serious fl discussion ideas

[Boonan]

Kind reminder for the ones that forgot, people like Nadrick joined the staff team end 2011/start 2012, at that time there were 3 servers that were always full.

Yet you’re talking about maintaining high standards when, and I really don’t mean to offend you, you barely experienced one full server for more then 2 weeks. The “standards” you’re talking about are the reason the server is dead, do something, try something. But stop talking like everything is going perfect, it’s the opposite and you know that.

Sure that is great that he was in the Staff team when the server was arguably in its prime however the standards those days aren't really applicable to current times, everything has changed to some extent whether that be through how the system works within the team or attitudes within the community and / or team.


The lack anything during Soul's duration is what created the downward spiral we're currently in (many with a lot more experience and knowledge who are in the know can elaborate more than me) so maintaining the standards that got us in this situation wouldn't be a good idea would it. Hence there has been a lot of change internally, for the better. The current standards have resulted in the biggest series of updates in FL history, changing its landscape entirely to evolve, sure the follow up wasn't ideal - anyone who opposes that is simply delusional - but it gives us something to work towards as a collective, both team and community. Nobody is "talking like everything is going perfect" sure there has been a few positives however the lack of players and player retention unequivocally show that a lot isn't going great and I don't believe anyone has stated that everything 'is going great'? 


Again the point of this thread is for a serious discussion on what the community wants to move forward, instead (like the majority of threads similar to this) it has spiralled into a pointing fingers game, everyone is fine with taking criticism as long as its constructive - notably feedback on what the team can do as a collective and its sub-groups can do to improve ie more dev work on player requested scripts + features, admins clamping down on metagaming (encouraging people to talk in-game rather than in private channels - many are guilty of doing this yet it should be encouraged) etc. Or even better, if people believe they obtain the ability and resources to help FL get out of its current state, applications are still open for contributor, admin and event coordinator.