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Originally Posted by Kalcor I tend to think it would help for a while. It would get the mod through the holiday period, at least.

Yes, it would help for a while. But it would probably take more time for all the players to update their clients to 0.3.9, than for the hack developers to update their hacks. Currently, there are two groups of hack devs who keep releasing new cheats specially crafted for my servers and to challenge my anticheat, everytime I patch the anticheat, they release new cheats in matter of few weeks.


I mean, changing addresses is certainly useful thing, but in my opinion it should be a secondary effect of an update. If 0.3.7 is rebranded as 0.3.9, there will be no direct benefits or updates for players, thus they might be disappointed. But if 0.3.DL is released as 0.3.9, perhaps with few quick fixes (for example, objects destroyed by players don't disappear, you mentioned this bug in some thread), then players will get a lot of new updates from SA-MP and servers, and servers will benefit for a moment from obsolete hacks. In fact, releasing 0.3.DL as 0.3.9 might bring a lot of people back to SA-MP, I remember how positive effect announcing 0.3.8 had on SA-MP playerbase.

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Originally Posted by IllidanS4 I 100 % agree. Maybe the "No Downloads" option in the client should be provided to the server without hiding the server in the listing, because as I said, I can accept players who don't want custom models, and I would be worried that if I used custom models, players could filter out my server, even if custom models aren't actually required to play on it.

I don't think most players would use to filter it though, however it would be fair to give them ability to find servers without the downloadable content.

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Originally Posted by Kalcor I can only do a basic update. I'm too detached from the project to ever work on it properly again. The conclusion to the open source question is: yeah, maybe, if people stopped cheating and attacking servers. That could still be a few years away.

I personally do not agree with open-sourcing SA-MP, but that's entirely up to you.


Regarding the basic update, I believe if you did few fixes to 0.3.DL, perhaps some minor updates, it wouldn't take much time, but releasing it as official 0.3.9 could really help SA-MP and a lot of servers to hook the players.