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Hello there; I have another suggestion that I thought I'd share with you people =)

Ok, so if you've ever built any tracks with multiple routes, you might have found that most of the time these tracks are quite easy to cut, but with my revolutionary idea, this becomes pretty simple; So listen(or read) very carefully
If you were able to place two checkpoints on your track, lets call them checkpoint a, and checkpoint b. Normally you'd have to pass through both of them, and this wouldn't be preferable if you're making two separate routes, but what would be nice, is if there was some maniascript that would somehow connect these checkpoints. This would mean that you would only have to pass through one of them. This would allow people to build two separate paths on a map, and you could choose one of them, and still be able to finish.

I'd also think it'd be nice if it was possible to connect more than two checkpoints, making it much easier to make tracks such as Four in One by Crusard. Because it shows how hard it is at the moment, but with such a change, this would be a lot better

I like the idea
Maybe the cps should have different colors, so you could choose for example the red, green or the blue route etc.

I like the idea too

perhaps no colours but for example a map with 22 cps and then a display what shows: take 15 cp´s or anything like that

I like the color-coding idea personally.

but isnt the whole point of trackmania to get from start to finish via the fastest route while going through all checkpoints.... dont get me wrong i do like the idea but it defeats the whole purpose of the game design

Well, not necessarily, Rip, it could be simply allowing for multi-route tracks, or longer split-route tracks, or simply multiple start blocks, which is what I plan on using the feature for, if it's integrated...

Hm I don't know if it is that necessary.

But I have another Idea:
How about counting checkpoints? I mean the CP's have numbers from 1 to X and players have to drive them in the correct order. This could avoid so many cuts, especially on shortmaps


Dear Developer-Team :
I still have a question about Trackmania in general :
Since I began to participate in competitions like EPS, CPS or just TA wars, it sometimes happened that two players have the same time. How does Trackmania decide, who wins this round and who doesn't? For me it seems as if the hole Tm-community doesn't have an answer for this question. There are only some theories about it. Does Trackmania read out far more detailed times (54,02598 seconds?) than it does us show when passing the finishline?

Hopefully thanks for your answer,
HaNno

_w_i_b10hanno wrote: Dear Developer-Team :
I still have a question about Trackmania in general :
Since I began to participate in competitions like EPS, CPS or just TA wars, it sometimes happened that two players have the same time. How does Trackmania decide, who wins this round and who doesn't? For me it seems as if the hole Tm-community doesn't have an answer for this question. There are only some theories about it. Does Trackmania read out far more detailed times (54,02598 seconds?) than it does us show when passing the finishline?

Hopefully thanks for your answer,
HaNno

You'd better ask this in the tm1 part of the forum or in tm forum