If GTA V doesn't work out, return to San Andreas

[bachra11]

In the event that GTA V doesn't work out due to rampant competition and the fact that, well, the game is completely soulless and shit compared to SA with a map way too big, this is what I think should happen:

 

Create a new script, potentially on a new platform if better options than SAMP exist. Unban everyone, send out a mass email to every single player who ever registered informing them, attach a full install guide that provides the game so people don't have to torrent it/downgrade. Loosen the application process, this probably eliminated 50%+ of the potential playerbase and we have chatgpt now to cheat the application anyhow.

 

Limit admin and police power compared to LSRP. LSRP went downhill when admins started to take it too seriously and enforced their view of what the server should be on everyone, it used to have a niche for absolutely everything. If you wanted to act like an idiot, the Idlestack and Mall were there. If you wanted serious RP, you joined a faction. The foreigners with broken English were great if you thought of them as a more advanced form of NPC and they filled the world up with activity. Let IC be IC, too many times fun spontaneous situations like riots, bat vs gun (dumbest rule, you could be attacking first and they scroll a gun and you get ajailed) or "Non-RP driving" were shut down by admins because they didn't understand that this was a GTA game first and foremost. Character concepts should never be cracked down on unless they're completely ridiculous. Ban DMers.

 

Restrict the map to this area initially and expand as needed: https://i.imgur.com/AWdxLGx.png (could also get rid of Blueberry/Montgomery if necessary) - 500 players on GTA V feels like 100 on SA

 

In the era of Discord advertising + a mass email, an SA LSRP server could easily hit the peaks it used to. The hype would be immense for it.

Edited July 24, 2023 by bachra11

[keep1001]

ok

[SCANDALOUZ]

No lol.

 

GTA 5 is a 10748194+18x better platform than SA. Being used to it and returning to SA is just not plausible.

[fifu92336]

idea looks good on paper. but why should someone believe you get can get 800 players on SA?

 

"Create a new script, potentially on a new platform"

 

this takes 6 months + to achieve. look at how long LSRP V was in development.

 

i think you can quickly see how this is not viable.

[Kjell]

take off your nostalgia glasses and let it go

[30PiecesOfSilver]

Gotta let the past be the past, also no one is going to go back to samp after GTA V. Heck even GTA V is getting old at this point (2013).

Also scripting for SAMP is way harder and no devs are going to go back to that cluster f*** that samp was. We have the old forums if you want

to relive the old memories. Samp won't get any updates but rage still gets updates, and even the base GTA V game gets new vehicles added

pretty often.

 

Samp is dead, sorry to tell you but most of the playerbase wouldn't return to samp

[Zagros]

I understand where you're coming from, but no matter how much we yearn for the 'golden days', those time are in the past.

 

The older generation had a great time with SAMP, but the newer generation or new players would probably never play with SAMP graphics.

The server is new and still undergoing heavy development. We should give it some time to grow.

[samarium]

GTA V just needs a smaller, less dispersive map, and it would be perfect. Despite the huge map, I'd still take it over SAMP, it's a 20 year old game, just let it die man

Edited July 24, 2023 by samarium

[Gaz]

[VexiousMaximus]

bro delete this thread your grandma aint smiling

[danielswe]

No, we will not return to SAMP.