Petition for MTA:VC 0.6/MTA: Blue Show how much you care!!!

[PMP]

well, they probably always said that...


hmm... on more year to go until they get "manpower" 

Most developers went to VC:MP...

[SugarD]

UPDATE:
Here's the second reply I've received from an MTA Team developer so far:

Re: Regarding the future of MTA: VC

Sent at: Thu May 08, 2008 12:30 pm
by Blokker_1999
First off, sorry for the late reply. Real life caught up with me and I have not been active in the community anymore.

We never abandoned GTA3:MTA or MTA:VC because of to few players but simply because we followed the GTA franchise. San Andreas came up and we have been focussing on SA ever since.

Blue was the codename for the third generation of MTA and development started on Vice City. Back in those days we even started a port to GTA III codenamed MTA:Green, both using the same server codenamed Spearhead. The focus of Blue has always been to build a modular system so we could switch to new games or implement new scripting languages. Even back then the focus was to be modular. But since then a lot has changed and virtually nothing of the code from back then has survived.

Even while we were working on MTA:SA we also wanted to make one last version for GTA III and VC. MTA 0.5.5 took a lot of work but was never finished. It ran almost perfectly on GTA III but due to bad coding it was getting worse on VC then 0.5. At a certain time we beleived it was impossible to fix the code in any reasonable time and that we had to start back from the 0.4 branch to make 0.5.5 playable and so we abandoned all hope and refocused on MTA:SA.

I have talked to Ijs about your request and he will have another look at releasing the source of MTA:VC but alsi immediately warned me about the bad shape it is in. If we release it and someone does decide to make a next version he/she will have a lot of work to do just to clean it up.

There's hope out there still guys...
From the 2 replies I've received so far, one developer has mentioned continuing the project, the other turning it over to the eager communities. Either way, if all turns out like we hope, we may be receiving an update in the future one way or another!

[Trobby888]

Bad coding...It looks like they didn't use the correct approach to develop this software.

[SugarD]

Well the project was started many years ago, so making a multiplayer client for GTA was still very new, and explored unknown territory at the time.

[Snake]

Anyway, the news are better than nothing 

[snesmaster40]

I hope something happens. Vice City is sometimes more fun than San Andreas

[Fabio]

So what are they exactly saying, No MTA Blue? WTF whats the point of making a Mta blue page, why they going to do tht.

[Gandalf]

MTA Blue was started, but the team found it hard to concentrate on two projects, and chose for the one for SA.
But with that one now giving less headache they are willing to check out in how bad shape the VC version is.

It is a start, lets hope that there can be found some programmers who want to support bringing out 0.5.5

[Fabio]

Ok, I really hope they do, cause I like the fact it will be fully modeable, then I can put loads of car models, skins, paricles and stuff, GO MTA Blue!

[SugarD]

Great news on this guys!:
http://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23850

This means we may have a chance for updates!

Somebody's gonna ask eventually, so I'll ask: what about MTA 0.5?

I guess that's possible. MTA 0.5's code is probably some of the worst you've ever seen. It's held together with sticky tape....

I'm about to crap myself over this!

[stof]

I signed it...i played MTA VC for 2 years and i'd like to see a new one

[SugarD]

Let's see how this code goes, if we get support from developers outside the team, we'll consider releasing the code for 0.5 and/or Race.

I'd be willing to work on 0.5 SCM-wise, but I would need some C++ people to handle the client. First thing I'd do (assuming I got someone to work on the client) is fix the server browser, add my VC SCM update, add Steam's version of VC/GTA3 support (somebody said this was a simple check of the game .exe version before I believe so that should be easy), and release that after further testing. Then we'd go from there.

[JDC]

i HOPE they make a new MTA, and something too that Avast or Symantec doesnt classify as trojans

[Rossâ„¢]

Awesome, I hope this becomes reality!






By: Moe Ross

[Grovyle]

I just hope they do more versions of MTA:VC :S