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I wonder if this is possibly a rip off of the gizmondo game of the same name? If its not perhaps a different name is required.

We can't make promises about a date or feature set for the intial release. Any features you see mentioned on this forum for blue/MTA:SA are intended for the FINAL release and may not be fully implemented (or at all) in the initial release.

I agree, relying on judges is generally not a good idea. Of course, you could make a mode that did that, but generally people are too competitive to be impartial.

Its not somthing we've looked at yet, and I doubt it'll be in our initial release. Its certainly not somthing we're ruling out in the future though.

Do you read? We said we won't get rid of anything, it'll be up to mod developers what they get rid of, ditto with real-time.

I seriously doubt that blue will work in linux. The techniques it uses are fairly fragile (in principle) and I doubt WINE will support them exactly how we expect them to work...

Admin is handled entirely differently in blue, in a way much more akin to other online multiplayer games. As I've said, mods will have complete control over admin commands. I do not advise you to think of creating mods specifically for admining - create mods for gameplay and allow advanced admin capabilities if you want. Each server can only load one mod (currently).

As we've said, such things are entirely up to the developers of mods, we aren't going to get involved, and I'm sure when mod developers come to developing their mods they'll do what they think is right in the circumstances - which will hugely vary from mod to mod.

You can't play MTA:SA either because its not finished, so wait like everyone else.

Theres much more to releasing some software than the in-game experience that we can show in a video. Things such as the server browser, admin functionality, bug fixing, finishing of actual coding all need to be done before we have somthing thats worthy of release to the public.

Theres a huge difference between admining a server and creating mods for MTA. There could be some overlap but thats up to the mod as the mod will define what capabilities the admin has - entirely. It'd be possible to create MTAMA for Blue, but some much of what MTAMA tries to do (i.e. create game modes), can be done in substatially better ways. Blue offers the ability to do whatever you want with GTA, so for example, client prediction is possble - somthing a server based mod could never do. Either way, I'm sure MTAMA will exist for Blue, otherwise Aeron would have nothing to do, but it will probably be in a different form or require a total rewrite. Anyone who has scripted with mIRC should be able to go into one of our sample mods and mess around and see how it works. Its not a case that you'll have to go and learn C++ back to front, you'll just have to work out how to use it. We hope that there will be lots of examples & snippits avaliable too. The admin interface will be open and acessable in many ways - hopefully this will prompt the development of all sorts of interesting admin tools or systems.

I dissagree, they all handle quite differently. Obviously its still the same controls, but in my experience police ones are more agile and harder to control than standard ones...

Well, that'd hardly be hard for a mod to prevent

Ensure your graphics card meets the minimum spec, i.e has 64mb of ram.

They were hardcoded, really badly in VC, in SA they're done properly but work differently.

Thanks

Stinger strips were removed in SA, and in VC they were really hacked in. Its certainly not our first priority.

Please search before posting.

The server doesn't care how big the map is, the data is all stored locally.

It'd be both client and server side. Read elsewhere on the forums for details of how this may work.

The whole point of MTA:SA & Blue is that we don't have to code it. Once we release the SDK, anyone can.

Yeh... is 'Blue' some code word for a new drug? I've never seen so much news.Try a newspaper or http://news.google.com

The GTA series has regularily been the top selling game ever. GTA relies on having an exciting and interactive game world that can be explored for ages and a large set of missions and side missions rather than online support. Thats not to say that an mmorpg GTA wouldn't be successful, but it'd be quite a major change of direction for R*.

Well, look at that, two more screens and a video.

Sadly, you'll have to