What’s your thoughts on the current situation of the server?

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I'd like to know the same as Kappatalist – How much is being reinvested into GROWING the server/development team?

It sounds stupid but coming from a marketing background, how is the server being pushed to new people?

We are churning out the same old process of a handful of people returning, being let down because the server is quiet most of the time and slowly fading away.

There needs to be adjustments to the economy to give older players a reason to stretch beyond just jumping in as a cop or becoming a criminal (pretty much what I do).

We need some sort of referral scheme in place (e.g. refer a friend, when they reach 30 hours play time they get 30 days donator for free + their friend gets 5 days free).

It's all about incentivising new and existing players. Whatever happens in the future I'd love to be involved in this process from a player prospecting/retention strategy. It's what I do day in day out for businesses around the globe.

Quick reply as out - agree regarding to incentives. Working on some incentives for joining forum and discord hopefully to release in next week. Referrals could be added onto this system, happy to take a look at adding something like this at the same time and will bring up w team. 

Economy is being worked on, but it’s a long process to get right. As for keeping players on the server, a bigger push to keeping the server players RPing and not minging is needed, standards have dropped horrifically to the point it’s embarrassing to watch even when the server is still quite populated. Big push on consistent and more serious administration to stop the server turning to shit is needed, and is a priority for us. 

As for advertising itself, bit of a tricky one, there are probably a few things we could try, none of us are very experienced in this and afaik there’s not many gmod centric places to advertise now, so could be a bit of a money sink if not done right. 

As Pollux said, absolutely not enough money spent on or budgeted for development, we need to improve this drastically as an incentive for updates to get done and done quicker.