serious fl discussion ideas

[Boonan]

In all fairness V2D wasn't the community favourite which is why we aren't on it - if it obtained the most votes we'd be on it but that wasn't the case.


At the end of the day using Pollux as a scapegoat for the decline in players isn't at all fair, even when I started getting back into FL again a  year and a bit ago towards the end of San Ranevo, the player count was dwindling but it came back up after the map changed to V5, followed by a few 'quality of life' improvements, vehicle upgrades, active orgs (doing all types of RP) and constant in-depth events. This was all when he'd just got dev-admin when the server was under a different leader and management team, it's not right to just point a finger at a figurehead in the community and blame all of the troubles on them. Sure there is a lot we can do to improve but it doesn't happen instantly - we'd end up getting to a reasonable solution a lot quicker if this thread was used properly, by giving constructive criticism and ideas on how to improve the quality of RP e.g. potential script people know of that could be implemented or mechanics from other servers which are in a much better place than us right now. However, for the most part that isn't really happening here, obviously there are some who are sharing their ideas which is great and its being acknowledged but from what I've seen its just people blurting out insults to others with no real supporting evidence to make their critiques valid which doesn't help anyone at all.


Another point to add, its unreasonable to expect management and the rest of the team to dedicate all their free time on Garry's Mod or Visual Studio Code etc trying stop the server dying, again its a voluntary job so let them play League for a bit to relax (I won't, the game is clapped). I don't believe the server will close nor do I want it to, we literally were able to sustain 30-36 players for several hours on a weekday after the server averaged 0 players 2 weeks prior, just by connecting and doing small things ie open stores, police checkpoints, have a working government - it just proves that players bring players. Sure, nobody wants to sit on an empty server hoping for one player to connect, wait hours for the ball to start rolling but its something we have to do until the quality of RP is improved upon, that's what the majority of the team do, if they're watching something or not doing anything that requires all of their PC's power, they'd leave Gmod open and sit on FL to get the initial ball rolling. People say it doesn't help but it does, every time the server has hit above 12 players is because Wolven has sat on the server alone whilst doing other stuff to get the ball rolling, after that spontaneous events happen or events that have already been planned but require a handful of players will commence, its a slow process, but just because some people don't have the patience to let things improve, doesn't mean everyone else should abandon FL on Garry's Mod and switch to a new game to continue FL or just let it die on Garry's Mod. Again its a long process so be patient and think before you blurt out something completely idiotic about someone or something that has zero connection to one another