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From what i understand of Shootmania Elite and Joust are using independent Ladders from Storm, and latter players will be able to create their own "channel" with independent ladders.
I am already able to pull data from shootmania for storm.

1) Will my trackmania 2 account always be able to pull data from shootmania API when my 7 day beta will be over? What is/will be the policy to API access depending on the games you own ?(do not worry i will purchase Shootmania day 1 ^^)

2) Is it or will it be possible to access "alternate" ladders like joust or elite? How?

3) Unlike trackmania will player data display the max number of player by region ? (already saw this question i think!)

And I'd like to add that the access you already gave us for trackmania is great. Nadeo allow us to access this data and I know it is a lot of work and that you are certainly in Uber-crunch time for the beta of Shootmania. Thanks to everybody at Nadeo to care about the community and for taking the time to answer our stupid questions.

sylario wrote:From what i understand of Shootmania Elite and Joust are using independent Ladders from Storm, and latter players will be able to create their own "channel" with independent ladders.

Yes. It is all about the Title Packs. When you create such a package, it is installable on a station and it gets its own multiplayer ladder.

sylario wrote:2) Is it or will it be possible to access "alternate" ladders like joust or elite? How?

Yes. Using Maniaplanet\WebServices\Rankings\Title. You will need the title IDs, in this case "SMStormJoust@nadeolabs" & "SMStormElite@nadeolabs". See 2) Is it or will it be possible to access "alternate" ladders like joust or elite? How?

sylario wrote:1) Will my trackmania 2 account always be able to pull data from shootmania API when my 7 day beta will be over? What is/will be the policy to API access depending on the games you own ?(do not worry i will purchase Shootmania day 1 ^^)

Yes. There is no such thing as ShootMania API & TRackMania API. All there is is a ManiaPlanet API. You need a ManiaPlanet account with at least one valid key, it does not matter if it is SM or TM.

sylario wrote:3) Unlike trackmania will player data display the max number of player by region ? (already saw this question i think!)

Not right now. All you can do is get the population of a zone (http://code.google.com/p/maniaplanet-ws ... es.php#131), but not for a specific ladder. We will add that later.

sylario wrote:to answer our stupid questions.

Questions are never stupid!

Thanks, i can access data with this request : It seems title Packs names will be shared across all maniaplanet games.

sylario wrote:It seems title Packs names will be shared across all maniaplanet games.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean

I did not saw the SMStorm in the begining of the titlepack name, so my remark is wrong, i guess if canyon had a elite titlepack it would be something like TMCanyonElite@trololo.

Yes.

Official Title Packs are just a string:
TMCanyon
SMStorm

Custom Title Packs have the format "string@login"
SMStormElite@nadeolabs (but it could be called HaHaHaElite@nadeolabs)
MySuperTitlePack@gouxim
etc.

"SMStormElite" was just a neat way of quickly seeing that the parent title pack is SMStorm.