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is lljk dead
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Im going to quote something I said in reddit a while back:

Quote:Honestly?

All the old flock are dying off. I've been playing on Goon since 2011 and while it hasn't lost it's appeal nor has the administration changed in how it operates it's suffering a slow but steady dropout for a while now.

Now you'll get people who'd argue the opposite but on peak hours a few years ago we'd have 50-60 on the main server and 20-30 on the secondary server.

Now we get 40 on the main and 10 on the RP server during peak

The problem barring the old flock dying off is a colorful list of problems that while shouldn't really effect the population separately but as a whole it's more understandable.

The large cogmap2 introduction, while it brought a ton of new graphical updates and the map itself is brilliantly designed, alot felt it was just too massive, and during non-peak hours it can feel quite ghost town-y. That can be frustrating for players who want to interact with others. Fortunately the fix for this is pretty much in the works, a map rotation which would allow smaller maps to appease lower peak hours.

The other issue is the code, but more the codeleak. Now while I can't speak for the administration themselves, the gist of it that it's seemed to have killed alot of ambition, and I haven't seen any codermin do anything for a while, unless it's all hush hush at the moment but one can only speculate. As a result any features being implemented go through the patch forum (which isn't working out so bad at all should I add).

But the problem in my opinion lied before codeleak, the codeleak has only really highlighted the problem. Alot of the massive features that are taken up by an admin become his/her property and when this code breaks, or becomes redundant, or is unfinished or whatever, it's often up to another admin to yell at the coder to fix the problem..or the problem eventually fixes itself.. somehow. This also meant that small features would go unnoticed, the suggestion forum became a dumping grounds where 5% of the suggestions would even be considered. So as a result goon became feature laden in some aspects, but feature barren in others. The patch forum funnily enough, seems to be resolving this issue.

So you see, these issues kind of compounded each other: When something isn't being implemented, when the community doesn't feel like it's progressing, that can stifle the population.

Another issue is simply just mentality towards goon. We've got alot of things to tinker around with and as another poster said before, that can be effort when coming from another codebase. You get these posts "ugh goon why would I join just to be killed as I leave the shuttle", alot of information on goon is dated or biased, alot of stuff is echo chambered when the reality of the situation is quite different. We're a very chill community. We're just going through a phase right now, and I do hope that we can introduce new blood into the game soon.
This post was made nearly a year ago, and unfortunately no new things have been brought to the table. Its just simple: we simply lack dedicated coders and spriters.
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is lljk dead - by OMJ - 05-04-2017, 03:08 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-04-2017, 03:20 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-04-2017, 03:21 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Tom Clancy's Gay Ghost - 05-04-2017, 03:25 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Mageziya - 05-04-2017, 03:29 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by aft2001 - 05-04-2017, 03:33 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-04-2017, 03:40 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-04-2017, 03:50 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-04-2017, 05:12 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-04-2017, 05:39 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-04-2017, 05:44 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by babayetu83 - 05-04-2017, 07:29 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-04-2017, 06:06 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Mageziya - 05-04-2017, 06:19 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Musketman12 - 05-04-2017, 06:32 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-04-2017, 07:35 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-04-2017, 07:36 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-04-2017, 08:25 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Mageziya - 05-04-2017, 08:41 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Frank_Stein - 05-04-2017, 11:20 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-04-2017, 09:00 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-04-2017, 09:20 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by NateTheSquid - 05-04-2017, 09:25 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Mageziya - 05-04-2017, 09:29 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Sundance - 05-04-2017, 10:39 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by amaranthineApocalypse - 05-05-2017, 04:34 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Roomba - 05-05-2017, 04:47 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by OMJ - 05-05-2017, 06:51 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by Mageziya - 05-05-2017, 07:06 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Superlagg - 05-05-2017, 07:07 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Sundance - 05-05-2017, 07:12 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-05-2017, 07:23 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by ZeWaka - 05-05-2017, 08:18 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-05-2017, 09:03 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by Sundance - 05-05-2017, 09:11 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-05-2017, 10:40 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Musketman12 - 05-05-2017, 10:57 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-05-2017, 11:21 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Sov - 05-05-2017, 11:27 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by babayetu83 - 05-05-2017, 01:15 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-05-2017, 12:25 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-05-2017, 01:04 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Maegor - 05-05-2017, 02:57 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by ZeWaka - 05-05-2017, 04:45 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by babayetu83 - 05-05-2017, 04:48 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-05-2017, 05:01 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Superlagg - 05-05-2017, 06:42 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-05-2017, 05:30 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by aft2001 - 05-06-2017, 05:05 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ines - 05-06-2017, 06:19 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by OMJ - 05-06-2017, 07:20 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by MaRcuSTheDAWG - 05-06-2017, 08:26 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-06-2017, 08:31 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by HotCoffeeMug - 05-06-2017, 09:00 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-06-2017, 09:29 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-06-2017, 09:49 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Darkchis - 05-06-2017, 11:25 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-06-2017, 11:32 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-06-2017, 11:35 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Mageziya - 05-06-2017, 12:06 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by OMJ - 05-06-2017, 12:51 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-06-2017, 01:07 PM
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RE: is lljk dead - by OMJ - 05-06-2017, 01:42 PM
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RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-06-2017, 07:46 PM
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RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-07-2017, 11:18 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by NateTheSquid - 05-07-2017, 11:40 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-08-2017, 06:21 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by NateTheSquid - 05-08-2017, 01:46 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by HotCoffeeMug - 05-08-2017, 09:30 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-08-2017, 03:42 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Mageziya - 05-08-2017, 05:51 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Noah Buttes - 05-08-2017, 06:49 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by NateTheSquid - 05-08-2017, 10:40 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Haine - 05-09-2017, 03:01 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-09-2017, 03:28 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-09-2017, 03:33 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Ed Venture - 05-09-2017, 03:41 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by atamusvaleo - 05-09-2017, 04:28 AM
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RE: is lljk dead - by misto - 05-09-2017, 05:37 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-09-2017, 07:08 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Frank_Stein - 05-09-2017, 08:19 AM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-09-2017, 04:50 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Tom Clancy's Gay Ghost - 05-09-2017, 06:39 PM
RE: is lljk dead - by Vitatroll - 05-10-2017, 03:37 AM
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