A bit late but thank you everyone

So yesterday i got a nice shiney tablet (Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2) which runs Windows 8 and has an Intel Atom CPU. So what better way to test how it is than by trying Liberty Unleashed on it!

If you were in lolmortuary you may have seen me join and do nothing... thats because playing GTA3 when you have no keyboard (or just the onscreen one) is a pain in the arse! Might invest in the keyboard addon for it...

The tablet played LU at a stable 30FPS and didn't even lag when somebody dropped a lot of cars on my head (Thanks whoever that was...) so i'm happy with both LU and my new toy

Here is a really bad picture of me in lolmortuary on my tablet. Yes its at a low res in window mode but thats because i needed to use the onscreen keyboard

As NC said, the VU source is exactly the same as the LU source with minor memory address changes for GTA:VC instead of GTA3 so releasing the VU source would be the same as releasing the LU source.

This is why VU half works and half doesn't because there are things inside LU which arn't compatible with vice city so things go a bit iffy. It is also why VU exists since it is using the same code we didn't have to start a new project from scratch.

MD5 insecure, reallllllllllyyyyy?

It actually is in comparison to many others. Being that it was the most popular hashing method throughout the world for a very long time, it has become very easy to crack because so many people had focused on reversing it.

Its not really a case of 'people took the time to reverse it' since methods to MD5 are open sourced anyway. The issue with MD5 is it is a simple algorithm which doesn't take long to brute force these days thanks to faster CPUs and being able to execute code on a GPU. Bruteforcing an MD5 hash of a simple password can take seconds on a modern powerful GPU.

SHA1 and better are more secure due to the complexity of the algorithm so it takes longer to calculate the hash, slowing down brute force attacks.
Although if someone uses common passwords such as 'password' '123' or similar stupid things then their password can be worked out easily no matter what the hashing method due to rainbow tables.

Are you sure that good servers = more players? I'm not familiar with LU's player base, servers etc., but believe me, even if you make 10 good servers, the player base won't rise much. GTA3 is simply old. Many people dropped it already (I see this on gtaf for example, there aren't much topics about modding gta3). Perhaps if LU would have some advanced game hacks functions like MTASA (to add new cars, weapons, etc, changing the game in general) then the player base will raise for sure (+ promoting LU on websites).

I have always said that more modes would result in more players, which it will. Think about it, at the moment its just DM servers and DM gets boring very fast. What you need is some fun modes, racing and RP servers.
If i remember correctly, MTA:SA was fairly empty when it first came out due to lack of modes but due to the larger community the modes came quickly.

Yes GTA3 is old but there are a lot of people out there who still enjoy the nostalgia of the game. Adding advanced features would help but you shouldn't need to be able to change the game so much just because its 'old'.

I hope your project goes somewhere and you start a craze of RP servers. LU was designed for RP servers (as it is my favourite mode) so you should be able to do some great things with it. And remember, i can offer hosting for your server if it proves popular and unique

I think I found a problem, I do not know if this is really it, because after deleting the files, I haven't a error master list!

Try :
On searching windows, tape : %appdata%
Entry on folder "Unleashed Games" and delete 4 files.

Now, open LU and press click Official or Internet! Work or not ? 

Doesn't work

This wont fix it since the problem is the DNS, not any settings in the browser.

Anyway, seems i did forget something when Kuruma moved IP. The changes have been applied to the dns server so it should fix itself within the next 24 hours (unless you have a really terrible DNS, in which case.... sux2bu)

If the problem still occurs, open up a command line (start -> run -> type 'cmd') and do 'nslookup masterlist.liberty-unleashed.co.uk
This should return something similar to the following:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    masterlist.liberty-unleashed.co.uk
Addresses:  94.23.157.172
          64.237.39.51

The IPs may be in reverse order but that is fine. If the IP starting 64.237 is still 108.something then it is still using the old IP. Try typing ipconfig /flushdns in the command line and try again. If you still get the old IP then the DNS server you are using (usually your ISPs) has cached the old DNS record and should update soon.
You could try using another DNS server such as Google (8.8.8., guides can be found online on how to do this

Actually its just a simple DNS issue where some people DNS servers havn't received the new IP yet. Really need to fix the browser so that it will check the other servers if the randomly chosen one fails to stop the errors like this.

The new IP should be received by most peoples DNS servers by now but if not, just wait

Me and Knucis said to each other we will start working on it again when the new update comes out.

Even thoug hyou could work on it and finish it off now... you lazy tester

Even though you could work on LU 0.1.1.0 right now...you lazy Developer...

* SugarD runs

What do you think we're doing? If you wasn't lazy you'd know there have been tests lately! </leaks>

Me and Knucis said to each other we will start working on it again when the new update comes out.

Even thoug hyou could work on it and finish it off now... you lazy tester

It will be released when its ready. Do you really think spamming me with this question will make me say 'oh i'll release it tomorrow' or something? I havn't forgotten about LU nor have i given up on it.

Work takes priority over LU and these days i havn't got much time to work on it but i do mess with it when i can. The update is close but there are still bugs that need ironing out. I would rather get a stable working release out instead of some buggy POS since i don't want everybody spamming me with PMs that the update is broken.

Have some patience and it will arrive.

Like Thijn said, multi language support within LU itself is difficult to do, involving a rather large rewrite of most of the base code so it definately wont be in any 0.1 build, maybe not even 0.2 but that is to be decided.

As for having translations of the browser, that isn't that hard to do but it does have problems such as what languages to add and getting translators for it, since only one of us developers speak another languages and that is Juppi (because he's Finnish). If we were to add translations into the browser then we will never be able to satisfy everybody because there are far too many languages to support.
Plus, as a test i set up translations on the Wiki a while ago and not many people bothered with it. Currently there are 5 language options which are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Russian (although the russian actually has no translations atm)

We know that it is mainly non-english players playing LU currently but it is far too much trouble to add extra languages and full unicode support for such a small userbase. If LU grows a bit more then it may be worth the effort but for now it's not.

I do not recommend disabling UAC entirely, since it allows people to edit their GTA files however they want and join your server.
A better way would be to use the Anticheat.uac file and place any files you want to be checksum'd in there.

The functionality is explained Here.

In the future we may disable checksumming the weapon, handling and surface datafiles if the server has its own copy since the local copy is ignored then and it makes no sense verifying a file that wont be used.

erm what's a 'white system message'? If you mean a message to a player thats white, why not just set its colour to white?

Also with removing buildings from the map... this could be problematic. I take it you've came from sa-mp which has this functionality, but SA is very different to GTA3 when it comes to objects.

For example, half of the buildings on the GTA3 map also include some roads, bushes and tress with them instead of just being on their own, other buildings are made from 4 or 5 different parts. The object system in GTA3 really sucks when compared with VC or SA. Might look into it one day but i can only see it being useful if you want to remove the entire map or certain islands and rebuild them with custom objects.

I just knocked up a small application for Windows Phone 7 which gives you the latest news and update changelogs on your phone without having to check the website.

Pretty useless app but i was bored

You can find it Here

I have just been messing with the LU wiki and i have installed an extension that lets users translate any page on to their native language. This can help users that struggle with english or if it isn't their first language.

All we need now is translators. If your native language isn't english, please go to the wiki and translate some of our pages You can check the main pages that need translating Here
Also, if you set your language in the wiki preferences you should see an option to translate any page that you are on (but i haven't tested this)

To translate a page you require permission to do so, if you're willing to help us out let us know your username on the wiki and we'll grant you permission