LordOfTheRing

It seems like the things people are/were complaining about led to so many players not giving a shit and/or eventually getting banned, like a ripple effect. not an excuse i know.. This is valid. There are no organic interactions on the server, one might argue it's because the server had been cops and robbers for a long period of time, criminals and cops are always trying to win, and RP quality be damned, while the others might say: I don't wanna play on a server without my friends who got banned over the most pathetic shit ever. The real question is, how can staff pull players back in after fumbling hard like this? Look at how the appeals work here, a dude gets banned for failing to report a ban evader, the description of the ban is quite dramatic, but that's not the point, the point is the dude didn't wanna snitch on his IRL friend who was just trying to play the game. I remember back in the day, several mass bans happened over the stupidest shit ever, like one dude ban evading which led to a whole ass gang getting banned.. staff at the time thought they could afford losing 50-70 players, because they had 350+ pop. And look where we are now... Other servers are way more forgiving and they treat their playerbase well, they listen, and they adapt, but the staff team here are still stuck on their old ways. I don't think fivem will fix anything, in fact it will make things harder. Staff can recover from this, but it all comes down to whether they are willing to give everyone a second chance to play on this server or not. I'd argue this isn't true. We didn't have the scripts that we currently have 3 years ago, and we still had way more players on the server. I don't think the playerbase cares that much about the scripts, as much as they care about playing with their homies.

Hey, I've joined the server when COVID was a thing, and I've been playing on and off up until 2023. I've recently came back, and honestly, I wasn't expecting this. I still remember the server being busy and having police/gangs and random people roaming around, but now it's even hard to find a soul on the map. I don't mean to be toxic, so please don't get me wrong, but this is literally what's been happening. I literally played for 2 days, and the first impression was "this is so boring". I do like the server, and I think the devs did a great job with the scripts, but why are so many people leaving?? It seems that a ton of people got banned over different types of rule breaks, which begs the question, why are the banned players not coming back? I think part of the issue is the appeal process, which is really strict and discouraging. I remember when I was banned for almost 6 months for RDM, I had to submit so many appeals to get back on the server. I would say staff should start to be more forgiving in appeals, but i'm not sure if banned players care anymore. Most people have lives outside this RP universe and they don't care that much, especially when they must go through a wall (the current appeal process) to get back to RP. I did see some topics asking for "mass unban", ideally, this is a terrible idea, but taking into consideration the current state of the server, is it really that terrible? What could go wrong if staff allow everyone except cheaters to comeback? i mean if people break rules again, they will get banned again, but in return, the server will end up having more people on it, and should retain a good amount of players for the future. In the end, staff should know they are dealing with humans, not robots. People do make mistakes and its good there's a way to appeal a ban, but the way i see it is its really killing the server. So a mass unban excluding the cheaters might not sound like a horrible idea, and staff are always able to filter out the bad apples. I don't think the fivem migration will fix this issue. Yes Fivem is more popular, and there are big servers like prodigy and nopixel and echo that are dominating right now, but the players who chose to play on rage chose rage because it doesnt have the fivem feel/vibes, so when rage gets shut down, im not sure if people would prefer a fivem server that peaks at 80 or prodigy which peaks at 300 during the afternoon. If staff decides to keep things as is after moving to fivem, then i think things will get even worse. Im sorry for the yap-fest! if i said anything wrong, please let me know, this is a discussion so please discuss.