TOPIC: Concerns for the server

I've always liked playing SSRP and I've had great laughs in it but it's currently rather boring due to the fact that there is nothing happening until there are at least 20 people online. Then people nuke and there's a bit of activity until people decide to leave again due to the fact it's rather unreadable.

AFK'ing is boring as you plant a seed and wait and that's it. There is no harder or another way to create items/drugs then mining or pressing E on a dumpster... At this point, I don't want to play the server unless people actually go online and do something. Its become stale and it seems that nothing is happening. There will be a summer update and that will boost the player count for 1-2 weeks at best and then it will go back to how it's always been.

Maybe its an idea to let the player base know what your plans are instead of showing a map with another nightclub that didn't do anything last time... The casino brought hype and its just a money sink and there's no fun what so ever, there's no in-depth actual betting in the casino.

So once again, before players move away, show your player base what you're planning to do as owners of the community.

Posts like these have probably been made more often but I honestly think its time to change something before its definitely too late. Ideas are welcome!

The betting in the casino really isn't what you should focus on lol. Maybe the whole raiding thing that was brought in with it? Anyways Xnator.

(There's been an increase in the amount of these posts being made and yet still nothing is being done to try and save the server, seems like they gave up finally or whatever.)

It's weird that I know for sure this won't get removed. However, when you criticise one of the Owners, you're banned or your posts get removed. Really says a lot about the state of the community rn when everybody is disagreeing with you and you still can't see that you're wrong.

Smol wrote:
I mean that goes along with the nuking and raiding bases when there are enough people online. There needs to be something more in-depth to do when there ain't so many people online. The whole server surrounds itself around nuking or basing and it's just repetitive

Its really hard to get zarp back on track on this point, We need alot of money sinks and frequent updates.

Junrey Balawing wrote: Money sinks won’t even work at this point, too much money is being brought into the economy and it’s dirt easy to get

Dunno why casinos were kinda abandoned, it’s a really nice system and they need more games like double or nothing, black jack, and the way to stop scammers is an actual coinflip system which they have yet to implement

add poker to the casino if its possible and ill gladly blast my millions there

there’s no saving it

can we give up on it yet or

the exact same issues have been present for so long and the community just simply have not been listened to, there was a glimmer of hope when dead was actually trying to get money sinks implemented and sort some shit out but now we have one of the most close-minded arrogant owners in history and there is not a single person equal to/above him in the hierarchy who will genuinely challenge him and now is when we expect shit to get fixed

i laugh

this will turn into FP

The server would be better if Narexa was in it :<

AFK mining
AFK FBI farming
AFK shop owner selling
Get your mates and your alts on to become police so you can raid bank/raid casino/do a nuke and then not be attacked by anyone.
Or my personal favourite; spawn some printers and get immediately bombed by an explosive weapon that can destroy any prop and blow your printers up before you know it.

The perspective of a new player must be even worse. Imagine joining and trying to start making any decent amount of money when everyone around you has gluons that vapourise you immediately, suits that can tank seemingly infinite amounts of damage and stop them being tased or arrested, bases so enormous you cant get more than a few metres in before getting killed.

Going round everything and applying nerfs/buffs where needed would make the server so much better. So many things are pointless. When you need money do you ever look to:
Scrapping a car?
Buying and selling guns?
Using defaults printers?
Arresting criminals?

Even new players find the amount that you earn from these things to be pitiful. And they can't do nukes, bank/casino raids, or even just literally a normal base printing or making drugs until they have suits and a gluon etc. because enough other people have these things for them to just be instantly destroyed when they try.

In conclusion revert the map to Rockford and everything will be okilly dokilly.

Oobington wrote: I think you need to read the rules again buddy

Oobington wrote:
People get their alts on because there are not enough players online which is understandable. Nuking is the only "fun" activity left. We're in the endgame now

ToBeHonest wrote:
I know what the rules say, it doesn't stop it happening though does it?

yeah true

I think that a community roadmap might be a great idea, something to keep the players informed about what the development team is working on. Though there's always the chance that a feature is announced, worked on then dropped. Something that might be sad to certain people. However, we should also keep in mind that complaining about something is easy, but coming up with ideas to solve it is a lot harder, but ultimately more useful.

The Casino was a great idea, but sadly it serves as no more than a money sink, the vault was a cool idea! But doing that without a big gang is quite impossible. I think that a solution for newer players might be Father Watson's amazing suggestion as this would nullify quite a few items and allow for people to base in a much less... let us say "explosive" environment.

Still, besides "Old School" raids where they purposefully limit themselves to using normal guns and very basic explosive weapons (like the RPG-7 the Matador), there's not much they can do as of now. The promise of constant new content was, in my opinion, one of the most driving parts behind Zarp as a whole.

There's not much more I can add, most of the points that I would bring up have already been helpfully brought up by Neilsen. Some things are exceptionally difficult but so are the payouts. Recently a change had already been made to improve the basic printers that people have access too making it easier for players to start making money.

Though I do have to admit that for new players, Zarp may be daunting. But as I can see it little at this point that can be done. Other than that once again, Father Watson's suggestion is one of the better ideas given to improve upon this situation. In case if you or any other community member for that matter has an idea to solve the situation that is plausible and reasonable they can always make a suggestion, the template of which you can find here!

One of the best ideas that I can think of is to merge US and EU servers then add an "Oldschool" server where all things are reverted to just the most basic of specials. Though as with most things the Economy might inflate again as time passes. Requiring a good money sink, such as a levelling system where the costs for ranking up increases exponentially and the top players are displayed on the scoreboard. That would give people an incentive to spent their cash.

Buffy wrote:
I love you

narexa wrote:
I hate you

We totally need a community roadmap or public trello board or something. There are many great suggestions that seemingly aren't even discussed, and those that are accepted are zucc'd into the abyss.