[Calgon]

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Originally Posted by Kalcor There is not much truth to that. The method of syncing GTA used by SA-MP is called "player context switching" and it was originally designed by me in 2004 while I was also working on MTA:VC Blue. I named it "player context switching" because it has some similarity to CPU context switching. GTA:SA is a single player game and only has one player, kinda like a computer has one CPU. By storing the state of the main player, and switching it for a network player (at the right time), it's possible to have multiple players in the game all obeying the same rules and logic of the single player. You wouldn't need a system like this if the game had already been designed for multiplayer, since the game could have simply allocated as many players as it needed. Both the current versions of SA-MP and MTA use "player context switching" in order to make GTA a multiplayer game. RakNet provides the ability to send reliable network messages and make sure things like chat messages actually arrive on all players computers. It doesn't magically turn a single player game in to a multiplayer game. RakNet is to multiplayer as DirectX or opengl are to graphics. All of the netcode and syncing has been designed by the SA-MP team. There are actually some references to multiplayer code in GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas. There is nothing usable from our point of view, but it looks like Rockstar always had the intention of adding multiplayer. For some reason they left it out. My own speculation is that because multiplayer gaming wasn't really mature on consoles they didn't bother finishing it. As soon as the ps3 and xbox 360 came along they decided to add multiplayer again to GTA.

Plus, even if MTA does not have access to parts of the GTA source code, more than enough rumours have circulated that Rockstar contributes to MTA development, even if it is with minor technical help, that's another slightly unfair advantage MTA has over SA-MP.

Anyhow, back on topic... Looking forward to 0.3c.