Current Focus / Direction

[Dominic]

Hello everyone,

 

Let's start by talking about money and get that out of the way. Allow me to reiterate what Caution has said previously - the community is not at risk of shutting down, and our funds are not a concern. We are brainstorming ideas behind the scenes to increase the amount of money coming in, but it is not our top priority. Our number one priority is increasing activity across the board and bringing new players into the community. This is our entire staff team's sole focus, and I'm going to discuss our plans.

 

Let's also get this whole 'Discord hub' thing out of the way. This was a huge topic months ago and it somehow became everyone's mindset that we were abandoning community servers as a whole and focusing on our Discord. Yes, we want to continue growing our Discord and we see a huge benefit to having it, however.. we can't imagine a situation where it sustains us. We want to grow, we want to return to our former success, and we don't think that's going to do it for us.

 

We still have experienced Directors, we still have passionate server managers, we still have skillful technical administrators, we still have active admins, and most importantly, we still have supportive regulars. There is no point in throwing that all away in favor of Discord, especially when 90% of them would have no role to play in it. We're going to continue our attempts to bolster Discord activity and improve it wherever possible (shoutout Acer), but we don't see a situation where this can rebuild us on its own.

 

With those two things out of the way - we see a lot of potential for Jailbreak and TTT to make a comeback. We're putting a lot of effort in that direction and we 100% see the potential in focusing there. Additionally, we're actively putting effort into other projects such as GMod TTT, Minecraft, SCP, and others.. and we'll cover all of this later. Community servers and games is where we see ourselves going, that's where we see potential, that's what has always been our lifeforce, and that's what we as staff want to continue to work on.

 

We're seeing new communities being created and watching them succeed with community servers, we're watching old communities who are still around and watching them continue to see success in community servers, and we're observing small victories in our own front yard with passionate managers stepping up to the plate, servers being populated, and things generally looking up. So why would we give up on ourselves, and why wouldn't we afford ourselves the opportunity to form successful servers?

 

We want to be completely transparent, and this is the reality of the situation behind the scenes. We're telling you all this because we want to hear what you all have to say about it, if you see the same potential that we do, or if you'd prefer we start focusing our efforts elsewhere. In this upcoming community meeting, we'll discuss this much further, and we'll continue to ask for feedback in this thread even afterwards. 

 

Thank you.

[jazzy]

gmod TTT let's go, until s&box, then we wildin

[John]

gmod ttt.....? thats all i read. thank you.

[lorax]

I brought this up a few times, but the need 2 get new players but we're not doing any advertising. We have social platforms,but we aren't doing anything on them. We should actively post on a tiktok account it doesn't have to be amazing cinematics  you could just use old CoTM and try 2 get some reach.

[Acer]

2 hours ago, lorax said:

I brought this up a few times, but the need 2 get new players but we're not doing any advertising. We have social platforms,but we aren't doing anything on them. We should actively post on a tiktok account it doesn't have to be amazing cinematics  you could just use old CoTM and try 2 get some reach.

The events team has something in the works