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So i've seen a bunch of scammers on the server lately so I decided to start a scammer list. Starting out with 2 scammers that i recorded on screenshot and description. Hopefully the list stays short but we can never be too safe and if you want to contribute just contact me. The list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bgJd8FkIiQOegY6cDkQAeuciswpfikBYmNLNHyhHMCM/edit?usp=sharing

here is my titsrp guide: it's a game don't cry

If you want, I can just make a staff page just like the bans page. It can show the last login and rank of the person

Ever since the Gangs update our playerbase has taken the biggest hit ever. It was different for EvoCity because right after I reverted everything, it was right back at being a full server / decently populated after 2 - 3 days. Now, after we switched hosts and wasted money in many ways that I thought would be a great investment it turned out that is not the case. I made a huge leap and I was expecting to take a playerbase hit but not like this. What is / went wrong? I don't think I changed anything that would turn people away. I have only added content and fixed bugs and tried to appeal to everyone. Removed stupid rules and cut back on a lot of unecessary things. We now have a type of progression system, the server runs more smoothly than ever, everything accessible, there is always a huge update every month or less along with many smaller updates, I communicate and do everything I can to keep this server alive but our player base just... doesn't find it appealing? I don't know, maybe people liked when we had 20 mods that would help you with every little issue you had? Maybe people liked having insanely OP weapons like the lightsaber, force emitter, some kind of speed swep. I haven't tried to make it seriousRP but I have tried making the server more appealing RP wise. Why do you think I idle on my server for 10 hours a day? Because each and every player counts. I was expecting this summer to be insane but it seems it's insane for all of the wrong reasons. Suggestions, comments, ideas? Don't take this as a "Omg hes closing down the server", that wouldn't happen unless we average 2 - 3 players for a solid month.

It has come to my attention that lightsabers offer a significant server performance impact both clientside and server side. There are ways to effectively solve this but they are not pretty and the last time I did it, it did make some people upset because "You can take anything else away but you can't take our lightsabers, I don't care how much it hurts my FPS" or something. But since I just did it out of the blue, people rioted. So I am offering a discussion on them. Here are some points to think about Removing them all together and swapping it out for some agreed tool / weapon that you feel is worth $15 mil ingame / $10 IRL cash Removing them all together and just swapping everyone's lightsaber on their class for 2 $5 weapons or something equivalent Make hacky work arounds to make lightsabers less appealing, less useful but in all better performance serverside. Clientside is kinda a lost cause So the question you may have is: "Does it really effect it THAT much". Yes. It's 4x more expensive to call than other gamemode functions such as calculating your animations which is very expensive. It is also just as expensive on the client. Being slightly higher than calling the HUD Paint hook which draws your HUD which is MASSIVE in terms of clientside performance. If you ever want to see how much FPS you gain without the HUD, run around with your Camera out and enjoy your 10 - 30 frames. (As long as you're not looking at a lightsaber) Serverside: Clientside: Other things I want to note. Lightsabers in general don't offer much to RP. You shouldn't be able to "repel" people or leap 90 miles away in a milisecond. Yes, it's DarkRP but it's also not Starwars RP. Lightsabers are also pretty OP and of course insane on both the client and the server. Removing them would only benefit the server in my opinion. Although I have no clue what I would change it to, if we did in theory remove it.

That's the thing though. You shouldn't have some kind of transportation device such as something that makes you fly in the air or shoes that make you run fast. Running around the map doesn't take too long imo and it's cool see what everyone else is doing rather than flying above them. If every user was able to use the lightsaber, they probably would. But think about it from the people's side who never use it just don't want to use it. They just run around, there is a very few amount of other available tools that allow you to run fast or jump high or something. They also probably think the lightsaber should be removed because you do get launched 90 miles in the air and 50 miles away from where ever you were standing. You shouldn't just be able to appear out of thin air and call raid or counter on someone. In terms of a second server, that would never happen. People play on this server for a reason. We used to have 2 servers but the second one never had more than 1 player on it and it did exactly everything you said. I can also make a SWEP if need be that makes a good replacement for the lightsaber. I wouldn't have it though so you can have any mystical abilities or something. There is already a doorcharge in the game so I don't think we need something that breaks down doors. We could just take the route and swap it out for 2 $5 guns such as http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=680449084&searchtext= http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=679247426 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682702716 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682399986 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685738045&searchtext= Or some other workshop weapons if you have any suggestions. I can also add in all of these weapons in general and the people with lightsabers can just replace them with anything worth $10 or redeem $10 worth of RP cash or something.