As expected, more Trackmania servers popped up tonight, so I spent most of the evening racing around on them. They’ve apparently bumped up the server capacity a lot, as the first server I was on often had 130-140 people on it, and I’ve heard reports of others with 200+. Though there’s no collisions between players, races can still become confusing with that many people around and blocking your view. Fortunately there’s an option to shut off other players’ cars entirely, so you just see the chat and final scores at the end of the round.

With that many players around, many of whom were fairly experienced, I didn’t come anywhere close to winning, but I was usually in the upper quartile. I think the highest I ever placed was 7th.

The popular servers were just the Stadium environment though, since that’s the only one available to users of the free client. I’ll probably get sick of that before too long and then I’ll have to seek out United servers with the other settings. Hopefully there’ll be a decent number of them…

Traffic seems a bit heavy today…

…resulting in a bit of road rage.