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I agree with both points, the dots are essential for finding the other players and the hotspots of activity, but are also a real problem when it comes to stealthier play. So perhaps enable the dots when a player is more than a certain distance away from you, but once u are within that radius their dot dissapears from the radar. Although this may get confusing as the same would happen if somebody quit the game (dot would dissapear) so u may end up searching an area for someone who is no longer around. Perhaps use another system for 'close' players, a simple nick list next to the radar to indicate they are nearby?

Not yet Johhny, great idea tho Let me know when you have made it hehe

Firstly mtavc version 0.2 doesnt exist, so perhaps someone sent you a fake (scan for trojans) Secondly WinXP Home is basically WinME so it may well be that it falls under the 'mta is not compatible with win98x' problem as what you describe is a common sympton of people attempting to run it in those OS'

Any person impersonating either a server admin or a member of the mta team will be banned from the official servers.

That's just lag, free up more bandwidth or connect to a closer/better server.

Superb fun online. Lag isnt really an issue, I am UK dialup and play on US servers without it disrupting proceedings too much. 0.2 will have new netcode to reduce it further. MTA Gangs have existed long before the latest version was released. Did you not notice the gang forum?

Map updated and replaced.

I see six innacuracies/misunderstandings/mistakes. Find me in IRC and I will go through them with you.

I don't think im revealing too much when i say this is already in the current test build.

Well firstly there is no mention of a 1.2 patch on either rockstar norths or Take Two interactives websites, so I'm not sure where you get the impression that one is about to arrive. Secondly mta is compatible with 1.0 ad 1.1, so obviously installing the patch is very likely to make your game incompatible with it.

Thats a good idea.. some time limit set to leave them then delete, ill see what Blokker suggests. Although i tend to just delete straight off rather than lock now. I know, ill make a start by locking this and deleting it!

This is all pretty academic as all these decisions about how jacking/getting in as a passenger would work where made long ago, and the finished system is about 95% complete. So I don't think we will be changing it now. As for realism, well perhaps you have a point, but then since when did you find automatic weapons and body armour lying around the streets?

Just go to the advanced audio properties, or the 'environmental audio' application that came with your card (I'm guessing you have one of the soundblaster LIVE! range) and turn off 'echo' or 'reverb', mine would always get stuck on after games had used it, so my fix was to uninstall all that bumpf and just keep the bare drivers

Well, you posted this 'anti-trainer' stuff about 4 minutes after i banned you. You where very abusive and dismissive on the server beforehand. Trainers have to run before vice city to be active, also each cheat has to be activated by a specific hotkey, you are suggesting you 'accidentally' triggered at least 2 cheats whilst performing that one attack? i admin the majority of the official servers, i know what i am doing, nobody is banned for cheating unlesss i am SURE they in fact are. you where. I use a modified client to determine this. So unless you changed your password and reinstalled in that 4 minutes, i find it very hard to believe this was an 'accident', far more likely that realising you where caught red handed you had better post some plausable excuse on here quick. There is NO excuse for using a trainer on a public server, the Official servers even more so.

Hmm, nice in theory. What a shame i just had to ban a WidowMaker from official server #2, one who knew who i was, and who turned to trainer use in frustration after repeatedly failing to succesfully attack the mansion that VCK had decided to 'claim'. Health top-ups, No death, infinate ammo, followed by infinate health.

Why waste ammo? Shoot it once with the shotgun, or 2 or 3 times with the mac10, or just ram the window with whatever vehicle u used to get there in the first place.

Peds suck. No peds. End of story. kthanks

I dont think having everyones exact locations shown on the map or radar is a good idea, it is far too limiting when it comes to mission structures. However, having a hail system, where the guy you want to find can choose to hace himself higlighted on your map, would be ok. But really what is wrong with saying 'im at starfish island, heading your way'? as withthe player names you will be able to locate each other easily enough.

Please note: Thread cleaned up. New suggestions only please.

Please search the forums before making suggestions, as everything you suggest has been beforehand by others Closed

prior to the coloured bars, that where only introduced yesterday we DID have a numeric readout of the health: See https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?t=2852 for examples. However every tester and dev prefers the new method, myself included, as its much easier to see at a glance and from distance just how hurt your opponent is, and it was also a little silly to have the percentage to 2 decimal places, as not even the other player themselves have that much deatil

matrix. interesting idea but again sounds more like a total conversion than a gema mode/subgame, as so many factors have to be changed, spawns,radar, gravity, introduction of npc's, slow motion, i also dont see how the slow motion would work as ALL players would have to see it at that speed for it to stay syncd, so the advantage would be lost.

It is bound to a different key yes, doing it your way (only jacking if at the drivers door) will limit gameplay, as you would no longer be able to jack in a lot of circumstances, ie when car skids and you are at other side, or you happen to be very slightly closer to the passenger door than the drivers etc. As for if you dont want him to get in, dont give him the chance, keep moving

Its all down to picking the correct weapon for the job, a mac10 is no good for ranged attacks, use an m60 instead they have massive range as well as devestating damage per shot, or for more accuracy the m1/m4. Pistols, mac10/uzi and shotgun are really only suitable for close up killing. This is more 'realistic' than some kind of infinate shoot distance. You'll be asking to throw the grenades further next hehe.

It's a microsoft patch,not a rockstar one, look int he readme.txt it has a link for it.