Return of classic features to the gamemode

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FLs survival depends on people with a lot of free time. The reason we had a full server every day earlier this year was because people joined daily and played on it for many hours a day. FL can't survive if it only caters to people who can join for a few hours a week, which is what most nostalgic people fall into. I understand that many of you want to see the FL you knew years ago, but if it isn't what the active playerbase (the people who will join daily) want then it doesn't work. I think this is a key point many of you need to realise, especially if you haven't actively played in a few years. The playerbase has changed, very few players are still around that played many years ago so these nostalgic changes won't result in anything notable. We need to cater towards the newer playerbase, which means FL has to change from the server you once loved. If we're constantly stuck in the past, we'll never make any progress.

I understand

However, there is no active player base to cater towards. So you could focus on the new (future) coming players or the old ones. I will say though that there are a lot more members seeming to be interested in the old style and no new members on here saying otherwise 

I would like to think you all are doing something in terms of a ven diagram or something to think of ideas and if it’s the new players you’re going after, it would be nice to hear and see your ideas so us older players can get behind it and understand why you chose that direction!

There's a difference between catering for players who will play daily and those who won't though, and right now it's clear we've done the latter. FLs concept is only fun when there's a lot of players on, so it's important we aim for what will bring the most players. There are still many people who check in on what's going on, the announcement post proves it - we had over 80 unique people watching the thread soon after it was posted. We had 149 unique people check out our discord last week. It doesn't make sense for me to talk about my personal plans until I can talk to the rest of management, however, we are planning a big change in direction which you should hear more about soon. The nostalgia approach clearly isn't going to work, so we're going to get on with planning for the future even if that means leaving the past behind.