I want your ideas!

[Envious]

Hey team,

Recently you have noticed that Server 1 has been very full over the past 1 1/2 weeks or so. I want your guys idea for a way to increase player count on server 2! Everyone's input counts! Please post them below.


Thanks!

 

[Inkery]

I feel like if possible we implement a system that when you que for S1 it pushes you right into S2 but we leave say a button on the loading screen that you can push to stay in que for S1 incase you crashed out or need to get into S1 for say a whitelisted job with no one in it. This may not be possible, But also we can when full in S1 send 1 or two people from each whitelisted job to S2 admins ofc to keep chaos from erupting and just push players to rp in S2

 

[Coder]

No queue and no kicking for member slots unless both servers are full.
^^^I know a lot of people like the queue but that's the best way to populate S2 in my eyes.

 

[Remas097]

Definitely having couple of cops on the S2 will help alot. This will allow civs to do legal as well as illegal jobs. We Mechs are always happy to get couple of us on S2 and im 100% sure that Inkery as well as all other mechs will agree with me. Myself, im happy to be on there as mech or car dealer.

The biggest thing is that I believe people like to play with the people they are "best friends" with on the community. Like in schools, there are groups of people that like to just play together and when couple of people from that group is on S1 when the server is full and the rest of that group wanna play. Rather than joining S2 they want to join S1 to be with the group of friends. That is completely fine and I understand that, however this is main cause of S2 not being populated in my opinion as other players see that there is no one on there and don't want to join an empty server.

As a community we all should be friends and want to interact with everyone and not only specific people. Due to that, I don't have as much of an idea for it as just a - Please if a group of friend could just join S2 every now and then we could have 2 servers full not just one. A group of 3-6 friends with some cops and mechs will be half of a server. Also if you see that server 1 is full with a large queue, just join S2 and start populating it and hopefully more players will join you there. I truly believe this will affect the S2 in more population.

And as always, have FUN!

 

[Kodak Black]

A way to get server 2 poppin is to split the whitelisted jobs. Ex: 12 police in S1, 2 medics in S1, 5 mechanics in S1, 4 dealership in S1. You split all of those in half to S1 & S2. What ever highest ranking is on for any whitelisted job you split them to. Also, don’t just send the lowest ranking to S2. If you only send a small amount of a job to S2 then that won’t do much maybe even send 75% of the whitelisted jobs to S2. Split the staff for eGO in both servers. Truth is that people won’t play when specifically police are not on. When I hear people complaining about how you DO NOT need police to RP. You are right but 75% of RP comes from police and that is never changing if you like it or not. People that are more liked and admired need to split because people follow who they like. Cash bonuses will motivate people to move to S2 if that is implemented. Don’t take the queue system out because when people keep pressing the connect to server button it increases the ping in the server.

 

[jeremy_duck]

Make every job pay out 1.5x better or 2.5x better on server 2, this includes police wage, and normal job wage, that would make people want to grind more on server 2

 

[Inkery]

if you increase wage on S2 everyone will just go to it and not want to be on S1 then it will be reversed but the same and then you will also have people afk farm s2 when populations are low

 

[Inkery]

I feel like we shouldn't have to bribe people to come to S2 but if each department starts enforcing to go to S2 to split jobs the people will start to fill each server up

 

[RipplyTiger151]

I feel like if possible we implement a system that when you que for S1 it pushes you right into S2 but we leave say a button on the loading screen that you can push to stay in que for S1 incase you crashed out or need to get into S1 for say a whitelisted job with no one in it. This may not be possible, But also we can when full in S1 send 1 or two people from each whitelisted job to S2 admins ofc to keep chaos from erupting and just push players to rp in S2

This would be neat but I'm not sure that it is very possible.

Definitely having couple of cops on the S2 will help alot. This will allow civs to do legal as well as illegal jobs. We Mechs are always happy to get couple of us on S2 and im 100% sure that Inkery as well as all other mechs will agree with me. Myself, im happy to be on there as mech or car dealer.

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I also agree with this. However, what we need to realize is that we have to be smart with the amount of cops we have. Everyone is always like "Oh, we have 10 cops on server 1, lets send like half of them to server 2" (for example). What they don't realize is this also effects the roleplay for the 5 officers who stay on the server as they then have to deal with the other possibly 27 players who are causing havoc on the server. We get an average of like 5 911 calls every 10 minutes and those scenes last anywhere from 2 to 30+ minutes depending on the type of call and number of people involved. Or if you get a robbery at a bank or store, you immediately tie up all 5 of those officers.

Something we discussed is trying to get more police personnel to begin with so that we have adequate coverage in both servers. We should have at least 8 officers per full server to be able to handle everything that comes in.

Make every job pay out 1.5x better or 2.5x better on server 2, this includes police wage, and normal job wage, that would make people want to grind more on server 2

As Inkery touched on, this will also probably push people away from server 1 more than it would help it.

 

[DarkFroster]

you could put a message letting people know that there is a second server, in the bio of the 1 first one or add it top the loading screen.

 

[bk360]

So from my understanding and playing on the server I feel like 1 cop per 3 players is pretty even.

Server 2 I feel like there's no reason to join it when you need 4 cops to do this or 2 cops to do this. Whenever I join your limited to legal activities only which doesn't feel fun after long periods of time and limits a users experiance to have fun.

So my solution would be to limit how many cops can join one server. If its a full server and you see 8 police on then they should continue to play on Server 2. Why? It would solve the issue of not being able to do those illicit activities and increase players to want to play on there.

Server 2 also could be restricted to people who are less serious on RP or FailRP alot. Example would be driving 150 mid town daily or dont have a mic. This would increase the quality on server one and you may have to start at server two to get to Server 1 just to be part of a more built character community.

 

[BobDobbs]

I used to play server 2 since server 1 can get really full.

I used to make videos riding my bmx on this server and had some good times here mostly solo.

Then one day on my way to go offline I got to a garage to store my vehicle - the entrance was blocked by a players' vehicle and he ran into the street with a shotgun.

I died even tho I didn't do anything wrong.

I have not played on server 1 or 2 since.

My idea would be to define some of the gray area around baiting and power gaming. 'Scrim no sause' was the player who baited and eventually RDM'd me for not "complying" with his civilian demands.

I don't believe civilians should be allowed to murder civilians by demanding they do things for absolutely no reason at common places where players are logging in and out. I needed to go offline so I ran over near to the garage entrance to logout because I didn't have time to be harassed and was shot for not complying with this civilian's demands. I could not park my car in the garage marker because of the 2nd player who I couldn't identify that was helping scrim bait at the Mirror Park garage

He was not a police officer so I do not believe he has the authority to command me to do anything he wishes. He immediately logs out while I am explaining the situation to admin

This is power gaming and I will never play this server again because the admin response was pure garbage. "...he just logged out so what do you want me to do about it?"

I almost laughed out loud at this admin's response. Fix the rules, fix the toxic community. I think its a good idea...

This kid obviously just thinks hes a crime lord big boss and probably doesn't have alot of friends in real life. Its sad that you let players like him drive others away from these servers.

since server 2 is a little less populated; or I'm assuming this is why, the kids can exploit the lack of admin yet they are bored by the small amount of 'prey' so they just camp the garages and then run at them with loaded guns before they even get out of their vehicles...

I won't be returning to edge gamers server, its been months , and I 've found more than 1 community I enjoy more since...

 

[Adam]

If it makes you feel any better, that Scrim butthole is banned.

 

[Summer]

Perhaps have a field day on S2 for the weekend. I'll try to add it to the Que system info and auto messages.

 

[Dr Maddog]

I know I'm a bit late on this but I would get rid of the queue because for DS's they don't need s2 because they will be 1 in the queue for s1, and it is a guaranteed spot. Like I know if 5 people leave i'll be on s1.