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Originally Posted by FullMetalJacket
You made the most common mistake a developer can make. You focused too much on giving people what they wanted, rather than trying to figure out what the underlying problem was. I.E what the players were really asking for.
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I didn't do it as a developer, I did it as an administrator. The fact is, whenever I
didn't listen to the players, people complained. I listened, and people complained. It's not as easy as you think it is, as a player of course you would expect everything to be simple and easy as you make it sound but it's much more complicated than that.
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People wanted something new, this is true. What people didn't want was the entire system being removed, and for gangs to be glorified partys. You really have no excuse for making this mistake either, Jenn made this same mistake about five years ago when she removed the old gangs and released a new gang system. A gang system very similar to yours.
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Why would I listen to the players if you just told me not to listen to them? What you're telling me is that players
were asking for the entire system to be removed, and as far as I know, nothing
is new. Gang guns? Pfft, years and years old. Gang houses? Same thing. Tell me, what is new to the system?
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Actually your system is worse, because the increased proliferation of gangs caused Era's raiders to be spread even thinner amongst the dozens of gangs out there. Atleast with Jenn's system we had a set number of bases and gangs that could be active. Either way though, both nearly killed Era.
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We do have a set number of bases, and we did have a plan for the number of gangs that could be active but that wasn't implemented. The lack of raids is the same as the old gang system, nothing has really changed raiding wise.
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Instead of removing the one thing on Era that people really care about (gangs,) you could have taken the old system and built off of it. People were having fun doing events you say? Add more events, or host those events more frequently. People were getting bored with raiding? Give gangs something to do besides raid, or better yet, give players something to do when they don't feel like raiding that is enticing and fun.
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This current system is the same - nothing's really new and gangs are going to get bored eventually. Just because not much was released during my management term doesn't mean nothing was being worked on. We had many new features done on the development server that were completely finished. They can easily be transferred to the main server if the development team wishes.
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Or you could have tried to ya' know, fix the economy. The economy has been jacked up for years and we're way over due for a reset.
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This was one of my main concerns as manager, I tried numerous times to get permission from the Playerworld Administration to execute a server-wide reset but I was never granted permission. Numerous plans were made up on the development server and they were already being worked on but without permission for a reset it would have been a waste.