Recently I have been fixing some stuff at 217.20.122.51, so FTP, Mail and maybe few others were more or less down. Additionally, there’re few updates on the software installed like php and mysql patches.
Everything should work now fine, if someone had problems in recent week, don’t worry.
cheers
mabako
So, after a bit of discussion with some of the developers, the 0.2 SA:MP version probably won’t be released until second half of december when spookie comes back from his trip to africa to work on anticheat improvements. This will of course delay my scripting development, as main parts like properties and missions are based on new object and pickup system and there’re some other parts which could mainly cut the development. But, right now, time to play another few rounds GTA:VCS and NFS:C.
At all, a release this year will just be a hope, but nothing I would really believe.
cheers
mabako
So, some things changed in the concept. The major change I’m going to explain right now is our virtual island the landscape will be based on. Just own, private islands exclusive for this mod giving the area possibilities everyone should take care of. As now, I’ll design the map in MTA:Races map editor, so it can be ready when SA:MP releases the 0.2 version. The map can change at any time (whenever a virtual day passed), in case we add some parts to the land. Note the properties you can hold and extend will not take an effect on this.
Map testing will come somewhen on MTA:Race if SA:MP 0.2 isn’t released at this time, just like exploration without tasks to do actually. The dynamic vehicle spawning theoretically allows a very large amount of vehicles, so I think you won’t have to run too far to find a car.
And, as an addition to that, I think I’ll copy one of the big improvements in GTA:VCS, you can build up your empire by building companys from the ground and doing missions for them, something like “Car selling” came to my mind, you have to get some cars within a certain amount of time, if you successfully do this, your company is able to sell this car (and people can buy them as spawn cars). And people are able to order spawn cars, giving individual tasks to the car sellers apart from the “default” scripted tasks.
Others will be included, just waiting for inspirations 
cheers
mabako
Heh, as I’m currently busy with real life (like always :P) and GTA:VCS/NFS:C, I didn’t do so much recently as some people may have expected. I’m just now rewriting functions to read/write ini-files, as dracoblue’s method doesn’t support Sections like
[main]
up=1
[problems]
abc.f=0
So this will work for configuration files, I’m unsure if I’ll move the language files to ini’s also, as this should be easier now. Maybe doing it with my new replacement stuff like you can use something in the language file and it gets replaced by something else (like {$servername} -> “mabako’s SA:MP Server”).
And for all the freaks just too lazy to wait for some real uber-cool code stuff I’ll release on SA:MP, I just got some functions for reading it actually. Not for writing yet, but I’ll do this whenever I’ve the next few missions on VCS done…
cheers
mabako
I just want to focus your attention on my doing-by-the-way thing called samp-host.net. You have to pay 0.50 € per slot, you’ll be able to manage your things using SSH/FTP, it supports php 5.2.0 (at now) per default, feel free to ask me for a MySQL Database too.
Feel free to ask for webspace hosted by us (you can create your own MySQL databases then) or other things you’d like to see.
To get in contact with us, please use IRC. (You can either use some Java applet like given on the SA:MP IRC page or you can use your own irc client, joining the channel #mn at GTANet directly by clicking ‘Contact’ in the Links on the right hand.
Thanks for your attention
mabako