02.04.2019, 14:55
I'm not a fan of the DL part introduced, I always agreed with Kalcor when he said that it should stay GTA SA and not be transformed into another game. But then Kalcor goes and adds the DL feature, U-turning his opinion BUT STILL hasn't added essentially (I assume) free features like being able to hide the vehicle map icons or HUD (absolutely insane to think this is not in when DL stuff was added, considering the original reason for not allowing HUD to be hidden was the fact that it should stay true to GTA SA...).
Stop focusing on stuff like DL and instead focus on adding smaller often requested things, easy stuff (yes you can probably bruteforce your way to a similar result but a native is a native!):
- Less forced SA-MP flavor (vehicle map icons, auto-respawn on death etc)
- Option to hide parts of the HUD
- Option to toggle on "player ped animations" on a per-player basis
- Sanity checks for stuff that crashes (see BeckzyBoi's or Karlip's bug topic) or literally any bug in there fixed
- Abandoned "expect more soon" stuff like the PlayerClicked callback (trigger for clicking the actual ped model? Chat name?)
I feel like with each and every SA-MP update the game is further moving away from GTA SA, instead of adding stuff that's been requested in topics like 'Suggestions for future versions of SA-MP' for a decade, we get new object models and stuff like DL. It's the reason loads of my friends quit developing for SA-MP, because objectively easy natives / features aren't added.
/minirant
//EDIT: This does not mean I want DL to be removed (I don't have to use it but more power to you making your sonic racing server), I merely want the infinite scroll backlog of low hanging fruits to be looked at.
Stop focusing on stuff like DL and instead focus on adding smaller often requested things, easy stuff (yes you can probably bruteforce your way to a similar result but a native is a native!):
- Less forced SA-MP flavor (vehicle map icons, auto-respawn on death etc)
- Option to hide parts of the HUD
- Option to toggle on "player ped animations" on a per-player basis
- Sanity checks for stuff that crashes (see BeckzyBoi's or Karlip's bug topic) or literally any bug in there fixed
- Abandoned "expect more soon" stuff like the PlayerClicked callback (trigger for clicking the actual ped model? Chat name?)
I feel like with each and every SA-MP update the game is further moving away from GTA SA, instead of adding stuff that's been requested in topics like 'Suggestions for future versions of SA-MP' for a decade, we get new object models and stuff like DL. It's the reason loads of my friends quit developing for SA-MP, because objectively easy natives / features aren't added.
/minirant
//EDIT: This does not mean I want DL to be removed (I don't have to use it but more power to you making your sonic racing server), I merely want the infinite scroll backlog of low hanging fruits to be looked at.