I just came up with a few suggestions for GamerX. This should increase the playercount if you ask me.
Go easy on Unregistered Players
New players who are joining the server for the first time doesn’t know any single command here in GamerX. They have no chance to discover the great things we have in GamerX.
The main reason is:
We are always spawnkilling/killing the Unregistered/Registered Players (who used to be very new here), for our own pleasure. Some of them are pretty easy to kill, this is great for US, we will create a high “Kill Streak” and we also get more score. If there are new players who have skills, kills a regular player/TP or whatever we always call our friends and we attacked that player with a lot of people. Just join the server one time with another nickname (unregistered account) and try to act like you don't know ANYTHING. You are not able to use any command/teleport since you don't know what the server for commands etc have. You'll see how hard it is to discover things, and how it feels when everyone is against you and other new players.
Try to understand that the chance that new players leave the server increases much more if we continue such things.
We should give the new players a chance in peace to discover the server without being killed by others. The new generation kids are very Young, doesn’t know English. I’d remember when I joined here for the first time, I used google translate in order to understand what this server was actually telling me. I didn’t knew the basics of the English language.
New players don’t know how great this server actually is. Because some of them never had a chance to discover this things. Because they were a target by our regular players.
I remember when I used to help new players by offering my help, that they were suprised when I told them the awesome things what GamerX has. I explained them a lot. I gave them a short tutorial about the basics to survive in GamerX, what features we have etc. They weren’t a target anymore and some of them are still playing here.
I’d believe when we all are doing this, we will pass the first step to increase the player count. Ofcourse we will not have tomorrow a playercount that counts 100+ players. But you have to start to believe in the things you want.
Give new players a warm welcome, offer them your help. Let them feel welcome and comfortable here in GamerX. Give them an awesome time here, and they will surely come back. Stand in there shoes, will you feel welcome when the whole server is on your ass by trying to kill you? I don’t think so.
Before people will start replying here below with the following things:
- This is a DM server, we are free to do what we want
- We all used to be new and I didn’t had skills
Yes, we are free to do what we want. A lot of people always think that GamerX is a DM related server only, but that’s invalid. GamerX is a freeroam server, where you can deathmatching, where you can racing, playing minigames/events, creating player/holding objects, hanging arround and much more. To much to explain.
And yes, we are free to do and free to go where ever we wants. This is only just a suggestion, and who the hell am I to disallow people things here. So don’t get me wrong, and I’m not saying that I am a person who never kills new players, I am also a part of the players who used to do that. But the playercount is low nowdays, and I am trying to sort things about, in the hope we will have a great playecount again, that GamerX deserves.
Maybe it should help if we remove weapons in redspawnzones. Or maybe are there other opportunities to avoid that people will be killed in redspawn zones. We should make redspawn zones, zones where new players will be explained how the server works. Maybe create letters on walls etc which contains the basics of GamerX like:
- Want to have your stats saved? Use the /register command to save your stats automaticalle.
- Want to spawn a vehicle for FREE? Use the /car command, for an infernus. Or spawn a vehicle by name or ID, /v name/id. Or use one of the 17 vehicle menus we have.
- Want to change your skin ID? /skin <id>. Visit the GamerX forum to check out the skins by picture + IDs. We have 0 -311 skin IDs here.
- Want to teleport to somewhere? Type /t to get yourself a dialog which contains a lot of teleports. Or use one of the 200 loaded slots /L 1 to /L 200
Give the players, especially the Admins more jobs to do
We should do more things outside GamerX to promote GamerX more.
The following list contains a list what kind of jobs I have in mind
- Creating videos for GamerX
- Creating advertism on the SA:MP forums, Social Media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, other games etc..).
I’ve recorded a lot of videos for GamerX. I made some footages while I was just playing, I came up with a title for it “Playing a day in GamerX”. I recorded myself what I was doing. Asking players to enable teleport for me, so I were able to write /g <id/name> . Playing minigames/events, joining races, creating objects, freeroaming and much more! Just like I always play in GamerX.
I am not good in video editing and that’s why I never released a video yet. Creating footages is just one small video suggestion, we can also record duels, and other stuff, just everything we wants. We also should focus on ONE main GamerX youtube channel, where only nice video editing work will be posted. This will also motivate people to record stuff, and trying to increase their knowledges in video editing. A small reward for the players who are putting a lot of efforts for such things would be nice. Giving and sharing things!
We all are using social media or playing other games. If we are creating advertism over there for GamerX, it will also increase the playercount.
Well, if everyone has their own job, it won’t take you a lot of time instead of doing all the things by your own. If there are people who likes to record things, but sucks like my in video editing, they can send them to 1, 2 or maybe 3 persons? Who have experiences in video editing. Maybe will this person also have the abilities to upload them on the main GamerX youtube channel, or not. But if we work TOGETHER we will make it!
We should stop taking things too serious
We cannot expect from our players that they will act like adults. We all used to be a child when we joined GamerX for the first time (at least a lot of us). They are a CHILD, they don’t have to act like they are an adult with a serious behaviour. Kids are always making mistakes, and they will not always get our point when we’re trying to make them understand something, when they are breaking a rule or something. The /ban command is dangerous now days. We don’t have a lot of players nowdays, and if we keep banning players we will not make it. I’d believe in the fact that people can really “change”. It takes some time, but who cares? People can learn, and if we are a listened ear fort hem, they can speak up for theirself. Listen, explain and everything will be allright. Kids are not stupid, they will only not understand things directly and they don’t have too.
Go easy on Unregistered Players
New players who are joining the server for the first time doesn’t know any single command here in GamerX. They have no chance to discover the great things we have in GamerX.
The main reason is:
We are always spawnkilling/killing the Unregistered/Registered Players (who used to be very new here), for our own pleasure. Some of them are pretty easy to kill, this is great for US, we will create a high “Kill Streak” and we also get more score. If there are new players who have skills, kills a regular player/TP or whatever we always call our friends and we attacked that player with a lot of people. Just join the server one time with another nickname (unregistered account) and try to act like you don't know ANYTHING. You are not able to use any command/teleport since you don't know what the server for commands etc have. You'll see how hard it is to discover things, and how it feels when everyone is against you and other new players.
Try to understand that the chance that new players leave the server increases much more if we continue such things.
We should give the new players a chance in peace to discover the server without being killed by others. The new generation kids are very Young, doesn’t know English. I’d remember when I joined here for the first time, I used google translate in order to understand what this server was actually telling me. I didn’t knew the basics of the English language.
New players don’t know how great this server actually is. Because some of them never had a chance to discover this things. Because they were a target by our regular players.
I remember when I used to help new players by offering my help, that they were suprised when I told them the awesome things what GamerX has. I explained them a lot. I gave them a short tutorial about the basics to survive in GamerX, what features we have etc. They weren’t a target anymore and some of them are still playing here.
I’d believe when we all are doing this, we will pass the first step to increase the player count. Ofcourse we will not have tomorrow a playercount that counts 100+ players. But you have to start to believe in the things you want.
Give new players a warm welcome, offer them your help. Let them feel welcome and comfortable here in GamerX. Give them an awesome time here, and they will surely come back. Stand in there shoes, will you feel welcome when the whole server is on your ass by trying to kill you? I don’t think so.
Before people will start replying here below with the following things:
- This is a DM server, we are free to do what we want
- We all used to be new and I didn’t had skills
Yes, we are free to do what we want. A lot of people always think that GamerX is a DM related server only, but that’s invalid. GamerX is a freeroam server, where you can deathmatching, where you can racing, playing minigames/events, creating player/holding objects, hanging arround and much more. To much to explain.
And yes, we are free to do and free to go where ever we wants. This is only just a suggestion, and who the hell am I to disallow people things here. So don’t get me wrong, and I’m not saying that I am a person who never kills new players, I am also a part of the players who used to do that. But the playercount is low nowdays, and I am trying to sort things about, in the hope we will have a great playecount again, that GamerX deserves.
Maybe it should help if we remove weapons in redspawnzones. Or maybe are there other opportunities to avoid that people will be killed in redspawn zones. We should make redspawn zones, zones where new players will be explained how the server works. Maybe create letters on walls etc which contains the basics of GamerX like:
- Want to have your stats saved? Use the /register command to save your stats automaticalle.
- Want to spawn a vehicle for FREE? Use the /car command, for an infernus. Or spawn a vehicle by name or ID, /v name/id. Or use one of the 17 vehicle menus we have.
- Want to change your skin ID? /skin <id>. Visit the GamerX forum to check out the skins by picture + IDs. We have 0 -311 skin IDs here.
- Want to teleport to somewhere? Type /t to get yourself a dialog which contains a lot of teleports. Or use one of the 200 loaded slots /L 1 to /L 200
Give the players, especially the Admins more jobs to do
We should do more things outside GamerX to promote GamerX more.
The following list contains a list what kind of jobs I have in mind
- Creating videos for GamerX
- Creating advertism on the SA:MP forums, Social Media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, other games etc..).
I’ve recorded a lot of videos for GamerX. I made some footages while I was just playing, I came up with a title for it “Playing a day in GamerX”. I recorded myself what I was doing. Asking players to enable teleport for me, so I were able to write /g <id/name> . Playing minigames/events, joining races, creating objects, freeroaming and much more! Just like I always play in GamerX.
I am not good in video editing and that’s why I never released a video yet. Creating footages is just one small video suggestion, we can also record duels, and other stuff, just everything we wants. We also should focus on ONE main GamerX youtube channel, where only nice video editing work will be posted. This will also motivate people to record stuff, and trying to increase their knowledges in video editing. A small reward for the players who are putting a lot of efforts for such things would be nice. Giving and sharing things!
We all are using social media or playing other games. If we are creating advertism over there for GamerX, it will also increase the playercount.
Well, if everyone has their own job, it won’t take you a lot of time instead of doing all the things by your own. If there are people who likes to record things, but sucks like my in video editing, they can send them to 1, 2 or maybe 3 persons? Who have experiences in video editing. Maybe will this person also have the abilities to upload them on the main GamerX youtube channel, or not. But if we work TOGETHER we will make it!
We should stop taking things too serious
We cannot expect from our players that they will act like adults. We all used to be a child when we joined GamerX for the first time (at least a lot of us). They are a CHILD, they don’t have to act like they are an adult with a serious behaviour. Kids are always making mistakes, and they will not always get our point when we’re trying to make them understand something, when they are breaking a rule or something. The /ban command is dangerous now days. We don’t have a lot of players nowdays, and if we keep banning players we will not make it. I’d believe in the fact that people can really “change”. It takes some time, but who cares? People can learn, and if we are a listened ear fort hem, they can speak up for theirself. Listen, explain and everything will be allright. Kids are not stupid, they will only not understand things directly and they don’t have too.
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