Come on, just advertise the server and once we gain people, management and new people will actually care about adding new scripts and improving the server, if I was the developer working on this server, there would be nothing to motivate me to start implementing new scripts. I would have lost hope by now.
Why don't you try it yourself? I have tried but outsiders just fuck it up by advertising Citizen and 1star rating T4 or not caring at all. And the few that do want to give it a try get instantly demotivated whenever they see that servers are empty or when there is barely anything fun to do in the server alone. In RS1.8 the system was more simple and people would grind that way and keep server alive in dark times but even that's gone now with the complicated scripts that had roleplay and working together in mind rather than doing it on your own (multiple biz? higher tax, the HQ was forcing people to cooperate with others rather than one man army)
Proof of spreading #1 (https://www.moddb.com/mods/gta-iv-mp-t4-multiplayer-wwwiv-mpeu/downloads/gta-iv-mp-t4-multiplayer-wwwiv-mpeu)
Proof of spreading #2 (https://www.gtainside.com/en/gta4/mods/137474-eflc-gta-iv-mp-t4-multiplayer-www-iv-mp-eu/) (also give attention to the comments here)
Not to mention countless of videos about our server by the entire community over the years.
Unfortunately, I have tried sorting out more time to try and contribute as much as I can for this server. But I couldn't, I became more and more busy. And I don't have the required equipment.
Instead, I tried researching all across google and forums, and forwarded all of my hard-earned intel(information, if you take the word "intel" meaning too seriously) to James, I did actually help, and I did actually enjoy that.
Yes, CitizenIV does support modding and other stuff, but it barely reaches half of the amount of players we had on T3/T4, we do actually have a tough community, and they have the tools needed. I see no problem with immigrating to CitizenIV.
Though advertising might not seem as easy, but if you actually focus, it is pretty easier than you imagine.
He is some interesting thoughts:1) Youtube is one of the world's leading most visited sites in the world, if not the N.1 site. It is certainly a great way to advertise a product, let me explain:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVqOkxOgoXQ
For example, this video posted the 7th of July, 2017. By Dwayne_Johnson's channel (JK98), it contained footage of a robbery in our server, guns, shootouts and some negotiations.
This video is undoubtedly one of the most viewed, if not the N.1 most viewed video, ever posted about T3.
2,710 people watched it which is 84x times more than our server could even fit back then, 95% of the people who watched it never knew anything about our server. And that's a FACT.
If we are actually looking for players, and we are willing to "script" such an event. Why don't we do that again? I know in a matter of fact that "scripting" this isn't useful for us in anyway and is quite opposite the reality of our server, but more players will pay us a visit, absolutely. (By scripting the event I don't mean adding scripts, I mean making it similar to "Robotic", quite the opposite of "natural".
2) r/GTA IV is also a crowded place, it has 880 members willing to know stuff about the game, why don't we advertise there? I know posts are 5 days old max, but bro people got nothing to talk about there, and multiplayer in the main game is absolutely shit right now, even worse than our server.
Sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GTAIV/
3) Moddb, I've already talked about that.
2020 Edit: Here is what I talked about.
I am actually surprised that there is people actually still download a multiplayer client from 2015 for this game, I am starting to believe that this is fake, is it that popular that 17 people today downloaded it? WHAT?
(https://i.imgur.com/3ou6bt3.png)
I am sorry if my images are too big.
Here you go, once we agree on one client, you can try that. Trust me, it is worth the work.