Let's all chip in.

[Bundy]

Nice initiative.

Some interesting stats:
Month / Unique Players / Average minutes played per day

12-2013   2876   83.3004
1-2014   5586   84.5850
2-2014   4212   86.1227
3-2014   6145   106.7385
4-2014   10466   91.0188
5-2014   8474   104.3946
6-2014   7208   110.4699
7-2014   7337   117.4954
8-2014   5814   83.0693

The number of unique players hasn't decreased that much actually, but the time the average player spends in-game has. The downtime in late August was obviously a huge blow tho.

Motivation. Most people rather chill and play LoL/or any other game instead of rs5. They're all sitting in front of their PC, just not going IG. Let's be honest, it's boring.

^This.
Over 10.000 unique players and the max. reached average playing time is a bit over 2 hours?
This means the new players aren't attracted enough to the server/script and thus don't come back or join once in a while.

Solution: Optimalize the scripts, get the economy flowing again, get rid of the most annoying bugs ASAP. If the current scripting team isn't enough, recruit new scripters.

Argonath got all the resources, but is using it either faulty or not at all. Such a shame.

I'm 200% sure that if all what I listed above gets done ASAP, the server will be prospering again in no time.

[Khm]

Why not make an advertisement on the SA-MP forum(sa-mp.com)? List all features, it does attract a lot of players.

Good idea.

[Luke]

^This.
Over 10.000 unique players and the max. reached average playing time is a bit over 2 hours?
This means the new players aren't attracted enough to the server/script and thus don't come back or join once in a while.

Solution: Optimalize the scripts, get the economy flowing again, get rid of the most annoying bugs ASAP. If the current scripting team isn't enough, recruit new scripters.

Argonath got all the resources, but is using it either faulty or not at all. Such a shame.

I'm 200% sure that if all what I listed above gets done ASAP, the server will be prospering again in no time.

Taken the words out of my mouth..

Why not make an advertisement on the SA-MP forum(sa-mp.com)? List all features, it does attract a lot of players.

Will get on to do that, asap might get us some new people that way also.

[Gimli]

^This.
Over 10.000 unique players and the max. reached average playing time is a bit over 2 hours?
This means the new players aren't attracted enough to the server/script and thus don't come back or join once in a while.

That isn't the max overall average playing time, but daily playing time on days that players come online.

[Kezton]

^This.
Over 10.000 unique players and the max. reached average playing time is a bit over 2 hours?
This means the new players aren't attracted enough to the server/script and thus don't come back or join once in a while.

Solution: Optimalize the scripts, get the economy flowing again, get rid of the most annoying bugs ASAP. If the current scripting team isn't enough, recruit new scripters.

Argonath got all the resources, but is using it either faulty or not at all. Such a shame.

I'm 200% sure that if all what I listed above gets done ASAP, the server will be prospering again in no time.

Agreed with you bro no doubt this is the one and only way....!!

[Bundy]

That isn't the max overall average playing time, but daily playing time on days that players come online.

Still too little.

[Stivi]

Advertisement team was supposed to do that, but idk how the process is going atm as im no longer part of it.

[Luke]

Advertisement team was supposed to do that, but idk how the process is going atm as im no longer part of it.

They are coming up with ideas, as Traser said in the first few posts;

Also, me and brian are still busy with the advertisement team!

[Lustigkurre]

^This.
Over 10.000 unique players and the max. reached average playing time is a bit over 2 hours?
This means the new players aren't attracted enough to the server/script and thus don't come back or join once in a while.

Solution: Optimalize the scripts, get the economy flowing again, get rid of the most annoying bugs ASAP. If the current scripting team isn't enough, recruit new scripters.

Argonath got all the resources, but is using it either faulty or not at all. Such a shame.

I'm 200% sure that if all what I listed above gets done ASAP, the server will be prospering again in no time.

yes

[Plam_Knight]

^This.
Over 10.000 unique players and the max. reached average playing time is a bit over 2 hours?
This means the new players aren't attracted enough to the server/script and thus don't come back or join once in a while.

Solution: Optimalize the scripts, get the economy flowing again, get rid of the most annoying bugs ASAP. If the current scripting team isn't enough, recruit new scripters.

Argonath got all the resources, but is using it either faulty or not at all. Such a shame.

I'm 200% sure that if all what I listed above gets done ASAP, the server will be prospering again in no time.

There should be more brain storming, before more scripters and more scripting - 3 years of scripting with no player input got us here, nothing else and I don't blame the scripters for this, they are simply people that follow commands. I really don't see even 20% of the "Argonath's Vision" in this current system and I don't think bug fixing will solve that. And from here on out whatever is being excused with "Argonath's vision" it simply doesn't fit, I belive we went past that point.

[Stivi]

Vision is older than Gandalf.

[Mikal]

I doubt anyone has actually read the vision or even cares about it, they come to Argonath for roleplay, with RS5 the player base decreased meaning there was less RP, and those who stayed who wanted to RP couldn't get it and so they left aswell, and now all that's probably left is a bunch of cop vs robber types.. I wouldn't really know.

That or like myself, they were just banned..