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I think you guys should consider more "Free Roam" as simply FREE as it doesn't always mean that people just spawn cars and drives for nothing around. Alot of Servers are kindof between FR and RP. Some others are FR but because they are simply scripting and modding stuff. Its more or less "Free For All" wich can be used for anything. I don't think that Free Roams are really what is Killing the game . I myself host a Free Roam server but its mostly because I spend most of my MTA Gametime scripting and trying stuff. Or running Hot Pursuits. And quite frankly, I play MTA with a bunch of friends and one of our first reflex when we first tried the game, was to find a good Free Roam server (before hosting our own) because we wanted to be able to play together, test around and just mess around too.

That is true, but it requires you to sort the list again from time to time, as when new players join the server the admin panel doesn't sort them in alphabetic order automatically and you have to keep clicking the button at the top all the time. Strange? It does work fine for me? When I first join my Server, my lists are all on Default (wich for Weapons is under a logical order but for the car, seems really useless) but once I manually pressed on the top section over the list to sort VEHICLES and NAMES, it stays that way until I close the game, reguardless if new player joins or such.

Yes, that is VERY Annoying indeed! Your searching for an object and everytime you try one, you need close your search window and start over again... But its still the best thing I found so far for finding (and viewing) objects.

The "Hands-up" animation would also be a good addition for arrestations or such. And it would greatly help for Zombie mods <.<

Talking about Garry's Mod. One of the cool thing is that you can spawn, for example, a big TV Screen and then have it shown what the Camera sees. Wich is very nice! You can like, attach the Camera to an object or just leave it at a misc point and then have any player looking at the TV to see what is shown from the Camera. I made a Satellite script in my server that allows, when a player is near a specific computer console, to modify its Camera using simple commands. Its pretty cool and has a Drop view on any place of the map. But it kindof takes over to your whole PC Camera + only the operator can see what and where he moves. Being able to display what a misc camera sees on a screen or panel would make things really cool ^^

In a pleasant way, I really like the idea of a Fly Mode... ...But in a desperate way PLEASE! For Modding, Scripting or Mapping in your server. I Really REALLY Would LOVE to have a NOCLIP Mode. I was building a Tower and it was soo hard to try to update and get the right positions of your object when you CAN'T get at the right position (especially with that ALwaysMoving jetpack ...) Flying is cool and seems to be a great thing to add as an optionnal ressource. But if ANYWAY POSSIBLE to have some sort of NOCLIP feature, it would be GREAT for Non-Gameplay stuff that requires it. (BTW, for thoses who doesn't know what NOCLIP is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWBpr2ZGcSk Doesn't need to actually pass through the objects. Just as long as you can move X, Y and Z easly and to REMAIN in a certain position or height lol)

I follow on with that! Kindof like in Q3 based game where you have a Server Info more detailed list. I don't think its a prioritary thing to do, but definitivly a good quality addition ; )

I also believe that the "onClick" refresh is the best solution. When your looking at the list you might not want your scrolling to be reset because it was refreshing Or your about to click on a server and the server right above it (after update) becomes offline, shortenes the list and makes you click on the wrong server I prefer having a bit more efforts to do (click on server or on REFRESH button) than creating problems that we will Not have control over.

I would disagree with you here. Allready the Panel allows you to select IF you want or NOT the order to be set by default OR alphabetical order, wich is pretty fine for anyone. While making it alphabetical for all is, I fully agree, good for Vehicles BUT not for Weapons. I really appreciate the order in wich the Weapons are displayed, they fit the rather general ordering that normally is applied for thoses weapons. And if you make it go on Alphabetical by default, there's no coming back to that Misc Ordering anymore. While the way it is ATM, you just have to click over the top section to have it displayed in Alphabetical order! I really prefer it this way, so that it pleases both of us.

I also highly like the idea! Having it as a Server option is, to me, the best way to satisfy everyone since you could just load the ressource if wanted. But its definitivly an added touch of realism that either helps in RP, Cops or Racing servers.

From what I've concluded, if you spawn trains on the left or right track, they will have the same behavior no matter what server your on. Either the train stops at 2 locations just like in SP when you have Road blocks or its the Invisible Rail near SF. The thing is that I have no idea how to modify the rail system in order to attempt to edit or simply repair the bugs.

I'm not sure I understand well how the "Server" or "Client" side functions works? I've only scripted ServerSide so far. So does seing the Ped Functions only in ClientSide means that the pedestrians will NOT be syncronised? If thats the case, what is the use of having Peds only for YOU that others won't see lol?

Thats very cool! What I use is the GTA3 LC/VC/SA Map Editor (mED) to find objects. I find it quite usefull mostly because I can use Search option and the fact that I can actually VIEW the model and what it looks like.

It contains the normally accessible ones, but not the ones from special missions (like the DAM) or simply unused ones like the Police Departement from San Fierro (I saw it, it has no decoration but its very cool ). I used the guy's link to the GTAWiki and found ALL the locations I wanted (the NL version contains the X, Y & Z coordinates of the locations).

YAYYY !!! GREAT ^^ Now I'm Dead Impatient for DP3 !!! Awsome ^^

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Unlocking ports has to do with Server Side, not client side? She can't join ANY Server we've tried many things. I host my own Server and no matter the options I try to change, EVERYONE else can join no problem but she always gets logged out nearly instantly. Its often "Has joined...2 seconds later...has left" wich in normal cases of timeout would give alot more delay. Can someone Please help her, its been WEEKS we're stuck with this problem and its VERY annoying and frustrating that we all get to play "while she sits on the bench"...

In the case of "Syncronising NPCs" the BIG Thing about LAG will probably not even be related to your PC, but mostly to the Speed of the Host's Internet Connection + Your own

You can also still download MTA Race at http://www.gtasafiles.com (Gotha love the FileFront network ^^)

I have not tested it myself, but here is the link: viewtopic.php?f=94&t=21692

Concerning the hidden interior, all we need is for Someone, anyone to get inside the wanted interior in SP + any mod/trainer that allows you to see the player's position. Once you aquire that X, Y & Z Position, it is then easy to make a script that will warp you there once in MTA. (And in case you don't know wich "interior" to load, you could just try randomly between 1-5, its nearly always between them.

OMG NIIICE ! I've REALLY Been wondering how it would be possible to include NPCs. I just imagine a Zombie Mode... on MTA The only thing I fear, is that there's allready some sync problems + lag when the servers are too populated, so I don't know how its gona look with a bunch of syncronised NPCs <.<