Project Apollo unvails brand new server for their Miami Dade family

Today, Project Apollo's Miami Dade family have announced that a brand new server will be making it's way into the VCMP world between 19th-21st October 2012. The brand new server, which will be known as Miami-Dade: Destruction (MDD) is the latest in the Miami Dade servers as it once again aims to rewrite what you thought was possible with VCMP scripting. Once again, MDD will be using Project Apollo's accounts system, Project Apollo Community which was released almost a year ago now boasts a strong 3000+ user base and serves 4 (soon to be 5) servers.

MDD is a pure and simple destruction derby gamemode which takes the usual car smashing, tyre popping, engine exploding madness and gives it a twist. Each event will last for up to five minutes as up to 16 players try and battle it out to score the most points possible across either a straight out 'Pit of death' or a 'Tamtastic oval'. This isn't about going fast, well, it is, but you actually have to hit things this time.

Some of the features that MDD holds for the players are as follows:
-   9 unique weapons such as low gravity, tyre popping and EMP pulses that will either aid you or hinder your opponents.
-   Per-player setting of certain game settings such as gravity, game speed and flying cars - this hasn't been done before in VCMP.
-   Per-player and global stats tracking, including 22 achievements via the PAC system.
-   Points which are dynamically handed out whenever you run into your opponents.
-   Survival system which rewards those who manage to keep their car in running for longer periods of time.
-   Tamming, lots and lots of tamming.

Miami Dade: Destruction will be running on the old Madness server (project-apollo.co.uk:5194) for the forseeable future as the activity level of Project Apollo starts to slowly rise again now that it's getting towards the end of the year.

Hopefully, we will get more tammers than you can shake a stick at over next weekend (19th-21st October 2012) and we look foward to seeing what crazy shenigans you manage to get up to!

To stay up to date with the release of Miami Dade: Destruction, stay glued to our forums (http://project-apollo.co.uk) over the next week!

- Project Apollo

For all the information regarding the 2nd season of the Unleashed Racing League head over to the link below:

http://forum.project-apollo.co.uk/index.php?topic=82.0

Hope to see as many decent drivers there as possible, don't bother entering if you've not even heard of this server or are constantly moaned at for ramming.

Miami-Dade: Racing back online!

The Project Apollo management are happy to announce that MDR is now back online for everyone to enjoy. See our previous announcements for what we've done over the past half a year.

It's been a long wait but it's finally here, hope you all enjoy it. Just remember DO NOT USE a hotmail/live e-mail address else the server will moan at you. (Oh and make sure it's valid, you'll need it.)

As always donations are welcome!

Head to 91.237.197.34:5192 to join the server now and don't forget to add 91.237.197.34:5192 to your favourites!

Other News

We are sorry to announce but for the forseeable future, we have closed down the Madness and Conquest servers. It's not that we don't care, it's more a case of the servers don't have an active enough player base to warrant them running. The re-release of the Racing server starts the big changes that are and will be happening to Project Apollo, unfourtanetly, this is one of those changes.

Thank you to everyone that used and abused those servers.

As many of you may have seen Miami-Dade: Racing has been appearing on the VC:MP internet list in the last few days as we test our upcoming release of Vice City Racing.

For now here is a little teaser trailer for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4aUAIBNbuU

Just a quick note to let you know that we have updated the website and forum with a fresh new look!

Project Apollo

Time for the 5th installment of PACV, been one month already! Didn't really get much feedback on VCR v3 ideas which is still being worked on, just slowly. The topic of interest this week is, Maps.

• Maps!
  Project Apollo: Freeroam was the first of the Project A servers to features a live server map showing where everyone is in-game, we liked this feature and want to know - Do you think we should use it on more of our servers? For example should our LU servers and VCR v3 have a live map? Let us know!

It's time for the second week of PACV so get ready to answer the question of the week. As for the first week it was interesting to read what some of you said about starting events and stuff and generally having more active admins/players. I've been joining a few times this week and the player count has been around 7 / 8 for us, not much I know but it's a lot to what we normally have . Now for the second installment.

• Miami-Dade Racing
  Vice City Racing was a break through for the mIRC scripting language when Juppi and Mattz first opened the server way back in 2008, last year it got converted to the Squirrel scripting language and it is still going strong, all though slightly on the empty side at times. However, what we want to know is What makes you rage? I notice a lot of rage can come from VCR but what exactly is it that causes that? VCMP's 1 mile safety radius around each car? The tracks? The vehicles? Let us know!

I've seen that a lot of people are having problems with the included new.pwn for the Windows pawn server so in under about 2 minutes I fixed it. (Not sure how as I don't even know pawn)

Anyway, line 1 needs to be:

#include <a_vcmp.inc>
And then the RequestClass needs to be changed too:

public OnPlayerRequestClass( playerid, classid )
{
printf( "OnPlayerRequestClass( %d, %d )", playerid, classid );
SetPlayerPos( playerid, 1958.3783, 1343.1572, 15.3746, 0.0, 0 );
return 1;
}

I know the Linux version compiles but this is so you can see what the problems are/were.

EDIT:

These are the functions that you can use for the dini.inc considering it doesn't show its functions in the side bar!

native dini_Exists( filename )
native dini_Remove( filename )
native dini_Create( filename )
native dini_Set( filename, key, value )
native dini_IntSet( filename, key, int value )
native dini_Int( filename, key )
native dini_FloatSet( filename, key, Float:value )
native dini_Float( filename, key )
native dini_BoolSet( filename, key, Bool:value )
native dini_Bool( filename, key )
native dini_Unset( filename, key )
native dini_Get( filename, key )
native dini_IsSet( filename, key )

Example: dini_Set( "/test.ini", "cow", "moo" );

Don't forget you need to actually have a test.ini already made in the scriptfiles folder where the vcmp-svr.exe is located.