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

[Pollux]

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You're missing one very vital thing which is why we no longer have three full servers - competition. Back in 2012 it was much harder to start up a new gmod RP server. There weren't a ton of ready-to-use addons and gamemodes you could just throw onto a server and charge stupid amounts for. It wasn't extremely easy to hire devs or buy pre-made content. Servers were way more expensive and harder to maintain. It actually involved skill and effort, something which you don't need to start a gmod server now. There were significantly less servers in total due to it being a lot harder. FL was popular because of how early it was and it basically took players from another big community running the same game mode who shut down later. Even now, FL is popular because of its long history.

We're running what is essentially a game mode which is over a decade old versus newer servers who are miles ahead in terms of features than us. It isn't 2012 where the game mode was somewhat modern for its time anymore, we also can't catch up at all given our current development budget doesn't exist. It's completely unrealistic to expect more than one server and we haven't had that for many, many years now - long before many here even joined the community. The current player count isn't our goal at all though, we'd like for the one server we have to be full and we will continue working towards it. We're doing significantly better than last month though and I'm proud of all the work the team has put in to achieve that, we've had an amazing recovery so far and that's something people shouldn't ignore. Here's a few graphs for last 3 months:




We're not and were never in crisis mode where we're going to rush decisions, we're going to take things slow and make sure we're doing things correctly. Some people won't like our approach, but so far it's clear we're doing something right.