Ah, It'd be much better if it was a SAMP server. I used to have one, it was easy to run and pawn was pretty easy to pick up and I managed to make a little gamemode in less than a few days.
Ah, I will tell you more about our trip to MTASA as well.
1. It took about 20 minutes to get everything installed and get us connected to a server.
2. Figured out that you can't alt+tab out.
3. Lagggggg.
4. Some dude's truck was spazzing about at the top of my screen.
5. It took me 5 minutes to get off a bike.
Those are all problems we didn't have when playing SAMP.