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We have stats. Less than 1% of our player base uses a version older than Windows 10. We can't keep supporting it, and we won't for a small amount of stubborn people. If your PC can run Windows 7, it can also run Windows 10. Alternatively, Linux which we aim to support better in 1.7. You are running an operating system that is insecure, open to viruses, and disallows us from making important changes to improve MTA. Tens of people, maybe hundreds on a really busy day. Others included in your "millions" don't play MTA, and many of those numbers are taken up by embedded systems with no opinions. MTA 1.6 had issues. We acknowledged this multiple times. With MTA 1.7 we have worked hard to resolve many of those issue, a commitment that continues. Many of those issues came from having to adapt to more heavy servers (using more heavy assets) and having to further protections against cheaters. MTA is old, with a very old codebase, on top of an old game. It adds unique challenges. We continue to have a large player base that will happily move over to 1.7 once released. Don't make claims without having the stats to back it up. Don't make claims without a proper understanding of software development, and the efforts that go into a project like this. Windows 7 support by Microsoft ended over 6 years ago. Similarly we had supported Windows XP for many years after Microsoft did. We don't have a history of ending our support that quickly, and we only do if we have no other choice. Windows 10 will see support for the foreseeable future. That said, if you have issues with the game, or the default resources. Report them on our GitHub. You can also contribute to those fixes yourself (as we are open source). Already acknowledged and being fixed for MTA 1.7. Can't compare us with first-party games. We are a mod for a very old, poorly optimized game. The challenges for these are very different as we don't have access to the game's source code. Servers change their scripts, operating systems change, and cheaters change their methods. So yes, we have to make updates, and sometimes it doesn't work out as we meant to. We have already acknowledged the issues with 1.6 and that we are using 1.7 to fix them. We aim to prevent this from happening again. We have communicated heavily about all of this on our Discord server over these last few months. If you're not already in there, I highly suggest joining: https://discord.com/invite/mtasa

Due to security and operational reasons, we must announce that the upcoming Multi Theft Auto 1.7 release will not support Windows 7/8/8.1. We recommend that users still running these versions of Windows upgrade to Windows 10 or later, or switch to a Linux based operating system (using Lutris, Wine, etc...).

We don't provide support for server bans.

Sphene is now officially open source! https://github.com/sphene/sphene-mta Excited to work with all of you, to turn this highly experimental pile of trash into something beautiful! Remember, Sphene historically has been very experimental. Many different approaches were tried and researched and that has left a lot of experimental, legacy and unfinished code. It's not the most glamorous, but we're still proud of it! Together we'll refactor the legacy code, we'll finish the unfinished pieces and we'll work through all the large problems that are ahead of us. Repository wiki will be filled with information, and lists (current states of each mission, etc) in the coming days. REMEMBER! Sphene is NOT production ready. We will only help those who want to contribute to our development with setting up their local development versions.

Sounds like the country you're in is causing trouble itself. Sorry to hear that.

I'm seeing a common factor between all these events... you. Are you sure you're following the rules of each server properly, and acting appropriately? I can't imagine many servers would be thriving if they just randomly targeted new players.

Contact your internet provider

Honestly, the issues you listed are all issues that are caused by a combination of bad scripts and a bad infrastructure. There's only so much Multi Theft Auto can do if server owners don't bother to learn proper security practices and implement them. Also, anti-cheat clearly has seen updates numerous of times since 2023 (obviously they're not open about all the changes). Development is happening on a nearly daily basis with plenty of new updates coming available. The community is far from being neglected, a lot of the community is on the Discord server nowadays though. Please get your facts straight before you make such accusations.

Contact Discord support

We are planning to open source Sphene around Q4 of 2025. I'd like to set some expectations: Sphene is still heavily in development, by no means will Sphene be something you can just run and enjoy on a server. While a lot of features have been added to Sphene, a lot of the storyline is not fully playable yet. There are still a lot of glitches, and missing functionality. You WILL run into major issues. We are working through some of the last hurdles that kept us from open sourcing the project. We will only provide support on getting Sphene to run to those with clear intent to help its development. By open sourcing the project later this year, we hope to accelerate its development. We hope to work together as a community to better understand how the underlying game code operates and how to implement missing functionality into Sphene. We look forward to working together with all of you!

Happy holidays to our wonderful community!

Quick update, project is very much alive and loads of progress has been made since this topic was made. I'll add a new comment soon outlining the work we've done over these 6 years. I usually just do updates on our Discord server but realized that there's possibly a group of people out there that might be trying to get their updates on the project here.

I've gone ahead and fixed them

That's pretty interesting. Would love to see what else we can achieve with AI in MTA. Could see this being useful a way to provide support for server players.

Question has been answered on Discord as well. You can't request to join the team. When there's a need for more staff members, existing staff will decide which community members are best suited for the job. There's a lot of factors that go into those decisions. Just focus on being a positive part of the community.

Pretty unique! Definitely going to try this one out.

Another amazing year has gone by! Happy holidays everyone and let's make 2024 another amazing year for the community.

You can make use of dxDrawText - https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxDrawText

Turns out 1.6 is real after all! Good job everyone who was involved with this update in any way. There's loads of QoL changes and new features I'm excited to actively use in my projects. Excited to see what else the future will bring to this incredible community.

Very exciting! Updating my version right now and ensuring my ongoing projects work well with MTA 1.6. I'm excited to try out some of the new features.

Congrats on 20 years MTA! I'm proud to have been part of this community for at least 13 of those years even if it was on a laptop that was only able to run the game at a whopping 7 fps. Multi Theft Auto has been quite an important part of my life, in part due to the fact that I started playing when I was around 14 years old while I'm now 27 which means that it was there through some of the most defining years of my life. When I grew from being a kid to the adult that I am now. Being a part of this community helped me improve my English (it used to be absolutely horrendous as some who have known me since the UAG days may remember), form tons of amazing friendships and significantly improved my coding skills. While Lua itself isn't necessarily useful in my current job building projects and communities in MTA has taught me plenty of useful coding practices, helped me improved my web development skills due to the need for websites for my communities and forced me to learn how to properly build a server infrastructure. It also helped me become more mature, learning from any mistakes I have made in the past. A little known fact as well is that MTA has in part helped me go through a severe depression I went through around the age of 16-17. Thank you for helping me grow both as a person and as a coder. I appreciate everyone who contributes positively to this project and look forward to the many years yet to come. You bet I'll be around for all of it.

Don't waste your second chance people! Great job to the AC team for the hard work you've put in over the years and for allowing those who have made mistakes in the past to have a second chance to enjoy the game again.

That's an issue you directly have with the Mr Green server. I highly doubt you'll receive any help from the MTA Staff on this as they have no power over it.

Great job Hydra! Love seeing the progress you've been making as a scripter and your overall dedication.

There's a few ways you can accomplish this. You could maintain a log of when the player has logged in and compare against that to see if they logged in 3 consecutive days. Another way is only keeping track of the last login and a counter of consecutive days thus far. If the user logs in and their last login wasn't the day before you reset the counter, otherwise if they did you increase it. Obviously if they logged in earlier on that same day you don't modify the counter.