Player base

[eymas]

If you want a debate with that i'll be happy to do so when I finish work.

Spare all of us the pain and let's not.

Perhaps they could lose some money or assets when they get banned too. Maybe that will be incentive enough to behave ingame.

Perhaps its time to actually start doing this? We've discussed this a lot and I don't see what stops us 

[Devin]

Let's see what consensus HQ can come to agreement on in that case regarding ban punishment.

[Deni1997]

Remove those unsuitable people from the server if they are not willing to follow the rules and actually put roleplay before shooting everything and everyone.

By "Remove" you mean ban, I totally agree with you.

More strict rules for groups please.

Better yet, to put more strict rules for everyone.

[Pizza4_Games]

Hey how about we put the server back on the hosted tab? I know it costs alot of money but it seems that we have enough staff members that can handle rulebreakers and hackers also I heard it helps gain players

[TiMoN]

Hey how about we put the server back on the hosted tab? I know it costs alot of money but it seems that we have enough staff members that can handle rulebreakers and hackers also I heard it helps gain players

It doesn't cost a lot, it's because there is no one able to host it afaik.

[AK47]

It doesn't cost a lot, it's because there is no one able to host it afaik.

I think Al got an account

[eymas]

It doesn't cost a lot, it's because there is no one able to host it afaik.

Last i know it's only $25 a month? I wont mind doing that. Just unfortunate a part of that doesn't go to argonath directly.

The only thing that it will bring though...

it seems that we have enough staff members that can handle rulebreakers and hackers also I heard it helps gain players

Is that the majority of those players are said rulebreakers/hackers.

It doesn't hurt though.

[TiMoN]

Last i know it's only $25 a month? I wont mind doing that. Just unfortunate a part of that doesn't go to argonath directly.

Its either $9 or $15, companies want higher as a pathetic way to profit because they were able to register accounts on gamemp during 2010.

[Pizza4_Games]

Apparently we had 50-150 players in RS4, if thats true then how did we go down to from 65-102 -50-48 -23-30 and now 30-40?

[Deni1997]

30 members barely online every night..

[eymas]

Apparently we had 50-150 players in RS4, if thats true then how did we go down to from 65-102 -50-48 -23-30 and now 30-40?

Unfamiliar environment and/or refusal to adapt to the new one of RS5
General disappointment as RS5 had an inevitably rushed release.
Accounts were reset that had thrown off a lot of people who only cared about their virtual cash and assets.
Adulthood
College exams and/or general studying periods
Jobs
Loss of interest
Banishment

And there may be more reasons because every departed player will have his own.

[Que]

You're on to the right thing now, Devin. The role play has always been second handed because of the violence every scene has. It's hard to have a meeting, role play wise, without having a trigger hungry dude just waiting to destroy it all for the lulz.

If things like that change, which is actually something you pretty much need to FORCE to get it forward, even if Teddy didn't really want to, you're on a good way of making things work out smoothly. I don't think bringing lots of scripts will change a damn thing as long as the player mentality thinks shoot instead of aiming for interraction and towards proper role play.

[AlSforza]

You're on to the right thing now, Devin. The role play has always been second handed because of the violence every scene has. It's hard to have a meeting, role play wise, without having a trigger hungry dude just waiting to destroy it all for the lulz.

If things like that change, which is actually something you pretty much need to FORCE to get it forward, even if Teddy didn't really want to, you're on a good way of making things work out smoothly. I don't think bringing lots of scripts will change a damn thing as long as the player mentality thinks shoot instead of aiming for interraction and towards proper role play.

Thank you.

[Marcel]

Hey how about we put the server back on the hosted tab? I know it costs alot of money but it seems that we have enough staff members that can handle rulebreakers and hackers also I heard it helps gain players

Hosted tab is not only expensive, it also doesn't bring a lot of new players. Also the recent decrease in players might have been caused by the masterlist being down.

[Solis]

I have mentioned multiple times to make this into a 18+ community but that would lose the player base significantly. 80% of the server are under 18 so you can see where this mentality comes from.

There are plenty of players who are less than 18 years old and are still able to role-play properly and follow the rules without looking for a shootout every other hour, both on this server and more serious ones. Myself and many folks of old I know, both on the cop and criminal side, started playing on this server as minors. While I haven't had the best track record when it comes to not getting banned, I've always put good RP before anything else.

Apparently we had 50-150 players in RS4, if thats true then how did we go down to from 65-102 -50-48 -23-30 and now 30-40?

• Loss of not only money and assets but also of group belongings and strongholds that many groups took years to get in place, due to whipping of accounts.
• Early release of a script that had a lot of hype but that was fairly incomplete, with a lot of bugs (right from the beginning the database crashed for a long time so nobody could log-in), no way to make any real money at first and just thoroughly bland and soulless.

Those two were the main factors IMO.