We are currently discussing to get a new vcmp developer with great skills.



Sorry, couldn't resist posting it . Picture found somewhere.

Seriously, the player count will definitely not increase much, even if you stand on your head.

I counted, there are 12 posts posted for 4,5 months at the GTAF-VCMP section, which is definitely not much.

@SugarD: point 1 and 3 creates a chain:
creating a multiplayer mod -> releasing it
release -> small player count
small count -> less motivation to develop it
less motivation -> no updates
no updates ->

It's about motivation (and doing because you like it). But imagine. You work on some project, because you know, you can make it great. You work hard, day n night, drink more coffee and sit more and more on work, you go take a breath 5 minutes and back to hard work. Time to show your work to the world, hoping it will be successful, because you see that you made a good job. And ka-boom. The desire* to work and update it, the fun (?) of coding is somewhere gone and you focus on something else.

*I hope this is the right translation.

@Saint: how can you be tired of drinking vodka ?

@SugarD: maybe all those unknowns simply changed their nicks they used before .

From my experience, I know a few people who tried to move from SAMP/MTASA to VCMP. Everyone said this game is shit, because you mostly fight with stubby, whereas in SA multiplayers you use every possible weapon. M4, DE, nades etc.

Yes, someone will always play a game, no matter how old it is . But we want the community to be as much big as possible. Do you personally want to develop a game, which is played by "some" people or by thousands? This is also a definitely bigger motivation for the developers, if you know the large number of people waiting for every update.

SMF has more (security) holes than cheese .

1. Fans were pissed, but mostly fans who played older GTA's. If someone started his "gta career" with GTA4, I'm sure he liked it. For me GTA4 wasn't that bad. It has a long story, large map and more realistic physics, but somehow it's not the same fun as in GTA3 or VC, where stunting with a car or bike costed you some HP or blown vehicle, whereas in GTA4 you are dead . But it wasn't bad.

For me, the main reasons for lack of interest:
1. Less updates. Really. Recently I wanted to download a tool for disk defrag, I searched the best and the recently updated one. When I see that a program was last updated 5 years ago, it means to me that it is discontinued.
2. The games. As I said the future belongs to new games, because potential new players choose them.
3. No promotion.

Please tell me SugarD, how many of players that participated in the MTA R2 beta test were unknown for you? I think you know all of them. They came to see what's up with the good old MTA VC. But how many players does MTA R2 has in average during the week? Okay...

Plus, IV:MP is an unofficial mod, because GTA4 has got a build-in MP mode. It sucks from what I've heard, but doesn't matter .

@SugarD: congratz to him then. Of course you can be promoted from coding a MP for GTA3 to coding one for GTA4, but the whole game is different, so you need to start from basics.

Btw. there are (were) a few skilled programmers around, who are sitting somewhere in the darkness. Again, I give an example of VCO. Regex, Deceifier, Koolio etc. They were all unknowns for me when they started working on VCO, but they showed that they can code.