Gerard

So what do you think of TGTAP?

Absolutely right. It's simply the number of posts you have made. We're thinking of getting rid of these, as some people make 2,000 crap posts per year, whilst others make 100 useful ones. So by all means be active here, but don't worry too much about the tagline. When you reach 50 posts, you can change it to whatever you want. We're replacing them with the new award boxes that you see below them (such as 1,000 posts, modder, staff etc) The numbers in the list below are correct up until Executioner. We changed them once more members reached that level Lieutenant is 2000, Underboss is 3000, Capo is 5000, Don is 5000, Godfather 10k, then a secret one above that

They don't start from square one - simply by becoming active again you re-earn your awards. We're going to test the minimum levels of activity for this to happen (such as making 10 posts per month), but this might end up just being a separate "active member" award.

Most of the awards only show up if you have posted within the past month. If you become inactive, they go away. Considering extending this to the Modder award too.

The answer you seek is in the GTA SA Modding Guide. Look at the "PC v2/v3/v4" section in the table.

I got a paid of Skullcandy Titans, which sounded nice, but one of the buds stopped working after a few months. Sucks. Now I just bought a cheap pair.

Homophobic comments will NOT be tolerated on this site. You should be ashamed of yourself.

No problem (: The script is up and running, and now 625 members have been given the award! This will update every day for any new modders. (Expect a formal announcement in the next couple of weeks)

Well I've given you the award manually now! Hopefully we'll get the automated awarding up soon.

Chris does pretty much everything himself, including the main site, downloads database, and any special scripts we use (like automatically giving awards). The only thing that isn't made by him is the forum itself, which is made by IPS, but the integration with the site etc is Chris again. As for the server and hosting, Chris and I do that together. But he's a busy man, which is why we sometimes have to throw heavy objects at him to get something made. (:

You can buy GTA SA from Steam quite cheaply and very easily. Or you can buy the GTA Complete Package which contains GTA, GTA 2, GTA III, VC, SA, IV, TLAD and TBOGT. That's 8 games for the cost of 5.

Downloading games through torrents is illegal. Since you're playing without paying, it means everyone else is paying for you to pay. That is not on. Discussion surrounding illegally downloaded games is forbidden on this forum, and you will not be able to get help with your problem until you buy a legitimate copy of the game.

Whoa, okay, I didn't know it was done manually... LOL the emoticon didn't show up! That wasn't meant to sound so abusive, oops. I just meant the modder award hasn't been scripted/coded yet, all we've done is make the award image. Trying to get Chris to do this isn't easy!

Because it hasn't been done yet!!

If there are any specific you wish to discuss, let me know, and I'll make sure this is no longer an issue. Obviously if the staff are misbehaving or being rude, then we can't expect much from other members. I've always maintained that staff should lead by example. This is why we're changing staff slightly. Moderators are the moderation experts, who keep the forum running smoothly. They are polite and skilled. In the past, staff have been picked because they're cool, popular, helpful or knowledgeable. Now, those people have their own roles (as Gurus, Elites/Veterans, Forum Bosses etc) and are not moderators. We could make multiple skins, but it's a lot of work to make them all work the same through every change we go through. Chris (founder/owner) is the only one who does this sort of thing here, and he doesn't have much time for it. So we'll probably stick with 2 skins max (fixed-width and 100%-width). The GORM is what this forum originally was, but the system was never fully functional and relied on unfinished third-party scripts. Instead, gangs became just social groups you could join. There were attempts to turn these into GTA multiplayer clans, but it never worked properly, and we didn't have the expertise/time to write good scripts and link it all into the forums. Like I said above, we're trying to make this a good forum first and foremost rather than something it's not. That's pretty much the problem, but we're hoping to start ramping up the forums in anticipation of GTA 5, rather than waiting until it comes out! That was a mistake Chris made with GTA IV, where we were so far behind and he didn't bother doing anything on this forum until it was too late. This used to be a really good community, with lots of different people all having fun. Then the original 'vets' grew older, and really disliked the new, younger members who just wanted to play silly forum games all the time. This meant the vets all left (including a lot of staff), and without the leadership of the vets/staff, the forum went to ruin. We need to bring back that social community. I agree entirely, this is exactly what we need. Mods are so vital to this community, and something like 90% of TGTAP's traffic is for the downloads section alone. We are looking at ways to integrate modding with the forum a lot more, but it's finding the time for Chris to make this work. This can't be solved with a news poster, but I think giving modders and mod users something to work for, things to do, things to discuss, would definitely help.

This is why you should backup first, always.

That's a cool idea. You may notice the new award boxes we have (I have ones saying staff, over 1000 posts etc). It would be easy for us to add one that shows "modder" if you have an approved mod uploaded. I'll make sure this gets done! We might add another one for people upload more than 10 mods or something. We don't tend to bother with user titles, since they only reflect post count unless we let you edit them yourself. It would be hard to make mod uploading count towards this. We might get rid of them altogether.

We have a whole downloads section of this site. You can upload your mod there.

Why should *your* stance that there IS a god be correct? There's no proof or evidence at all, only books and stories. Yes there is the existence of the universe, but that doesn't prove there's a god at all. Of course it wasn't man that made it, but why does it have to be an old man in the sky? There is SO much that happens naturally (reproduction, plate tectonics, weather, stars/planets) that people previously thought was operated by a god. To me, everything happens naturally, including the start of the universe, and most of what humans do. On this forum, we've had a lot of people say things like "ALLAH CREATED THE WORLD, SO HE IS RIGHT" without any explanation at all. Just don't do that. (I don't blame people for having beliefs, especially not if they were brought up with it, I just think it's wrong)

If you're logged in, it does show which forums have new posts (dark blue icon) and also shows the date of the last post: If all the icons are dark blue, you should click on "mark all as read" at the bottom of the forum homepage to reset everything.

Well there is a mobile skin for the forums already, or is there a problem with that?

Wouldn't it be simpler to have the adverts there at all times, and use CSS to show/hide them? You could have both sets as display:none; then use JS to decide which bit of CSS to use to make one set of ads appear.

Better?

Hi MIAJen! You can change all those settings by clicking on your username in the top-left. Right below the website's banner and the Home/Forums/Downloads links. Open that dropdown and go to My Settings. Then click the "Profile" tab and then Change Avatar. You can also get to that by going to your profile (clicking on your username or avatar wherever you see it) and clicking Edit Profile in the top-right.