What happened to FL?

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Why would anyone play FL when there are better alternatives? The low FPS, low playercount and incredibly boring passiveRP is not attractive whatsoever. Don't get me wrong here, I never play Garrysmod, but when I did it was because FL was running v2d and had stable and little content that made my laptop run the game at an acceptable rate. Now whenever I try to play FL I get 10 fps, what happened? Obviously there has been little focus on optimization and low content, one of the few things I feel Soul persistently fought for.

Stop adding content, it is not what we need. The server needs updates that optimize the gamemode. If that means reducing the quality of the cars, removing entities and replacing custom content with already existent models it has to be done. Sacrifices must be made.

Strive to get the lowest possible download time, and the highest possible FPS.

It's not as easy as going "hey guys stop content lets optimize". The content that has been added has been quite "light". I do fully agree that performance is a major issue but it's a very hard thing to work on. If I remove one thing in the gamemode it often breaks 5 other things. It's not like we're not doing anything about it either, it's more that this will take a long time and it's not the most fun job. Motivation is a massive issue with the current dev team (which is fair as we do this out of our own time just to help the community). I can promise you that personally I will try my best to work on it though, I already have been trying as much as I can as a contributor. Development wise FL is going in a really good direction and I'm very excited for the future.