FL Survey 2022

[Rossi]

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 100% understand that nostalgic would be gone quickly. However, I wasn't really talking about returning to nostalgic 2013-2014 game play. I was more so stating that I strongly believe there needs to be a smaller map due to the population on the servers not averaging above 15 normally. 

Wether you use V2D, littletown, or any other map, that's up to whichever the community or management decide. I said V2D because it was the only small map on the list to vote for. It's why large maps always work better for large communities. Having 75 players on V33 back then made it a ton of fun. But if you placed the server back on v33 (v4b1) at the moment with 15 people, it would be entirely boring like how it is now on San Ranevo.

As far as the Semi-Serious and SeriousRP aspect go, it just needs to be decided upon quickly with a simple poll asking for Semi Serious, or for SeriousRP. Placing SeriousRP features all over the server, slowly isn't the best way to go in my opinion. As a new player, I would be confused when joining to see all of these addons/features and for it to be still considered a Semi-Serious community. It's best to release a large update for serious features if that's what was agreed upon on a poll, followed by changing the title to display SeriousRP

Player Interaction is heavily needed and I did see it was addressed slightly in the survey. Perhaps playtime hours for government jobs will level you up to the next rank and you'll get more benefits. Example: 50 hours of police play time gets you to corporal which also unlocks a special vehicle, different weapon, and an item. Something of the sort for every job to encourage them to become that job for a while. 

Players who create passiveRP buildings should also be rewarded with more than just a point to encourage people to build and actually have passive shops to go into. RP points have worked back in the day to get people to RP more on that side, but now it's like they're becoming obsolete to players.

Finally, the category change. I know this is a circumstantial topic, but it needs to be put in the DarkRP folder. Yes, you will get players who will come on and think this is darkrp and treat it as such, but there's a reason why we have admins. Imagine having 20 players on the server as we're trying to grow back the community, and have a lot others join because they see people on the server and it's inside a category that a lot of people open. It's worked for communities like Monolith, I think it's about time FL gives it a try.