A VISION FOR THE FUTURE (PART II): How LSRP can thrive, not just survive

[Flaxxer]

On 12/19/2025 at 8:10 PM, jack said:

 

Just on these points about no one from leadership responding. We want to allow open conversation to happen, the last thread blew up quick and then descended into what it was, didn't give us a real chance to respond properly and spent the time firefighting instead.

 

This ones been open for nearly a day and thankfully hasn't spiralled. I'm currently reading what's been said in this thread and collating a response, so we can converse and be transparent, staff team to the players. Give me a little bit of time and you'll have a response within a few hours.

 

[Kev]

11 minutes ago, Martin_Busato said:

They need  to change this immediately. Why we need more transparency has already been discussed ad nauseum by the dedicated people of this community. 

Don’t expect any staff member who supports rage to give any input.

 

I only hope that leadership will take accountability in their response and not deflect.
 

[Clack]

28 minutes ago, Aloosh said:

They’ve been told not to engage in these types of threads. Instead, they’ve decided to split the community once again, and if you want to voice your concerns, you have to do it internally, within threads that only staff have access to.

 

A very convenient approach to just letting the angry lash out their frustration and move on with their day, hoping that they will grow tired and become careless. That approach is only effective short term.

 

The community has evidently had enough. The absence of staff members sharing their opinions on the matter will result in further trust lost, something that you will hardly be able to get back in the future, whether that's on SA:MP or V.

Edited 1 hour ago by Clack

[Chicken Bargain]

18 hours ago, Pags. said:

 

The blunt truth is all products decline eventually.

 

However, you can stave off decline via:

• Improvement - Faster, cheaper, nicer, easier to use
• Refreshing things - New design, new packaging, new features
• Find new users - Different group or for a new purpose 
• Reposition the server - Change the story about why it matters

What doesn't work:

• Shouting louder and marketing the same product
• Pretending decline isn't happening 

Claiming something is still good because it used to be is a risk. You either fix it properly with a clear deadline, or shut it down and move on. Dragging it out only wastes people's time. 

 

Something that can bind people together is a clear vision. Clearly explain how LS-RP's SAMP future can beat RageMP. If that's not clear, then people won't stay. Either produce a believable roadmap that gives players a real reason to choose here over there, or accept the answer the market has already given and step aside. 

 

I've got nothing but love for this server and community, I hope the management team gather the feedback and figure it out. 

 

 

 

 

 

Also want to quote this post. It makes the most sense to see where we fall in and ways we can attempt to scale up again.
 

Separating the LSRP V and SAMP community entirely almost sounds like a great idea in my head.

 

Restructuring, implementing small updates, incentives for community members to take on responsibilities and roles, repurposing the tester roles, acquiring new developers all just sound motivating. We aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel here, simply just trying to juice the player numbers back up to 120. It is without a doubt achievable given this servers history and tenure on samp.  

[Brigone]

  

On 12/4/2025 at 5:50 PM, Brigone said:

It's amazing how LS-RP has managed to turn the repetition of its own mistakes into a business model. I genuinely hope the developers working on GTA V are either being compensated for their time or simply enjoying themselves, because there is no version of the future where LS-RP survives under its current management. That outcome died years ago. 

The pulse for this management has stopped beating long ago. This was your last chance, and you blew it. LS-RP has effectively become the largest marketing funnel for GTA World. The sad part is that LS-RP has always had the raw potential to dominate the space. The problem has always been, and will always be, the management. Everyone except the management acknowledges this. Some say this openly, others only in private out of fear of being suppressed by the very people responsible for the decline. 

 

[manslaughter]

51 minutes ago, Brigone said:

  

 

 

@Mmartin@badhbh@bobster@jack (badhbh and jack responded here already so I'm only addressing the other 2)

 

@Mmartin You need to leave. So consider your input irrelevant and unnecessary. Thank you for all that you did in your tenure but you're useless and dead weight.

@bobster Care to chime in? 

 

The literal rest of the staff (with a small exception of a few names that I personally know/rp'ed with and are active rn) are useless fat, that should be trimmed down by 75%.

 

 

 

This is the last response I'm going to make here, but Kev and a few others really hit this fucked up nail on the head. It's not feasible. There's no action plan. There's no true leadership.

 

The worst part? This staff doesn't give two fucks about you (the average player with some sort of pride in producing heavy text-based role play, the foundation of our community at one point). You're a number on the worldwide internet, whom they don't know, therefore can give a shit about the time/effort you are putting into your respective factions. If they did, they wouldn't waste your time and deflect from the problems effecting the server right before our eyes.

 

150 players is honestly doable. But a new leadership ideology will need to be made, and transfer of all of LSRP's assets to someone else so a pivotal rebrand can be attempted will be required. If not, I would honestly urge every player who isn't a GTA V simp to let it go. Just leave the game. They don't deserve you or your time.

Edited 4 minutes ago by manslaughter