Can we return to the Golden Age of LSRP?

[Kunis]

4 hours ago, Tudounaozi said:

We are never returning to the golden age before admins stop being so egoistic. Especially when they say "I think people always look at "the good old times" with rose tinted glasses.".

 

What was the last company that told its players "you think you want it, but you don't" again? Was it blizzard entertainment who lost 600 million revenue over that year? 

 

This is purely a opinion of a player who's been on the server since 2008 (Being a non staff member for 16 of those.). You're also free to share your opinion. I also feel that this comment is taken completely out of context to prove a whole other point.

Edited June 10 by Kunis

[Anarcho]

Everyone has their own interpretation of the "golden era". The older the player you're asking is, the more back the supposed "golden era" goes. The current script of the server might be the best lsrp has ever had, few minor issues aside. Find the type of RP you enjoy and play.

[Sal]

I've spent a good few weeks back playing SAMP again now and tbf, in many ways it's consistently feeling like a good mix of "what worked well before" and "what we learned since then". But I accept that my RP is pretty niche; legal/civvy RP. Can't really speak much for the rest of RP circles. 

[Aberdeen]

5 hours ago, Sal said:

I've spent a good few weeks back playing SAMP again now and tbf, in many ways it's consistently feeling like a good mix of "what worked well before" and "what we learned since then". But I accept that my RP is pretty niche; legal/civvy RP. Can't really speak much for the rest of RP circles. 

[Gnarp]

SAMP is a community driven game.

 

People love to point fingers - a lot of the replies to this thread; people are very subtly pointing fingers at styles of roleplay that they don't like, or even this boogeyman that they dub as "idlewood roleplayers" or "newcomers" while, in reality, these factors were always here. 

The gameplay loop hasn't changed since I played LSRP in 2014. It's the same formula; less players, of course, but LSRP has not changed one bit. What changed is the community... And if you wanna speak on broader terms - the internet itself. 

 

We ended up with a culture where being passionate about something online became condemnable, something to laugh at. A 180 turn from the "nerd" culture of the 2010s during which LSRP was flourishing. Caring about roleplay is now "cringe" because: "it's a dead game, why do you care?", but the same people saying so, quickly turn around and talk about "roleplay standards" when it concerns their rival factions.

To add onto that, any concepts that don't mimic oldschool, "grimey" roleplay are shunned for this exact reason. God forbid a teenager that wasn't there for the server's peak finds your roleplay "cringe", God forbid you stray away from the norm whatsoever.

The norm being: self-insert gangster characters neutered into being breathing, walking, tasteless stereotypes copied straight from r/LaGangbangin and pasted onto LSRP; in terms of skins, lingo, and personality. 

 

Widespread insensitivity killed the internet, and it killed SAMP. Yes, there was a "golden age" when the people playing this game were 16, still laughing at nyan cat memes, and discovering rap songs in-game from aazoradio to download onto their ipod. Will that golden age ever return?

Probably not, but there's nothing we can do about it - making a majority of this thread's replies needless; a medium for salty people to take subtle digs at their OOC opps, knowing that they'll see it, because we, as a community, and users of the internet, have become waaaaaaay too obsessed with what other people think of ourselves. 

 

Regardless, there's still some kid out there trying SAMP out for the first time in their life, and the best you can do to bring this golden age of yours back is, give them a chance before they either get mixed up into another copy-paste streetgang faction, or find more enjoyment in messing around as a mallrat.

Edited July 27 by Gnarp

[Blaz]

No

[Tungsten]

On 7/27/2025 at 1:16 AM, Gnarp said:

SAMP is a community driven game.

 

People love to point fingers - a lot of the replies to this thread; people are very subtly pointing fingers at styles of roleplay that they don't like, or even this boogeyman that they dub as "idlewood roleplayers" or "newcomers" while, in reality, these factors were always here. 

The gameplay loop hasn't changed since I played LSRP in 2014. It's the same formula; less players, of course, but LSRP has not changed one bit. What changed is the community... And if you wanna speak on broader terms - the internet itself. 

 

We ended up with a culture where being passionate about something online became condemnable, something to laugh at. A 180 turn from the "nerd" culture of the 2010s during which LSRP was flourishing. Caring about roleplay is now "cringe" because: "it's a dead game, why do you care?", but the same people saying so, quickly turn around and talk about "roleplay standards" when it concerns their rival factions.

To add onto that, any concepts that don't mimic oldschool, "grimey" roleplay are shunned for this exact reason. God forbid a teenager that wasn't there for the server's peak finds your roleplay "cringe", God forbid you stray away from the norm whatsoever.

The norm being: self-insert gangster characters neutered into being breathing, walking, tasteless stereotypes copied straight from r/LaGangbangin and pasted onto LSRP; in terms of skins, lingo, and personality. 

 

Widespread insensitivity killed the internet, and it killed SAMP. Yes, there was a "golden age" when the people playing this game were 16, still laughing at nyan cat memes, and discovering rap songs in-game from aazoradio to download onto their ipod. Will that golden age ever return?

Probably not, but there's nothing we can do about it - making a majority of this thread's replies needless; a medium for salty people to take subtle digs at their OOC opps, knowing that they'll see it, because we, as a community, and users of the internet, have become waaaaaaay too obsessed with what other people think of ourselves. 

 

Regardless, there's still some kid out there trying SAMP out for the first time in their life, and the best you can do to bring this golden age of yours back is, give them a chance before they either get mixed up into another copy-paste streetgang faction, or find more enjoyment in messing around as a mallrat.

 

amen brother. unfortunately this community does everything it can to drive away the loyal members who've been here for the majority of its lifetime... so it's unlikely that it'll ever return to the golden age i once yearned for

[Twelvebyseven]

goy thread

[authentic lifestyle]

the reopening of this server was a joke especially with the many dogshit decisions management and ifm made.

Edited September 3 by authentic lifestyle

[manslaughter]

On 9/3/2025 at 11:41 AM, authentic lifestyle said:

the reopening of this server was a joke especially with the many dogshit decisions management and ifm made.

 

the fact they're still trying to do this heap of shit and a gta v based rp is comical

[GhostOfProtocol]

I think SAMP has reached the end of a damn good lifeline, honestly.

 

Nostalgia is wearing off for most people now and I think that's the honest truth of it. During the relaunch, numbers were higher because people wanted to relive their youth for a little while. Once that had worn off, everyone just went about their grown up adult lives. You've got to remember, those of us that were here during that "golden era" were all teenagers with fuck all to do after school except spend a few hours on a video game. Most of us have jobs and shit now and either work shifts are or knackered after work or both.

 

Furthermore, LS-RP is a much different place than it was in the so called "golden era" (which for me was 2015-2018 give or take). In a lot of ways, I find it much better and in some ways I find it worse. I heavily second what @Anarcho said months ago, the script itself is probably in the best state we've seen it. SAMP as a whole is actually a lot more stable as well than it was back in those "golden era" days.

 

What I have found is that the quality of player is a lot more.... questionable?

 

Don't get me wrong, there is still some absolute gems out there and there still stands to be some really good roleplay. That's just masked by the high number of players with poor English and poor roleplay abilities. I expect that (like was said above) the ratio of these hasn't changed and they're just more noticable now the playerbase is much smaller. I'd still rather have 50 competent roleplayers than 150 where 100 of them are shit.

 

It used to be a case that back in the "golden era" the server policed itself because punishments for even minor infractions were fairly severe and were publicised. I feel like standards have dropped in that respect, and it shows. Add in the fact that the player base was a lot younger and being admin jailed or banned actually felt like a "punishment". These days, if people get banned they can just go off and do a million other adult things that they have to do.

 

But, let's not be all negative.

 

LS-RP is still intending to launch on GTA V. I have hope for that, however I do feel like a GTA V launch is too late to the party considering the RAGEMP scene has been held down for so long by GTA World. What you've got to consider as well is a lot of the higher ranking staff over on World are people who were staff here on LS-RP during that "golden era" so they've taken the lessons learnt here and applied them to that RAGEMP concept. As a counter to that, a lot of older LS-RP members are returning to the LS-RP staff team which is also nice to see.

 

What I said above, comes with a further however.

 

I had an interesting conversation the other day where I mentioned that I feel that RAGEMP and GTA V will be the last place to really experience the GTA text based roleplay scene. I can see GTA 6 being much more focused on the voice chat based roleplay that became so popular during that big pandemic etc. If I recall correctly, Rockstar brought in the guys who developed FiveM so part of me wonders if GTA 6 will have some form of official Rockstar endorsed FiveM style thing. I reckon personally if that is the direction Rockstar take, they'll try and kill off any text based clones to focus people on their voice based alternative.

 

If that is the case, GTA V and RAGEMP might have a very long shelf life for those of us who actually want text based roleplay. It gives LS-RP the chance to really try and fight to establish itself on GTA V, which I think is what LS-RP needs. Having messed about with GTA V recently, I think it's a much better experience than SAMP from a gameplay perspective and there are that many FPS improving mods these days I think even an absolute potato could run GTA V.

 

I still enjoy SAMP, don't get me wrong. I still come back here and spend time here. It's where I've spent years of my life and I don't think I'll ever dip from SAMP for good until it dies off for good. I'll also follow LS-RP over to GTA V when that day comes. That's where I think the opportunities are now though if you want to reclaim a playerbase. Focusing on GTA V and pushing GTA V.

Edited 2 hours ago by GhostOfProtocol