So you work directly with the MTA team?That's awsome
Excellent news, especially the map editor, and the attachable miniguns part . And gratz for the 300k posts, thats a lot .(One bad thing: there is no way getting around the crashing baldes of helis... I will try to live with it.)
For those of you who use map editor if you get 1.3.1 from http://mtasa.com download button you'll get a newer version of map editor that I've been working on. It includes some bug fixes but also lets you use the RGB colors for vehicles and you can place peds in maps.