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Also lmfao, check out my post from 2017, THREE YEARS AGO that complained about the direction, lack of leadership and terrible decisions being made. I gave steps to fix it, it had a huge amount of support but never happened. Will likely happen with the above suggestion the same way. It's doomed, rip.

https://limelightgaming.net/forums/threa...age-2.html

Ya'll really got me fked up out here. I think the next step if this doesn't work is to just watch ya'll slide into oblivion and make some kettle corn.

Saying to make a whole new game mode is unrealistic, do you understand how hard that is? For reference, one of my friends has been working 9-5 making his own game mode, and it took him a year and a half to finish, and it's not nearly as tangled with features and minor details as this server. Telling the dev team that they need to throw out a of their work and effort and start anew is possibly the worst thing you could ever do, it shows a disdain for the work that anybody who has tried to work on a system with this accursed engine and game has done.

Rethinking the rules wouldn't be too hard and would have a massive impact. Making a better game mode will be much harder but it's definitely needed. Do we want developers to add more additions to a gamemode that's already struggling to cope? 

Perhaps this should be made into a suggestion, we need the entire community to make input and vote on this otherwise it'll never happen.

(May 1, 2020, 03:55 AM)Marvin Hampton Wrote: [ -> ]Rethinking the rules wouldn't be too hard and would have a massive impact. Making a better game mode will be much harder but it's definitely needed. Do we want developers to add more additions to a gamemode that's already struggling to cope? 

Perhaps this should be made into a suggestion, we need the entire community to make input and vote on this otherwise it'll never happen.

To be fair, no matter how strongly its supported by the community, it's the team itself who needs to decide.

Revamping the rules and enforcement doctrine is the simplest method of solving LL's primary issues.

(May 1, 2020, 01:00 AM)Vauld Wrote: [ -> ]performance dragging vehicles

basically all of em :( this version of source was not optimized for that many verts. It's been the source of so many damn crashes.

(May 1, 2020, 03:55 AM)Marvin Hampton Wrote: [ -> ]Making a better game mode will be much harder but it's definitely needed. Do we want developers to add more additions to a gamemode that's already struggling to cope?

It doesn't necessarily have to be additions. Reworking and refining existing systems can go a long way too.

(May 1, 2020, 01:41 AM)Vauld Wrote: [ -> ]I never said start from scratch, I said cut the excess bullshit content and systems that bring no value or entertainment. Also, tough shit. Things get developed and then need to be reworked or thrown out completely. It's the name of the game. You know what is actually unrealistic, is to continue piling shit on top of shit and useless content on top of useless content. Your shit-pile is going to come collapsing down at some point and the architecture will implode.

We are taking a serious look at optimization and bloat. I don't want to overpromise so I will be vague, but we're working on something to mitigate FPS issues caused by the HUD.

(May 1, 2020, 01:18 AM)Vauld Wrote: [ -> ]Also lmfao, check out my post from 2017, THREE YEARS AGO that complained about the direction, lack of leadership and terrible decisions being made. I gave steps to fix it, it had a huge amount of support but never happened. Will likely happen with the above suggestion the same way. It's doomed, rip.

https://limelightgaming.net/forums/threa...age-2.html

Ya'll really got me fked up out here. I think the next step if this doesn't work is to just watch ya'll slide into oblivion and make some kettle corn.

Blissful ignorance over harsh reality.

I think the main problem is players are naturally inclined to follow a very linear path, you're either going to become a mafioso or a veteran cop. Some more experienced roleplayers take this further to develop an extensive and regular group to bring like-minded people together, but it usually follows the same theme. 

I totally agree that to some point Limelight is boring when you don't have the connections / friendships some of us do and have held for years. Which is exactly the experience that new players get when they join. 

When I first re-joined LL after a very long hiatus, I experienced a similar sort of thing when I couldn't find any of the oldies or didn't know what to do besides be a cop or grow weed. Which obviously got boring fucking quickly, before promptly leaving and coming back to realise that it wasn't CityRP grind I enjoyed at all... It was everything I did with other people.

tl;dr LL is dead ting without friends

Another thought I just had is that it feels so wasted we have some of the most talented people in the GMod community based here, I mean we have things that would put the top communities to shame like an API and Git integration.

But basically nobody to share it with. It's a relatively professional and advanced "framework" of a community/company with minimal players because the bare essentials are wrong and need changing immediately or it faces death and so so much work going to waste.

For me personally it was when I got punished for a rule that didnt even exist and later got added as a rule (that you cant commit crimes as citizen). From that point on more and more rules got added.

And the fact that there got more useless stuff added so the server is today for me way too laggy to play on once there are more than 10 players

(Apr 29, 2020, 10:59 PM)Judge Rage Wrote: [ -> ]DarkRP category will attract the exact cunts that we're trying not to attract lol - not once in recent years have I been on a darkRP server with any decent amount of RP (no comment for FL because I haven't played it)

Then why TF you commenting on the posibility of moving to the DarkRP category if you've not bothered to look at the RP going on in more depth? If you'd have taken the time to play on a few DarkRP servers, namely FL (the server that runs most similar to us as per the gamemode), then you'd understand it's not actually as bad as you are thinking it to be. The players are still the same as they are on LimeLight.

Unless of course you can come up with a more feasable option to widen the word of LimeLight Gaming, and bring new players to the community?

If you can't prepare to make a small sacrifice to enter a new category on the GMOD server listing, nor come up with a way to help fix the issue, then you're dooming this community.

(May 1, 2020, 03:26 PM)BasicallyMental Wrote: [ -> ]

(Apr 29, 2020, 10:59 PM)Judge Rage Wrote: [ -> ]DarkRP category will attract the exact cunts that we're trying not to attract lol - not once in recent years have I been on a darkRP server with any decent amount of RP (no comment for FL because I haven't played it)

Then why TF you commenting on the posibility of moving to the DarkRP category if you've not bothered to look at the RP going on in more depth? If you'd have taken the time to play on a few DarkRP servers, namely FL (the server that runs most similar to us as per the gamemode), then you'd understand it's not actually as bad as you are thinking it to be. The players are still the same as they are on LimeLight.

Unless of course you can come up with a more feasable option to widen the word of LimeLight Gaming, and bring new players to the community?

If you can't prepare to make a small sacrifice to enter a new category on the GMOD server listing, nor come up with a way to help fix the issue, then you're dooming this community.

FL is in the CityRP category (atleast it was the last time I took a look) and yeah I agree, on some DarkRP servers there can be great RP (ofc, not on those with these wacky unrealistic playermodels and addons) and because there are less limitations and less fun braking players it can be even more fun RPing there.

(May 1, 2020, 03:41 PM)Nebula Wrote: [ -> ]

(May 1, 2020, 03:26 PM)BasicallyMental Wrote: [ -> ]

(Apr 29, 2020, 10:59 PM)Judge Rage Wrote: [ -> ]DarkRP category will attract the exact cunts that we're trying not to attract lol - not once in recent years have I been on a darkRP server with any decent amount of RP (no comment for FL because I haven't played it)

Then why TF you commenting on the posibility of moving to the DarkRP category if you've not bothered to look at the RP going on in more depth? If you'd have taken the time to play on a few DarkRP servers, namely FL (the server that runs most similar to us as per the gamemode), then you'd understand it's not actually as bad as you are thinking it to be. The players are still the same as they are on LimeLight.

Unless of course you can come up with a more feasable option to widen the word of LimeLight Gaming, and bring new players to the community?

If you can't prepare to make a small sacrifice to enter a new category on the GMOD server listing, nor come up with a way to help fix the issue, then you're dooming this community.

FL is in the CityRP category (atleast it was the last time I took a look) and yeah I agree, on some DarkRP servers there can be great RP (ofc, not on those with these wacky unrealistic playermodels and addons) and because there are less limitations and less fun braking players it can be even more fun RPing there.

You're still far in the past then bud, the FL servers have been in the DarkRP category for the last 2 months +