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

[Self]

I just want to let the community know that if they don't hear from me for about a week I might have died from a brain aneurism after reading this thread and I want my inventory and wallet to be given away in a spectacular fashion

If anyone came here to read good ideas and opinions on how the community can be refreshed you should head about 20 pages back because all the recent messages are just people blaming each other for the slow decay of a strong community instead of taking a stand to change anything themselves, and that's to absolutely everyone in this thread

I find it hilarious that veteran SAs and veteran admins are sat here posting and liking negative posts as if they didn't also fuck the server up themselves

The only way we can get this server "back on track" so to speak is if the entire community works together in their own way to try and help the server and inspire and motivate others too, which I don't think will happen reading this thread. If developers are working hard on features and don't see anyone online they will work slower (especially if they don't have any other sort of encouragement like pay), admins just wont be fucked to log in if they don't see anyone online, and players and event coordinators who make an event no one turns up to will be disheartened and slowly the drive burns out. There are some serious internal problems and I think the management started working out these issues but they're sort of "stuck in the mud" when it comes to getting a solution that everyone agrees on. As the event coordinator team found out, it only takes the effort of about 4 players mid-day promoting roleplay for the server to hit an alright pop, but it has to be done daily to start having any effect which takes an insane amount of time and energy.

This really has just been a load of waffle as my written communication is shockingly bad, but what I am trying to say is that we lack the strong community we once had and its going to take everyone's effort in one way or another to see the server back where it was. The reality is no one has time for the server anymore.

The good ideas on this thread consist of:

- Media promotion of the server (I spoke about it with Conn for a bit, but at the time I was already working my ass off on events for the server and I couldn't add another job on top of what we were already doing at the time) so maybe we need a media team? Anyone really good with marketing / social media stuff?

- I'm going to get bitten for saying this but I think the developers need some sort of "are you even still alive" quota, and then a dev pay system

- I think the event coordinators are key to keeping the server alive while work goes on in the background by keeping roleplay and events active on the server

- Staff being better role models

- Rules revamp and some sort of economy revamp, BUT this should be done alongside some changes to the server such as additional content in my opinion (so that it doesn't feel like people are coming online just to grind back what they already had) such as new crafting systems or a dynamic economy or new costs to living on the server and items to purchase

- I understand that it would be insanely hard to do, but I think the management should put together some sort of document with all the ideas they have come up with and all the changes they feel need to be applied to the server and post it publicly asking for genuine and constructive criticism on each of the points, and when they post that thread, archive this bombshell. If this is done, maybe we can come together and give some useful advice

- There's more but I will just edit them into this message

I didn't make a post on this thread before because I just know I am going to get lynched