Hello.
I have been thinking what can be improved to MTA to make it more user friendly and also more popular and I think that whole client installation and usage is a bit complicated for new users. Maybe that is also one of the reasons why people prefer SAMP more, since installation and usage is much simplier and faster.
So here are my thoughts. Make "light" client version. It woudln't give you options for what to install, but it would automaticly install you only things which are primary for MTA to be able to operate (no server package, map editor, etc). Make "external" server browser (like SAMP works) which would be like current MTA browser is, just that it would open up faster without loading MTA interface. When you would connect to server through it it would load MTA interface obviously and automaticly connect you to that server. MTA interface would be available like normal, just if you clicked editor or host a game it would say that that they aren't available in light version.
/discuss