Hi,

I play Valley (and also have Canyon) and I am NOT interested in Storm.

But when I start the game I am often asked to update, which I do cause it might be important.

Often there are SM (ShootMania Storm) updates within such an update. But I don't have Storm and I am not at all interested in Storm.

It irritates me. Does anyone know how to stop these stupid Storm updates?

When you start ManiaPlanet and are asked to do an update, these updates are not specifically for Storm, but are for ManiaPlanet in general.

The update info window that displays is just general info about that update. Some updates are more ShootMania-centric than others. The actual update that is specific to Storm is done when you load the Storm title (or any title pack that requires Storm).

You might notice in this last patch (2.3b) that you updated ManiaPlanet, but there was nothing specific for Canyon or Valley, so you didn't have to update Canyon or Valley when you loaded those titles. On the other hand, Storm players had to do two updates. One for ManiaPlanet, and one for the Storm title.

To answer your question. Is there a way to stop these updates? You can make sure you're disconnected any time you start the game and just play offline.

If you want to play online, you need to stay up with the latest updates so that everyone is running the same software, and everything remains compatible between client and server versions.

thx for reply eyebo.

I play mostly online so I want to stay up-to-date.

Perhaps I don't understand your answer, but I still think its kind of weird that I must do SM updates even though I have no SM and I am never going to have it, cause I am not interested in Storm.

The text in the updates is often: SM......

But its not SM updates, its updates to the Maniaplanet platform
Every update to the platform might affect TM and/or SM (and eventually QM)...
Its important to keep the platform updated, individual game updates go just for each game.

Nadeo could maybe do a better job with the text they put in the white box, as they make the update sound irrelevant to TM players who don't own SM.

okay, now I understand. Thx for reply Mr A.