Hello,
Last time I played was under Tenshi's tyranny like 5 years ago and I started playing again 2-3 days ago.
As a long time player from the past (aka a time-traveler) I would like to leave my two cents here:
I couldn't imagine the server to become any more lame and toxic than it used to be 5 years ago, but man was I wrong. Not talking about a lot of flaming and disrespect in the main-chat but rather about the play-style most players are using. If you really want to make this server popular again, you have to make it less toxic and more enjoyable.
I am most explicitly not blaming the players for their play-style. The players only adapted their behavior to the current game mechanics and, the same way as it always was, certain players are using and abusing the current mechanics to the max in order to pad their stats.
Currently it is strongly promoted to camp rather than chase dynamically. In a nutshell, the player that plays more lame wins and the president can only survive if he is being protected by a large group. When being chased while alone, one tiny error or popped tire and it's over, you can't get back into another vehicle alive. And with skin-hit and M4 from the passengers-seat, it really doesn't take much skill to pop a tire.
So what could you do?
- Disable damage when entering a vehicle, like it used to be
- Stop giving everyone free chainsaws
- Stop giving everyone free snipers
- Stop giving sawn-off shotguns only to the defending team, paired with skin-hit this is incredibly unfair
Without any further insight, the server looks as if the lamest campers of all time ended up telling the main dev what to do, adapting the server to increase survivability of on-foot players and to make it a lot more easy to chase the president down, if he isn't hiding with 5 people protecting him. I hope that's not what happened.
I can only talk for myself, but in the current state, the server feels very unpleasant to play on and I don't plan to extend my short visit, if things don't change. I understand that your feelings probably strongly differ. What most active player are hoping for is that nothing changes but a lot of cannon fodder starts joining the server. But that is not ever going to happen. Just wanted to point that out.