Didn’t even know this was a thread, but as someone who has spent too much time playing jailbreak, I’ll try and give some perspective of what I believe is killing JB.
1) The player base, as of now it is mostly filled with little kids, now this is not exactly a bad thing since having a little kid population is definitely better than no population, but when people that are older and come into the server to get screamed at by little kids, they are bound to leave. Which means that it’s just a snowball of little kids joining and older guys leaving or losing interest.
2) The quality of the CTs have definitely dropped. When I first joined at least half of the CT team had a mic and were able to give decent orders, now maybe only 1 or 2 CTs have a mic. Or everyone has a mic on CT but they’re too busy conflicting over each other, which brings me to my next point.
3) Conflicting and cancer. I don’t know why this server is so against having a warden system that allows someone to be the “main head” and direct the T’s and give them orders, I mean more often then not CTs will be constantly conflicting over one another if they have a mic and make people want to tear their ears off and leave.
4) Lack of admin presence, this is a no brainer, there are very few active JB admins, it feels like the higher ups have practically given up on JB.
5) The orders given . I made a thread a while ago about having special days like war day or purge day to spice things up, which ultimately got struck down for little to no reason. As of now, the orders are always “go to soccer be in the goal”, “go to pool be in water”, or the classic “free day no past first cell”. It’s quite tiring to hear the same shit every round, and it causes people to lose interest in the server.
In the end it all goes back to what bubblez said, the few regs on there are tryhards and there’s never anything interesting going on unless there are “hyped up regs”. I remember when I first joined, bubblez would find me in some secret or something, and he’d say something along the lines of “hey watcha doing there fat boy”, there are very few CTs that like to fuck around with the T’s and instead only play to stack their k/d.
Solutions: Have special events to get forum regs to start playing jb again, such as the admin vs regs thing, the juggernaut event, or giveaways for shop items if the server is filled, in hopes of getting randoms to become regs. Have role model CTs give interesting orders, if we build up a decent player base, add restrictions as to who can become a CT. Add a warden system. Allow wardays to be a thing.
Loosen up the restrictions of applying for admin, maybe we could make it so people don’t need 100 posts, and decrease the amount of supports required to become admin, have it so you can apply for a specific server, such as if you want to admin JB, you’d have to filled out an application to admin just JB, but you wouldn’t be able to admin TTT or ZE with a JB application.
Loosen up the amount of time admins are allowed to ban people for, on other communities they give 30 minute time outs and from there it is escalated. They only ban people if they have to, admins try and keep players on and the population active. People shouldn’t be permed after being banned for 3 Times, an example of this is Tacoftw. He was a good regular that got permed from bans of about a year ago. Even tho I didn’t like the kid personally, he was an active regular on the forums and the server, he was another person that liked playing on the server. We shouldn’t be perming people like this. We shouldn’t be giving people less motivation to go on the servers and try and populate the servers.
Maybe this post might be better coming from someone else other than myself who has had a lot of drama surrounding me. But this is really just to try and help JB. I’ve spent a lot of time playing on other successful communities and I want to be able to replicate that same success over here, I’ve noticed a lot of things that we are doing and aren’t doing that drive players away from our JB server and, like I said, I’m just tryna help.
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