SA client and future survey

[Brian]

Hello,
The San Andreas division is currently running a (non binding) survey for the players to review the interest of the community in regards to our San Andreas community.
As some of you might know, the San Andreas Multi Player (SA-MP) client has had its forums shut down (unexpectedly) a few years ago now. While we remained on the client, we are not expecting any updates to the client, and are at risk of the client shutting down further in the future.

Badandy and I have been discussing a potential move to Multi Theft Auto : San Andreas (MTA:SA) for a while now. MTA:SA offers much more in-depth features, a much better development environment and in my opinion a way better client.
MTA:SA is stable, has existed for a long time and is still being actively developed, it allows a significant higher level of features, has build in anti cheat, and would allow us to easily use custom vehicle liveries and handling, as well as player skins.
MTA:SA also works significantly better with objects (SAMP could be quite troublesome at times as it had quite low limits) and would allow the use of CEF (basically integrate a browser in the game itself) which could for example be used as an in-game panel or a mobile phone/ laptop in-character.
These are just some of the features MTA:SA would offer and is just a generalized explanation of the client.

We would like to request you to fill out this survey, both to collect the amount of interest and to get community opinions on some of the potential plans for the server.
Thank you for your time and like usual, any questions can be posted on this topic and we'll do our best to answer them.

Special thanks to Nathan for helping us review and work out the survey questions
https://forms.gle/hya4JwSwvtt8w6Lw5

- SAMP team

[TheGreasyChopper]

Are JayL and Mario Rinna involved and if so, is this still applicable?

I don't want to make a server that is just like all the other servers, so whatever MTA:SA server ends up being (new game-mode is a work in progress), it's not going to be a RP server, so we can put these concerns to bed.

[Mario_Rinna]

Are JayL and Mario Rinna involved

No, we're not connected to Argonath's leadership/hq in any way these days.

[Badandy]

Are JayL and Mario Rinna involved and if so, is this still applicable?

I don't want to make a server that is just like all the other servers, so whatever MTA:SA server ends up being (new game-mode is a work in progress), it's not going to be a RP server, so we can put these concerns to bed.

They are not involved. I'm taking the charge as the main developer and I don't know who these people are exactly but I can comment on their statement. I agree mostly with that but our server is still going to be roleplay based. That being said, it will be a lot different than any other server that Argonath has released. My overall goals are to give players creative freedom and give them a larger purpose in the world than just grinding for money and buying fancy cars or properties. I want players to be able to interact with each other and the world where it's meaningful. Since the survey started, I have started work on my overall development plan. I did initial testing back in January to see the feasibility of this and from that testing, we determined it is and I believe a new experience is the best way forward but retaining somethings like maps, properties, and interiors to speed up the development process.

[Majnoon]

I'm all in. Make it heavy roleplay if possible.

[Badandy]

The MTA SA survey will be closed on Sunday. You have until Saturday night to respond to it if you haven't already. The results will be released shortly after the closure along with updates about the future with MTA SA and what the results mean for the server. Thank you to everyone who already responded!

[Hammer_]

If I was to return to this server, I'd prefer it more so on SA:MP than MTA. I know you're trying for a new project, but the gut feel inside says heavy RP won't be it. Most people who play on MTA probably aren't even English, even on SA:MP, you can't expect it to be heavy rp. Not in these times, we're in the last present days of SA:MP before majority of the active playerbase moves on to FiveM, Rage, etc. Perhaps till 2023/24? Although, plenty of the playerbase would still be here(if it was to come back), I think Argonath's main focus should be solely focused on advertising Argo RPG on FiveM, as a heavy RP server.

[Badandy]

Reminder, today is the last day to fill out the survey if you haven't already.

[PuNNcT]

Used to play MTA:SA ages ago, i'd still play.

[PuNNcT]

I even used to run a MTA:SA server back in the day when MTA came out Always liked the MTA platform, especially for roleplay. Great roleplay ! 10/10 would hit it again.