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Flashing and dissappearing messages on the screen (about ghostmode, dimension, finishers) started to cause slowdown recently. I don't know, probably MTA devs have changed something but I was recording with fraps for years with steady 45 fps, now fps reduced to 40-35 when these messages floating. They need to be made less perfomance demanding.

I'm here for the great justice: that innocent guy just wanted to upload his maps (cards) to Mr Green server.

My apologies for bringing up old topic and for too much suggestions from me. But: 1. Currently it's either 3 dimensions or 1 dimension. I suggest divide players into 2 dimensions when amount of players is (for example) between 30 and 50. 2. The fact that dimensions labeled as "teams" is confusing new players (they think everyone should work for the team, team work you know). If it's impossible to change text in [tab] interface, it still can be changed in pop-up messages about transferring you to another "team".

I like tournaments idea. My suggestion is to add points to finishers after each race. Every 30 minutes tournament is ended, winners are honored, points are reseted. Maybe even without GC prize. Points can be given like in Formula 1: 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1. (I mean that all players on server taking part, without fee. I'm posting it in this topic because MoshPit mentioned tournament here.) Personal (private) horn would be awesome too. I mean uploading your own sound file and using it as horn. Like in Trackmania. I don't believe it is possible to realise without admins have to manually upload each file and linking it to account though. Maybe wery high GC price can help to overcome the problem. Nitro, invincibility, repairs is a bad idea because it gives you unfair advantage and will make top times competition lose sense. Barrels are stupid, btw it's already used on Mini Missions server for years. Hydraulics... it may improve your time but is hard to use. I think it's good idea to be able to add hydraulics manually for the map. Is it possible without modifying race gamemode?

True lolmam... Today there is no more servers with fun little gamemodes... Only racing and nonsense freeroam or RPG. This gamemode was called Fallout. I miss it so much! At the start of each round 2 random players gets a gun and a car, then a madness begins when everyone trying to kill the gunner and steal the car or just kick each other or ride on top of the car, and all that while the floor is falling to pieces. I would be incredibly happy if new server will include this mode. It is in standard MTA gamemodes but without car and gun. Here is my suggestions for another new modes: Tag mode. There is 1 flag on the map and player gets points while holding the flag, others trying to steal it by hitting him. Optionally there is checkpoints and flagholder gets additional points picking them up. Flagholer gets differrent car. Zombie mode. Few players start as zombies, others as survivirs. When zombie hit survivor guess what happens. Zombies get differrent cars.

snaipers96, oh you..

Are you sure you used same nick?

BinSlayer, you should register trade mark "Never the same" and patent the idea, to collect royalties from them. I doubt this, original isn't much more luck based than average map (let's say 20% and 45%). And you need less skills for rollercoaser, just flat out and here you go.

Screenshot: http://tinypic.com/r/o7rh40/7 You should calculate wins / total races ratio. Wins / finished is useless, because some people like HiJack and Bandit don't finish the race unless winning.

You can't compress mp3 without losing quality, less size leads to less qualty. Your tool is just another encoder. Anyway, mp3 is outdated format, todays formats like ogg vorbis or aac give much better qualty for the same size. Ogg vorbis is open source format and Gta San Andreas uses it for sounds and radio stations, of course MTA support it too. So I suggest everyone to use ogg vorbis in your maps, quality setting q4 (128kbps) should be enough for ingame music to sound good. Every good audio converter support it, if you haven't got one then download this for example: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/audio/

Found this in video archive (unfortunately this clip is only 1 second) , dating 19 September 2009. Map made by Ywa but I can't recognize title. Such a fun map, I wish it return.

It isn't as fun in first positions, but yes breakthrough to the top at the end would be awesome.

Just fun race

F1 and F2 are free. I suggest F2, and /ach too. F12 is used for screenshots indeed. And another achievement idea: finish a race while in fire.

More ideas: Beat map creator on his own map. Win on the map you created.

How can you say "there is one thing I don't do and that's drugs"? I'm sure ritalin does count as drug, even if it's legit (it isn't here in Russia btw). P.S. my internet connection works so bad today... it takes 20 retrys to post

Yoshi, man, are you serious? When I read yor post at first I thought that you are telling right things, you are pretty similar character to me. But then... overdoses of ritalin every day? WTF!? Was first paragraph trolling too?

Meet Pachanga on the server. Finish ahead of SpaceBandit. Finish ahead of [sGA]H!J@CK.

I find most annoyng how those messages flashes and float to the top, they are very noticeable already and doesn't need "special effects". And why it popup if someone finished the race, this information are on the left already!

What do you mean by "more organized"? 10 cps are too long and sometimes it don't switch even more long after 10th cp. Lag is not less since hiding other teams are clientside and fps are better only for slow PCs. Please, make the option not to hide other teams. Also, why switch from 1 team to 3 immediately? If there are from 30 to 50 players in server for example, there should be 2 teams.

Then why is it there, if most people don't want it? Anyway, there's no problem to make this option available for registered users.

I have a suggestion: make it optional for player to see players in other dimensions (appearing in ghostmode of course). Cause I want to see people I'm racing with, even if it will be 128 cars on screen.

IceCubeUA, if you want, just replace one texture in vehicle.txd with a blank white one, and you will not see any dirt.