The Pulse: Community Catch Up | 2WC 17 Apr

[Pollux]

I have been a supporter of this management team and had trust that you guys actually get forward. I do understand that changes take time and I am sure many will agree. However.. it is truly sad to see what has happened in those 6 months. I do not understand why you guys are still working on it. I would suggest to hand over the server to someone who actually has time to work on it. These updates are poor and you guys can’t catch the community‘s attention anymore. I totally agree to Jan. I think we came to a point in which hope has actually fallen. I know it’s hard to create a new FL for the Community.. or go back to an old version. You haven’t given the Community the chance to see your vision. We haven’t been informed of new content coming to the server or something special that we could be waiting for. - And if you tell me that the inventory refactor is the biggest update of all the upcoming things.. then I am sad and disappointed

Rocky, I've already spoken to you in DMs not too long ago so this is a bit confusing considering I directly address some of the things you're saying now. Everything we're working on is not a secret, we've talked about it in detail and at length before we even started. The progress we've made in the last 6 months is also significantly better than the 6 months before that. I think a lot of people are forgetting that FL was completely dead before we took over. We knew it'd be a revival attempt from almost 0, and we're treating it as exactly that.


I don't get the "no proper progress for 6 months" bit at all, as we've very clearly shown a lot of progress? You are also right, FL is already dead and was for a while before we took it. This is a revival attempt, not a regular big update. That's why we're putting so much work into it and also why we're taking our time. Again, I think a lot are forgetting that we only took the servers down because no one was on for several months anyway. The attempt last summer was good, but it's clear we need to 10x that to actually be sustainable for any meaningful time.

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Hello Pollux…

I do understand what you are trying to tell me. I know that if we would reopen the server now.. it wouldn’t be a good decision either. I was not saying that you guys aren’t open to the community. You just clearly don’t know (til now) how you guys plan to reopen the server. Since there isnt anything the community can wait for I am pretty sure that being done with most of the development process is nowhere near. The community doesn’t have a vision and the same goes to the staff team/management team. I know it’s hard to find dedicated developers. And as Archer said… You are volunteers who have decided to support and help the server. If you can not match up with this then the Management Team has to find solutions that things run faster and find/contact others who are willing to help.

I still very much disagree, I've always been very vocal about my vision for FL for years now. We've also made many posts talking about our plan at this point, I doubt there's much more we can say about it that'll be new information. I don't think there has ever been a lack of ideas or plans from the team, it's always a resource issue with getting them done. I'm also not hiring people to work on the gamemode. I don't want FL to be about making up all the money spent and spending the thousands required just to make it a little bit quicker is a terrible idea.

We're working very hard on everything, as shown by the record number of changes being made. There has literally been more changes in the last three months than there has been in the last few years of FL being up. I know progress has been slow but that's also far from the "nothing at all" some are suggesting. If the progress stops and it becomes obvious there's little hope of our plan getting done, then we'll give it up. For now all I can do now is try make sure we make good, regular progress as this is likely the final attempt for FLs Gmod CityRP server.