What happened to the server?

[Fultz]

When was the last time you joined the server or any of our events? We just went from no activity to ~2-3 events per week. We're already full-steam planning out entire october. If that progress is too slow for your standards, then you're just an ingrate, and I don't care if you joined the server in 3600 B.C. and became an admin when Roman empire fell. If you're a forums keyboard warrior in 2022 without playing or joining events, then you have no right to talk down to people like that who are actually trying to make a change. Take a week and make your own event, try to make your own community movement to repopulate the server, make your own advertising systems for the server. Only then you'll have a right to call others delusional and claim that no progress has been made.

you understand that events have a negative impact on server population in this instance correct? Good on you for trying and putting in effort. It’s just the wrong channel.

Since these events have all been hosted on the main server, it creates a time where people know others will be online, and the server pop rises during these times, but then drops away completely once the event is over. I don't think "negative impact" is the phrase to use here.

If you are thinking in terms of getting people on. Then no it’s not a negative impact. But in terms of growth it is. You are essentially training people to not get on the server unless a event is being hosted. That’s a negative and should outweigh the spurts of population. Events also do not cater to new players. So in the time you get people on you are excluding new players. And the ones you retain (if there even is any) will naturally join everyone else and wait for events. 

Does that sound like a positive to you? Like I said before. Good on you for putting in the effort. Just in the wrong channel.

Yeah, this makes complete sense and I think I jumped the gun a little when I read your post. We want to focus more on mini events and roleplay this month as it will keep people on the server rather than spend all our time making huge events while the server sits vacant

I mentioned it a little in my post on the off-topic thread https://fearlessrp.net/showthread.php?ti...03&page=12

Mini events are still events. Same result. Instead you should be planning just normal rp. Create basic options. Showcase what the game mode is. Have people make shops (gun dealers, chefs, etc), have people go corleone and rebels, get people to form a functioning government, etc. You want to attract new players.