Yes - with new content (blocks, block variations, new environments, etc ...
Yes - with new features (coppers, 3d glasses, manialinks, etc ...)
No - I'd prefer a Trackmania 2
No - we have enough Trackmania

For the first TrackMania, it was around 100, and 300 for Sunrise while United Forever is around 4000. Nations is more about 20000, including United.

I think we succeeded to bring the longest time of play to the highest number of player. If this is not our goal, what should be the strategy of Nadeo?

I don't think it is the Nadeo strategy that is questioned here, but your personal taste for new stuff. Most of people here have this taste, and surely that most of regular players would say "yes" to new content. But it is quite difficult to go against strategic moves.

And you are part of this strategy, because you are very important players. But so far, I say that I did well, even for you. And for future, I do say that I am going to do well. You surely want tomorrow to be today, but time is time, and that's a dimension that is difficult to manipulate!

Five years to cross 1000 players in 2003, 10K players in 2004, 100K players in 2005, 1M players in 2006, 10M players in 2007. And 2008 is the biggest TM year ever, by far.

On time, five years of TM were quite dense in evolution in my opinion: dedicated server, ladder, platform-stunt-laps-cup modes, maniachannels, official times, maniazones and around 10 releases or updates with new content every time. On the engine part, bigger work was done that rare other games make, like our own encryption and validate function, that also enabled nocd. Or more stuff that don't like too much here, like car import, painter, mediatracker, manialink, coppers, mods, video maker, peer-to-peer, locator, skins etc. took also some time to do and brought some diversity to the online experience.

I know Nadeo can do better in your eyes, that you can wait more content and innovation. But we were able to keep desert playable for years. We succeeded in making United with all TM inside one. We invested more effort, experience, time, number of people on Forever expansion than Sunrise itself. Do I need to recall that when Sunrise was released, some people from here complained that Sunrise killed Original. Now, with a news, like insomnia knows how to make, and a dedicated server, like slig know how to run, you can probably easily bring people on original environments.

So, people around here are part of this success, and will surely be part of our upcoming bigger ones ... as sure as my nickname is Hylis and that I will still have constant critics here ^_^

This is not a promises but our challenge. I dislike promises, it binds us to things that can become meaningless and could raise disappointment if abandoned. Classic gaming environment use it a lot and it seems to work every time. It is like with politics in fact. Maybe I should start to do like them and to promise what people ask in poll... that would be made among all TM players, including Stadium only ones. I just doubt they will ask for new environments.

Hylis