saturday night there was a small meeting in x-3043 with members of various clans
we tried too adress some probs that we currently have on the server especially for new players
this is the outcome:
1. its not good to give new ppl alot of money and equipment
it is better to let them work for it, this way those guys wont get bored that fast and stay on CF longer
also too much information about where hidden stuff can be found is no real option
2. the F1 fine is problematic for new players coz they might loose all their money and leave the server because of that
as a result of the meeting the f1 fine was reduced to 1000$ and the serverpolice will deal with f1 abusers individually
as of the release of CF1.8 i will try to implement a F1 blocker into the FL code... that means you can use F1 only if you are docked
this should improve RP since nobody can run away anymore or jump to systems by choosing other chars and the discussions about abuse will stop
the alt+f4 will be handled in a different way (serversided)
3. the pirates complained that pure pirate rp is not lucrative enough due to the fact that players prefere to get killed instead of paying tax and that the loot from the trains is not high enough
for some reason only a part of the cargo seems to be dropped
and i agree that it should be more... i will look into this and if possible raise the amount that can get looted
4. the bounty system has been set to merc bounty only now... that means only ppl with merc licence can collect bounties
it would be good if someone could test if its working correctly
the other 2 rp factions (police and smugglers) dont seem to have any problems... the smugglers usually have high profits if they can bring though their cargo and the police simply have fun hunting others
5. roleplay difficulties
currently only the normal roleplay is done and asf/csf is completly ignored due the fact that ppl dont really know how those 2 kinds of roleplay work together (even after i explained it several times)
result will be that we seperate those roleplay styles in future and turn asf/csf into a monthly server event
the idea was to run normal roleplay for 3 weeks a month and the 4th week asf/csf event
of course you still can run the normal roleplay in the 4th week if you want but you should be aware that the kills will be counted as ASF/CSF kills
There will be a monthly announcement at LR (we simply ignore the fact that LR is going to limit its FL support) calling players to the CF server for this event. That of course means we have to open the ASF/CSF also to non-server clans and freelancers.
but the advantages are worth it imo
we get more players to the server by running an long term event on regular basis in a way no other server can offer it and having advertisement on LR on a regular basis
this might attract players which havent played CF before and after that week they might be interested to stay... or come for the next event one month later
the event itself will be how we already know it... gaining control over territories and so on
due to freelancers being able to attend the balancing of the sides shouldnt be that hard
but we need to find out a way to register players for the event and hand out licences (ill think about that later)
clan should play together and decide for which side they want to play (its not good to have a clan seperated)
if running this event once a month is too much we could also run it every 2-3 months
but we will see
