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On 8/31/2023 at 3:17 AM, Jerome said:

That's definitely not why most people are not motivated to play. When the server first launched, it was peaking 300 players. Connection issues came and went, it started peaking just over 200. Then slowly reduced to about 150, 120, 100 and now we're struggling to maintain over 70 players. If you're gonna say that that decline is caused by cops then you're a lost cause. Throughout several months the server has been up, there was a point where cops were massively outnumbered by civilians and gang members. Our last recruitment drive is the only recruitment drive where we recently took in anywhere near 10 new recruits. The last few have been very selective, we were taking in 3-5 recruits a month. Driving around in a Buffalo STX running intersection and driving like this is GTA Online is the reason why most people are pulled over. Drive more realistic and you won't get pulled over.

u cant see our perspective because your one of them, regardless of how many players the server once had or has now, or when recruitment is open or not, it is a absolute fact that this server was way too populated with cops, i played non stop since release till a few weeks back and every other player was a cop, using the excuse of gang members arent active anymore is not true at all, it has always been like this, you lot would drive around Davis non stop thirsty for arrests, I said it back then that power hungry cops that dont give a fuck about other peoples perspective in RP and just wanna arrest arrest arrest to satisfy their own enjoyment will ruin the server, and we can talk about lack of features/updates and whatnot, but a factor in the player base dropping has 100% been because people just got fed up of cops on their dick 24/7

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2 major issues that with a fix could boost player base.

 

1 . Fuck this “realisitic” economy, samp was inflated yes, but having savings accounts, having a bunch of money and cars/houses made people not ever think about “needing money” , almost everything was done for the RP, give us bigger paychecks or savings sccounts or whatever, tweak it constantly until its perfect, and stop making everyone care about how much money they have 24/7, then we can get some solid RP. 
 

2. Leniency from staff, yes theirs way too many guns on the server, but that’s only a major issue rather than a minor issue because nobody gets punished for doing whatever they like with them guns, I played non stop since release until a few weeks back, and the amount of DM and poor reasons to kill, poor escalation I saw or dealt with was ridiculous, and none of it really got dealt with, I know a bunch of people who got warning after warning, ajail, banned, unbanned in 3 days, repeat repeat, I understand the leniency was because you wanted to create a player base and not be so harsh banning people from a brand new server instantly, but people literally play this server to DM because they know they can get away with it, knuckle down on all the bullshit, stop letting people off the hook, accept you will lose players by punishing these people properly and not unbanning them in 4 days, but understand the long term effects on having people here to roleplay and know that they cant just run around and DM

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the other server has been up for way too long and had way too much time to perfect everything, i'd choose lsrp over that server if they were both similar, but i cant ever see even a fraction of that player base coming over here nowadays, and with the news of fivem partnering with rockstar, gta 6 will have RP servers so much sooner than gta 5 did, my point is if lsrp developed for 2 more years, it still wouldn't be close to the other servers script/playerbase, AND gta 6 is probably released then...it's a losing battle.

 

imo releasing the samp server again would bring in a crazy playerbase and create a once again huge community to kill time until 6 releases...

 

do what everyone wants, please...