My ideas for the gamemode

[Jonas]

From someone who’s been playing here for thousands of hours, done countless amounts of roleplays and ultimately gotten Administrator, I’ll be giving my honest opinion about your ideas.

- Let new players only download the map and the most basic models/materials. Such as only the playermodels. New people don't want to wait half an hour or more to download all content from a server they don't know. If the new player has the basic models and materials, he can get a good impression what the server is about. A popup will display: 'Subscribe to our packages at fearlessrp.net/content to see missing stuff'.
A new player should be able to join in a couple of minutes.

I like this idea. It would make join times mich faster, aswell as regular players wouldn’t be affected by this due to the fact that they already got the content from the workshop. A great idea, in my opinion.

- Remove parked cars after 5 minutes. There are a lot of unused cars that are using rendering power for no reason.

I’m not a fan of this idea at all - yes I get that you’re focusing on FPS improvement for players. I usually get aeound 40-80 regularly, which is playable. I think if we start to remove cars after five minutes it could ruin some RP’s, if someone is hosting a car show and the others get out of their cars to see the other guys car, then all og a sudden their cars would be removed. What if you’re raiding, both as police and criminal - if you’re using your car for cover in a raid, you would have nowhere to take cover if your car just dissapered. Right now we administrators some times remove unused cars from the server (those that are broken and just standing still), I think we should just be better at that, so it potentially doesn’t ruin rp, or make ir akward.

Next, due to the low player count I think we should change the map back..... We need more player interaction. With 7 people online you're walking in a ghost town. Get V2D or something back. When the popularity increases, we can always put back our custom map.

Honestly - if people want v2d, I’m all up for it, but I don’t like switching maps all of the time, especially considering I am a builder myself. It’s very demotivating to play on one map, just for it to get changed. I think we should bring this up as a point during the community meeting, to hear what they say.

Let's put our gamemode in a category with similar servers. We're too small at the moment to have our own category, which is completely invisible somewhere at the bottom. I dislike DarkRP, but we could profit from its popularity, or look for another category.

The only thing I’m worried about with this, is the amount of minges. We could definetly profit from the popularity, but at what cost? Minges. Probably loads. If we put it in something like DarkRP, people will be expecting that they’re playing DarkRP, where the roleplaying is extremely poor.

Let's lower the slots from 75 to 40. Because 25/75 looks empty but 25/40 is more than half full. It would give more confidence to new players to join. It's very easy to add slots again if needed. We've got the GM running on a dedicated server, so have full control.

I like this idea, it doesn’t affect anyone, and it’d be something that would be subtle to change. I think we should do this, especially in our dire time.

Give no-clip abilities to trusted builders (limited to a certain area). So that they can build at the live server.

nOoOooOoo - if we start giving people noclip on live, that would just break character and bring it oocly, it could easily be abused. I don’t like this idea at all, there is no RP in flying around and building, all things considered, we still have the build server. If you’re thinking about a higher playercount on the server, I don’t think it’d be worth it. It would ruin any ongoing RP in the area. I don’t think we should add this, rather say that admins use the noclip command on players if requested.

Final idea: When we have somehow regained popularity, let's send a mass e-mail to all people reminding them of our existence. Maybe there are people out there that would give it a try and play again. But what's even more important: tell your friends about the server, ask them to join it and give it a chance. When Fearless started it was only me and a couple of friends playing it. It's the best and only way to advertise for Fearless.

I like this idea alot. I think that advertising Fearless is a great idea. We also had a trailer competetion about two years ago, what if we make another one of those and use that trailer to show to others. We can upload it on the YouTube account that Tomo has access to.