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Originally Posted by Felipe_Freeze Just launch a 0.4DL, where you can add new Cars and Weapons. And see if it will not attract more servers to DL, and will not bring players here.

To be fair, this would be great, but is asking a lot.
It sounds simple to add custom vehicles and weapons, but it would require a lot of tinkering. You have to add custom handing config for example, and for weapons, bullet behaviour and sync would not be trivial to achieve.

What I'm proposing is the following plan:

• Merge 0.3.7 with 0.3DL. Maybe I don't have all the info, but I just cannot see why you would create a split between those who get a new feature and those who don't. The biggest mistake, imho is that there is no compatibility. It's a new feature after all. You, as in the staff, should promote it. Make it be adopted. Get everyone on the version and those who don't want to use custom models can just opt not to include any in their gamemodes.
• A new launcher with auto-update feature. It's just not that hard nowadays as it used to be to include updating to an app. There is an open-sourced sa:mp launcher out there. I suggest either forking it and tweaking it (because at least UI-wise it sucks imo) or working with a third party to get it out there. An auto-updater would go a long way in ensuring most players are on the latest version. Even with non-mandatory updates, when you see a popup which says there is a new version, you tend to click on Update.
• Transparency and a roadmap. I Really do get it. This is your project and you owe nothing to us. You could just pull the plug tomorrow and we'd have nothing to do about it. But it's been almost 15 years since GTA:SA launched. It's no secret that this game and this mod are dying. It will die. Untill most players have the hardware required to run GTA V smoothly to be precise. My prediction is 5 years at most. So, I see four total ways this could go: you open-source the project and let everyone contribute and thus keep the innovation going, you just pull the plug and let it die, you get people who still have interest for this mod on the team or you yourself get back to actively developing the mod.

Now, I've been part of the SA:MP community for about 6 years. And a scripter since 0.3x - 0.3z. And even in this period of time, I've seen a lot of evolution and innovation on the community's part. A lot of third party projects (sampctl for example) and plugins try to bring programming standards to samp and try to innovate the development process. I think this attention has been focused on the development process because it cannot be on actual server features.