Listen, 98% of the "old school" DMers were 15yrs old back in 2007/08. Now those people have college/work/minecraft and a lot less free time.

People think its fun and cool to put down lvp and blame management/rules. In all honesty though its mainly cus people grew up and moved on. The youngins these days are on the RP and Stunt type servers simply because they just don't know about us anymore. We've become lost in the crowd of hundreds of vanilla DM servers.
Bugs, bugs, bugs, and more bugs. Yep we gottem. We will always have bugs to fix but LE7ELS is right we need NEW features to bring this server back to life. There should be at least one small spot for the stunter people. (It is Las Venturas PLAYGROUND, after all) People need and want more customization of their vehicle. Someone is working on vamping up the VIP features and that is great.

However, we need to offer something more than just DM. Period.
I don't play RP servers (some of them are kind of creepy) but I have been on them just to investigate.. and they have working house features and etc. Why not kidnap one of their management and have them tell us what the secret is on doing that?
Being in a gang is partially RP anyway. Right? Why not make LVP a RP server? At least the gang part of it? In the sense you can choose to or not. I have ideas on how to do that, but I think that's best saved for another topic.
O well.