FL Survey 2022

[Bulldogg]

The updates already seem to be going very serious RP type. Now the survey seems like you’re simply asking “Do you want us to be serious rp?” It confused me to see all of that as FL has always been semi serious, and still is, so I thought.

I understand if majority of the community wants to change up everything FL has ever been about, but perhaps it may be easier simply stating “Do you want seriousrp or semi serious” then if more people selected serious, you can go off asking about all the different serious rp features.

I like to join now and then and see the massive potential it has, such as smaller maps (V2D) or similar. And focusing more on semi serious elements and making it a fun, relaxed environment just like it use to be in the early 2014 stages. Maybe I’m old school and don’t like adapting to change, or maybe I saw how FL use to be back then and how many people loved to play, and now they don’t. I think too much change in the wrong direction is severely crippling FL’s growth.

I completely agree, but because many people did not join prior to 2016, most people have no idea what fearless was like back then. Active clan wars, up to ten people in queue, and so forth.
Fearless is in an identity crisis, and must choose between returning to their roots or reforming even more.
I'm hoping for the first option.

The biggest change between FL now and FL years ago is its players, which is something we can't really do anything about. The playerbase of gmod has shifted and we've had to adapt to survive as long as we have. I wish it was as simple as reverting back to 2013 but it really isn't, nostalgia simply isn't sustainable for more than about a week. An event or something to go back might be cool, but it isn't an option for long term growth. We saw this the last time we swapped to V2D, where we had to swap from it only a week into it due to no players as nostalgia wore off. That's why it was removed from the map vote entirely.

We're obviously looking at this survey to figure out the general direction we need to go in and we're really appreciate the almost 80 responses we have now. We'll likely have another community update when the survey closes to summarise things and just confirm the direction we're going to go in.

I'm not sure when this "week" was, but when I returned in 2020, it was v2d and the server was practically full, then people got banned due to the moneyprinting issue, and you suffered a drop.
My point is that v2d is not to blame, and by returning to the roots, I don't mean reverting back to the ancient gamemode in 2013, but rather progressively rebuilding backwards. As an example, I made a good point about why printers should be reverted.