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Erm. No. Read the title of this topic and perhaps you'll see you're misunderstanding entriely and going off on some unrelated tangent. Anyway, all issues I mentioned have been fixed now so all is well.

No thanks * waits for some others.

What? That's got nothing to do with what I said.

I think a site would be more suited to this, rather than a forum thread which would get very overloaded.

Only if the server admin chooses to retain all included maps. I would imagine many won't once they have thier particular favourites.

I think most of us are aware of the few people who hang around on this forum merely to encourage complaint about MTA or try and promote a feeling of competition and dissent between it and other mods, (they know who they are too). The MTA Team itself doesn't feel this way though, and nor do the teams involved in the creation of other mods, so thier efforts have been in vein. I, like many others, intend to play any and every mod out there, unless something very odd happens each one should provide something unique. Much like I have played Medal of Honour, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Return to Castle Wolfenstien and Call of Duty ", all of which could be viewed as 'the same' and 'competing' by those who havn't played them and appreciated them all. Perhaps now we could leave this thread for its intended purpose, to provide somewhere to discuss SAMP. If you feel the need to discuss the above then I suggest you start a new thread in general to do so.

Well done guys, let's hope this quells the spate of begging and moaning posts on the blog. * Installs his new hard drive in preperation.

You might want to change that to MTA:SA The screens and movies area in the SA section says simply 'MTA' too which will lead to people posting mtavc nd gta3 images there, might be an idea to rename that also if you're intending to give each mod its own seperate screens section. I'd also change the title 'MTA built upon Blue platform' to 'The MTA Blue platform' as you are now migrating the specific releases outside of it.

NazcaC2, even the current released verson of mta (0.5) has private messaging. To single or multiple users.

For those who didn't realise, these are fake. The fact one shows a crash gives it away (it doesn't crash! )

You owe me your liver Jani.

Well that was the mistake, in my and some others opinions. I'm sure it can be rectified relatively easily in the future though. And it isn't exactly earth shattering anyway.

I very much doubt the final edit is synchronous with the actual series of events. It's probably made up from more than one race for a start.

Nice one jani. I suggest moving this to the useful topics section someone

Or run players over! They love it, as they respawn lamenting thier lost weapons, swearing never to fight in the middle of a highway again and fondly calling you a car noob (A sign of genuine affection I assure you) ;P

Isn't half the point of the blog that people don't have to register and can drop a comment quickly and pretty much anonymously? (as far as the other members of the public are concerned). Remove that and it's simply an echo of the main page / forum. Albeit one with a far superior banner The other half being the team dropping regular nuggets of information ragarding progress. Something that started well but dried up lately. Remember it isn't just the vocal releaseitnowmuddyfudders brigade who are interested in RC4 testing progress etc

No it isn't. Once a 'race' is in progress any joining players have to wait until the next one begins before they can participate. I didn't realise you were doing some of the coding now. Anyway as I said elsewhere, there is no point adding this for the first release at this late stage. It was obviously a mistake, an oversight that didn't occur to anybody, and one that can be rectified in one of the many promised small releases/patches that have been promised to follow the initial release. I just hope it is hovvering near the top of 'Blokkers list'.

Only one made by members of the Qa team perhaps, but many users will want to create them. It was a mistake not to include respawn, I guess it wasn;t thought through. HOWEVER, it's too late to do anything about it now. I just hope its hovering around the top of the list for the next release/update/patch etc

Do you think Forum polls are stupid, a waste of time, pointless, indicative of nothing more than passing whims? VOTE!

a half-eaten lollypop. erm. Wow ... Are you trying to start a 'post the most boring or pointless image' thread or something?

I don't think it will be updated with that change as the yacht is already taken by another gang. Personally I don't see the problem with more than one gang having the same place, you only get to defend once after all, but the rules of this thread as they stand do not allow it.

You are ignoring the possibility of file consistancy checks as part of cheat prevention. In short please do not post statements that things will work if you do not know that they in fact will, thanks.

You know this how? I think you are guessing it will work

People have been encouraged by the fact that an endless race can be created (something Team members have stated more than once), be it by making no finish line, or placing the finish line somewhere inaccessable, allowing a free roam mode where players can simply revel in the freedom of driving around wherever they wish, exploring and experimenting. However, there is no respawn. There is of course the option of setting no damage for vehicles, or extremely high hit points for them. But that itself reduces a larger part of the fun. Seeing the cars panels get more and more battered, trying to limit damage by landing outrageous stunts well etc. These two things do not go together, the lack of respawn means even with no damage the player that rolls his vehicle, or fails to roll over a repair pickup in time, or drives into the water can no longer play, he is stuck in spectator. Even reconnecting wont help as the race will already be 'in progress', meaning he cannot restart. This also means new players joining will not be able to participate. The only way to respawn is to restart the map/race entirely, placing all players back at the initial spawn point and severely limiting the freedom promised. This is a poor decision. Yes many maps will not require a respawn, but many will. I strongly suggest respawn be included as an option and feel it is a mistake not to do so.

The server will be running at 127.0.0.1 for you, for others? well, it's simple to find your own ip. /dns on irc, ipconfig in comand prompt, websites that tell you etc. No, you created a new account. Why didn't you simply go to Profile and change the name of your original one?