[IllidanS4]

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Originally Posted by Kalcor sa-mp is a strange mod. although most players are not native english speakers, there actually hasn't been a huge demand for translated versions of the software. what does that tell you? well, players don't mind the software being half-english, and they're probably trying to learn a small amount of english by playing. I don't have high confidence that simply putting "downloads = yes" in the browser is going to be understood by players. I actually think adding downloads will end up with most servers having downloads without the player having any say.

Well, why not show a dialog window the first time the server sends custom models to the player? If the player clicks No, the server would be notified, so that it could work around the player not having custom models.

Imagine a server with only custom skins. You don't need to download them if you don't want to, as you will still see the fallback skins. No problem.

Imagine a racing server where there are races that uses custom models and races that do not. The fact that players do not want to download models doesn't have to prevent them from joining the server.

Right now there are two versions that are cumbersome to switch between and that have differing features. With a simple confirmation dialog, players could choose per-server whether they think that the specific server has features that are worth downloading, and the server can choose what to do with the player if they do not wish to use downloading. Win-win.

You may have concerns about servers that abuse downloading to add weird objects and locations to the game, but then players don't have the patience to download GBs of models if they don't think it is worth it, so server owners will stay reasonable, like the examples here have shown. Please, show trust in the people that request these features.