San Andreas Multi-Player: The Beginning Of The End
posted 3 years, 10 months ago. by Audibly Lost to Congested, Drama, GTA San Andreas, GTAIV, SAMP, VCMP

The developers of SA:MP (San Andreas: Multi-Player), a PC mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that allows you to play with hundreds of other players at once (think World Of Warcraft meets GTA), are saying that their work on the violent multiplayer mod will end with the immenant release of Grand Theft Auto IV.

Kye, a lead developer for SA:MP, recently posted this on the mod’s website:

“SA-MP managed to set several milestones during development. We were the first to get 100 players in to an action/free-roam world during the SA-MP 0.1 beta testing. During the 0.2 beta testing, we managed to double this limit to 200 players. The most popular SA-MP servers are usually full with 100-150 players every day. Each weekend, SA-MP peaks at just over 8000 concurrent players. We have clocked over 6 million downloads. According to XFire, we have also helped to keep the PC version of GTA: San Andreas close to, or within, the top 20 of all online PC games. Not to mention, we have pulled this off without any assistance from the developers of the game….

…Assuming GTA IV does arrive for the PC, which we don’t have any hint of yet, the multiplayer experience will most likely be a lot different from what we’ve created. For instance, going by the information provided so far: one of the players will be required to host the game, there will be a maximum of 16 players, the hoster of the game will only have limited control of the game-play style.

In this case, I would like to ask the SA-MP community whether this project has grown beyond GTA: San Andreas. Would you like to see us continue this idea in another form?

I’ll take this opportunity to express thanks to everyone who contributed to this project over the past few years. I’d also like to thank the Multi Theft Auto team for proving it was technically feasible to create a multiplayer modification using the information available within the GTA modding community.”

This is all great but we’ve seen plenty of drama from the SA:MP devs in the past regarding the ending of their development of the mod. 0.2.5’s development has also been doused in drama whether it be leaks of the software, questions about its features (bots anyone?) or delays. Even if GTAIV’s multiplayer modes are popular there is no way they will be able to match the scale and populated servers of SA:MP. Even if SA:MP is closing its doors I’m sure there will be people playing it for a while just as people are still playing VC:MP.

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Lostpedia IRC Overload
posted 3 years, 10 months ago. by Audibly Lost to Drama, IRC, Lostpedia

Those who are familiar with Lostpedia may have noticed a news item on the famed Lost wiki talking about a Lostpedia chat room. If you are one of these people then congratulations, you get a cookie.

The Lostpedia IRC channel has recently, and unfortunately, been flooded with morons, douche bags and foolishness because of this sudden advertisement.

If you’re going to come and chat with people about Lost, please be civil. This is by far the best chat room out there for Lost fans so if you could not be an asshole to everyone that’d be great. kkthxbai.

To get info on how to join the chat (it’s easy) click here.

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Drama Update: Story Behind Website Banning Emerges
posted 3 years, 10 months ago. by Audibly Lost to BuddyTV, DocArzt, Drama, Hlyons, The Tail Section

I recently posted about DocArzt readers being banned from a forum shrouded in mystery. I was tipped off by a commenter (who goes by the name DocArzt, but I think is a phony) that it was BuddyTV/TTS who were banning people. I begun digging through their forums to learn the whole story and basically this is what happened. Apparently “hlyons,” who was a moderator on TTS (The Tail Secton) and is now a member of the new DocArzt forums, posted about DocArzt.com on TTS. BuddyNick, the admin for BuddyTV is the one who carried out the ban but this does, for the most part, seem like an isolated incident. None the less BuddyNick issued a warning that makes me wonder if they are also reading PMs over there on TTS, which would not be cool at all.

A lot of people seem upset over the ban on The Tail Section so I wonder who, if anyone, actually complained or ratted hlyons out. This BuddyNick probably wanted hlyons gone for other reasons, or else he would not have perma-banned her, especially her being a mod… something doesn’t smell quite right. Also, FYI, DocArzt sold The Tail Section to BuddyTV last year.

And what does hlyons say about all this?:

Plenty of other people have websites in their signatures. But that is it that is why I was baned and stripped of my mod status.

Now please no one attack btv, I am telling you it won’t do any good. I am happy here.

So basically what I am gathering is you can advertise other websites on BuddyTV… unless of course it’s one that they are worried will steal their user base. And since BuddyTV has money to make/lose in all this I’m sure this ban is a sign of fear on their part for not getting a return on their investment.

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