Your thoughts on SAMP 0.3.DL compatibility

[Twixxer]

Absolutely. Server dev here. Was already working on a project for DL, but ultimately had to put it on hold/scrap it when DL was nuked. Loads of work lost. Would be great to be able to use it again.

Would you be willing to share some more information on what you were working on possibly?

Sorry for the late reply. We were working on a 16th century adventure-RPG kind of server. Naval ship battles, pirates, treasures, quests, roleplay, etc. We were already working on this project before DL, but being limited to existing objects to create the world and ships was making it very difficult (before DL examples:?https://imgur.com/a/AEUHK4P). When DL was released, we immediately scrapped the artistic side of the project and started fresh with DL, designing a custom island, buildings & ships, still trying to stick to original SA style (after DL examples:?https://imgur.com/a/ORnMUxn)

I know a lot of people have the mindset that if you use custom models, you shouldn't create anything outside of SA's original theme, but I think that's dumb. SA-MP is a sandbox, like Garry's Mod - allowing you to create anything you can imagine. SA-MP has a very unique roleplaying scene, which would transfer well to different themes, such as medieval - providing players with a totally fresh experience, letting them rediscover SA-MP in a new way.

The players who prefer the vanilla SA experience should just be able to filter the servers that have downloads in the open.mp client.