What is the real crouchbug?

When you crouching and rolling to left or right, you can break the rolling animation to instantly get up. This is crouchbug. (should also call it quickstand bug)

You can break the rolling animation at any phase, at the start, in the middle, or at the end, doesn't matter when exactly you break it, it causes your charachter's hitbox to crash and your charachter will rapidly stand up.
Normally if the rolling animation finishes, you have a .25s delay at the end of this animation before you can stand up. Crouchbug (quickstand bug) lets you to also cancel this cooldown.

Why it gives advantage to the players?
Since the animations are being cancelled and the charachter's hitbox getting crashed, you will be unable to give headshot kill to the player who abuses this bug, meanwhile he can kill you easily with headshot.

The main problem with animation such as crouching, and rolling, thats why you'll notice if someone just crouching without rolling, his collision will crash too for some moment.

Crouhbug is a glitch which could be enabled on every server. The players voted it to be disabled, so achieving it by other ways is punishable.
We currently give 10 days of jail and mute to the player who does it.

GTA:SA is a 20 year old game and its engine is very poorly optimised to PC port. Also the physics of the game is depends on FPS. This means that somehow you will be able to do crouchbug by pressing certain keys, or perform a certain combined task.
By doing this you exactly know that you will get jailed.

What about synchronization?
There are crouchbug variations where in your POV (point of view) you don't see yourself doing the bug, but your oppent does see it.
To be able to do this way of crouchbug you still have to perform certain tasks & certain keypresses what a normal player would never do.
So doing this, will also get you into jail and mute.

Hi guys,
We're planning to update the server from MTA 1.5 to 1.6. Sadly the server is very very old (haven't even rebooted for 2000+ days), which makes impossible to update MTA without updating the server OS as well.
This means everything (web, forum, gameserver, etc..) will be down during the "update". There will be no big announcement(s) before, if the server is down, we're probably upgrading it. I don't know how long will it take, I'm planning to reinstall the whole server rather than trying to update a 10+ years old linux.
Don't worry, your progress wont be lost/affected.
Also we're switching to more recent hardware (Premium Intel/AMD CPU)

p.s.: You don't need to stop playing until the update starts, we're announce it ingame, and your progress wont be lost!

p.s. 2.: we don't now exactly when its gonna happen (when I have time.. )

Thanks for understanding, have a great day!

"My account got hacked"

• There's basically no way to hack an account in GTO. Unless you put '12345' as password there's no way for any hackers to get accounts. You get blocked for an hour after 4 tries, which makes bruteforce impossible. Also we never detected any harm towards the database.

"They hacked my email"

• Normally, no one knows your e-mail address unless you told someone what it is. This is the first problem. If you share the account with someone, they can also see what the e-mail address is. This is not our responsibility. Again, if you put '12345' as e-mail password - it is not our responsibility to help you.

"They requested an e-mail change and it finished, i didn't play during that time"

• You get a notification when someone request's an e-mail change. You don't have to play on the server to check your e-mails. Everyone checks their e-mail everyday or every week. So this excuse also makes no sense. Don't create e-mails only for the game - it makes no sense at all. We never spam your inbox to do it.

"They stole my money or they banned the account"

• Your responsibility who you share the password with. Your responsibility to set a hard password both on your account & e-mail. Best to have different passwords on the account & e-mail.

"Why no help?"

• Why would we? There's no other game in the planet where the admins help you with shared accounts. You'd find them ban you for doing that. While we won't ban anyone from sharing accounts, its also your responsibility who you share the account with. If they rob you or ban you - its your fault. We won't help. 10 days to cancel the e-mail request is pretty much enough.

What if we set back the email, then someone comes that he/she bought the account and now got scammed by?

What if you wanted to buy something from someone and you gave your money, then you ask us for giveback?

"It was my only one account, now I go delete the game."

• Do it. We don't need idiots.

Lets talk about what is legal what's not.

Seems like you guys can't really understand what can you do or you just playing the fool who doesn't understand why you get banned.

"He came to me to being killed"
"I didn't know killing AFK players is not okay"

etc.

There is no definition of killing AFK players since everyone get spawnprotection when they die, and it lasts until they press a key. So killing someone who might look like afking its a lie, they deliberately press a key to be able to get killed then stop moving.
These accounts have like 1000+ more deaths and only like 10-20 kills, nobody is that bad to achieve a stat like this when they play normally.

You should know what stating means. Fighting with each other is okay. That is how you should play on the server. But by fighting you can't achieve 100-200-300+ more kills than deaths. If you fight with someone then you will have deaths as well, even if you are better. With headshot enabled, it is impossible to get 3-4 times more kills than deaths.

I'm so good that i can get 5 kills without dying. Yes sure.
I always go to jail with 6 kills and waits, so thats why. Yes sure

If you are that good, then record yourself and post it!
I will unban you if you provide a proper proof that you both were fighting with each other, but you were just too good. Post the whole fight scene, not only 1-2 minutes. Everyone can make fake scripted videos where they fight, then they lie about the rest of the kills.

On killing low levels:
What is low level? Someone whose level is like under -15 than yours until level 60. Between 60-100 you both have all the significant weapons, and both of you have efficient ammount of hp.

Nobody belives that a low level account deliberately goes to your place and asks for being killed. Its like the opposite term: You (as high level) go to the low level's place to kill it.

Of course there are situations where the low level guy is pesky and fights with you, annoys you, but when fighting you won't get kills within seconds without he kills you. With headshot enabled a low level player can also kill a level100 player.

If someone INTENTIONALLY goes to you and he is a low level player and wants to fight with you, then kill him. It will be only a few times. Don't say that you got kills by this way more than 10 times ... Nobody will drive from LS to SF/LV for being killed. Yes it can happen like 3-4 times but then he will learn that it makes no sense. Record yourself and prove that I'm wrong. You can record every fight scene then upload them one by one, or in one video. You can even help me by writing /thetime or /time or /servertime in the chatbox so I can see better when the fights happened.

What if you both do fighting? Don't go to LS and search him. If you really want to fight with him then connect with a lower level account which meets the requirements (no higher than +15 levels). Why? Because hp and available weapons matter. If you don't have such an account then just go away from the guy, don't fight with him. Or Record yourself to prove it was a real fight

In any case you can record your own gameplay with OBS then upload it to youtube.com and link to the forum if you feel you got banned for a mistake. In the video we should see that both of you fighting. You can upload the whole fight scene (10-20-30 minutes). Not just 1-2 minutes where you fight, and in the rest 28 minutes you stating

TERMS & CONDITIONS GTO

The lack of knowing the rules is no excue!

Depending on your messages you might get muted if you are:

• Spamming & Flooding the chat,
• Sending annoying characters/messages,
• Continously swearing,
• Talking about administrators not in English/Hungarian.

Depending on your behaviour you might get jailed and muted if you are:

• Insulting the server, its admins**,
• Creating insulter accounts to insult/annoy players/religions,
• Threatening players with anything,
• Bugabusing*.

You might get banned if you are:

• Chargebacking,
• VIP scamming,
• Trying to save money from ban,
• Cheating,
• Bugabusing*,
• Stating 1: Trying to improve your K/D and DM K/D ratios & helping someone to improve their K/D & DM K/D ratios,
• Stating 2: Trying to get skillpoints faster & helping someone to get skillpoints faster,
• Trying to hack administrator's passwords,
• Pretending to be an administrator.
• Insulting the server, its admins**,

NOTES:

Account trades/sharing are NOT supported. If you get scammed, we will not help you. It is your responsibility.

• If you forgot your password, you can use gtasa.eu/recover If you no more have access to the e-mail assigned to your account, then its only your fault. We won't change the e-mail of any account.

• If you got scammed with VIPs, you can ask admins for help. You have to take screenshots from conversations and money transfers. We usually wait a week to make sure the donater does not have any payment issues.

• Do not send money to anyone. If you get scammed we will not help you.

• You are the one and only who are totally responsible for your account. It does not matter who use or used it.

• Shared account owners will not get any helps.

*Bugabusing: Depending on the situation you might get jailed or banned for abusing bugs. Usually if you are continously abusing bugs or trying to get huge advantages will be awarded with a ban.

**Insulting the server, its admins: We keep the rights to decide whether to jail or ban you

• THE LENGTH OF PENALTIES ARE DEPENDING ON OUR DECISIONS

Hello Players,

Not sure if you knew the full story already, but let me share some information about what happened in the last few weeks and why we were forced to change some things in the game.

Back in March, there was a player who connected to the server and changed the scoreboard's layout. That was our first case with the turkish cheaters. (at that time we didn't know who it was) We banned him (serial + ip + account) but he could change the ip and serial as well, and register new accounts.

We even asked MTA to help but they were 'unfriendly'.

When the server was down from April to late July due to my life threatening condition, nothing could happened.

There was a turkish guy on FB who said, someone is going to copy the server. Showed some really shitty proof, like taking photos/videos with mobile, etc.
He showed the F3 gangmanager menu's UI (the interface you see when press F3) that it was already copied. (Not sure if you know, but only having an UI is nothing. The behind logic, the backend still has to be programmed)
He said many times, that it isn't him, he just gives informations about it etc. He also said that the copy version is unplayable.

We can do nothing about copy servers. If someone has the scripting knowledge he can do it. There is no trademark or things like that in MTA.

When the server was finally running, there were cheaters everyday, and we had to ban them like every 2-3 mins.

A few days later we noticed huge ammount of warnings in the server log that someone is trying to add himself as admin.
we banned the ip + serial, and one player automatically disconnected(Banned) - It was the guy who said he knows information about the copy server etc.

He thought that his tries will not be shown and so foolishly he joined to the server with his real account, real ip and real serial. So we finally found out who was behind all of this.

Next day we banned the whole country (Turkey). Of course there will be some casualties, but we got informations that more turkish player use this kind of cheat, alongside with the vpn and serial changer. Not to mention that voteban for Turkey was a thing for years, and we never faced one turkish player who never ever insulted, did stating or bugabused.

He asked these turkish people for help to bring down GTO by sending unregistered communication events to the server.

Luckily or not, a lot of other MTA servers faced the exact same attack, and the MTA dev team rapidly made two useful functions against this kind of attack which we had to implement too.

But they could still connect to GTO and do cheats. We had like zero protection even though we use all AC and SD provided by MTA, and we have our own AC as well.

We implemented a VPN checker service, so at least they can't connect to the server. But this is not 100% accurate.

What they usually do is, to connecting with existing accounts, for example mine and do cheat on them.
When you connect to any server on MTA, you are already spawned at location 0,0,0 (Blueberry Acress) in dimension 0, and interior 0.
The camera is just pointed at Grove Street. Your charachter is frozen, so you can't move.
However somehow they can unfreeze the account, change the camera view back to the account and teleport it.
They can then add weapons and kill people. If you check on gtasa.eu no login happened so they can't harm any accounts this way but they can kill you and make xp/money lost, not to mention your precisious stats.

Today their sickness has leveled. They knew that they can basically set their serial to anything. They just had to get a working VPN.
With this way, they changed their serials to existing ones, and loggined via the automatic serial based feature to accounts. They got information on what could be certain accounts' serial is. For example if you ban yourself for 60 minutes on web, your serial will be visible for 60 minutes. Or if you already lent your account to them, they can login to it on web, and go checking all the IPs and serials in Player Settings.

They used these ways to get accounts serial and did all kind of bad things, like selling houses, buying new ones, transferring money to someone etc.

We could not investigate on exactly which accounts were harmed.Since every account has 50+ associated serials and every serials are used on like 50+ accounts there is no way for us to detect the real person behind players. This is why it was a bad thing to ever let your account to someone else ....
The IPs they used for this attack was a well known VPN service which some of you players are used already.

At this rate the only solution for us was to rollback the server database. Rollback means that we periodically make a save file of the database, and when it is needed (like now) we can set back the server to one of those backup savefiles.
We had a backup save at 01:00.
The attacks were started after 06:00.
The rollback happened at 18:00.
So 17 hours of progress lost. Their harm got undone, but your player progress lost also, like levels, money etc.
We are very sorry for that.

We today disabled a feature called automatic serial based login and will never ever be enabled again.

This means that everytime you connect to the server you must pass the credentials in order to play on that account.
We understand that some of you already forgot what was the password of an account.

We are very sorry to say this, but it is fully your responsibility to set up an e-mail address to your account, and provide a password you remember, and strong enough.
We will not help any of you on recovering lost password accounts.
You can use https://gtasa.eu/recover if you have the e-mail on the account, otherwise the account will be lost. Don't ask for any kind of recover.

I would also warn every single player now, that if a turkish or any other country's player connects with your account, and LOGINS to it with the password, that account will be banned if they cheat.
If they simply connect, without logining, you are fine don't worry.

We highly recommend everyone, that change their passwords periodically, use strong passwords, like generated ones. Use different password on every account, even use different one on your e-mail address.
You can use password managing tools as well, or simply put them into a file with a key on it.

Use /gtochangepass <newpassword> to set up a new password on an account. Best is to use this command in F8 Console, without '/' so you won't accidentally type your new password in the chat.

Use https://gtasa.eu/recover for recovering accounts with e-mail.
Please keep in mind that we recommend the use of @gmail.com as Microsoft blocked our VPS e-mail service due to other VPS users sent millions of unwanted spams to Microsoft e-mails (@hotmail.com, @outlook.com, etc.) so Microsoft just banned the whole Digital Ocean.

The lack of knowing the rules is no excue!

We keep the rights to change the rules anytime.

You might get banned from the forum if you are:

• bumping topics, (write in old topics or writing comments to get attention)
• Duplicating the same topic
• Writing totally OFF things to a topic
• Using wrong categories for topics
• Being annoying in certain situations.
• Writing in non english/hungarian
• Evading ban with other accounts

Topics with commanding titles will be immediately deleted.

Rules for topics:

• The topic title must contatin the sort dest of the topic. e.g. unban <nickname/serial/ip>
• Use imgur.com for images and youtube.com for videos, other sites will be ignored.
• Follow additional rules in topics where it is available. (e.g. category rules)

If you break the rules your comments/topics will be deleted and/or you might get banned for indefinitive time

Info: Support/Help topics will always be deleted after 7 days when admin answered them or they locked them.

Hello Players,

Not sure if you knew the full story already, but let me share some information about what happened in the last few weeks and why we were forced to change some things in the game.

Back in March, there was a player who connected to the server and changed the scoreboard's layout. That was our first case with the turkish cheaters. (at that time we didn't know who it was) We banned him (serial + ip + account) but he could change the ip and serial as well, and register new accounts.

We even asked MTA to help but they were 'unfriendly'.

When the server was down from April to late July due to my life threatening condition, nothing could happened.

There was a turkish guy on FB who said, someone is going to copy the server. Showed some really shitty proof, like taking photos/videos with mobile, etc.
He showed the F3 gangmanager menu's UI (the interface you see when press F3) that it was already copied. (Not sure if you know, but only having an UI is nothing. The behind logic, the backend still has to be programmed)
He said many times, that it isn't him, he just gives informations about it etc. He also said that the copy version is unplayable.

We can do nothing about copy servers. If someone has the scripting knowledge he can do it. There is no trademark or things like that in MTA.

When the server was finally running, there were cheaters everyday, and we had to ban them like every 2-3 mins.

A few days later we noticed huge ammount of warnings in the server log that someone is trying to add himself as admin.
we banned the ip + serial, and one player automatically disconnected(Banned) - It was the guy who said he knows information about the copy server etc.

He thought that his tries will not be shown and so foolishly he joined to the server with his real account, real ip and real serial. So we finally found out who was behind all of this.

Next day we banned the whole country (Turkey). Of course there will be some casualties, but we got informations that more turkish player use this kind of cheat, alongside with the vpn and serial changer. Not to mention that voteban for Turkey was a thing for years, and we never faced one turkish player who never ever insulted, did stating or bugabused.

He asked these turkish people for help to bring down GTO by sending unregistered communication events to the server.

Luckily or not, a lot of other MTA servers faced the exact same attack, and the MTA dev team rapidly made two useful functions against this kind of attack which we had to implement too.

But they could still connect to GTO and do cheats. We had like zero protection even though we use all AC and SD provided by MTA, and we have our own AC as well.

We implemented a VPN checker service, so at least they can't connect to the server. But this is not 100% accurate.

What they usually do is, to connecting with existing accounts, for example mine and do cheat on them.
When you connect to any server on MTA, you are already spawned at location 0,0,0 (Blueberry Acress) in dimension 0, and interior 0.
The camera is just pointed at Grove Street. Your charachter is frozen, so you can't move.
However somehow they can unfreeze the account, change the camera view back to the account and teleport it.
They can then add weapons and kill people. If you check on gtasa.eu no login happened so they can't harm any accounts this way but they can kill you and make xp/money lost, not to mention your precisious stats.

Today their sickness has leveled. They knew that they can basically set their serial to anything. They just had to get a working VPN.
With this way, they changed their serials to existing ones, and loggined via the automatic serial based feature to accounts. They got information on what could be certain accounts' serial is. For example if you ban yourself for 60 minutes on web, your serial will be visible for 60 minutes. Or if you already lent your account to them, they can login to it on web, and go checking all the IPs and serials in Player Settings.

They used these ways to get accounts serial and did all kind of bad things, like selling houses, buying new ones, transferring money to someone etc.

We could not investigate on exactly which accounts were harmed.Since every account has 50+ associated serials and every serials are used on like 50+ accounts there is no way for us to detect the real person behind players. This is why it was a bad thing to ever let your account to someone else ....
The IPs they used for this attack was a well known VPN service which some of you players are used already.

At this rate the only solution for us was to rollback the server database. Rollback means that we periodically make a save file of the database, and when it is needed (like now) we can set back the server to one of those backup savefiles.
We had a backup save at 01:00.
The attacks were started after 06:00.
The rollback happened at 18:00.
So 17 hours of progress lost. Their harm got undone, but your player progress lost also, like levels, money etc.
We are very sorry for that.

We today disabled a feature called automatic serial based login and will never ever be enabled again.

This means that everytime you connect to the server you must pass the credentials in order to play on that account.
We understand that some of you already forgot what was the password of an account.

We are very sorry to say this, but it is fully your responsibility to set up an e-mail address to your account, and provide a password you remember, and strong enough.
We will not help any of you on recovering lost password accounts.
You can use https://gtasa.eu/recover if you have the e-mail on the account, otherwise the account will be lost. Don't ask for any kind of recover.

I would also warn every single player now, that if a turkish or any other country's player connects with your account, and LOGINS to it with the password, that account will be banned if they cheat.
If they simply connect, without logining, you are fine don't worry.

We highly recommend everyone, that change their passwords periodically, use strong passwords, like generated ones. Use different password on every account, even use different one on your e-mail address.
You can use password managing tools as well, or simply put them into a file with a key on it.

Use /gtochangepass <newpassword> to set up a new password on an account. Best is to use this command in F8 Console, without '/' so you won't accidentally type your new password in the chat.

Use https://gtasa.eu/recover for recovering accounts with e-mail.
Please keep in mind that we recommend the use of @gmail.com as Microsoft blocked our VPS e-mail service due to other VPS users sent millions of unwanted spams to Microsoft e-mails (@hotmail.com, @outlook.com, etc.) so Microsoft just banned the whole Digital Ocean.

We have enabled SDs on the server, you can see which one of them when conencting.

Details:
https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Anti-cheat_guide

If you can't connect, or keep disconnecting, being kicked, just uninstall your mods to GTA.

If you don't know how to, just uninstall the whole GTA, reinstall it, then also uninstall and reinstall MTA from here:
nightly.mtasa.com

HTTP File mismatch error:
This happens because we had to enable SD23 in order to prevent cheaters & other malicious users from doing file changes which could give them some sort of advantage.
If you play on other servers which use some built-in MTA resource as well (like we do) then there is a high possibility that the server changed something in that built-in resource, so when you would like to connect to GTO, it will give you an error of HTTP file mismatch.

You can easily solve this by, if you go to
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MTA San Andreas 1.6\mods\deathmatch\resources"

and simply delete "scoreboard". (this is often changed by servers.) If you still can't connect to GTO, I suggest to delete the whole resources folder, then your game will re-download everything when you connect.

DM Help & DM stating:

We let you guys help each other leveling on dms.
What forms are accepted:

Top1 Main rule: The leveling account, and the DM level must be between (+/5 levels)

Top2 Main rule: You can have only one helper account on a dm.

Top3 Main rule: When doing dm record you should have as much as helper accounts as much as needed to set a new record. If you try with very few people and you are way less kills than you should, then simply stop trying to reach a new record until you get more helper account. DIf you need only 10-20-30 kills so you think you can get it in the next time, you guys just have to be better its okay. Try it again. But don't try it a third time! Don't pretend to be a fool who were just trying but were unlucky...

Top4 Main rule: When you achieved a new record on a dm, it is prohibited to make another record on the same dm.

Simple leveling: The helper account level doesn't matter. It can be level100, level60, anything. You can even create DM HELPER ACCOUNTS, for example you have an account which level is 19 and its for In Da Club. The DM helper account stats are not checked.
So what you have to watch for? Top1 and Top2 Main rule.

What if you both leveling and kill each other vica-versa on every dm, or you help each other on dm till level ups, then vica-versa.
This is completely okay. Why? Because you both will have as much as kills as deaths, and your KD won't be that high.
Just watch for Top1 rule.

DM Record again:
Everyone can get dm records to their name! Just keep up a few simple rules.
IF you will be the record holder, you must meet the Top1 Main rule. Your level can't be higher than the dm level is (+/-5).
Example: You can't go to Minigun Madness at level 100 to set a new record to your name.

How much helpers do i need to get a new record? Nobody knows. Usually 3-4. You can go with more to be 100% sure.
What do you need to watch for? If you guys tried to make a new record, but were unable, due to missing a few more kills, then TRY IT AGAIN, !!!ONCE!!!

If you still can't get enough, then wait until you have more company helping!

Remember: We can see how many players are in a DM, don't try with the same ammount of players more times.

Don't be a fool. Don't say that you are just unlucky who can't get enough kills, no matter how much company they have.

When got a new record, stop it. Don't try to set a new one. You can still go to leveling on it (Keep Top1 & Top2 rule) but you can't try to set an even better record.

Top5 Main rule:
Since I'm also a player of gto who know every pesky, little tricks i can also think of how else you can make stating on dms.

Lets say that you are a group of players (4)
1 killer + 3 helper.

You guys go to a dm to set a new record. Then someone of you login to another account to set a new record again.
Then you could go back to the first account to set a new record again.
You could repeat this until you break top1 main rule but achieve on a dm like 1200-1300 kills.
This is unnacceptable. We can check for ip, serial, anything. You guys are the same people but on different accounts. Don't try to fool the system.

if GTO had like 200 players, then it would be possible that more player groups try to achieve a new record on the same dm.
In that case it would be okay that you just really wants to hold the record but since there are only a few players its impossible to make that.

Lets talk about what is legal what's not.

Seems like you guys can't really understand what can you do or you just playing the fool who doesn't understand why you get banned.

"He came to me to being killed"
"I didn't know killing AFK players is not okay"

etc.

There is no definition of killing AFK players since everyone get spawnprotection when they die, and it lasts until they press a key. So killing someone who might look like afking its a lie, they deliberately press a key to be able to get killed then stop moving.
These accounts have like 1000+ more deaths and only like 10-20 kills, nobody is that bad to achieve a stat like this when they play normally.

You should know what stating means. Fighting with each other is okay. That is how you should play on the server. But by fighting you can't achieve 100-200-300+ more kills than deaths. If you fight with someone then you will have deaths as well, even if you are better. With headshot enabled, it is impossible to get 3-4 times more kills than deaths.

I'm so good that i can get 5 kills without dying. Yes sure.
I always go to jail with 6 kills and waits, so thats why. Yes sure

If you are that good, then record yourself and post it!
I will unban you if you provide a proper proof that you both were fighting with each other, but you were just too good. Post the whole fight scene, not only 1-2 minutes. Everyone can make fake scripted videos where they fight, then they lie about the rest of the kills.

On killing low levels:
What is low level? Someone whose level is like under -15 than yours until level 60. Between 60-100 you both have all the significant weapons, and both of you have efficient ammount of hp.

Nobody belives that a low level account deliberately goes to your place and asks for being killed. Its like the opposite term: You (as high level) go to the low level's place to kill it.

Of course there are situations where the low level guy is pesky and fights with you, annoys you, but when fighting you won't get kills within seconds without he kills you. With headshot enabled a low level player can also kill a level100 player.

If someone INTENTIONALLY goes to you and he is a low level player and wants to fight with you, then kill him. It will be only a few times. Don't say that you got kills by this way more than 10 times ... Nobody will drive from LS to SF/LV for being killed. Yes it can happen like 3-4 times but then he will learn that it makes no sense. Record yourself and prove that I'm wrong. You can record every fight scene then upload them one by one, or in one video. You can even help me by writing /thetime or /time or /servertime in the chatbox so I can see better when the fights happened.

What if you both do fighting? Don't go to LS and search him. If you really want to fight with him then connect with a lower level account which meets the requirements (no higher than +15 levels). Why? Because hp and available weapons matter. If you don't have such an account then just go away from the guy, don't fight with him. Or Record yourself to prove it was a real fight

In any case you can record your own gameplay with OBS then upload it to youtube.com and link to the forum if you feel you got banned for a mistake. In the video we should see that both of you fighting. You can upload the whole fight scene (10-20-30 minutes). Not just 1-2 minutes where you fight, and in the rest 28 minutes you stating

Hi guys,
We're planning to update the server from MTA 1.5 to 1.6. Sadly the server is very very old (haven't even rebooted for 2000+ days), which makes impossible to update MTA without updating the server OS as well.
This means everything (web, forum, gameserver, etc..) will be down during the "update". There will be no big announcement(s) before, if the server is down, we're probably upgrading it. I don't know how long will it take, I'm planning to reinstall the whole server rather than trying to update a 10+ years old linux.
Don't worry, your progress wont be lost/affected.
Also we're switching to more recent hardware (Premium Intel/AMD CPU)

p.s.: You don't need to stop playing until the update starts, we're announce it ingame, and your progress wont be lost!

p.s. 2.: we don't now exactly when its gonna happen (when I have time.. )

Thanks for understanding, have a great day!

Someone asked to re-enable driveby I did it. I forgot that we had to disable it because it has two major bugs which can't be fixed. When we disabled it a few years ago we looked on mta communty resources for a replacement, but we didn't find anything. In singleplayer the driveby mechanism is totally different but on serverside we can't make it because the client misses important functions to make it. I don't say that some sort of driveby will never be added back, but not in the near future.

Why it is disabled:
https://youtu.be/OmXvAxIyDzE
https://youtu.be/svGbKo4-GOA

If we would enforce "any" security, then you would come and cry because you wouldn't allowed to login to an account from 50+ different serial/pc (like your account), otherwise: all password+salt stored encrypted in database, even if if i gave it to you, you wont able to decrypt the password in the next century , (i assume u don't own a quantum pc server), you can't bruteforce either, because you'll get banned after 3 failed try. Also there's a captcha on the website. (as you see in the bottom-right corner), so what kind of security u want? chop your hands and tongue? so you cant tell the password to anyone.

"My account got hacked"

• There's basically no way to hack an account in GTO. Unless you put '12345' as password there's no way for any hackers to get accounts. You get blocked for an hour after 4 tries, which makes bruteforce impossible. Also we never detected any harm towards the database.

"They hacked my email"

• Normally, no one knows your e-mail address unless you told someone what it is. This is the first problem. If you share the account with someone, they can also see what the e-mail address is. This is not our responsibility. Again, if you put '12345' as e-mail password - it is not our responsibility to help you.

"They requested an e-mail change and it finished, i didn't play during that time"

• You get a notification when someone request's an e-mail change. You don't have to play on the server to check your e-mails. Everyone checks their e-mail everyday or every week. So this excuse also makes no sense. Don't create e-mails only for the game - it makes no sense at all. We never spam your inbox to do it.

"They stole my money or they banned the account"

• Your responsibility who you share the password with. Your responsibility to set a hard password both on your account & e-mail. Best to have different passwords on the account & e-mail.

"Why no help?"

• Why would we? There's no other game in the planet where the admins help you with shared accounts. You'd find them ban you for doing that. While we won't ban anyone from sharing accounts, its also your responsibility who you share the account with. If they rob you or ban you - its your fault. We won't help. 10 days to cancel the e-mail request is pretty much enough.

What if we set back the email, then someone comes that he/she bought the account and now got scammed by?

What if you wanted to buy something from someone and you gave your money, then you ask us for giveback?

"It was my only one account, now I go delete the game."

• Do it. We don't need idiots.

What is the real crouchbug?

When you crouching and rolling to left or right, you can break the rolling animation to instantly get up. This is crouchbug. (should also call it quickstand bug)

You can break the rolling animation at any phase, at the start, in the middle, or at the end, doesn't matter when exactly you break it, it causes your charachter's hitbox to crash and your charachter will rapidly stand up.
Normally if the rolling animation finishes, you have a .25s delay at the end of this animation before you can stand up. Crouchbug (quickstand bug) lets you to also cancel this cooldown.

Why it gives advantage to the players?
Since the animations are being cancelled and the charachter's hitbox getting crashed, you will be unable to give headshot kill to the player who abuses this bug, meanwhile he can kill you easily with headshot.

The main problem with animation such as crouching, and rolling, thats why you'll notice if someone just crouching without rolling, his collision will crash too for some moment.

Crouhbug is a glitch which could be enabled on every server. The players voted it to be disabled, so achieving it by other ways is punishable.
We currently give 10 days of jail and mute to the player who does it.

GTA:SA is a 20 year old game and its engine is very poorly optimised to PC port. Also the physics of the game is depends on FPS. This means that somehow you will be able to do crouchbug by pressing certain keys, or perform a certain combined task.
By doing this you exactly know that you will get jailed.

What about synchronization?
There are crouchbug variations where in your POV (point of view) you don't see yourself doing the bug, but your oppent does see it.
To be able to do this way of crouchbug you still have to perform certain tasks & certain keypresses what a normal player would never do.
So doing this, will also get you into jail and mute.

should be fixed by now.