San andreas mutiplayer vs Multi theft auto?

[Maximilian]

Which one is better and more active? Anyone have any experience with either of them? For anyone who dosent know they are two different mods for GTA san andreas addinf multiplayer.

 

[duragezic]

When I played SA-MP, MTA for SA was not out yet (not in DM form anyway). SA-MP seemed like it should rock but it seemed like the hit detection or something was garbage. 90% of the time, I'd unload into people and barely damage them.

There's probably been new versions of it since then, but it seemed like people were mainly playing it until MTA came out.

 

[Lean L]

neither one is too active. MTA has turned somewhat into a race/carnage mod. The games that aren't races are pretty much just chaos.

 

[gonvik]

I would say SA-MP is pretty active -- Recently, I've been playing in the Cops 'n Robbers server which can hold up to 300 people. The hit detection does seem a little wonky though. It mostly sucks when you have a decent ping and you are chasing down and shooting at someone with a 300+ ping.

Still, it's very fun finally chasing down red players (criminals) and doing the /arrest command on them to take them and all of their earnings down.

 

[Maximilian]

Well ive installed and tried out both, it definately falls into the not as fun as it sounds category. MTA didnt have enough people and the most populated servers had stupid enforced rules like you can shoot these people but not paramedics/firemen, you can earn money and buy a house etc etc, its like second life lol i didnt think there would be much of an overlap with GTA fans and second life people but these servers seem to prove me wrong. As for SAMP had tons of people but they all seemed to be russian, bit of a mess in general tbh, too many crappy roleplay servers and lag and not enough carnage.

 

[simonizor]

The last time I tried it, it was way more effort than it was worth. Too bad GTA IV stripped out half of the features that San Andreas had just to have better graphics.