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Another chance for you guys to effect the development of MTA. There is talk of adding a voting system to the mta server, much like counter strike. If enough players vote to kick a specfic player they will be ejected. So, is this a good idea? PRO's: Gives some power to the ordinary players who are having their game disrupted, and are unable to find the admin for action to be taken. Admins dont have to monitor their servers so much to maintain order. CON's: Trainers and flooding will be blocked in version 0.2 and above, so the lamers will be looking for some other way to spoil others fun, the voting sytem could be abused by these people, all it takes is a few idiots on a server and all decent players could be repeatedly kicked. Admins dont have so much exclusive control over their server. Innocent people are always being accused of cheating,(i get accused every day!) A decent admin will usually be careful to verify this before taking action, when 'Joe Public' has the power it may be easy to start a mob reaction and get innocent people kicked

My vote would be to ban samdaman for posting stupid polls. Closed

Why can you not play online? I am also 56k and play for hours every day, often on american servers (im in the UK) with little noticable lag. Just steer clear of the larger servers, the 24 or 32 player ones.

Keep this on topic please. 14 replies and only 4 ips so far. This is solely for posting ips of definate cheaters, not discussing how to identify one

Having re read the initial posts in this thread i see lots of talk of a patch. Lets get this straight. There is no patch. This is not a retail game that got released before it was fully tested, it is a very early alpha/beta, the first in fact. The next version (mtavc 0.2) will ALSO be an alpha/beta, as well as the next, and the next, and.. well you get the point im sure. If you are so upset by bugs and ommisions then i suggest you come back and try it when we are at version 0.8 or 0.9 and its nearly complete.

Here is your chance to add to the development of mta, we want to hear your ideas for game modes and subgames/minigames in mta, these can be things that you play already like the popular 'ManHunt' (a player is identified by skin, and current vehicle/location, he is the fugitive, everyone else trys to kill him), and the fairly popular 'Bank Job' (varies, but usually one or more people 'own' the bank, others try to shooot thier way in, kill the owners, then drive away before they can be caught up with and killed themselves) or the current VCK favourite 'BikeBitch' (one player takes a bike into bloddring and rides, the rest chase him in cars trying to knock him off, no weapons allowed, no attacking him once hes dismounted, once rider or bike is dead another gang member becomes the biker) We dont need to know exactly how you would program them, just the basic ideas. please dont repeat others ideas, once something is suggested then we dont need 4 others to say the same things.

Compatibility mode is a windowsXP 'feature', (some feature, more like a hastily bolted on fix for the fact XP isnt as backwards-compatible as microsoft lead people to believe), so you do not have it on winME WinME has issues with mta but then lets face it, WinME is one big issue, the worst MS OS of all time, i strongly recommend you update to windows2000 or windowsXP (even win98se is a vastly more stable OS) As for your particular problem. why are you asking when there are already too many posts with possible fixes for this onthe forum, and advice in the faq? Thread Closed

Radio stations are not syncd, including the 'MP3 station' so you may do anything you like with them without fear of it affecting mta.

Thats nonesense, thankfully, if it wasnt you would have to reinstall every time someone of a different version was playing. mta is fully compatible and cross-compatible with BOTH 1.0 and 1.1, it makes no difference whatsoever what versions the other people on the server have. All the 1.1 update does is fix a video issue that a small minority of users systems can suffer, so if your single player game runs fine with no strange graphical bugs, you have no need to update at all. As for the initial problem, its got quite a lot of coverage on here already, so read the faq page, and search the forum.

even if you are both on the same dsl line you should have seperate ip's, otherwise it would be impossible for you to even view a www page, as the server wouldnt know which person to send the data to. look inot your router options etc, also check other identical posts on here with the 'search' feature.

The forum isnt created specifically for the purpose of helping people, it is also for sharing ideas, experiences, screenshots. guaging the players reactions and views on possible changes and more. The manual however, and the faq's and readme's ARE there to help you. Seeing the same things posted here and asked on IRC all the time by people who havn't even made the effort to have more than a cursary glance at those documents, or to do a quick search of the forums for the dozens of other people who have had the same problems is EXTREMELY tiresome.

Server, and client. 2 different things. run server. run client and connect just like any other server. run vc. kill your friends.

Thats not a proper ip its owned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority same as 1.1.1.1 i suspect that is his LAN network ip hehe

The servers log IP's, and the username they go with, so all you need to do is come to the irc channel and report them to me or cray (if you use the official servers) One of us will investigate and take any action we deem necessary. p.s. A server ban is already on IP, not name.

if by 'looking direction et walking' u mean people facing the direction they are actually facing being syncd, then it already is in mta:vc.1

At least read the other game mode threads before posting, this is mentioned more than once. Closed (woot, beat xerox to it)

Also the http://www.multitheftauto.com server page, and channel #mta-servers

Of course there are also the coaches, and the old style bus you find near the airport (in single player) im sure super-TRX could enable multi passenger (ie more than 3 peeps and one driver) in them. *watches TRX swear about the extra work *

Raiden get in touch with me, either via forum pm or on irc and i will put your map on my hosting for you to link to.

Suffer? In a LAN environment where all can be told not to quit VC whilst in a vehicle, and trainer usage can be spotted a mile off, you should be as stable as an 8 legged horse set in concrete.

They also have the advantage that you can always find an admin if theres any suspected cheating going on, Cray or myself for the wojjie servers, slush for the mminternet one. All can usually be found on mta irc.

Sounds cool, get the VCK boys into their best Sunday Suits and enter the battlefield in the gang limo. Unfortunately i believe the limo is still only a 4 door, but they do have a voliminous boot for storage of all the opposing gangs bodies.

sounds to me like you got into a car already occupied by someone who was alt-tabbed out of thegame or very lagged/timing out. Try getting an empty car

I dont think you can call it cheating, not when some gforce cards make bright daylight almost pitch black, mine certainly does if i dont use powerstrip

First try the 'uninstall' option in the mta setup, if this doesnt work (see below why not), then: Manually delete the current shortcuts and set any files in the /MTA/ directory to ARCHIVE (right click followed by properties, tickbox at the bottom) As it sounds as if they are there as READ ONLY. Then install once more. You MUST allow the installer to create the shortcuts and icons or it will NOT install in the correct place, and will therefore not work. You will also be unable to un-install