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oli: the FMJ thread wasnt deleted in the initial cleanup,, it had virtually no spam and lots of info in it.

Strangely enough it was the gang members of the 6 deleted threads who where the majority of the 'outsiders' spamming up other gangs threads too. As for you having permission to post. Correct. The forum has rules however. As for 'twisting it' how about you READ before you comment? From the initial post in this thread:

no deejay its a different 'deleting'. The first was 6 threads all full of spam. THEN some rogue mod decided to delete and lock ALL that remained. including every decent, rule following, gang info full, decent thread.

Yes i just noticed that it seems 'someone' decided to delete EVERY active gang thread, and lock every other one some time after the clean up. Meaning perfectly valid threads that had useful info and no spam have gone too, (only 6 where purged officially). It seems a normal moderator has the ability to do this so its difficult to determine who did this until logs are checked. It would need to be somebody overreacting to the initial tidy up. someone who has moderator status. I have my suspicions but that is all they are. for now.

You guys missed a key point. it was impossible to eliminate the spam and keep on top of it. You have any idea how long it takes to sort through a 20 page thread and delete 16 pages of spam mixed in with 'valid' posts? (not to mention a 170+ page thread). And what kind of impression does it give to a newly formed gang when well known gangs/members of the forum have threads full of spam? Every thread that was deleted had a lot of spam. (some of the massive ones where around 80% spam). Not ALL where deleted as dragon suggested. Each was checked beforehand. The VCK and SM threads for instance although very large are full of relevant posts, check them and you will see that. DeathB i quite agree and when you first mentioned the possibility of giving gang leaders power over thier own threads it was discussed with blokker. Not feasable unfortunately. But now the gang forum is 'fresh' the mods wont be scared to enter it and keep it clean anymore, so spam by other people in your gangs threads shouldnt be a problem from now on.

Posts deleted. How very wise to spam in a thread such as this. You want warnings? heres one. Spam in here get banned from the forums.

Just exactly how many warning do you guys need? The forum rules are plain enough. blokkers announcements re abusing the gang forum are clear enough. xenex's posts INSIDE your threads were clear enough. Some individuals getting postcounts reset, warnings via PM even temporary bans from the forum for it. All clear enough. So you lost some 'important' information. Perhaps that will FINALLY bring it home to you that you DO NOT SPAM in gang threads. But thats a pipe dream right? Give it a week or two and im sure the spam will start over and yet again when the rule breaking is dealt with by a moderator im sure you will all be blind to the fact that you broke rules, and just cry 'man you suck' It's done. If the spam starts over itll happen again. Those people whove sulkily said theyll 'quit mta' because of this. well you are laughable. It kind of proves the point that to YOU mta means 'a forum to spam in!' not ' a game to play'

Some gangs threads were nothing more than thinly disguised spam threads, with maybe 15 to 20 % actual gang related posts. This will not be tolerated and has gone on too long. Your gang thread is for gang information, membership applications, member discussions regarding gang news and decisions etc. NOT for pointless spam. The worst culprits seem to be the larger older more established gangs. The exact people who should know BETTER. We are not willing to spend over an hour sifting through the thread to delete the spam, so they are gone totally. -From now on your new threads will be watched closely anyone seen to be spamming either in thier own or other gangs threads will be dealt with. -This forum is gonna be heavily moderated. All gangs are allowed to post 1 topic to show they are alive and to recruit. -No verbal wars allowed!

Wait and See We dont say whats going to be in until we know it definately is. And we dont usually know that for sure until right before the release. As i've said before everything can be working nicely until something new is added and breaks half the old stuff.

The racer has been gone for a long time, I removed him over a month ago. As for what replaces them..Wait and See.

last few weeks my a*se. Its Easter Break. Some people have Real Life to attend to. Normal service will resume shortly.

It is yeah. Thats partly my fault as its Easter holidays here and i have my children for a week, so spare time is spent doing 0.4 stuff rather than gang/forum/irc/server adminning etc. (not that i have a great deal of spare time while they are here, maybe 2 hours a day) Also i've yet to hear from madmike as to wether they are taking a win or wanting a rematch

The MTA Hq is a small shack in west Clacton. We like the Sea Views you see.

the 30% leap was due to several things reaching a stage of completion at once. Remember we have a large team of people working on all sorts of areas of the mod. Also never forget the progress bars are an estimation only.

ransom said: Thats been a known issue since 0.2 ransom, no need to pause. Any passenger going through a warp point such as the stadia or the mansion will have no interior.

Invincible not invisible Means it cannot be damaged.

Unfortunately not, the only solid bit appears to be the roof of the entrance where i am standing in the picture. It has no floor so when i stepped off i fell through and appeared on the road outside.

New account i see Ramon You missed April Fools by quite a few hours when posting this my man.

update, tried to show someone the buried bike glitch tonight, he'd left a car on the approach though and i hit it sending me flying well before the wall, resulting in this:

WARNING: This post contains MANY images, but as altogether they amount to less Kb than many peoples signature images i think its acceptable It started out as a normal night on the ten player Official server, a mix of kills and chases and cooperative play. Then TURBOB arrived and naturally talk and action turned towards Glitches, I decided to try and get into the office opposite the 'normal' one in the VCN building, and after much messing around getting vans destroyed by killjoys who wouldnt leave us alone we did it. Id mentioned how funny it would be to get a helicopter up there. five minutes later whilst we were all at North Point Mall looking for new glitches Pegasus called us all over the the VCN building to show us something: We moved on and started searching the various shops for glitches, another five minutes or so passed and he called us back: hed pushed it about as far as it would go, so i thought id try flying it, it handled much like a heli on top of the stadium, kinda dragged along the ground, but i got it to here: At which point Bigjoe took the controls and got it even further! Unfortunately it had had enough damage at this point and exploded on us, killing a few and leaving the rest of us standing around a little disheartened. So much so a mass suicide was decided upon: Throughout this there had been eight or nine of us enjoying the cease fire whilst exploring the glitches, but always that rogue one who would come along and wreck the attempts. So an server greet was added telling people server was being used for glitch hunting and please not to shoot anyone. After searching the drugstore for glitchs i decided to see if i could ram my way into the nearby hall, my passenger and i got thrown all the way through the building! the bike ended up like this: This became a favourite and for the next hour or so all of us played with the glitch: Rear view of me on the embedded bike (you can see the glazing effect to the left of the image): Cars can do it too At this point i took a break and changed the server back to normal DM. Interestingly after 10 minutes the server only had 2 people on it, seems everyone loves a glitching session

I wont be running votekick on the official servers for the reasons already mentioned above. Pople accused of cheating rarely are, meaning many will get kicked for nothing. Balancing the amount, (percentage), of players needing to vote !yes is difficult when many can be afk/not speak english/just not bothered to vote, and a kick wont deter a REAL cheater, (rarer than you think as most long term players, who know how to identify the genuine cheats, will tell you), as he/she can simply reconnect. There is almost always an admin available in #mta, so go there and cheats will be looked into. Only exception are the few unearthly hours each day when the admins are sleeping, but as the servers are hardly populated at these times of night for the same reason that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

seeing as april 1 is over in most all areas of the world now (except maybe hawaii).. locked

Please post any suggestions for our new project in here. Perhaps theres a particular card design you would like to see included, or a game mode that hasn't occured to us as yet.

I have to admit that i was againt this move at first, anyone who know me knows how much i love everything GTA. But having played around with multiSol and some basic versions of the other titles we plan to convert i must say they are great fun, and there will always be mtavc0.3 to play to satisfy my gta cravings.

No, as that would no longer be manhunt it would be 'everyone head straight for that really obvious blip on the radar'