skybon

The site is close to being a valid XHTML 1.1 but has some 5 errors (1 unclosed tag, 3 "/ >" and one odd attribute) that need to be fixed.

MTASA is listed in WineHQ database as Garbage (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=17751) while GTA San Andreas itself is listed as Platinum (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=3780). It means that while GTA itself works flawlessly almost out-of-the-box, MTASA doesn't run (and install) at all. Perhaps that should be fixed asap.

Hope lil_toady gets out of the army alive next year... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovshchina

Great news, guys!

I have created my own nightly testing server. It has the lowest ping in Easter Europe and European part of Russia. Its address is skybon.dyndns.org:22003 Do you want my server to become offcial testing server?

Посмотри страницу RU/Scripting introduction - она работает! (English: Look at page RU/Scripting introduction - it's OK!)

I don't think so. When they look at the forum rules and posts' language they'll understand that English is used here ну, конечно, учитывая российский менталитет (читать правила в последнюю очередь) могут возникнуть проблемы...

But it worked several months ago...

Well, maybe trigonometry won't be needed. I've got better idea. What if smb creates a traffic lights map with all traffic lights marked with all of the properties.

Well, up until the this news post isn't announced as a joke it's still active. And BTW if you consider the post as breaking the rules you can always click the report button.

This news post is: a) April Fool's Day joke b) Clear answer to those asking for voice support As for me, I think it'd be great to create Mumble (there will be pain in ass using non-free in open-source) overlay for MTA and that's it.

You do? Fascinating. Looks like you REALLY want to get banned for insulting users and annoying devs

And why 1.1 EXE isn't supported? It has some bugfixes...

Anyway, I think devs know better than we whether to test via QA\community or themselves.

Well... maybe you mean geometry, not trigonometry? (or you really mean sin, cos, tg, ctg etc.?)

Well anyway devs should develop MTA and not waste time on playing. What a brilliant piece of reasoning. I'm going to repeat my point for the last time here: devs know stuff that normal players don't. When a normal player spots a bug, he doesn't know why it happened, how it happened, or where it happened, he just knows that it did happen. A dev could, by reason of his deeper understanding of the mod, deduce, estimate, or even guess, exactly what is wrong, why it's wrong and where one might start looking for the mistake in code. Thus, this wouldn't be a waste of time at all. It would be a form of bug detection, isolation and hopefully, fixing, about ten times more efficient than if normal players *cough* wasted time stumbling into bugs that they don't have the knowledge to understand correctly and making bogus reports that don't help anybody at all. Unlike devs. But I've already made that point, haven't I? Well, you know, when you spot a bug you won't be able to understand why it happened, no matter whether you are a noob or a dev. Dev can mess this out only when he opens up the source files and starts checking them.

Well anyway devs should develop MTA and not waste time on playing.

SkyBon gives a cookie to Dominator86 and gives a pie to Luxury

I think it'd be good to upload some language packs for forum e.g. Russian, Deutsch, French and many others.

I have the same for Russian and Polish devwiki...

I have one weird bug. When I kill myself or die of an explosion of the vehicle during the spawn countdown I spawn as some pedestrian in the country so I can run up until I spawn back in a vehicle and continue the race.

Alt+tab support has been added not long ago Available since r546.

I had a crash at Mar, 26 and also I can't start map editor via "map editor" in MTA start screen due to some unknown exception (this is a windows message, so no dump). P.S. Here's the exception itself: Unknown exception 0xe06d7363 ad 0x75ab98f6. P.P.S. After the exception I can't kill GTA_SA.exe neither by Task Manager nor by Process Explorer. It says I have insufficient rights to kill app (wtf?! I have full administrative privelegies!). P.P.P.S. I managed to kill app by killing its thread through Process Explorer.

I think the nightly's are for testing purpose only. That's what I'm talking about. To fully test these builds players need to play together and gather all bugs.

I think it'd be good if someone would host MTA Nightly server.