Freelancer - The Void

the problem i see with our player count is boredom, the server is set up to make cash fast and nothing to blow it on, plus it is also set up for pvp with 3 ships that are acceptable for that there is no variety and little room for roleplaying, which is what makes players stay. i love the void but we wont get anyone to stay if we dont have anything to offer other than, go and gf.

@ Savage: is that you, Blackheart? If so, then it's good to know that you're still alive and kicking. If I hadn't caught you before, I'd be tempted to be back to finish the hunt. That was very fun, so thanks for it!

@ Slayer: it's worth noting that 2115v9 had all that, courtesy of the coders and the testers (who helped with balancing by fighting a lot on the test server), and the writers team. We did think about what would help different kinds of players have more fun, and make them stay.

To be honest, I believe that all we would have needed would have been an advertising campaign. The final version of the mod was packaged and ready when Strail made his announcement, so it could have gone ahead after it would've been upped to the server.
But what's done is done.

@ everyone who uses the "there are fewer players because FL is an old game" argument: Check the yearly player numbers graph (linky). The mod was downgraded to 2112v5 in early December. The drop that happened by spring is steeper than what can be explained with "Freelancer is an old game", since the other servers would have experienced similar drops then.

Finally, I believe the most important question in this thread has yet to be asked: where's Strail, and why didn't he go ahead with WW's idea?  


And I'm off.

I would just like to put people straight on some facts about the 2115v9 mod
Firstly the mod was crashing roughly every 10 Min's and no one on the Dev team could find the answer.
Secondly players who logged on to the 2112 that Strail put it back to where being auto wiped if they had not played for 30 Min's
and until me and Strail could figure out what was going on people started to leave the server because they where getting
frustrated at being wiped after spending hours creating there char.
We believe that this was done purposely after Strail had announced he was bringing back the 2112 mod.

[quote="Draugr";p="232963"]@ Savage: is that you, Blackheart? If so, then it's good to know that you're still alive and kicking. If I hadn't caught you before, I'd be tempted to be back to finish the hunt. That was very fun, so thanks for it!

Hi mate, yep its me.

Dont just post here m8t get your arse in game and get some pvps and RP going again.

No good posting here and disappearing. I can help you get setup quickly and then it will be down to business.

Go on you know you are dying to give it one more throw of the dice, because why else would you even be here reading and answering posts  ;)  ;)

Cheers.

@ Asmo: that was quite a good attempt at distracting attention from my last question: well done. I'll play your game then, but don't forget that it still stands.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that not one word in Strail's announcements spoke about server (in)stability. If that were the primary reason why he made his decision, he surely would've waited after the final bugfix version was up on the server. Now, I'd be lying if I said it never crashed, especially with the early release candidates (no surprises there, since there probably were more changes than in the previous 2115 releases altogether), but you are lying when you say it broke every ten minutes. For proof, go check the graph: the green part is server uptime, sampled hourly. If it crashed every ten minutes, it would be full of holes before December.
Or can you prove somehow that you're right and it did crash every ten minutes?

Also, if you accuse people, show proof. If you don't, then you're just making yourself look worse. I'm not sure why you chose to do this now, since I never had server access.


@ Savage: thanks, but I'll pass. If I wanted to play, I would. (Hehe, the prospect of chasing you around again is tempting... but not enough.) I know the mod quite intimately, and I don't want to play on this, so I don't. I check the forums about once a month, because I want to see how it's going to end.

In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have posted. I'm not going to try to erase my words now, though.
Well, I'll let you get back to it. Have fun.

[quote="Asmodeus";p="232964"]I would just like to put people straight on some facts about the 2115v9 mod
Firstly the mod was crashing roughly every 10 Min's and no one on the Dev team could find the answer.
Secondly players who logged on to the 2112 that Strail put it back to where being auto wiped if they had not played for 30 Min's
and until me and Strail could figure out what was going on people started to leave the server because they where getting
frustrated at being wiped after spending hours creating there char.
We believe that this was done purposely after Strail had announced he was bringing back the 2112 mod.[/quote]


i was here for that and it never happened to me even during the first re-release, if someone was doing it purposly wouldnt you have been able to see who it was or which account they were doing it from and if not why not, however that doesnot explain why strail is not here now or why there is no news for the server. the lack of good information is a pain in the ***. i know its not your fault asmo and your trying your best it just seems like strail has abondoned the server, since he made it so that he is the only one doing the modding and he currently not present.