People have been PMing and riding my ass about this.

[xBlueXFoxx]

Spawn locations, ideas?


-Spawn select?
-Custom mapped spawn zones?
-Simple new spawn map?

However, I see this useless since I placed more vehicles/faster vehicles near the spawn locations.

[Richard]

What is the reason they ask for new spawns, did they say?

[Pedro]

@BlueFox, I think that I was one of the guys that talked to you about this on IRC or something, but it was some time ago. I'm not quite sure, but I guess that Holden had talked about this too even before me.

Anyways @estroe, I believe if we had some custom mapped spawn zones only for non-registered and non-regulars players, we would be attracting/receiving better new people. Most of servers with a high player count has similar mapped areas.

[Richard]

How would that work? If you spawn them away in another world or so, what happens after?

[Pedro]

No, no. It is supposed to be in the main world. As we want to spawn them at LV, two or three mapped/'beauties' areas would be enough. The very first impression that the player takes about the server, decides if he'll come back again or not (it might not always work like that, but in most cases it does ).

[Richard]

Well, yeah. But we tried it with the spawn near sexshop. That didn't work out that well. Maybe it was too close to the fighting areas though.

[xBlueXFoxx]

What is the reason they ask for new spawns, did they say?

I can point some fingers, some people who asked are actually in the beta team, but it's mainly because the spawn locations are "too far from the action", I have to disagree, but I just wanted to know others opinions first.

[Tpimp]

non registered players should spawn at the sex shop like it was before it was changed... imo

[Richard]

non registered players should spawn at the sex shop like it was before it was changed... imo

That's the worst solution if you ask me. When they were there, they got killed right away. The spawning seems to fail quite a bit now too though. People spawn at the elevators a lot and then get killed by people either waiting for them or by people fighting a bit closer to ship.

I don't think the spawns are too far, they're all in LV. It literally takes 2 maybe 3 minutes to drive around LV. So going through should be equally fast (no straight road but less distance). And again, if you would go to a server, spawn and get attacked by some gangmembers at once, would you like it? Sure, you probably wouldn't leave, but newer people might.

[Blackbean]

Why not just spawn the new ones on the ship? The place where they pick their character.