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Hello everyone, this is a thing i wanted to do for some really long time, but in my opinion we need to change the current server directions.
As a long-time player (i joined somewhere around the Lucek Wave, summer 2016) i can see some issues that have appeared during this long time and were or were not ever adressed.
As can be noticed from playing the server once in a while the server isn't at brightest of states - average of 50 players is not a high score. I've decided to make a small list of factors that should be solved at one point or another...
Now i do understand the following may look like me straight up hating every aspect, but it's not what i'm feeling(besides the exploit part), and if somebody feels offended by this post, big sorry from the start. I also understand You(devteam) do what you only can to keep the thing even working in those harsh times. Let's get to the rant
a) poor development
- rare and small updates, maybe without the latest one, as it did a fair bit of changes [but still too small to keep active(racing, meeting, even existing for more than daily tasks) players for longer than 2-4 weeks]
- question of handling has not been majorly revisited since the first Dyno update (2018!), every online based game does want to keep the gameplay fresh and competetive, not stale with fully expectable results (sultan/sgt/manana supremacy). This also counts for all the exploits and exploiters, but more on that later!
- Discord's update channel pins are a joke. IMHO this should be priority to get the stuff laying from back in 2018 to be done instead of including more meme vehicles and parts. It just doesn't look good to pin up ideas, then leave them on hold for so long, that the people suggesting them don't even play here anymore XD
- about Meme Vehicles - the devteam doesn't seem to learn from the failure Kalahari was, and decides to implement the Moonbeam. I have honestly nothing against this idea (it's not a bad vehicle!), but the time and effort for planned "r34 moonbeam" (expect me using this thing for a few more nitpicks) or other weird shit like that could have gone for something the fanbase awaited a lot more than it, for example a GTA3 Stinger or any other car anyone was ever willing to add
b) The Oldest Anarchy Server In Discord
- the DC server exists since at least 2017, yet there are total of zero rules. Hell, even the mods tend to not know what to do with a unit that causes major problems to server society
- The toxicity - more on that in d)
- Just one more here. I don't want to call out exact people, but the staff ranks are filled with people that are not even related to the server anymore for years... we could easily get someone active for these slots which would help controlling the chaos both on Discord and in-game
c) A state of Exploit and Performance
- After the Dyno update there has started the weird section of people that only used it to cause some weird vehicle performance... You know how it goes afterwards
- I know about at least a few people getting a permban for doing those, but it was apparently lifted by someone afterwards, just to later see them getting even more powerful setups, and using then to throw down all-time records
- Why is no action taken to remove such times caused by glitching the server's handling, or at the very least to fix such problems. If the Blank's 40FPS could get a fix, why not this thing? Unless that's an engine limitation
- Who allowed unbanning such people after what they have done in the first place? The person has seen what happened afterwards, and they should meet consequences of what they have done
Different stuff:
- Manana's 3-speed/4-speed gearbox (and any other vehicle with simmilar problems) - How in the world does keeping a stock/street element give you a better overall performance than a part technically built for racing... It just cries for an overhaul.
- B class balance - Do you want to have any chance of winning anything in that class? No problem, just get a Sultan/SGT and obliterate the living shit out of rest of B. Giant middle finger to anyone trying to max the rest of B class
d) The Holy Toxicity
- Both the MTA Server and the Discord is full of rather nasty situations. You know exactly what and where happens when you sit there for long hours every day hoping for sensation... Nope - same shit from both players and the devteam [calling out each other as furries (somehow they're considered a bad thing out there), proposing each other to eat socks, nwords and shit flying around without proper reaction, and many many more]
- The theme of update fight is something that is seen at least since the original Moonbeam update. Until recently every single day we saw:
"dev: yes i will make this meme part/useless change/whatever
player: 1). no dont do meme part/... but something productive
2). same as 1) but contains insulit
d: no i will do because my car/i want"
It is almost certain the meme part will never be used unironically by others than the Creator or the person commisioning it. This will go wrong for everyone involved ("agile kits" etc.). Stuff like that should be a theme for discussion, and it won't hurt anyone
e) My Favourite and Unsorted
- bartek[PL]'s absence - when was the list time we have seen him? his last forum post is back from a year ago - "The month of NFSSA". The only activity he was seen afterwards is some rare memeing on the NFSSA Discord server, or asking if server works well for people (unless something else happened on the Dev-only channels). Who is actually taking care of all the new stuff being added, or the server even at all existing?
- Crews [ALPHA] forever - damn guys, if you don't want to touch the system since the 2016 (skipping the categorized tops, that's only thing that changed since then), then why bother with basically telling us you want to change up stuff in it for all this time? It's either an update, or small removal of one bracket.
- Mamba's lack of interior or any sort of tuning parts, tuning updates, zero additions since the start, when the car is worth the time spent with it
- Bullshit of CS RP limit - why let player just earn the parts by beating the events, when you can give him a barrier of (considering today's amounts of players) at least a month of nolife grinding to even try them at all. No NFS Games got these sorts of limitations. I understand those are often hard challenges for pro players, but why completely block them off for that reason... Sometimes you can learn something new just through trying out a preset build. It also is possible the player will break out before even getting to some challenges with high rp requitement!
- Bullshit of Timeline - If there are parts that simulate what you see being done to vehicles these days, then why not allow newer vehicles than ~2001(GTA 3). I don't mean supercars that would obliterate everything in the current stake (honestly i wouldn't mind if such vehicles appeared, but that's only my opinion), but some tuners that would really fit the server's atmosphere, and greatly enhance it for the end-user, while being too new to exist in any of 3D Universe games
I bet there is still a bit more of stuff to cover with this post. I hope the stuff gets solved at any suitable point in the future, before it's too late to save this server from sudden death. It sure requires some work to be done but it sure will be worth it. I, and a lot of playerbase would grealy appreciate to see this server alive for years from now on.
As a long-time player (i joined somewhere around the Lucek Wave, summer 2016) i can see some issues that have appeared during this long time and were or were not ever adressed.
As can be noticed from playing the server once in a while the server isn't at brightest of states - average of 50 players is not a high score. I've decided to make a small list of factors that should be solved at one point or another...
Now i do understand the following may look like me straight up hating every aspect, but it's not what i'm feeling(besides the exploit part), and if somebody feels offended by this post, big sorry from the start. I also understand You(devteam) do what you only can to keep the thing even working in those harsh times. Let's get to the rant
a) poor development
- rare and small updates, maybe without the latest one, as it did a fair bit of changes [but still too small to keep active(racing, meeting, even existing for more than daily tasks) players for longer than 2-4 weeks]
- question of handling has not been majorly revisited since the first Dyno update (2018!), every online based game does want to keep the gameplay fresh and competetive, not stale with fully expectable results (sultan/sgt/manana supremacy). This also counts for all the exploits and exploiters, but more on that later!
- Discord's update channel pins are a joke. IMHO this should be priority to get the stuff laying from back in 2018 to be done instead of including more meme vehicles and parts. It just doesn't look good to pin up ideas, then leave them on hold for so long, that the people suggesting them don't even play here anymore XD
- about Meme Vehicles - the devteam doesn't seem to learn from the failure Kalahari was, and decides to implement the Moonbeam. I have honestly nothing against this idea (it's not a bad vehicle!), but the time and effort for planned "r34 moonbeam" (expect me using this thing for a few more nitpicks) or other weird shit like that could have gone for something the fanbase awaited a lot more than it, for example a GTA3 Stinger or any other car anyone was ever willing to add
b) The Oldest Anarchy Server In Discord
- the DC server exists since at least 2017, yet there are total of zero rules. Hell, even the mods tend to not know what to do with a unit that causes major problems to server society
- The toxicity - more on that in d)
- Just one more here. I don't want to call out exact people, but the staff ranks are filled with people that are not even related to the server anymore for years... we could easily get someone active for these slots which would help controlling the chaos both on Discord and in-game
c) A state of Exploit and Performance
- After the Dyno update there has started the weird section of people that only used it to cause some weird vehicle performance... You know how it goes afterwards
- I know about at least a few people getting a permban for doing those, but it was apparently lifted by someone afterwards, just to later see them getting even more powerful setups, and using then to throw down all-time records
- Why is no action taken to remove such times caused by glitching the server's handling, or at the very least to fix such problems. If the Blank's 40FPS could get a fix, why not this thing? Unless that's an engine limitation
- Who allowed unbanning such people after what they have done in the first place? The person has seen what happened afterwards, and they should meet consequences of what they have done
Different stuff:
- Manana's 3-speed/4-speed gearbox (and any other vehicle with simmilar problems) - How in the world does keeping a stock/street element give you a better overall performance than a part technically built for racing... It just cries for an overhaul.
- B class balance - Do you want to have any chance of winning anything in that class? No problem, just get a Sultan/SGT and obliterate the living shit out of rest of B. Giant middle finger to anyone trying to max the rest of B class
d) The Holy Toxicity
- Both the MTA Server and the Discord is full of rather nasty situations. You know exactly what and where happens when you sit there for long hours every day hoping for sensation... Nope - same shit from both players and the devteam [calling out each other as furries (somehow they're considered a bad thing out there), proposing each other to eat socks, nwords and shit flying around without proper reaction, and many many more]
- The theme of update fight is something that is seen at least since the original Moonbeam update. Until recently every single day we saw:
"dev: yes i will make this meme part/useless change/whatever
player: 1). no dont do meme part/... but something productive
2). same as 1) but contains insulit
d: no i will do because my car/i want"
It is almost certain the meme part will never be used unironically by others than the Creator or the person commisioning it. This will go wrong for everyone involved ("agile kits" etc.). Stuff like that should be a theme for discussion, and it won't hurt anyone
e) My Favourite and Unsorted
- bartek[PL]'s absence - when was the list time we have seen him? his last forum post is back from a year ago - "The month of NFSSA". The only activity he was seen afterwards is some rare memeing on the NFSSA Discord server, or asking if server works well for people (unless something else happened on the Dev-only channels). Who is actually taking care of all the new stuff being added, or the server even at all existing?
- Crews [ALPHA] forever - damn guys, if you don't want to touch the system since the 2016 (skipping the categorized tops, that's only thing that changed since then), then why bother with basically telling us you want to change up stuff in it for all this time? It's either an update, or small removal of one bracket.
- Mamba's lack of interior or any sort of tuning parts, tuning updates, zero additions since the start, when the car is worth the time spent with it
- Bullshit of CS RP limit - why let player just earn the parts by beating the events, when you can give him a barrier of (considering today's amounts of players) at least a month of nolife grinding to even try them at all. No NFS Games got these sorts of limitations. I understand those are often hard challenges for pro players, but why completely block them off for that reason... Sometimes you can learn something new just through trying out a preset build. It also is possible the player will break out before even getting to some challenges with high rp requitement!
- Bullshit of Timeline - If there are parts that simulate what you see being done to vehicles these days, then why not allow newer vehicles than ~2001(GTA 3). I don't mean supercars that would obliterate everything in the current stake (honestly i wouldn't mind if such vehicles appeared, but that's only my opinion), but some tuners that would really fit the server's atmosphere, and greatly enhance it for the end-user, while being too new to exist in any of 3D Universe games
I bet there is still a bit more of stuff to cover with this post. I hope the stuff gets solved at any suitable point in the future, before it's too late to save this server from sudden death. It sure requires some work to be done but it sure will be worth it. I, and a lot of playerbase would grealy appreciate to see this server alive for years from now on.
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