[Suggestion] Open:MP and MTA:SA

[Jusonex]

The thing is as some already noticed MTA and SA:MP are two different things, really different things.

I think we're starting at the wrong point. We should rather look for similarities than for differences, if we wanted this to work. And in case of specific differences, I'm sure it's possible to find a compromise.



Beyond that, to be honest I don't agree with your theory. In my estimation, the goals of both projects are very similar. Just the implementation differs as a result of a different basis.

Some servers on MTA don't look like GTA:SA, that's true. But the reason is not that they can't, they (some and only some!) just don't want to. From a technical perspective, there's nothing that prevents you from keeping the "true spirit" of GTA:SA. In case of SA:MP, you don't have the choice.



Apart from that, I'm honestly a bit wondering what your goals are for open.mp. If you don't want to continue SA:MP's "lack of updates and ignored feature requests" (as you said it), you'll inevitably end up with diverging from GTA:SA's true spirit at some point (and that's perfectly fine in my opinion).

I for myself been playing MTA [...] and after some time it got too heavy for me I've been using dated hardware back then (but way over the GTA:SA specs ofc)

Bad performance is in almost all cases related to poorly scripted gamemodes (specifically because of bad clientside scripts). "Unfortunately", the sentence "from great power comes great responsibility" applies here.

While SA:MP comes with close as none dependencies (archive file, main samp.dll, launcher and 1-2 files) MTA:SA comes with all the CEF files, CGUI files, locale files and so on (yes I know SA:MP statically links some stuff too).

I wonder if this is really a problem. Most applications consist of more than 10 files nowadays and the regular user doesn't care anyway from my experience (but I principally understand you here and as a developer and perhaps German too I sometimes share that paranoia ;) ).

Now just need to replace XML or add the option to use something else like?YAML or?JSON or plain text files or anything else.

There's only the meta.xml (resource "information" file) that requires you to use XML. For everything else, you can choose whatever you want. We for example have the toJSON and fromJSON function (https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/FromJSON). I'm not a fan of XML either, but I don't think it's worth adding support for another file format for the meta file as it'd make things more complicated than they need to be (and cause fragmentation).