The amount of SA-MP fan boy bias amazes me, I used to have SA-MP for almost 2 years until I switched to MTA. SA-MP from a developer's view-point is slow, as it does not use d3d text rendering, copycat like, very bug and badly planned. It is a very bad mod. But that's what people had for a long time. The only reason MTA:SA got less players is because SA-MP simply got a head start from 2005.
I have yet to hear why SA-MP is better than MTA. Just throw something at me. I don't have a problem with change. I'm open minded, unlike you silly SA-MP fanboys. The only reason to hate MTA is just because of pure fan-boyism.
Also, if you noticed, Kye just completely copied off of the MTA UI. It has similar styling. He probably copied off the netcode also... I'm going to can his mod...
Also MTA loads just the same time as sa-mp. And it can be faster if MTA was already loaded.