Богдан Лаловић wrote:
Spamming "join x server" has not revived any server ever, not murder, not deathrun, not sandbox, not TTT, in fact my friend vaas has a few words to say on this topic
Now i understand the need to revive a server, but when you're dealing with a game mode that is boring at its core, there's not so much you can do to make it fun. A good start would be implementing suggestions of old players who do actually care about the server(unlike me) instead of deleting them because you personally don't like their ideas (obviously "you" not actually meaning Richard)
Telling people to join a server may have not singlehandedly "revived" a server - But this in combination with an update can be a powerful tool. When I took control of TTT in 2021, I also was telling people to get on (both via forums and Discord) and it worked, to an extent at least. Subsequently I released the biggest update TTT has had in over a year (Halloween 2021) - After the fact, the playercount maintained an average of ~20 players across October, November, December, and then January and February too, with no further need of telling people to get on and with a few mini patches and hotfixes here and there (and with the massive Winter update Callum and I released too).
Now, Martin has only been working on getting TTT back on it's feet for a couple of days and it would be ludicrous to assume that he's already gonna be shooting out new content this soon - The first and easiest step is to get players on the server, even temporarily if anything, and then launch an update as soon as he's able to, for the best possible effect.
Buffy wrote:
don’t doubt Martin contributed well for the server, and don’t get me wrong, it’s frustrating to see the constant posting that results in doing jackshit. I already contributed more than enough, as you can see I already requested for players to join in this thread, let alone staffing in it (yes, I made a big immature mistake and I take full responsibility for it); and concerning for the suggestions, I already made a couple suggestions that could possibly improve the server (some of them were deleted by Callum for no reason) and had a discussion with Onion about it in DMs as well. There’s no point in me creating more suggestions as it parrots with other players’ suggestions in the thread Martin made (shocker). Oh one last thing, if I didn’t “love” this server, I wouldn’t be this loud.
I certainly do agree with most of things you've said - I was only being defensive in regards to Martin as he obviously has good intentions and is trying his best given the limited amount of time he can dedicate to TTT at the current moment (because of life work, and other ZARP servers) - I'm sure that he's well aware that a proper update is needed and that telling people to "get on" is not a permanent solution. I'm confident that an update is well on it's way, a bit of patience is key though! I don't see anything wrong with him bumping this thread - Sure it may not be the most effective thing, but it's a good start, until he gets the good stuff (content) rolling of course.