-i.Tanner Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 The following things are quite simple to put in ur new mta blue and, ask anyone, they are wanted. 1, The ability to drop weapons/money, this will allow for full trading in teamed battles, and a very cool mafioso interface 2, CUSTOM SKINS, quite possible and something everone wants, make it so mta has a MOD/APP folder like steam, so when a player with a custom skin.bmp file joins the server its downloaded, idetified, and used. Please put these things in ur new mta keep up the good work Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 wow [sacasm] AMazing man, how come nobody has ever tought about this!!!!WOW!!!1111oneone[/sarcasm] wow when i saw this topic i tought it woud be some things that were never suggested before and some way to add a better cheatprevention or some new additions to mta, but no its simply one of those suggestion which we have read thousands of times meh , who was i kidding. Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Same old , Same old .. and the weapon dropping idea would be easy to turn into a "get more ammo" trick . u "drop" your weapons that had low ammo and then get a new one with full ammo ... Link to comment
Slothman Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 i would be more worried about 1 person dropping a gun, and everyone grabbing it. or is that fixed in blue? Link to comment
eAi Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 That'll be fixed in blue. On the subject of custom skins, for a start theres no obvious way to apply a BMP to an actor (the player can, but other players can't), I could work out how, but is it worth it? Secondly, the bitmaps are large (the one I just tested was 192KB). That'd take a 56K modem user 40 seconds to download for each player, not really practical. As nice as the idea of custom skins sounds, it wouldn't work. It might be useful for mods that want to easily add a custom skin to a player though, for a game mode use... eAi Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 The skin part would be better if used clieant side anyways, like other games out there , example you can change a weapon skin on your side, but for others it would just be the normal one. What is of course possible ( if doable in blue) is the person running the server has the game different ,examples,other player skin, other weapon skin, a ramp somewher , a bridge somwhere ,but instead of autodownload from the server he would have a site somewhere to download his mod-pack from, this is a way of doing a different skin for everyone , again this is all IF it will be doable in blue. Link to comment
Slothman Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 hmmmm...... a custom skin pack for all the mta gangs. each gang could design 2 or 3 skins for their gang, then it would be bundled into a game mod for blue.... or if we wanted to get carried away, every mta community member could design their own skin and offer it for submition to a project lead, then it would be offered for download on a central server. then a tool could be made to auto-download skins from said server automatically when that person joins the game server.... /me is dreaming ------------------------------------------------ That'll be fixed in blue.eAi you guys thought of everything already! Link to comment
ThugMakaveli Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 I dont like the idea....... Stifler961 Link to comment
orappa Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 I think Quake 3 has custom skins. I remember because I had to spend ages downloading one before I could even join a server. That's what I hate about Quake 3 - it's very difficult to find a server that you can just play on without having to download loads of stuff (slowly). It's not nice for those of us who only want a quick 20 minute blast. Client-side custom skins would be ok though. Link to comment
happyrock Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 custom skins are so annyon and pointless because I really don't care if you want to use something from gundam wing as a skin. such was a quake2 exprince I had. anyways I would not really want to download 16 diffrent skins and have wait evenlonger to join the game. Link to comment
Kent747 Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 money/weapon dropping is feasible with the addon... custom skins?? we're not there yet, we may try to implement that, but its not the top of our priorities Kent Link to comment
eAi Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Has anyone got a custom bmp skin that they've made (for vc obviously)? I'll look into it if someone gives me one. eAi Link to comment
KoRvEn Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 why not have all custom skins in a Free for all team Link to comment
ThugMakaveli Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Well, I wouldnt a Jay or Silentbob skin...... Biggie Smalls Link to comment
+FKU+VVolven Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 I think it'd be hella sweet if each clan could make a few custom skins (mmmmm, leather jackets with FKU on the back and red bandanas, woot!) but I see a lot of people don't wanna bother with the downloads for some quick frags. Is there a way to maybe make it a voluntary download, I.E. the skins are placed on a main host, say http://www.MTAskins.com, people could download from there, and if they joined a server, the MTA client looked in a custom skins folder and couldn't find a skin it'd just use a skin already in game? Link to comment
Quig Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 hmmm .me agrees with that idea i like the idea of custom gang colors/clothes Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 I think it'd be hella sweet if each clan could make a few custom skins (mmmmm, leather jackets with FKU on the back and red bandanas, woot!) but I see a lot of people don't wanna bother with the downloads for some quick frags. Is there a way to maybe make it a voluntary download, I.E. the skins are placed on a main host, say http://www.MTAskins.com, people could download from there, and if they joined a server, the MTA client looked in a custom skins folder and couldn't find a skin it'd just use a skin already in game? That is why i mentioned client side skins , they are good since you are not obliged to have it in order to enter the server,If it is a thing that the server admin wanted everyone to see some people as soem skin ( like someoen with a leather jacket with the gang tag on the back) then they can add it to downloads on their own site or a central download site ( http://www.mtafilles.com anyone? ) But yes Making it obligatory to download is woud be a pain in the ass and make some people decide to leave that server and just look for another one. So possible ways i see of doing it is : Optional download : All skins would be client side . All skins would be available on a site . Making it autodownload ,but still ask the player if he wants it yes or no. -Only bad thing if you dont download the skins a person might say hey lets kill all the ninjas ( only example) you dont have the skins so you wont see anyone as ninjas so you will not be able to fully enjoy it like the rest, but you would still be able to play. forced download : The skins would be managed by the server. ( if you dont have it you cant play) All the skins would be available on the server itself so you would download before entering the game. Same thing here autodownload , but here you wont get the option of not downloading, you HAVE to download or go on another server. -Bad thing here is that you MUST download that skin before entering the server , this will make the wait time long especially since the server will put a limit on how many people can download at once and at what speed they can download ( to reduce lag for players already in game) Which might mean that you could be downloading a skin ( A SKIN , not even somethign important) at 1kb/s .That woud be annoying Link to comment
+FKU+VVolven Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 -Only bad thing if you dont download the skins a person might say hey lets kill all the ninjas ( only example) you dont have the skins so you wont see anyone as ninjas so you will not be able to fully enjoy it like the rest, but you would still be able to play. That sounds like it'd be a game mode, and if you could make a mod for it, couldn't you maybe do something about the radar? Link to comment
MAD_BOY Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 for the loce of god, these threads shouldn't be made again Link to comment
soraflair Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 ya know how about servers that alow custom skins or not like an admin option or osmething Link to comment
Guest Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 I have better idea - everyone who installs the MTA will get also like 5 diffrent shirt colors skins, like soccer. then, in the game, u can chuse your color - then it wont be depended on a clan. All players will be able to play with teams, like blue against yellow. (sry about that poor English... Lets see YOU writing in Hebrew hahaha) Link to comment
Scorp Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 You can team up already if you want. Robbers are supposed to be allied against someone and the Vice Crusader is against all careers and so on, but this is never used on the servers, which I don't mind at all. So unless you can get teamkills registred by the server and have some penalties for the teamkills, then this hopeless and in a way its color versus color too, with the dots on the radar all being different colors (not in VC 1.1 though.) still not sure what you can do with Blue though, I think someone said that team kills are difficult to program with VC. Link to comment
Guest Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 You can team up already if you want. Robbers are supposed to be allied against someone and the Vice Crusader is against all careers and so on, but this is never used on the servers, which I don't mind at all. So unless you can get teamkills registred by the server and have some penalties for the teamkills, then this hopeless and in a way its color versus color too, with the dots on the radar all being different colors (not in VC 1.1 though.) still not sure what you can do with Blue though, I think someone said that team kills are difficult to program with VC. It could be cool if every charactor has 5 diffrent color shirts and only the admin can change a player's shirt. That way teams are not depnded on charactors... Link to comment
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