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If such a section was introduced, it would be spammed to high heaven. The way to tell if a server is good is if it is popular. People won't play on a server that they don't like.

Yeah, I'd be interested to see how they plan to do this too. There are several options they could choose: 1. Everyone has no skills 2. Everyone has max. skills 3. Random skill levels (probably not a good idea) 4. Everyone starts at zero but it takes less time for skills to build up than in SP.

Yeah, buy it.

I think it was round about September last year.

Do you mean is it the best for Windows? Well, MS certainly want you to believe that. I personally believe that no spyware at all is far better than a tool to remove it, however effective this tool may be.

When I was learning programming, I would break down each task into steps, for example: To load settings from a file: 1. Check whether file exists 2. Load file 3. Obtain data from file 4. Process data 5. Close file I would then do some research on how to complete each specific step rather than doing a tutorial right from the beginning. Tutorials are generally designed to teach you syntax and common functions anyway, so they may not necessarily be relevant to what you want to specifically achieve. Don't think that you can make a relatively complex program from a language tutorial alone. I found this method useful because it meant that I knew what I was looking for.

Will it be possible to disable the planes if the admin so wished? I was thinking that people may swoop down in hydras and start shooting the people who are racing. It's all in good fun, of course, but some people may just want to race.

Just wait for LC-MP, its worth the wait and is a lot more fun. Its coming very soon, and since there won't be a blue for GTA 3, don't count on playing a synced version on MTA for a while. What makes you such an expert?

You can. I asked in the blog comments.

MTA meets The Matrix... might make a good Blue mod.

A ramp mod would make a good companion to MTA:SA's race gamemode.

It can't be an MTA problem if it occurs in SP then. Try reinstalling GTA and make sure that there are no mods and it is the retail version.

Thanks guys. Btw, the link on the news post on the front page takes you to mtavc.com instead of the blog.

That FAQ is accessible from the main site and has been there for ages. If there was a new Blue site, they'd be sure to tell us otherwise there would be no point in creating it. I look forward to it

What does the error message say? I think it's the fact that you haven't entered an IP into the box, not that you don't have an IP yourself. Use the built-in server browser to find a server IP. I don't understand why people have difficulty with this.

I had problems with the latest Nvidia drivers in recognising my laptop's graphics chip so I downloaded a modified driver set and it worked fine. Try http://www.guru3d.com

This is really not the place for this discussion.

Admin+ is an option within the server, not a program. Switching Admin+ on reports extra functionality to external programs such as health levels and player positions. For what you want to do, you will need a utility called MTAMA, available from http://home.deds.nl/~aeron/ . It is an add-on for mIRC so you will need that as well: http://www.mirc.com This admin utility has the ability to run scripts which perform the functions you described. I would imagine that the General Release Script has these functions: http://forum.mtavc.com/viewtopic.php?t=8788

Sounds like your PC is close to the minimum requirements for GTA. This would explain the lag, crashes and slow textures.

In summary: they are unlikely to release any devshots / alphas like some other mods have done.

If you didn't like SP, that doesn't mean that you'll dislike multiplayer. Of course, the reverse is also true.

This is really off-topic.

The only way to properly learn a language is to develop a relatively complex program. The difficulty is finding a project that is complex enough yet achievable that you have an interest in and a genuine need for.

The server just handles network data and keeps score. It does not require GTA.

Could you not have a standalone application that accepts input from both sources and forwards them to their relevant applications, or is that not possible?