IV:MP Rise and fall

[badboy.dhia]

One goal you should focus on, which I believe is going to help, is to make the T4 website (If you guys didn't revert to T3 yet), the 1st result to appear on google when anyone is searching something like "GTA 4 Multiplayer".

Only 1 video was related to this community along with other results, which is the T4 client video that Dino posted in 24/5/2018, but nope I don't think it is enough because there is tonnes of other outdated videos that confuse new players to the game.

indeed
First what IVMP need is a Serious advertisement team ! leaded  by Kerrar (babe) and joey ! which they are the best and the rights person to records and makes videos
the advertisment team MUST/SHOULD /HAVE TO make and post ATLEAST 1 or 2 video each week !
we need a Simple tutorial videos that include forum links / iv-mp clients (how to play GTA IV online) that explain everything in details and makes it easy for new players to install and play the game !
the 2nd prob is to make the server alive again
if a newplayer login and found himself ALONE  on a 0/200 !
he will spend 2 to 5min max testing some cmd before he /q !
(same goes for me , the reason why i dont play IVMP anymore is that there is no sense on playing alone)

[JackDockz]

This post literally makes me wanna cry when I remember the old memories, the real fun that no multiplayer game ever offered.

This server had Magic, something that attracted me to play almost 3-6 hours daily without even getting bothered with all the crashes, the lowest quality this game can run on my laptop, the broken V-Sync and all of the things which people who play modern games describe as "annoying/unplayable".

The magic started to disappear after a couple of weeks of the full 24/7 T4 release. When things started to become frustrating more than entertaining.

One goal you should focus on, which I believe is going to help, is to make the T4 website (If you guys didn't revert to T3 yet), the 1st result to appear on google when anyone is searching something like "GTA 4 Multiplayer".

Only 1 video was related to this community along with other results, which is the T4 client video that Dino posted in 24/5/2018, but nope I don't think it is enough because there is tonnes of other outdated videos that confuse new players to the game.

This game is getting old, even if you guys managed to make the T4 website the 1st result on google. I don't expect new players to last long before they get bored with current content, it is the truth. Look at Fortnite for example (Which is a game I hate), It has an update like each week with tonnes of new content affiliated with other big companies, actors and even movies!

I read a few stuff on this article, one of which I read is what Hernandez said, he is totally right. Battle Royale is kinda taking over the video games industry right now. I totally know that this server is based on Roleplay. But who does actually care if there is no one playing most of the time! Mane (Mane_Lucchese) once tried to do it as an event. Well heck yeah it did attract my attention. It was like a limited time even where teams consisted of 4 (as I remember) try to fight for the last team standing in Bohan. But then it was never done.

The thing that hurts is that the majority of people are not interested into Roleplay, well it is the truth look around you! There is some successful Five:M roleplay servers, which people actually play because they're full of cops n' robbers stuff and one heck of a big GTA V arsenal of weapons. Because it is something that the GTA V official rockstar servers doesn't offer. Imagine making a game based on typical crimes, then fully militarize it with flying hyper bikes shooting un-dodge-able rockets. Yeah, I will surely play the custom Five:M servers which offer more realism and bring back the base GTA franchise content.

2 things are required, not optional; Advertisements and New ATTRACTIVE Content. Not firemen/Medic missions, smh.

(I will probably not reply to anyone for another very long time.)

Ayyy Cjay my man wassup?

He's correct tho. Magic and the feeling I had in T3 didn't exist in T4. Didn't take much time to lose interest from then. Idk but T3 had something T4 didn't.

[melan]

This post literally makes me wanna cry when I remember the old memories, the real fun that no multiplayer game ever offered.

This server had Magic, something that attracted me to play almost 3-6 hours daily without even getting bothered with all the crashes, the lowest quality this game can run on my laptop, the broken V-Sync and all of the things which people who play modern games describe as "annoying/unplayable".

The magic started to disappear after a couple of weeks of the full 24/7 T4 release. When things started to become frustrating more than entertaining.

One goal you should focus on, which I believe is going to help, is to make the T4 website (If you guys didn't revert to T3 yet), the 1st result to appear on google when anyone is searching something like "GTA 4 Multiplayer".

Only 1 video was related to this community along with other results, which is the T4 client video that Dino posted in 24/5/2018, but nope I don't think it is enough because there is tonnes of other outdated videos that confuse new players to the game.

This game is getting old, even if you guys managed to make the T4 website the 1st result on google. I don't expect new players to last long before they get bored with current content, it is the truth. Look at Fortnite for example (Which is a game I hate), It has an update like each week with tonnes of new content affiliated with other big companies, actors and even movies!

I read a few stuff on this article, one of which I read is what Hernandez said, he is totally right. Battle Royale is kinda taking over the video games industry right now. I totally know that this server is based on Roleplay. But who does actually care if there is no one playing most of the time! Mane (Mane_Lucchese) once tried to do it as an event. Well heck yeah it did attract my attention. It was like a limited time even where teams consisted of 4 (as I remember) try to fight for the last team standing in Bohan. But then it was never done.

The thing that hurts is that the majority of people are not interested into Roleplay, well it is the truth look around you! There is some successful Five:M roleplay servers, which people actually play because they're full of cops n' robbers stuff and one heck of a big GTA V arsenal of weapons. Because it is something that the GTA V official rockstar servers doesn't offer. Imagine making a game based on typical crimes, then fully militarize it with flying hyper bikes shooting un-dodge-able rockets. Yeah, I will surely play the custom Five:M servers which offer more realism and bring back the base GTA franchise content.

2 things are required, not optional; Advertisements and New ATTRACTIVE Content. Not firemen/Medic missions, smh.

(I will probably not reply to anyone for another very long time.)

Ayyy Cjay my man wassup?

He's correct tho. Magic and the feeling I had in T3 didn't exist in T4. Didn't take much time to lose interest from then. Idk but T3 had something T4 didn't.

True, new interesting scripts should be implemented rather than new missions. Everyone almost 90% of the team is busy in V, and Armelin too. I don't think its advertisement issue but the script. I've seen new players coming up in the DM. Why do you think the old players left?

Can we cut the exam bs lol? Exams is not the issue. Lots and lots of players finished school already. Never before it was 0 cause of exams, it may decrease by few who actually do study like crazy, but its not the core issue here.

Btw Cj lets go rob the train 😜😉

[superh2o]

IVMP died out because of lack of support for people who wished to RP.

As 95% of interaction were rejected as soon as we interacted, for some bs excuses  like doing fireman or medic mission/dont feel like Rping or they just drove off and reported us for forcing rp.

For a server that preaches RP IVMP has shitty RP rules.

When its all said and done, rules that IVMP has killed the server.

For all those who are talking about a financial imbalance, its true it exists, but we didnt scam, cheat or admin spawn money like some did in the past.

We did what any organised criminal network should, organised and worked as a medium between weed farmers and NPC dealers.

What enabled us to do so is the biggest noto lvl that Joey had, and dedication of 5 members, plus all our network members.

We paid more then the farmers could gain by selling to the NPC for there lvl.

Profit margin was slim just 1-2$ per g.

Here is the kicker we had tons of weed, one fun fact Armelin had to raise max rep lvl player had and amount of weed a player can own 3 times due to us.

On day of T3 we had a insane amount of weed on all of us, (dont remember the number but about 100 tons i think).

Sure we got rich off our weed network but so did all of our suppliers.

The monopoly we gained in T3 was all from the weed.

As for the Lucchese owning half the city, what can i say,  we worked around the limitations that script made.

Not gonna bs, we did what we planed we will do.

To all those who felt robbed i'm sorry.

We did RP as criminals and we behaved like that as we could, we washed all our money and then put up a sign that store is closed we are legal now, as many crime organisations tried example Pablo Escobar.

To all those who say FBI / LCPD should stopped us they tried. Haythem did the best UC agent job so far and we did few crimes right in front of him.
LCPD had there try as you can read in the court when they made a case against Joey.

In the end we just sticked to our RP idea of how a mafia should behave, we used our knowledge of the system and planed ahead unlike many others.

We had few worthy rivals on the street WH and SFC who knew how to RP and clashed with us in all things they could, from weed market to vehicle theft.

Im not saying all others are bad, but they just didn't have the organisation to match us or SFC or WH.

While i praise  people like Honighs who RPed with ease with so many people, HQ did nothing to support RP, the attitude Its cool that you RP, but that's not anything special lead to this.

Till the rules change and RP gets some help, the player population wont grow.

I don't know how many times i asked HQ to do something about the state of RP, i even had a sit down with all the criminal fractions in LC about the quality of RP, in the end i had a situation where 7 of us had really no RP to do unless its in house RP between our selfs.

With V:MP we hoped things will change, but IVMP and V:MP are in same state rp support wise.
And that state is who gives a damn about RP, do what you wanna do.

So its cool that so many people are coming out to try and bring life to the server once again, but till HQ dose anything, all out words and ideas are in vain.

[Cyclone]

tl;dr of two pages full of reasons

veterans: banned
t4: barely known
updates: hella boring
jobs: still low wage
players: grinding
economy: fucked
mgs: should be bombed
car prices: should be dropped
playerbase: should be revived

[JackDockz]

Lol someone thinks luchesse cheated their way up? Lol wtf. Last time I checked on ferocia when ivmp was still active, Joey had the most playtime in all the servers combined. 

Btw RP should be at least be mildly enforced on a RP server. Cuz most of the time the players just focused on Firemen and Medic Missions because without them there was really less chance of getting ahead in the game. The cars are overpriced and players grind to get them cars. RP didn't pay to many so they didn't RP at all.

[Sirius]

The only fair way was that everything should have been reset in T3/T4, creating equal opportunities rather than old rich beaches bossing around with cash and Rolls Royce.

[yusufennab201]

server died since i left smh im gonna come back and revive yall from the dead

You are right my friend me too when i come back i will revive ivmp server with you and all elder players across the world
Have faith my friends and patience

[badboy.dhia]

IVMP need to move from Light rp server
to a medium/heavy rp server
where
refuse to rp
avoiding rp
poor rp
are considered as rulebreaks
also we need to update the /trade by removing /accepttrade for (players who have passport)
and that  makes the Drugs/guns Scam allowed like SAMP

[Sirius]

No and forget about script updates/changes for some months now

[James]

argonath got cucked again huh

[Sirius]

Lmao

[Commander_Cj]

Ayyy Cjay my man wassup?

He's correct tho. Magic and the feeling I had in T3 didn't exist in T4. Didn't take much time to lose interest from then. Idk but T3 had something T4 didn't.

Hello Jack, I am pretty fine and I am slowly getting more free time to do stuff with. Unfortunately, my crappy laptop can't run this game anymore. But luckily, I am buying a new budget one soon with a GTX 1060, i7-8750H and 16 gigs of ram, which are pretty enough to run most games on high-ultra settings. One thing I am pretty sure of is that I am going to join the server in a month or so and I'll try my best to help this server stand again on its feet.

I am so much happy because we are slowly regaining players, I remember like 2-3 months ago, I used to check game-state like each 2 weeks, so game state used to show me how much players were online in the past 23-24 hours. Well, the statistics weren't fine. Most of the time it showed 1 or 0.5 players even at our usual server activity time which in my case was like 5-6 o'clock pm.

In the past 2 weeks, when I started to check forums and game state even more than usual, it started showing a good amount of player, 15 players at peek! Well, this is amazing considering there has been no new content or updates as far as I know. Which gave me hope.

Like literally, this server was perfect. It had things no game ever has offered me. It offered me an experience no other game made me feel. I am not wrong I tried too much games, probably the hole GTA Series and even tried playing on other custom servers (MTA, Vicecity, San Andreas, GTA V and IV), they were complete garbage.

Somehow, I was enjoying my time, all of the annoying stuff such as crashes, the shitty port of this game, my crappy laptop, the small amount of vehicles and activities and even my ping. I didn't notice them at all, well sometimes it was frustrating to get disconnected randomly in a 32/32 players anniversary and not being in the annual picture which was never repeated because there was no players after, but that is okay.

Hey, fun fact, this server even taught me English.

I was completely unable to form a proper sentence when I first joined in early 2017. but hey loook at me naow i can speacc engilish proberly.

Btw Cj lets go rob the train 😜😉

I would've done that way ago but unfortunately, there is no "physical" train in our server. This is why we should focus on finding more people who have the skills in scripting. Because I heard Armelin has partially left or has no more time for scripting but I also heard that he will try to write more scripts for us.

I remember, way way ago probably in T3, Miku4v (the guy with the infernus all of the time), I guess that was his name. He had some scripting skills. And also Beshoo paula, as she/he said! But I doubt Miku4 is ever joining again because he went inactive or maybe changed his name.

We need to kind of recruit or add a notification in game which kinda says something similar to "Have you got scripting skills? Want to help and get exclusive perks in return? PM (insert someone's name here) in game to volunteer!"  and probably this would appear 1 time for old players and like 3-5 times for new players as notifications in a daily basis.


Hey, most of what I said are more like suggestions, but I am pretty sure that this is the right topic, if not, I have no doubt that we have Sauron's eye attention, huh?

[Huntsman]

If the reason for lack of players is GTA IV being ancient then how come SAMP has much more players active even till this day?

SA:MP is pretty much already dead.
VC:MP is still going strong because it has a much more dedicated, strong and united community that's been rock solid since 2008. Besides, VC:MP is very popular among Middle Eastern - Asian nations, such as Pakistan and India, where an average Joe does not have a powerful enough computer to run any of the newer games, so VC:MP always has a potential base for new players.

IV:MP T4, however, is a client mainly designed for Argonath with hardly any other servers there.

[Bas]

If the reason for lack of players is GTA IV being ancient then how come SAMP has much more players active even till this day?

SA:MP is pretty much already dead.

Can't say I agree since we seem to be picking up again recently, but thanks for your insight