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

[Fultz]

"...but will also never join when there's <10 players on to either start the snowball effect with players or to just start a casual RP on the server."

You can't expect people to sacrifice their enjoyment for populating the server.

If you need to have people kickstart the server then there is something fundamentally wrong. The only way to solve it - is to understand and address the underlaying problem.

This "kickstarting the server" mentality is short sighted.
You are basically bucketing water out of a sinking boat - instead of fixing the leak.

This is not even "kickstarting" like you call it. *Eventually* someone would have to join the server, even back in golden days of FL. It's not like the server had constant 40-50 players on, even at 5AM on school day.

At some point, someone had to see 5-6 players on the server and obviously joined because they knew server would be borderline full within next few hours. Nowadays they don't even consider joining if it's below 15, and even then it's new players who randomly found server in server browser.

Uh..... FL use to have 40+ 24/7? Second server would drop to 5-10 for a bit during that time, but main would maintain full. Its why there use to be a lot of NA people on.

If you want a hint at what the issue on the server right now is, look at joined dates of the players in this thread. Maybe you can figure it out then.