This was when it started, i feel like this has to be covered for those new players. It was the great crash of Beast Factions..... It was like the great depression, a very bad time, the server was dropping, players were dropping, staff have been leaving, oh it was not a good time. 2 resets in like 5 months But i am afraid to say that we are still in this big crash that had happened months ago. I could remember that day April 1-2nd, somewhere early in april, and i was playing casually along with my faction Hoarders. Well im in a skype call with my dear old buddy Hyper_Vortex and he's like "WOAH, some guy bet 10 million on this auction!" And im like, what the ****, who is this guy. The next thing you know he starts giving away the server millions of dollars. In less then 5 minutes the server is in shambles. People are buying spawners, staff are being crazy and setting up parols in the shops making sure no one buys stuff. Tom is gone, phil i remember was maybe on a camping trip. The server was in shambles for a day. #screw spotify A rollback was tried but it screwed up and rollbacked to like January. There was no other option but a reset. http://beastfactions.net/community/threads/what-is-happening.1174/ In my opinion this was a terrible job, mainly because of the rush the head staff had, i believe like 2 weeks to make up a whole new server? Yea it was not a good one. The player count started to drop, not exactly sure why though. But yea it wasn't the same though. But then ddosings started and bannings left and right. Demotions, people leaving. It was the start of something bad. Out of nowhere, they decided to do another reset in July. Maybe because the server didn't feel good about the last one and wanted a new reset. The player count for sure now did drop. It died down to 40 players. I left, and there was a lot of drama in the staff system and all around the server about multiple incidents. Advertisement droughts, for a few months too. The drought continued, staff members started leaving .And people started getting banned, the staff didn't give them chances. I could see why, but your server is on the verge of breaking and you keep on banning your loyal members (Rip Sharper and Coleman).* Well here it is ladies and germs, the Beast Factions Crash all in one piece. I skipped a lot of stuff. But you new players i want to tell you that this was one of the top servers, 100-150 players. Competing with some top faction servers. Were still in this drought, we got a little sprinkle of water from our great owner in the past few weeks (100 Players). But it wasn't good enough *Most of this info may be incorrect but i have tried my best. Nickatron 10.14
Well this may seem like a lot but I've honestly seen worse on my old server. I agree that the resets get annoying, but cmon doesn't it get boring doing nothing and just doing the same thing? The land gets griefed, new players become significantly weaker than the old ones and the server population stays the same because new players don't stay. Resets give a new chance for everyone, including the older players so they just need to see that, man up and if they really want to be loyal then stay with a server through the rough times. It gets better. But nice little history. I can tell you that my other server had like 10k+ a day I would say, then after a lot of DDoS and hacking, the server went into complete chaos dropping to about 2k-5k constant and 1k during the night. There were big updates, they slowly recovered and now I would say they have 7k+ on good times of the day. NEVER LET GO! EDIT: Oh and also, why is this a suggestion?
New players don't stay because of how op donators are and how hard it is to play as a member. When they join the server, they get the weekly kit which is p2, and they get some speed and health with kit starter, but that is no match for people with 4 sets p4 in their inventory and stacked pots. They leave immediately most of the time when they die and never come back
It should just be moved to the discussion part automatically. I mean its just a discussion there should be no questions asked right?
And if they do decide to stay however, the economy could be a big factor because things are probably going to be very expensive and the land might be too griefed for someone to make a new base that doesn't have many materials.
So we're all doomed just because Sharper and Cole are banned? This is after all for a reason, and you agreed with the reasoning in my post. I'm not really sure what problems you're pointing out though? Feel free to do so and we'll do something about addressing them, but if it's just "the player count is lower than it was a month ago" well, yes, it will be.... we had an ad last month ($3500) and no ad this month because it was overpriced (fall holidays). Tom and I agreed that we'd try for an ad next month, which we think is the right balance between wasting money and bringing in players. I think the real problem is you're just bored with the server Nick.
I'm not trying to point out anything honestly, this is just a overview of what has happened in the past few months. A few of my opinions are quite biased but I hope you understand
The memories... This server has been through so much. Hopefully we come out of this, This server never deserved it.
Because your post is negative.. you say above that there is still a problem (I don't think there generally is) but you can't tell me what it is?
That was a very sad time, I did try my best to to try and bring the server back up and I am but we have to do it step at a time, last time things I feel was rushing things.Now I am trying to do things a bit slower and careful so they will not be a "big depression" again. My current goal is to bring the server back to them old days but it doesn't happen overnight so we have to do step at a time. But I don't see how our server is still in a bad state, right now it might look like the server is going down in players/votes that's because of the advertisement as Phill explained. Don't worry I do feel that everything is now undercontrol, we are more organised than in the past. I have learn't from my old mistakes for new bright future.
Thank you for that because that was all i needed. I used to play beast in those harsh times, yea i left. I came back and people are like, wow 100 players! New members, player base , It was cool. I thought it was back, yes i really thought it was. But then it came back like a big hit, it just fell... And I thought about what has happened, and that has led to this post. So yes i wouldn't say it would be a problem but I guess I was just dissapointed. And honestly well Uhm I feel like last months advertisement was a little waste of money as it didn't exactly make a big difference.
You was expecting more, that's why you was disappointed, we predicted this player base and it seems right so far, everything is happening the same as last time, just takes time. Soon we will be hitting the high numbers again, don't worry.
Yea I didn't exactly see that you were expecting that, well im sure the whole server actually did not expect that and I'm not the only one. But im glad your not rushing things.