the updates for that title will download. For instance, the Beta3RC1 update for Storm was 1.3GB, whereas the ManiaPlanet update was only like 80MB. People who only own Canyon didn't have to download the 1.3GB update since it only applied to Storm.

The update message when you update ManiaPlanet includes some information about the biggest changes in that version. I suppose that could be a little confusing for people who only own Canyon to suddenly receive an update with information that seems to only apply to Storm. The updates and fixes sometimes apply to both games though, and so we're all along for the ride as ManiaPlanet gets better and better.