If you running it with 32bit color try putting it on 16bit. I have a crap video card and i can run SA with all the settings up on 16bit, yet when i switch to 32 it lags real bad.
Dont see how just adding crosshairs will work, you cant manually aim the gun while in normal view.
Also you dont really have to control the chase camera. It moves by itself, but its very slow.
DrDre use to be on my msn...i think i took him off a couple weeks ago.
To name a few old SM friends: Chaoswolf, Deathcon, Bizarre, G-Force, Stinger. All of them are on my msn list, but only Chaoswolf hasnt come back online since the whole stolen bike incident.
Well right now MTA0.5 is client side, so nothing is saved server side. Meaning when you crash every thing gets put back to where it spawns. I dont think this will be solved in 0.5.5.
I mentioned this on IRC, but i'll just post it here. Maybe you could have crashed ships scattered around the Dust Bowl like in one of the early missions in Jedi Academy. Here is a screenshot of what im talking about, closest thing i could find.
Click here.