hahahah, that made my day
Sorry but you have clearly never played 0.3b
EDIT: I should elaborate as I guess many reading this wont have either.
In 0.3b you didnt shoot people, hell when you saw someone it was virtually impossible to tell if it was someone ingame or the ghost of someone whod connected for 30 seconds 20 minutes ago and had since lost conn, usually it was the latter if it began to run up building walls etc.
In 0.3b you had an uzi so you technically 'could' shoot, but in my many many many hours of play i succesfully killed someone ONCE, and he was standing still and was none too happy about it afterwards. The uzi was to give you somethign to do while you ran to the next car
In 0.3b there was no chat unless u alt tabbed to the client and typed in there, needless to say nobody chatted other than the odd 'meet at bridge to race'
In 0.3b you couldnt jack players, if you did you'd both have to restart the game to continue. 0.3b was about the joy of driving and sharing experiences in the gta world, and the amazing fact that you could and was pretty much the most fun you could have online at the time (for a gta fan anyway).
Perhaps everyone should be forced to play 0.3b while 0.5 loads. Thered never be a complaint about somethign so petty as 'my favourite shotgun isnt like it was before' again
bleh, you should've played with tali back then, it was easy to get him from 999hp to 0