State of FL

[Doctor Internet]

Ehm, yes it was? Have you ever considered RP points, clothing, cars, money, ranks?

Clothing, which could be bought instantly with the money from the donator required to wear it.
Ranks, which, unless you were in a clique, were often impossible to get, and also aren't designed to retain players.

RPP, sure
Money and Cars (kinda one in the same), sure.

However, I don't think this is what Pollux is referring to, rather, features like Chess / Farming / Fishing, which gave something else to achieve and progress towards, which ends up being different to just "spam weed, make money", ya know?

3. However, giving players ways to invest in the game mode, such as updates to clans, perhaps passive income systems; rewarding things to manage over a long time; would provide the best opportunity to elongate that initial momentum, and give people something new to play for. However, the impact of introducing these systems is lessened once people have stopped checking in from the initial hype.

Absolutely, which is what the new / updated skills are aiming for.

4. The main focus of FL should be getting new people in and retaining them. They're the future of the community, and they don't have the problem of burnout from 1000s of hours of playing. But, if the server's empty from a lack of engaged veterans, there's no social proof that FL's worth playing on, and, obviously, there's no one to play with.

Again, aye, new players need to be coming on, finding stuff to do, a community to interact with and enjoy, but I think people have gone over that later in this thread.

Here we are again, people coming in with suggestions and then other people replying why they don’t agree, sounds like FL under Divey again.

Disagreement isn't neccessary a bad thing.
Differences in opinion are something which should be worked on together, and understanding developed over time, rather than just seeing that people disagree so they must be wrong.

Here we are again, people coming in with suggestions and then other people replying why they don’t agree, sounds like FL under Divey again.

Focus on new players or try an entire new game, the community was built on Gmod but it was never supposed to stay there.

That's what happends when FL suddenly gets a boost and the owner gets donations revenue, when all the $$ tick in, they go straight for the yacht&dip-tactic

I don't see how people being active, having discussions and differences of opinion equates to "yacht & dip".
Surely, if they were dipping, they wouldn't respond?

Are you about to change Fearless into some quest-based > progression game, I think WoW would be the option then?

No.
If we were to do something like this, we'd be adding some RPG elements, to a RP core, like Monolith.