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Originally Posted by wizardfeet I'll include any answers I get before this time tomorrow in the article.

Hope I'm still on time :/. If not, well here's my story anyway.

1) If you're a player, what is it you like about playing San Andreas online? What are your favourite servers and game modes? And why do you play this rather than GTA 4 or 5 or something else?
So in 2009 my friend introduced me to mods in GTA. I had no understanding of pc gaming that much back in those days and just played the games I could get my hands on via lending them with friends. So I searched around for some GTA SA mods and came across SA-MP and MTA. I started playing on some servers with my brother and boy did we play for hours and hours at a time on the same server. I started to think of my own ideas or how I could improve existing ones and I found some tutorial on the Dutch GTA Forums on how to create your very own SA-MP server. So that's when I started coding. I asked a few questions on that forum in the early days (I have to admit about things that were way out of my coding abilities at the time) and got my very own server running on my local network. Very excited I started to improve my skills by reading the wiki and just experience in general. I also registered on this forum (woaw that's 7 years for me already!) around that time. Never really posted anything except for some small (and pretty poor) scripts. Anyway, after all those years my skills have matured enough to the point that I rewrote my whole gamemode.
I have tried GTA 4 online, but I didn't really like it. Got shot once in the head on a DM server and died immediately ... This is also possible to script in SA-MP, but needless to say, the first impressions I got were not that great. I find that I can customize more things in SA-MP.

2) If you're a scripter or server owner/admin, what do you like about it? Why do you stick around?
I don't really know actually why I keep coming back to script. Sometimes I need a break from SA-MP, but after some time (could be 6 months) I get the urge to go back, because the ideas start flowing again. Maybe it's an addication . I never was really active in any forum or internet community up untill SA-MP, maybe I keep returning because of the nostalgia I had playing on awesome servers, or because I feel that I have spent so much time on something that it's hard for me to leave that behind.

3) And for everyone: What do you think makes SA-MP special?
SA-MP brings the single player experience online, which is what I always wanted in a GTA game. I have stuck around because I was satisfied with how SA-MP delivers it. I know there are other games that give a similare experience, but it just so happend that SA-MP was the perfect fit for me. Other than that I think it is awesome that you can create nearly anything with the default San Andreas models (maps, scripts, gamemodes, ...). You are only limited by your imagination or creativity.

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When you've written the article, would you mind linking it in this thread, so we get notified and can have a read?