Future of FL/ FL Dying (18/75)

[Conn]

Maybe the category name 'CityRP' is not the right name. Nearly all RP servers are using a city as map.

Maybe we should name it differently, for example: Semi Serious Realistic City Roleplay

I honestly think CityRP is fine for what FL is, there's no real point in making it even more complicated. Could add Semi-Serious to it if you really want but last time you changed the gamemode name to CityRP 3 there was a big drop in new players until it was renamed back (not too sure why, does it reset it on your favourite/history list when the GM gets renamed?).

I think we should really be worrying less about what the gamemode is called and more on what we can add to retain players. I still don't think the issue is that we're not getting enough new players, we're just bad at keeping them on the server for over an hour as the new player experience is kinda terrible. You're dumped into a server without any help and nothing but 10k and 5 chinese.

Plenty more things we can do for player retention - much more an important focus.

This is a cool statement to make, but give examples. If we have "plenty more things" that we could do to keep new players why haven't we done them? 

Going into the DarkRP category will fix the problem of very few people joining, and when we have a steady playerbase people will stay on longer. The easy explanation for why new players don't stick around is because nothing interesting is ever happening on the servers. Why is nothing happening? because there is only 20 players active. This isn't hard guys

Wrote in a lesson so didn't have much time


Examples would include:
Milestones
Contra redo
Farming, mining, etc
Other methods of economic growth

And for new players - guidance in games, maybe when you join a job, a popup is shown with a forum thread on the basics of that RP, for example.
We'd need a more nurturing environment, so more teachers, staff, etc.
Maybe for inventory items, a help button alongside, explaining what certain items can do (fishing rod, for example)
Also, there needs to be more press on toxicity in my opinion, it really puts people off the community