RubyTheSlump wrote:
Completely agree with what Jabbee said. I joined for the first time way back in 2014 & had an absolute blast playing & thus even invited a lot of my friends to come play & most of them became regulars. We loved spending an hour or two building a base that actually required strategic thinking to make the entry as difficult as possible and even if someone did manage to raid you, it wasnt annoying since they had to use the same guns and shit that we had access to so it truly required skill and logical thinking to roleplay on this server.
BUT then all the suits and futuristic shit started to get added which completely fucked up basing of any kind and that left us with the new meta, either scam others or spend days afk mining just to get enough money to be able to afford a suit and just run around fucking up other peoples bases and thus ruining their experience.
Ive been coming on the forums every few months for years now just to see how zarp is doing, silently hoping that maybe something has been done to fix this server and i could once again hop on & enjoy a good game of rp on this server but nope. All i ever see is people trying to make suggestions to better the server & the admins/owners instantly shutting down those suggestions. Ofc stuff like that is going to push people away, the fuck.
& New players wont join because of that either. This server doesnt advertise itself anywhere, low player counts bc of the things mentioned above will never attract new players as they look for servers that actually have a decent amount of people playing and even if someone does join, they will just leave as soon as they see someone in a 1000hp suit with a gamma rifle or whatever raiding their base.
Unless some very big changes are made, zarp will probably be completely dead by next summer. No.1 mistake is not listening to the community and that has been a constant problem on zarp for years.
TL:DR - Reset eco, remove OP things that the community hates, actually listen to the suggestions made by the community over the years & start investing money into promotions in hopes of reviving the server and eventually making more money via donations from a new player base or alternatively just shut it down. All up to the owners if they have the motivation to fix this server or not (most likely not).
The thing is, you don't even need to wipe the full eco to do this. It's easier said than done and has been suggested dozens of times but a server with a wiped eco, no suits, only certain weapons would be good for the server. If everyone starts up on the same level then everyone has a chance at enjoying RP