Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
rockstar games stole the idea from multi-theft-auto. it's been in the news on their site that rockstar games was aware of mta, so i bet rockstar games stole the idea