Eurozze

Majority of the stuff posted here is clever and could be a way towards a more balanced server. However, i think the "damage" is too big to fix with minor fixes. The problem is major, so should the solution be. I propose resetting the server. Completely. Put it to 0, analyze what happened this time and make sure you activly work to prevent it. I would also propose to maby once every teo weeks check with regulars about what they think about certain things.

I know this "path" is disliked by many, but i believe it is the only way to fix it. It'll take time but i'll get better. With the help of some suggestions above ofcourse.

A minority of you may know who I am and what I've done on this server, but for you who don't here's an introduction.

My name is Alfons "Hysteria" Warg, I'm 20 years old and live in Stockholm. Together with a GW and a few other friends we started the CvGaming altis life server as a minor joke in late July of 2014. But it quickly escalated into something we hadn't even thought of. I was at the time the map editor, community manager and the one fixing the balance on the server. 

Fast-forward a bit until October where CvGaming reached its prime when it came to playerbase and active players on the server. This was the time where GW and me still manually restarted the server every 4 hours, we were 2 head-admins running a server that was popping 90 players on most days. Which of course was extremely exhausting both physically and mentally, and since I had some personal and private issues at the time as well I decided to step down as an admin and focus on other stuff instead. 

Even tho I left the server, I never completely left CvGaming. I have a ton of friends in this community that I would never dream of just withdrawing out of my life.

In the beginning of May I started to realize that the server wasn't doing as good as it used too. There were tons more negative posts on the forums than usual. The server population had drastically gone down, and the active players had gone from a dispersion of all sorts of groups to almost only major gangs and official factions. I decided that since the private matters where fixed and I was still jobless this was something I could put time into and actually try and fix. So I contacted Goatis (shoutout to you my friend) and told him about what I was thinking. This then escalated to me personally discussing several matters with the majority of the admin-staff. 
 
But now today I can officially anounce that I have rejoined the CvGaming staff and oh'boy you are all about to see some major changes by us when it comes to server balance and map-layout! I will personally jump around in TS asking about your own opinions about content and such, which is the way I was doing it before. I believe in a server run by the players, not purely by the admins.

Wish me luck!

Fun fact: CvGamings altis life server would've never existed if I didnt rob GW of his hemtt box on secret one! I later felt guilty about dong it so the group I was playing with (Pyaht and Billy Bob, all former admins) gave GW a free weapon, invited him to skype and started to farm cocaine with him.

Nytt liv i tråden? 
 
 

Hi peepz <3 get ready for the most retarded and longest piece of shit u have ever read in this forum so far...
 
Short info
 
 
Name: Sebastian "Fladder" Näslund
Age: 24
Country Sweden
Region Medelpal/Västernorrland/Sundsvall
Race Human
Class Male kriger
 
 
Longer story/Personal story- You can leave now if u want to, This is just me being nice and telling u everything about me....
 
 
Gonna try and stick everything i remember and know about myself in this thread to make sure that u all know me as much as possible so i can ignore all the questions i get on TS and in-game
 
 
23 years ago....
My mom left me to my dad since she had no time or just didnt want me, i dont really know and i dont really care, been living with my father since i were 11 months old and up to the age of 11. On my 11th birthday i started seeing my mother again and ended up being there 1 weekend every 3 weeks. At the age of 12 she started acting strange and also started bullying and hitting me, also made me stand in a door opening for 2-3 hours everytime i came from my dad having a question spree and kinda forced me to say that i had a bad time at my dad's place or i would be standing there for a long time until i did, this lasted for 5 years and i got sick of it when i became older and bigger inside. I started working out and taking martial arts classes to get rid of my rage (Also have ADHD), One day she hit me for the last time, i hit back... and massive... she ended up on the floor screaming i were assaulting her and my stepdad stepped inside took me to the car and droove me to my father and told me to forget about my mother, That same day he left her and took my 2 sisters with her. i ended up being on the streets alot with friends i wish i never met in the first place, did alot of shit im not gonna bring up to speech at this time but let's just say it was pretty bad shit. I met my fiance Sandra in 2006 and we started hanging out alot, i kept on doing my shit with my friends and after about 2 years she made me stop all that shit and i started living with her and her parents. At this time my stepdad needed help with my mother, she had started an investigation and blaming my stepdad of hitting my sisters, Since i knew this was faulthy i agreed to witness for him. That was the last time i faced my mother, My stepdad ended up getting custody of 1 of my sisters, sadly im not allowed to see my other sister and i guess i have to live with that until the day she decides to see me herself.
At this time i started getting deeper and deeper with Sandra and i decided to fix my fucking life once and for all. I went back to gym and got rid of the last of my stored rage and went to my local municipal building and talked to social services, They agreed to help me out and today i live in my own appartment with my fiance and my 9 month old kid Samuel.
 
Now after almost a year here at CvGaming i would like to thank everyone i've meet here and started to become personally good friends with for helping me to keep my life straight and positive. Without your friendship and friendly community i would most likely of been a really shitty parent and fiance. So i would love to thank you for the following
 
Keeping me busy socially Playing games with me so i wouldnt get an idea of going out to be with my old "friends" Making my days special everyday <3 Being friendly and make me think positive Validate me as the person i am and not force me to be something im not. For not judging me for my habit of feeling bad about something that could seem strange to some And last but not least Thank you for letting me be a part of this amazing community <3 The desire to get people to like me for the man i am now feels accomplished Thank you <3
 
If there is anything else u would like to know about me feel free to send a PM or talk to me on TS
 
 
Fladder

Current Status | DONE

Release in the next update

*THE WIP SECTION IS A PLACE WHERE I PUT IDEAS AND THEIR CURRENT STATUS, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERY IDEA WILL COME TO LIFE*
 
*YA BE WARNED*

I like many of Jonas idéas, the only thing is that if there is going to be a suicide run it should not be used for brainless excecutions. 

 

Asså.... WOW. derank inc

GW personally asked me to post here, so here we go, sorry this won't be concise. 

Currently on the server the civilian role isn't healthy and fun enough for players to stick with it. They usually try and join one of the current two factions at the first and best opportunity they get. It's quite understandable and obvious that this is standard behavior, but presently the magnitude of this trend is way above of what's vigorous. This results in a buttload of problems both in the actual game and on the forums a.e.
Not enough vanilla civilians* which in turn lessens the roleplay for the major factions on the server. By vanilla civilians i mean players who have no sort of affiliation with a gang or any sort of faction. They usually stick to themself or stay in a friend group of 2-4 while playing.

These players have a vital role for the roleplay on the server since they offer small chitchat oppurtunities for players to discuss random topics inside of the game. Also since they have no sort of connection to any of the banditry focused gangs or the rebels they are seen as neutral by the police, which make the officers more willing to roleplay with them, since they aren't as afraid of getting killed or robbed.
 
Vanilla civlians are also the ones farming the activitys that pay less a.e. Copper, oil, sand, apples and peaches to name a few. This is because gangs usually have the funds to farm the more expensive stuff a.e. Cocaine, Heroin, Weed and Slaves etc etc. Which brings us to the next issue.
Several activitys on the server aren't used since there's no reason to actually take the time to do them. As stated above, the gangs of the server have the funds to do, for the most part, whatever they want. So there's no reason what so ever to farm minor activities which leaves them abandoned and unwanted. Since there's no one using these activities then there's no reason to have them on the server, no?

This is where the two latest concerns relate. Without vanilla civilians, some activities won't be used, but without things for the civilians to do then there's no reason for them to stick around. But since the amount of content that is currently on the server is quite high, then why aren't the civilians sticking around? With that question I bring you problem number three.
The balancing on the server is ridiculously one sided towards the rebels and non-official factions*. Being a rebel is really cool and fun, the roleplay is better, the guns are bigger and your funds are near infinity. The rebels can farm weed basically whenever they want. They have almost no reason to be scared for bandits/robbers, which makes it incredibly safe for them to farm it. Which in turn makes their wallets the most fat and delicious wallets on the server. So if they die, the lose nothing more than their pride and respect.

Police on the other hand have to go off-duty and farm like a vanilla civilian with constant threats from everywhere. But when the server itself is on primetime, they aren't allowed to play off-duty. But they can't play as a solid cop without the money to buy all the necessities needed. So they either go farm with a fake nick, so that they can actually play on prime time, but this isn't accepted at all and have the possibilty for the officer to be dismissed from the force if admins or higher ranked police members find out.

A non-official faction is a group of players that have self-proclaimed an area of the map to be their own and have the amount of active players to actually "patrol" around that area stopping vehicles that trespass, examples are: Scrub Club, Cv-Droghandel, The Underdogs and Los Zetas. These groups of players have come as close to rebels as they can get without actually joining the official rebel faction. They have the money to buy the big guns and the big vehicles. They have the amount of players to for the most part safely farm all the high paying activitys they desire. But most importantly, they are frequently very hostile against other players.

All in all all of this added together creates an environment that's not that fun and interesting for vanilla civilians and newer players. Rebels are overpowered so you can't do anything against them without being completely rekked (Nerf Bobbi R), police aren't well equipped enough to be a threat towards the rebels or the non-official factions and the non-official factions themselves are running such a big part of the map that there's nowhere to earn money safely. With all of this said, it leaves us with the last matter that I will bring up in this post. 
Loads of non-proffesional posts and applies on the forums. This isn't that big of an issue, but it's still work that has to be done by either the admins or the higher ranked police officers. Work takes time, and that time could've been used to create or do something better and more important. This subject knits us with the first issue I talked about. That players don't want to play as vanilla civilians and flood the forums with applies or questions regarding what he or she should do to have more fun on the server.

TL;DR : There's a lot that could be added to the server, but if it hurts the civilians even more i doubt it would be worth adding it. The civilians needs a shot at making it big, they need more overall power on the server and this is only obtained by slowly balancing the server in their favor. We also need to change this quite quickly since there's not enough of a playerbase in that area to justify having all of the current farming options on the server since most of them will just be abandoned anyways. So we could at the moment just remove them to improve on server performance and being able to remove such content without major drawbacks is a bad thing.
 
I know a lot of people in the playerbase will object when i say this but the powerlevel of the rebels and non-official factions needs to be toned down, a lot.

Needs more good taste for music up in here. I'll leave some good taste:
 

 

 

 

 

Äntligen lite "Bashkim/Kungen" Musik någon länkar syftar på dig Eurozze
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
Lite Steve Aoki måste också få vara med, bästa droppet fifan (1:37

Needs more good taste for music up in here. I'll leave some good taste:
 

 

 

 

 

Vad fint du sjunger Eurozze ^^

Gray är en av de bästa

Loved it, 10/10 -IGN
 
Kör lite längre nästa gång.

Loved it, 10/10 -IGN
 
Kör lite längre nästa gång.

Kände att jag också var tvungen att göra en video lite snabbt  

Jag är inte ens polis, men jag måste ändå få sätta en +1!! 

Jag me  +1

9 timmar 57 minuter kvar... flingpaketet challenge avklarad,
 
 
2 timmar 30 minuter tills coop öppnar, så jag kan köpa fler flingor =) Kappa ! 
 
 
MVH trött Thorsten!

tar sig som pyromanen sa! sent på natten och humorn är på topp!  

Träffade på den här personen in-game. Han hade extremt bra PR och var kul att träffa

In-Game Name? : Mikael87 (eller min gamla karaktär "The Sheriff"  What is your Player ID # 76561197994846377 Age :28 Do you have any past experience about being a police officer on other servers?: Massor (va chef för en hel poliskår)  Do you have a working microphone?: Jo How long have you played on CvGaming?: Nästan 12 timmar men har 700 på en annan   Have you been banned before?: Nej Do you promise to always act in-character and never abuse your power while playing as a police officer? Självklart !! annars kan man ju köra cod eller nåt annat skit....      What 5 qualities are necessary to become a CvGaming Police Officer? 1) Älskar att föra dialog
2)På snyggt sätt få andra spelare att "avslöja sig" via samtal
3)Kan få ut information av tjuvarna (om jag får göra på mitt sätt ) 
4) Hjälpa nybörjare
5)Kan lätt lära ut till nya poliser 
 
In 3 short paragraphs describe why you would fit as a police officer:  Jag fattar att det är civila som bestämmer spelet... inte polisen ( du kan fråga vad jag menar det)  Håller huvudet kallt fast det går skit !!!  Veta när man har förlorat... ( att det står 5 kriminella med vapen emot mig så måste jag ge upp) 
 
In a short paragraph, what is your task as a police officer?: Att kunna ge en sån bra spelupplevelse... att civila inte lämnar servern för det är dåliga poliser 
 
Why should we pick YOU as a police officer? Har sån bra erfarenhet av det 
 
What do you hope to achieve if you become a police officer?: Kunna vara den som lär ut nya poliser (inte bara skjuta utan bemöta civila )
 
What is your input on respect, loyalty, and rule enforcement?: Kommer bara spela polis ( gjorde jag på den andra servern) 
 
Why are the police faction important? Att civila vet att det finns konsekvenser 
 
What do you personally think that the police faction would need to become better? Har inte mött så många poliser på denna servern men kanske skulle vara hur man för dialog och bemötande (och veta när man ska dra vapen) 
 
Tell us a little about yourself! Gammal man Men inget speciellt pluggar och ligger runt är väl man brukar göra