Everyone is such a cock

[Blacnova]

Why dafaq is no one on the server anymore? It's not going to grow unless people play it

 

It's called "school" and a good amount of our player base goes to one.

 

Even the owner goes to college.

 

More than 90% of our player base goes to some school; however you need to put in the factor that people live all around the world, so some people aren't in school when some people are.

 

I go to college and I can tell you guys that college makes high school look like a joke, so for those who do go to college, I would expect less time on the server right now because it's mid semester and there are a lot of test coming up.

 

Just wait for Spring break everyone, I'll call in my squad (31 Australians) and we will play on the server (P.S. I'm not Australian, I met these guys while playing CS:GO)

[TitsRP]

This thread is not even on topic with narf but, I will give my short and sweet input as to why people don't play on the server.

 

• While school is a factor, it doesn't mean that at 7 PM - 9 PM (peak hours) the server has 10 - 15 people. It was usually filled on weekdays for hours back on downtown. People don't play simply because they did not like what I did with the server.
  

• People don't like the map and left. Can't really do anything about that.
  
• People don't like the leveling system. I get messages daily saying "love server, leveling sucks, I want to be x job". What they don't understand is that jobs are loadouts and not really jobs.
  
• People don't like the no F4 menu and minimal hud and or they are very confused by it. Some guy joined 2 days ago and talked in OOC for 30 minutes saying "WHERE THE FUCK IS MY HUD, SEND ME LINK TO ADDONS". Finally, once someone told him, he understood it.
  
• People think the game got way more complex. It's "true". It's not that its more complex, you just have to learn what to do. It's really not that hard.
  
• People think the game is just too hard now. Dropping 50% of your cash on death and using an ATM makes them go ballistic.
  
• The regulars that played, stopped playing because of the first day of the update. They assumed it would be like this forever and will never know that 99.99% of everything is fixed / better because they don't look at the forums.
  
• People don't join servers that are empty. How do you think I first got this server started? I had 5 people idling for 8 - 10 hours each day until people started joining and staying.
  
• Server size is over 2x it's original size. It takes way longer to join for people with potato computers.
  

The weekends is when a good amount of players join. This is common sense. No school = more play time. I wanna say, 60% of the players on the weekend that join are brand new players to the server. Compare this to probably the 10% of the new players downtown would have each weekend. It takes time and it is 100% possible we will not recover from this. I will wait a month or two before I take another course of action. If you do have any ideas in what can actually make us recover, let me know. I will always continue to develop the server as long as people play but if it gets to the point where I am not making server costs and I have to pay out of pocket to pay for the server, website and ect.. then we may have a problem.