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well from my humble point of view, the city feels deserted and dead, all it would take is 20-30 synced Pedestrians and 10-20 synced cars that respawn when killed. It would make the city feel just that little bit more *ALIVE* NOW I KNOW its not possible YET but maybe this new netcode had been optimised and maybe will let the developers squeeze these few AI's in to the network game it wont take many AI's to improve the overall liveliness of the city

erm im sorry u missed the point.. i love the classes and their choice of weaponry although the mexicans have it all on their plate when they start and the sailors health regeneration thing is a bit prone to abuse, and i think MTA should continue as they are but i was trying to come up with a simpler method of choosing whether u want to :- A. Start a new team B. Join an existing team or just go it alone ,,, maybe one selection which picks a totally different skin to the eg, "team skins" (16 or so) for FFA play only.. Just an idea.. anybody with me ?

instead of having the complicated teams/freeforall character selection , why not have the choice of any skin up to like 16 different so if you want to be in a team u choose the same skin as other people and if u want to go it alone u select a new skin, and maybe have a list on the character select which tells u how many people are on each team/skin, and if u turn friendly fire off for people using the same skin ppl will be forced to use teamwork rather than whacking their own team mates all the time.. respect to MTA team as always this mod rules !

thanks , i deleted the files in MyDocuments and it works cheers for the fix

Help plz from anybody with some common sense.... I had a strange crash whilst playing MTA on my Vice City 1.0: I was blasting away , dukeing it out when all of a sudden the single player save game screen popped up.. now i tried to exit the screen usual way,, didnt work.. tried again , didnt work... then tried to save a game to see if it work quit that way.. then game crashes... Now everytime i load up it get to intro screen then i get just get blank before 1st menu pops up and some sort of crash.. Tried reinstalling Vice City and MTA 3 times now but its still not gonna load.. So my question is : does vice city install some files somewhere else on my HDD or edit the registry in some way that has got corrupted ? What i mean:: is there any files elsewhere than Vice City directory that i can delete and reinstall.. ive tried the game and MTA loads of times now.. and also installed nvidia latest drivers and DirectX 9 again...

i think the authors of multi theft auto should go check out the code from midnight club 2 its the GTA3 engine, and it has pedestrians online (only up to 4 players tho) and on a LAN game it has cars and pedestrians !!!!! perhaps you could include peds and traffic for LAN games only developers ???

its not bandwidth its BENDWITH hes talking about thats a hole different bat and ball game thing woot

I noticed another bug,, perhaps this should be in the bugs forum .. i go back on my word about the bridge being blocked i followed someone up and over the first bridge but noticed something weird happen at the load point (about halfway along) .. the guy in front of me disappeared but left the big blue arrow bouncing over his head.. and he remained invisible throughout staunton island ..

HEY WAIT DOESNT ANYBODY KNOW THIS YET !?!??! I think the problem u are getting is being disconnected as soon as you get into the game .. just ALT-TAB out , press disconnect and then reconnect to the same server in console.. ALT-TAB back in and you should be playing with every 1 else hope this fixes the players on roof problem... i think theres some on roof even when other peeps are on and u have connected

Well ive played a few more games now and have gotten into some uzi fights at least... if u use weapons cheat you can fire the guns but it has no impact server side ... like you use the rocket launcher on someone they fall to the ground for a few secs then all of a sudden u see them drive past u because they didnt get blasted on their pc Now im just guessing but i think the uzi is the only weapons that is synced in the game ? or what about when u use the weapons cheat does that 'de-activate' the uzi at all ? There is a long way to go i think with this mod but its looking great so far , if it had a faq detailing whats 'in' and whats been left out for now ppl like me wont be 2 disappointed ps i think car damage and explosions is next thing to add in .. pretty dull without it thnx guys !!

ah i see But even on T3 u must be experiencing some de-syncing ??? it must be cos a lot of people are runnning in circles and moonwalking into walls ! cars disappear for 2-3 seconds then re-appear... u die for no reason and have to select team again.. nobody has taken a shot at me yet !!! i feel like the only violent guy on the level ... and cars/players sometimes get stuck in the floor or stuck to another vehicle with exactly the same position and angle so it looks like two cars in one.. not to mention the entering and exiting trouble with another online peep sometimes get stuck in a loop then car disappears / reappears and doesnt move etc etc.. im not trying to criticise this too much cos im really excited at the prospect of playing GTA3 Online i think modems are a bit too slow for this people DSL 512:256 p31000ghz 512mbram 250gb hd

Hi this is my first post and i hope to clarify some startup problems with anyone who had the same problem as me.. After you manage to connect to a server with the MTA prog get your gta started with the MTA launcher and make sure u press the GTA3 MTA button NOT sp, you will arrive at credits screen and it will loop... Alt-tab out of GTA3 while the credits are rolling and press Send Game Request on the MTA console now Alt-tab back to GTA3 and you should be able to select team... Diabolo is recommended by the authors but i had the same 'experience' from both team, either way your skin is standard while playing and everybody else is !.. Now you should drop into the level on your own and this is the bit every1 is going wrong i think,,, ive noticed i lose connection pretty much every time i get to spawn into the level for the first time.. youve probably noticed a lot of arrows on the roof near the mafia home, you need to ALT-TAB out of the game if you havnt seen any other players (green dots) moving around on the map yet.. and bring up the mta console again.. now try Disconnecting and Reconnecting to the same server , if u now return to GTA3 you should see some other players, (if not try reconnecting again)... i hope this gets some ppl through the intial stages of joining,, Ive played a few games now Im on a DSL connection and the game is de-syncing very badly . it might be some of the servers bad connections etc , nobody seems to shoot back ???! and a lot of people running in circles,, lost connections ?? ive found players possibly on faster conns driving around but positional data is getting lost and cars jumping back and looping ,crashing etc,, occasionally two vehicles/players getting stuck together and teleporting all over the map !?!??! the dodo seems to do it a lot ,, not sure how peeps have got the dodo seeing as the bridge is blocked from the first city... suspicions that bad/custom GTA3 installs are making the game de - sync bad,, ive had a few good chases with cars on low player servers (between 2-6),, Huge lag sometimes 2-3 seconds! Im interested to hear about any successful games cos ive only played it on my own pc But great work on the mod so far guys it looks promising and respect for all the hard work so far making this great game multiplayer !!!