SA-MP is dying. Lol.
The problem is quite simple:
Right now there are 23 thousand people playing SA-MP. In 2007 when LVP peaked its player counts the record for consistent players at any one time was ~ 9000.
The reason LVP was so popular was because it was on a different server list known as "The Official list". It was a list with only a select few servers on it and had its own tab in the SA:MP client. However these where attractive to DDosers and other attackers. Therefore this list was shut down.
LVP did not fade right away because of the introduction of the "Hosted List". This is another list in the client where server owners must pay for a listing. For a while it had very little competition so therefore LVP was very popular still.
After the release of SA:MP 0.3, SA-MP began to grow and grow. More and more servers where listing themselves on both the internet and hosted list. Right now there are 4703 servers on the Internet List and 163 on the Hosted List.
The reason is very simple: There is far too much competition. GTA
A is 6 years old so therefore any old players by now are bound to be bored and stop playing. Because of the competition, new players joining the server is very limited. Why would a player want to join a basic gamemode like LVP when they have the likes of GamerX, a server that outranks LVP in every possible way to play on?
Development is also a contributing factor. Popular servers like GamerX have large and active development teams constantly applying updates to the gamemode adding lots of cool new features. LVP has one developer at the moment: Me. And quite frankly I've hardly been developing.
The only real thing we can do to try and get players back is add popular attractive features and then promote the server.
Out of the 4700 servers on the internet list and 23k players, please point out 4 pure DM servers that have more than 100 players.
Since you can't, I'm going to lock this topic.
The problem is quite simple:
Right now there are 23 thousand people playing SA-MP. In 2007 when LVP peaked its player counts the record for consistent players at any one time was ~ 9000.
The reason LVP was so popular was because it was on a different server list known as "The Official list". It was a list with only a select few servers on it and had its own tab in the SA:MP client. However these where attractive to DDosers and other attackers. Therefore this list was shut down.
LVP did not fade right away because of the introduction of the "Hosted List". This is another list in the client where server owners must pay for a listing. For a while it had very little competition so therefore LVP was very popular still.
After the release of SA:MP 0.3, SA-MP began to grow and grow. More and more servers where listing themselves on both the internet and hosted list. Right now there are 4703 servers on the Internet List and 163 on the Hosted List.
The reason is very simple: There is far too much competition. GTA
A is 6 years old so therefore any old players by now are bound to be bored and stop playing. Because of the competition, new players joining the server is very limited. Why would a player want to join a basic gamemode like LVP when they have the likes of GamerX, a server that outranks LVP in every possible way to play on?Development is also a contributing factor. Popular servers like GamerX have large and active development teams constantly applying updates to the gamemode adding lots of cool new features. LVP has one developer at the moment: Me. And quite frankly I've hardly been developing.
The only real thing we can do to try and get players back is add popular attractive features and then promote the server.
(09-11-2011, 08:57 AM)BoSS2 link Wrote: DM is alive in sa-mp
Out of the 4700 servers on the internet list and 23k players, please point out 4 pure DM servers that have more than 100 players.
Since you can't, I'm going to lock this topic.