[KFC]KungFu

"health spots" are not they run off your machen nope not off your machete, of your machine Curly if I wanted to hear from an asshole I would have farted... My point is take the time to explain these things to the few new people who care enough to ask

A Christmas release would be very ambitious. They haven't even finished coding it yet, let alone testing / debugging (which takes a long time). Umm... read the topic title this is 0.4.5 not blue..

This guy joined November 16th 2004... Is he supposed to search the archives to find out the question was answered? Maybe but just maybe it bears repeating... If you dont' have the time for it don't post a sacastic non answer... This type of "kill the noob" attitude isn't really helpful in attracting new intrest. The answer is that it's too much to sync every little thing you would want in this mod. Even thou you see trash flying around and a million other things.. the only things that are synced are people, cars, bullets and health spots... the rest of this game is run off your machine and it's assumed that you have the same map as anyone else unless you are using map mods (those are prohibited and are cheating at this time)

If team members are telling you they don't know I wouldn't put it on your christmas list... just a hint

I think it's not accurate to say there is no direction for gameplay with all of the advances that Aeron and Oli have made with scripts... The server that has the most people in it the most time is PartyServer.. that I among others admin... We run vigilante mode all the time, we have CTW and Manhunt running as well... I think that a large amount of the players we have left are the laggy variety who have a haven with MTA. If you lag in server based games the whole screen is hosed and it's hard to play. However in MTA, laggers have smooth client based gameplay and the lag is only with other players they find... People with good ping and bad computers might not be able to run newer games they may rather play... I have a good ping and a good computer and I know others do... who knows why we still play... but I think this is also a factor when it comes to the extreme lag we are seeing with many players these days. The game is laggy... but when 0.4 was launched and everyone was trying it out it wasn't this bad. same for version 0.3 It is no picnic shooting a guy 20 times to get one shot to sync while every packet they send your way synces just fine... Explaining this and other things that are unique to MTA to new people will go a long way to getting them to stay.

I get the lowest ping in your server... 260 lol

It costs money and mtavc is free to them... that may explain it

Gamebro made some very painfully true observations but I don't think that the VC multiplayer will die because SA is around. it's apples and oranges like eAi said... Unless someone came out with a great multiplayer SA mod before MTA they would still have the market cornered on GTA multiplayers. Im biased for sure but I can't see how any other game can measure up to a playable MTAVC like blue will be with all of the options for gamemodes. Now we have stunt and deathmatch... then we will have many many variations for servers to run... but that's all the future... my original point was the here and now... I know this game is fun and playable... it's not for everyone for sure but the more people that hear about it the more people we can get to play it as is... and imperfect as it is it's still worth playing. I have had some sucess keeping new people by teaching them the ins and outs of version 0.4.1... if you see someone new try to take them aside and let them in on the secrets... lag sync etc...

Brittain isn't a race, most polish, german and english people are the same race. Yeah I was side stepping the issue with my faked ignorance on world history... Just felt like making a dumb joke...

Listen punk- show some god damn respect- if it wasn't for us Brits- you'd be a f*ckin Nazi. grow up and stop w*nkin over MTA. Can't say I have a clue what you are talking about but... How is the sunshine band going? ER... HELLO! World War 2 mean anything to you?! He's from Poland- and if it weren't for us Brits- he'd be a Nazi. kapische? Yeah I got that ... Im wicked smaaart. I just wanted to work in my KC and the Sunshine band joke... btw if it wasn't for the USA you brits would boil meat and have rotten teeth... umm wait nevermind

I agree with your second point If everyone randomly spawned at serveral places like cops and crusaders do it would spread out the game play and end the spawnwars. The reason for the different occupations was a teamplay thing and that would work if the skins were not so varied... If all robbers always looked like robbers we could have a teambased server where you would be kicked/slapped for teamkilling... that would be great But if the skins are going to be like they are now it would be better to abandon the characters all together and have some weapons that people love as pickups like in GTA3 or just have everyone spawn randomly after they pick a character. FMJ Oli wrote a script that prevents robbers and it's a nice change of pace. I want to see if we could have one that only let you spawn as a cop or crusader so noone could effectively spawnwar... that might be too confusing for people who join... But if this type of city wide battle was part of the game it would be an improvement. Aside from that is it possible to have a random spawn server with one type of character and weapon pickups, much like we have stunt servers now? sorry it's long post day for me

I get what you are saying... First impressions last and people who check in on it now may not stop back... I think there are enough people available to let a few get fed up now and still grab more when Blue raises the bar... The gameplay now is very very good and it's come a long way from when I first played it. If I can get hooked so can others... try and spread the word. Sloth has a good point with the servers... Many times people will think it's overrun with cheaters when it's just lag and sync thou. I would say only 1 in 10 people who cry cheater are right from my experience

I got to thinking about how few ppl are interested in this game and how interested the few people who play are... sorta like a cult following If we had 2000 people playing it would be fraction of the amount of people who play other games but it would be 4x the people who play this one. Other games are made for online play and this isn't but... this is free and addictive. I think we need to try and do two things. 1) spread the word - however you can, call a radio show, tell people in other circles... put a bumper sticker on your car, bike or make a T-Shirt.. Tell telemarketers when they call you ;p the big one 2) Help new people get this running and get good at this... - Everytime you pwn a noob and shit talk them they will walk away from this game and put it down to everyone who asks so they never get new people to play - Everytime you take a new guy aside and help them play this game they will tell everyone they know about this game and you will have more people to play with. I know about all of MTAs limitations but we should be able to get more than a max of 400 ppl in the whole world to play it at one time These are the stats for CS Source... could you imagine half of these people playing MTA? Green is the amount of people playing, Red is server availablity.

No I have seen this happen to the whole server at once. I think it was tied to somone using cheats. The whole server would look like Max Payne bullet time or the Matrix... If this is what it was the fact that it stopped when you started fraps was coincedental

The NewZealand/Austrailia areas have always been active in MTA but have always been the laggiest players known to man If they have fast servers there I wouldn't mind seeing how the ping is but a dialup guy from the bottom of earth is no picnic we are open for matches... just let me know in my forum.. click on my sig

taking the piss ... ? j/k I never complained about progress... since version 0.2 I always enjoyed the last version right up until the next one came out. I wouldn't mind playing version 0.3 still. but it's curious to see it jump...

I don't think that's a bash.. he wants to play but he is having problems.. Try to vary the servers you play on.. hint hint.. *cough*PartyServer*cough* As far as game freezes... make sure you have a smooth running computer and a clean install of vice city.. after that welcome to the club we all crash here and there. If you use a wireless network or even a wired router on a DSL line you may have disconnects.. I used to

Great link I missed it before.. this is very interesting... Look at how many people play MTA http://www.game-monitor.com/stats.php?game=mta The green line is who plays.. the red are available slots.. it peeks at >500 and dips down to 0 kinda sad... This is why I am trying to encourage the so called newbs to get better at MTA since without new people who are we going to play

I think that you need to bend a tree while it's young and that you should never bet on 3 legged horses... That's my opinion

Listen punk- show some god damn respect- if it wasn't for us Brits- you'd be a f*ckin Nazi. grow up and stop w*nkin over MTA. Can't say I have a clue what you are talking about but... How is the sunshine band going?

Kind of pointless for most people. As is Gunny... ironic

I shot Dark last night and ... wait.... wait... Yep it just registered on his end.

You forgot KungFu: raw fuckin truth and clean logic... I love you

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