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By-Stander

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  1. I remember an old game, interstate 82 or 86 i think, that featured vehicles with weapons, it was fun over LAN but never really took off. Carmageddon 2 was much more fun with the more 'zany' weapons liek the spring that flung the nearest racer away and into the wall, over the cliff or whatever
  2. Aren't the trailers vehicles themselves? I'm fairly certain a Team or QA member posted about driving an unattached trailer in testing. (also, if you damage one in single player it will eventually catch fire then explode, just like any other vehicle). If this is the case then I can understand it being difficult to include.
  3. Try pressing 'fire' instead of the enter key.
  4. Any good race makes you test your skills so It isn't really a new genre.
  5. Any good race makes you test your skills so It isn't really a new genre.
  6. If it is 1 v 1 then surely you dont need different painted monster trucks. I presume you both know who you are already...
  7. If it is 1 v 1 then surely you dont need different painted monster trucks. I presume you both know who you are already...
  8. Isn't it a bit odd to have a different tag in your name to your gangs one? (RPX)Bomb says, 'Join {BPK} Today!'
  9. Isn't it a bit odd to have a different tag in your name to your gangs one? (RPX)Bomb says, 'Join {BPK} Today!'
  10. I'd like to suggest that admin+ is re-introduced - or something similar that sends some ingame details, I was amazed that it was missing after some posts from team member Oli regarding the work he had done on the admin side of things. Also would it be possible for the scoreboard to sort players according to Final Race Position? A relatively minor detail I know but when playing with 16 or more players its not possible at a glance to see everyones final positions, especially in those times when there are only 5 seconds until the next race starting. Some kind of scoring would be great too, and is sorely missed at the moment. Storing lap records or awarding points for a win/2nd/3rd place perhaps? Of course if the admin is extended then external scripts could take over responsibility for keeping records. Finally, most importants and probably most easily too!: Can you make the vote timer global? So rather than a particular player only being able to vote for a map every # seconds, EVERY player has to wait for # minutes after a vote. This would solve the only truly major irritation of constant (and I do mean CONSTANT) vote calling on any server with 16 or more players, and yet leave the vote as a useful tool if needed. [32 players, one vote per minute, thats one vote every 2 seconds on average with a server full of votewhores - it happens and it ruins the mod totally!] Edit: The amount of really poor maps circulating is also damaging to MTA, but I'm not too sure how you can prevent that.
  11. I'd like to suggest that admin+ is re-introduced - or something similar that sends some ingame details, I was amazed that it was missing after some posts from team member Oli regarding the work he had done on the admin side of things. Also would it be possible for the scoreboard to sort players according to Final Race Position? A relatively minor detail I know but when playing with 16 or more players its not possible at a glance to see everyones final positions, especially in those times when there are only 5 seconds until the next race starting. Some kind of scoring would be great too, and is sorely missed at the moment. Storing lap records or awarding points for a win/2nd/3rd place perhaps? Of course if the admin is extended then external scripts could take over responsibility for keeping records. Finally, most importants and probably most easily too!: Can you make the vote timer global? So rather than a particular player only being able to vote for a map every # seconds, EVERY player has to wait for # minutes after a vote. This would solve the only truly major irritation of constant (and I do mean CONSTANT) vote calling on any server with 16 or more players, and yet leave the vote as a useful tool if needed. [32 players, one vote per minute, thats one vote every 2 seconds on average with a server full of votewhores - it happens and it ruins the mod totally!] Edit: The amount of really poor maps circulating is also damaging to MTA, but I'm not too sure how you can prevent that.
  12. I don't see this as being too much of a problem, if its a race then they will lose, if its freeroam then they have the right to do just that, if its a DM mode and an eternal runner you take the win and vote the next map. If its a guy flying into a tunnel, that is actually quite skillful and pretty challenging to get at him, and a challenge usually = fun
  13. I don't see this as being too much of a problem, if its a race then they will lose, if its freeroam then they have the right to do just that, if its a DM mode and an eternal runner you take the win and vote the next map. If its a guy flying into a tunnel, that is actually quite skillful and pretty challenging to get at him, and a challenge usually = fun
  14. Might be a fun area for the RC 'planes or the go-kart, although I detest the Go-kart, if it is too small for a road race. Will make a very nice little DM map when that is released I expect
  15. Might be a fun area for the RC 'planes or the go-kart, although I detest the Go-kart, if it is too small for a road race. Will make a very nice little DM map when that is released I expect
  16. By-Stander

    Random Map Video

    Nice vid! Really gives a feel of playing MTASA, especially the mass starts on some of the rather poorly designed maps If it wasn't for your choice of songs in the second half this would make a good advert for mta itself!
  17. By-Stander

    Random Map Video

    Nice vid! Really gives a feel of playing MTASA, especially the mass starts on some of the rather poorly designed maps If it wasn't for your choice of songs in the second half this would make a good advert for mta itself!
  18. If your computer can only manage 20 FPS then MTA upping the frame limiter to 30 FPS wouldn't have any effect for you, you would still be going at 20.
  19. By-Stander

    website names?

    I like Archibald. A great name.
  20. Gos to a PHP admin login page for me.
  21. Interesting idea but not the solution I don't think, for similar reasons. There are just too many maps there. Ranging from superb to so crappy they dont even have any player spawns (honestly, I've seen at least two with no spawns). It is impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff without spending days downloading and testing every single one. So they get downloaded at random, or because they have a good vote ranking (see 'friends voting' above), or because the feed is set to download everything. Ive given up hope of finding decent maps there, and rely on other sources instead. And would not consider posting my own creations for fear of them getting lost int he flood.
  22. The rankings themselves are flawed. too many maps, not enough people with any kind of incentive to stop playing, go to the site, search for the map and hit vote. It seems only the creators who got three friends to vote have maps with a high rating. The rest incliuding some very good maps sit gathering dust due to no voting.
  23. I think we can all agree the map center sounded like a good idea but just hasn't worked. Perhaps in future the player could download a map from the server he played it on? He'd only get what he knew to be good. Other maps could be spread in the same way maps are for any other multiplayer game. Fansites, websites, independant map sites to name but a few.
  24. That would involve synchd a.i. - as the objects would be interacted with if you crashed into them or got in thier way. Anyway this is another subject altogether and a bit off topic.
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