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(10-12-2024, 22:01)AbanomaliTheDemon Wrote: When i was in San Fierro, driving my Sultan, under specific camera angle i had road object melt into my car out of nowhere

this happens with all cars, i think it becomes frequent when you have memory limit error, or are close to getting it

i'm going to start by saying this: the main reason the server is dying isn't the lack of updates, it's the lack of single playability
the problem is that 80% of the gameplay REQUIRES the presence of other players, even lately with an average of 20 players online, it's still not guaranteed to be able to start a race (am looking at you doherty afkers), let alone a 4/4 one, so the less players there currently are, the less chance for new ones joining to stick around, and when the player amount reaches 0, it basically becomes impossible to play, which results in a non revivable server.
to tackle this, i've made a list of improvments, which should be easy to implement

note that i'll be leaving a tldr at the end to avoid any attention span problems

Improvements:
I-Police:
Pursuits are the best singleplayer feature currently, so it's best that it gets improved to its peak instead of creating something new completely

=Problem: going from heat 1 to heat 6 is PAINFULLY slow, and it makes it much worse the fact that you lose 1 heat level every day when you're not using the car in pursuit, for players who quit the game then joined back, finding out they need to go all the way from heat 1 to 6 that slowly is a big turnoff
=Solutions:
1-In need for speed games, your heat increases extremely fast EXCEPT at the last level, so in a maxed A class car, going from heat 1 to 5 will take about 15 seconds per level, but going from heat 5 to 6 is going to take the normal time
2-make it so the heat doesnt decrease at all, but you can go to a certain place/shop in order to pay money to lose your heat (note that making it so that changing your paint/livery loses your heat is a very bad idea, unless solution 1 in implemented)

=Problem: Cop spawning becomes very unpredictable at the later heats, which makes for gameplay that sways towards luck instead of skill
=Solution: make cops spawn infront of your car only 20% of the time, while 80% they spawns behind (this doesnt include roadblocks and rhinos), and if the cops are unable to spawn behind, then they spawn infront.

=Problem: Escaping police at heat 5 and 6 becomes very difficult since they can literally climb walls,
=Solution: make it so while in cooldown, cop spawns become significantly less, am talking 3 cops spawn limit (if there are currently more than 3 cops, for example 6, no more cops spawn, but none of the 6 cops despawn)

II-Racing:
=Problem: in a dead server, its impossible to start a race other than time trials as there is no one to join
=Solution: allow starting races with only 1 player in them, while the rewards are going to be very low, some players just want to grind toptimes, or race for fun

=Problem: new players have a hard time racing because of 2 reasons, the current meta for rewards is playing a high lap circuit race, which is super boring, and the average new player experience is usually getting outran by some guy with a maxed infernus
=Solution: permanently Boost the rewards for quickraces, this ensures races that are more fair, and more diverse

=Problem: people avoid quick races because of how often drift gets picked, which most of the time isn't fair because it requires specific setups
=Solution: Reduce the chance of drift getting picked (dont set it to 0% cuz drift 2.0 is peak), and while you're at it reduce street-x chance as well, since it gets really repetitive with those tracks
[b]=Suggestion: [/b]in the quickrace menu, the menu which you choose which cars to enable and disable, add a gamemode priority screen
in said screen, players can choose to either prioritize a certain mode (+), or unprioritize (-), or leave it at default ( ), and when a quickrace is starting, the chance of each gamemode being chosen decreases or increases based on each player's options

=Problem: some people get carried by crazy dynos that they gatekeep, some got good driving skills but bad dyno knowledge
=Suggestion: add the ability to sell dynos, players can put a up a dyno for sale in the shop for a chosen price, and when other players purchase it, they get 10% of each purchase, as for purchased dynos, you cannot view the dyno settings, you can only use it (to prevent 1 person buying the dyno than just sharing), dynos can be tested in the shop before purchase, this encourages players against gatekeeping (to a certain level)

TLDR:
1-Make pursuit heat increase faster, or make it so it doesn't decrease at all
2-Make cops spawn less often in front
3-Limit cop spawns when in cooldown
4-Allow starting races with only 1 player
5-Boost quickrace rewards
6-Decrease Street-x and drift chance in quickrace
7-Add a Dyno Shop

(09-08-2024, 09:28)Orbacle Wrote: Hello, we would like to inform you we've rolled out an update that makes it so that cops no longer see player in hiding cooldown spots.

thank you fine sir

Hello admins, i have came here to humbly request something from the higher ups in charge of adding and removing features, also known as the developers, as you might now, it has been a main focus of the higher ups to block routes from the player that are inaccessible to the pursuit vehicles also known as the police also known as the opps also known as the wall monkeys in the case of heat 5 and 6, and while such blocking might seem like a good idea in order to keep the police pursuit also known as "20 black men cars trying to send you to hell" fair and challenging, this has been a very serious issue for players, because of 2 reasons:


1- as you might know (hopefully), the blue blips in the map indicate intentional dev hideouts, but those hideouts are absolutely unfunctional, and that is because the pursuit vehicles can magically guess exactly where one's current location is, and since the hideouts don't work like in the hit game need for speed most wanted black edition, where when one is hiding, the pursuit vehicles are unable to see him unless they get very close, this causes the hideouts to be as helpful as standing in the middle of the road. another reason is that the pursuit vehicles can simply spawn in front of the hideout, this can be seen as an example in the underground garage hideout near doherty. the last reason is the absolute power of the wall monkeys (heat 5,6), as even if the hideout is somehow hidden (which is unusual), wall monkeys have the unique ability of simply climbing walls and taking a quick look at what you're doing, and so the pursuit never ends

2- it should be known that this server's player base mostly consists of broke wealthly challenged 30 y/o men, and what these men share in common is a real life job (hopefully), and with that being said, time is insufficient for those gentlemen, and one simply is unable to try to outrun monkeys for half an hour simply to get ganged on in the end and get arrested, so one prefers a guaranteed hideout spot that will save one's time and sanity

i hope this message reaches and pleases the higherups and therefore pleases us with a satisfying response

i would like to add that i regretfully forgot this account's password and had to reset it so i can share the people's voice trough this message

i'm going to start by saying this: the main reason the server is dying isn't the lack of updates, it's the lack of single playability
the problem is that 80% of the gameplay REQUIRES the presence of other players, even lately with an average of 20 players online, it's still not guaranteed to be able to start a race (am looking at you doherty afkers), let alone a 4/4 one, so the less players there currently are, the less chance for new ones joining to stick around, and when the player amount reaches 0, it basically becomes impossible to play, which results in a non revivable server.
to tackle this, i've made a list of improvments, which should be easy to implement

note that i'll be leaving a tldr at the end to avoid any attention span problems

Improvements:
I-Police:
Pursuits are the best singleplayer feature currently, so it's best that it gets improved to its peak instead of creating something new completely

=Problem: going from heat 1 to heat 6 is PAINFULLY slow, and it makes it much worse the fact that you lose 1 heat level every day when you're not using the car in pursuit, for players who quit the game then joined back, finding out they need to go all the way from heat 1 to 6 that slowly is a big turnoff
=Solutions:
1-In need for speed games, your heat increases extremely fast EXCEPT at the last level, so in a maxed A class car, going from heat 1 to 5 will take about 15 seconds per level, but going from heat 5 to 6 is going to take the normal time
2-make it so the heat doesnt decrease at all, but you can go to a certain place/shop in order to pay money to lose your heat (note that making it so that changing your paint/livery loses your heat is a very bad idea, unless solution 1 in implemented)

=Problem: Cop spawning becomes very unpredictable at the later heats, which makes for gameplay that sways towards luck instead of skill
=Solution: make cops spawn infront of your car only 20% of the time, while 80% they spawns behind (this doesnt include roadblocks and rhinos), and if the cops are unable to spawn behind, then they spawn infront.

=Problem: Escaping police at heat 5 and 6 becomes very difficult since they can literally climb walls,
=Solution: make it so while in cooldown, cop spawns become significantly less, am talking 3 cops spawn limit (if there are currently more than 3 cops, for example 6, no more cops spawn, but none of the 6 cops despawn)

II-Racing:
=Problem: in a dead server, its impossible to start a race other than time trials as there is no one to join
=Solution: allow starting races with only 1 player in them, while the rewards are going to be very low, some players just want to grind toptimes, or race for fun

=Problem: new players have a hard time racing because of 2 reasons, the current meta for rewards is playing a high lap circuit race, which is super boring, and the average new player experience is usually getting outran by some guy with a maxed infernus
=Solution: permanently Boost the rewards for quickraces, this ensures races that are more fair, and more diverse

=Problem: people avoid quick races because of how often drift gets picked, which most of the time isn't fair because it requires specific setups
=Solution: Reduce the chance of drift getting picked (dont set it to 0% cuz drift 2.0 is peak), and while you're at it reduce street-x chance as well, since it gets really repetitive with those tracks
[b]=Suggestion: [/b]in the quickrace menu, the menu which you choose which cars to enable and disable, add a gamemode priority screen
in said screen, players can choose to either prioritize a certain mode (+), or unprioritize (-), or leave it at default ( ), and when a quickrace is starting, the chance of each gamemode being chosen decreases or increases based on each player's options

=Problem: some people get carried by crazy dynos that they gatekeep, some got good driving skills but bad dyno knowledge
=Suggestion: add the ability to sell dynos, players can put a up a dyno for sale in the shop for a chosen price, and when other players purchase it, they get 10% of each purchase, as for purchased dynos, you cannot view the dyno settings, you can only use it (to prevent 1 person buying the dyno than just sharing), dynos can be tested in the shop before purchase, this encourages players against gatekeeping (to a certain level)

TLDR:
1-Make pursuit heat increase faster, or make it so it doesn't decrease at all
2-Make cops spawn less often in front
3-Limit cop spawns when in cooldown
4-Allow starting races with only 1 player
5-Boost quickrace rewards
6-Decrease Street-x and drift chance in quickrace
7-Add a Dyno Shop

Hello admins, i have came here to humbly request something from the higher ups in charge of adding and removing features, also known as the developers, as you might now, it has been a main focus of the higher ups to block routes from the player that are inaccessible to the pursuit vehicles also known as the police also known as the opps also known as the wall monkeys in the case of heat 5 and 6, and while such blocking might seem like a good idea in order to keep the police pursuit also known as "20 black men cars trying to send you to hell" fair and challenging, this has been a very serious issue for players, because of 2 reasons:


1- as you might know (hopefully), the blue blips in the map indicate intentional dev hideouts, but those hideouts are absolutely unfunctional, and that is because the pursuit vehicles can magically guess exactly where one's current location is, and since the hideouts don't work like in the hit game need for speed most wanted black edition, where when one is hiding, the pursuit vehicles are unable to see him unless they get very close, this causes the hideouts to be as helpful as standing in the middle of the road. another reason is that the pursuit vehicles can simply spawn in front of the hideout, this can be seen as an example in the underground garage hideout near doherty. the last reason is the absolute power of the wall monkeys (heat 5,6), as even if the hideout is somehow hidden (which is unusual), wall monkeys have the unique ability of simply climbing walls and taking a quick look at what you're doing, and so the pursuit never ends

2- it should be known that this server's player base mostly consists of broke wealthly challenged 30 y/o men, and what these men share in common is a real life job (hopefully), and with that being said, time is insufficient for those gentlemen, and one simply is unable to try to outrun monkeys for half an hour simply to get ganged on in the end and get arrested, so one prefers a guaranteed hideout spot that will save one's time and sanity

i hope this message reaches and pleases the higherups and therefore pleases us with a satisfying response

i would like to add that i regretfully forgot this account's password and had to reset it so i can share the people's voice trough this message