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

[Nuka]

It's great that FL has lasted this long. 

I think Tim raises a good few points.

FL, practically, has not changed since its inception. Don't get me wrong - it seemed to be a winning formula - and people enjoyed it. I have a thousand hours on the server so clearly the actual gamemode itself was enjoyable.

I think it's obvious though that the fervour for it just isn't there anymore. The Casual RP trend has fallen away. Overwhelmingly, people who want to RP nowadays, want to do it in a serious and controlled manner. People don't want to build their own passive RPs. Hence why FiveM and PERP are doing so well - there isn't actually much space to do anything outside of the defined jobs and gamemode. FiveM, arguably, has made RP mainstream. I haven't got into it but I certainly can see why people have.

I think there has to come a time where you acknowledge that the server in its current form cannot attract new people. That isn't the fault of any of the staff - because as mentioned previously the server did fine years ago in the same format - I think the trend has shifted away from individual player-driven Casual/Passive RP to server driven, structured RP. Where the staff, and the actual gamemode itself, provides RP opportunities - for example in FiveM you can be a delivery driver and deliver items completely individually, you can ticket cars, do LOADS of jobs - all without seeing another player. And when there are other players, all RP takes place in a pre-structured, GOOD manner.

The primary issue as well in terms of playerbase is that FL cannot function with less than 25 people on the server - there aren't enough police to do raids etc., not enough customers for passive RP, and those who are on the server are contrawhoring. So when someone joins and there's only five people, there's NOTHING for them to do - unlike FiveM where you can join and do loads of things in the meantime.

TL: DR it's no-one's fault but FL just isn't the trend anymore.