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So what was the problem in the end?

Yeah, and some people buy every Sims expansion pack as well. Shockingly, they think it's good value for money and actually gain positive consumer surplus for it

I think it's possible to make DX overlays semi-transparent. Looks good btw, eAi.

Turismo was removed in .5 due to it causing crashes. The shoreside missions can be activated with the taxi or with the warehouse in shoreside.. for info on the missions, go HERE I seem to recall them saying that Turismo was purchasable in Ammunation, but they did remove a feature at the last minute so maybe that was it.

Feature request for 0.5.1 (or whatever): Make it so that it checks for read-only attributes on files and removes the attribute if necessary to solve this problem.

1. You got them from 1 source so it's not wholly representative. 2. Quality of service doesn't just depend on speed. There are other factors that come into play such as customer service. For example, I can get a reply from Game2XS to a query in less than 10 minutes usually, and I'm not even one of their customers. I'd call that quality service. 3. Fr4g only has the lowest pings out of the providers tested, not out of the whole UK because there were many that you missed out. I'm not taking sides or anything - I'm just pointing out the factors that you've overlooked.

Don't update it with my figures as it would be pointless comparing them with this other guy's figures for the other companies. Also, is 25ms really that bad? All of these servers have good pings. Clearly Oxidehost has the highest out of UK ones tested (presuming that the stats you posted are correct) but I still think 25ms is a good ping. Edit: You missed out Game2XS btw.

Hmm... interestingly I now get 13ms average from the second Fr4g server instead of 29ms.

There's one problem with your stats, Smartie - you should have pinged all three Fr4g servers and averaged the pings. I noticed that 203.230.209.159 was faster than the one that you pinged (203.230.209.155), giving me an average of 13ms as opposed to 29ms.

Yeah, but he didn't do the testing.

I think they're marginally more efficient to execute but that's about it.

A lot of MMORPGs have subscription fees. What annoys me is that they charge full price for the game and then charge you a subscription fee. Guild Wars looks good though because it's the only commercial MMORPG so far that doesn't have a subscription fee (I don't think it's out yet but the beta is if I recall correctly).

Sure there would. It could be made easier to navigate and find information.

I only ever do work on the college computers because there's always a shortage of machines and it's out of order to play games when someone else is wanting to use the PC for work. I don't think they have a great deal of protection though.

It sounded like a Mario Kart reference to me.

I'm not sure that they will ever tell us. If people know too much about it, it's easier to find ways around it. You have to remember that it's not as easy as modding something like Half-Life. This has a lot of technical barriers that need to be overcome. But I do have a question for IJs: how come GTA3 pings are generally lower than VC pings?

What about the Jolt servers? Bump was in charge of those too.

The trouble is, most people seem to think that a new site design means adding some new pictures. What I would like to see is clear-cut sub headings at the side such as: MTA 0.5 ===== * Information * FAQ * Download * Known Issues MTA Blue ====== * Information * FAQ Something like that would make it easier for people to find what they're looking for.

Sorry, you'll have to wait for Blue.

Do you mean TermNL?

This has been suggested lots of times. eAi said that they may look into this after the release of Blue.

Security always comes at a cost unfortunately.

They said they'll fix it when they release the next client update.