Goonhub
10-03-2019, 05:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-03-2019, 05:03 PM by Surimi. Edited 1 time in total.)
I used to play on the RP server a lot, but I feel like it was a very different server 6-9 months ago. Broadly speaking I feel more sympathetic to the "less dedicated player" side, in that while I prefer being in an RP environment, I feel like the RP has always worked best for me when it's fairly lighthearted. While everyone is theoretically supposed to be doing their job on a space station, it's a weird, surreal space station, and I feel like it works best when players are permitted to act accordingly.
On the other hand, of the rounds I've played on the RP server recently a significant proportion have been ruined by one person testing their powergaming skills, so that's definitely a problem too.
Other than my personal RP related opinions, think the major problem with the RP server is that it is just Goon with stricter RP rules. I've noticed a lot of people on Goon (including myself) are clearly LRPing even though it's not an RP server, so it's not like there's no appetite for RP in the community. Instead, I think people are put off GoonRP by the lack of players, lack of action and worries about cliquishness and following RP requirements. I think the way to revive the RP server isn't necessarily to tighten RP requirements, but to give it things like dedicated game modes or just a different pace.
For example, I remember when the RP server mostly ran extended, a lot of people seemed to be playing there primarily because they liked extended. I'm definately not saying go back to running full-time extended, but something to make playing on GoonRP different might help to prevent people from just gravitating to the most populated server.
On the other hand, of the rounds I've played on the RP server recently a significant proportion have been ruined by one person testing their powergaming skills, so that's definitely a problem too.
Other than my personal RP related opinions, think the major problem with the RP server is that it is just Goon with stricter RP rules. I've noticed a lot of people on Goon (including myself) are clearly LRPing even though it's not an RP server, so it's not like there's no appetite for RP in the community. Instead, I think people are put off GoonRP by the lack of players, lack of action and worries about cliquishness and following RP requirements. I think the way to revive the RP server isn't necessarily to tighten RP requirements, but to give it things like dedicated game modes or just a different pace.
For example, I remember when the RP server mostly ran extended, a lot of people seemed to be playing there primarily because they liked extended. I'm definately not saying go back to running full-time extended, but something to make playing on GoonRP different might help to prevent people from just gravitating to the most populated server.