The thing is, whatever they do on the server, they get criticism for. It's hard to satisfy everyone nowadays, people be crying about decisions left and right. In my opinion the ZARP-Team have always been really smart, when they released updates.
The "resign-wave", especially before Summer and before Winter is totally normal. People have a lot of school stuff to do before the first half of the year ends.
Again, adressing the DarkRP issue, I think that DarkRP is a gamemode you simply can't play forever, because you literally do the same thing every day, and it gets repetitive. That's also a reason why especially "old school" people are leaving again.
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