[celticfang]

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Originally Posted by Kalcor SA-MP is a mod. SA-MP is software that allows you to play GTA San Andreas as a multiplayer game. Whether or not you use other mods in San Andreas isn't for us to say, it's up to the owners the of the server whether they allow it. We don't allow people to discuss cheats on this forum. The forum, website, server lists (services that we run) are really seperate from the client and server software. People like to think of it as one package, but it's not. You don't have to use any of the services on this website to play SA-MP. We have decided against allowing servers to send clients files for several reasons. One main reason is that it's much harder to ensure client security. I feel reasonably safe connecting to any SA-MP server. I would not feel that way if the server was able to install textures, scripts, models in to my game. The original game was designed only for single player, and it does very little in the way of security checking on custom files. This is a difficult thing for non-programmers to understand. Another reason why we don't allow custom files to be installed is because we really want this mod to be San Andreas Multiplayer and nothing else. SA-MP is not really a framework to create your own game. Rockstar Games is the developer of GTA: San Andreas. The publisher/distributor, and owner of the trademarks, is Take-Two Interactive Software. The license that we all have to use GTA:SA comes from Take-Two. The license agreement can be found on the DVD and in the back of the user manual. If you didn't buy the game on the DVD I encourage you to do so, since this is the only legal way to use SA-MP. SA-MP is acceptable under the category of Modifications found in the GTA:SA PC End User License Agreement.

What I was looking for Kalcor, thank you. I had it in my mind that you devs had some mods that we were absolutely forbidden to mention (I come from the NR2003 community where just mentioning a mod gets an insta-ban from some sites) period.

As somebody who dabbles in code I can see exactly why they didn't put a lot of SP security in at the time of release.

Now for the other bit of my Q. Is it actually possible to prevent custom files being installed or not? And if it is in theory would it actually be worth it? Personally I'd rather have a way to ensure a clean SA install than one with (say) 40 mods on it.