Farmer Steve

+1 plus this will also stop people from selling money which has been is issue for as long as I can remember 

can we PLEASE for the love of god get over this "broken economy" mentality? no one wants to grind for 4 hours to make 500k anymore, and the people that want to still can. people want to actually play the game and have fun. notice how olympus has easy money making methods and a "broken economy" but has a much larger player base....because they can PLAY THE GAME.
no one cares about your 9 year old virtual economy. the rich people dont spend their money, so dont punish the rest of us. let us play. 
thanks,
johnny

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all boils down to there being no skin in the game, Rogue gave the CM's the responsibility of running the server but these CM's don't have as much of an incentive to keep the server alive as someone who milked us 24/7 like you @Mitch (IFRIT). But hey, at least it was kinda alive and a lot more fun when you were here. 

Mitch was great because his allegiances were money and whatever the fuck made him more of it. It doesn't seem like you guys have as much incentive to keep the server alive. It'd be great if one of you profited from the betterment of the server and had an actual vision for where you want this community to go, but it doesn't look like that'll happen anytime soon. You guys are great at banning people and making dumb rules. I rate y'all 0/10 on the vision and direction of the community, but I appreciate your guys effort and your non-profit volunteering to single-handedly fuck up the server. My guess is you guys will fall right back into place until one of you holds a higher position than the others and actually takes charge of the server, independent from the influence of any one faction or group of people like how it seems to be now. It'd be easier if you owned a stake in the server but that's just my observation. I can't put all the blame on you guys, arma is seriously a dying game but I still think Mitch would've done it better even though I hardly liked that faggot.

Mitch was great because his allegiances were money and whatever the fuck made him more of it. It doesn't seem like you guys have as much incentive to keep the server alive. It'd be great if one of you profited from the betterment of the server and had an actual vision for where you want this community to go, but it doesn't look like that'll happen anytime soon. You guys are great at banning people and making dumb rules. I rate y'all 0/10 on the vision and direction of the community, but I appreciate your guys effort and your non-profit volunteering to single-handedly fuck up the server. My guess is you guys will fall right back into place until one of you holds a higher position than the others and actually takes charge of the server, independent from the influence of any one faction or group of people like how it seems to be now. It'd be easier if you owned a stake in the server but that's just my observation. I can't put all the blame on you guys, arma is seriously a dying game but I still think Mitch would've done it better even though I hardly liked that faggot.

Mitch was great because his allegiances were money and whatever the fuck made him more of it. It doesn't seem like you guys have as much incentive to keep the server alive. It'd be great if one of you profited from the betterment of the server and had an actual vision for where you want this community to go, but it doesn't look like that'll happen anytime soon. You guys are great at banning people and making dumb rules. I rate y'all 0/10 on the vision and direction of the community, but I appreciate your guys effort and your non-profit volunteering to single-handedly fuck up the server. My guess is you guys will fall right back into place until one of you holds a higher position than the others and actually takes charge of the server, independent from the influence of any one faction or group of people like how it seems to be now. It'd be easier if you owned a stake in the server but that's just my observation. I can't put all the blame on you guys, arma is seriously a dying game but I still think Mitch would've done it better even though I hardly liked that faggot.

Mitch was great because his allegiances were money and whatever the fuck made him more of it. It doesn't seem like you guys have as much incentive to keep the server alive. It'd be great if one of you profited from the betterment of the server and had an actual vision for where you want this community to go, but it doesn't look like that'll happen anytime soon. You guys are great at banning people and making dumb rules. I rate y'all 0/10 on the vision and direction of the community, but I appreciate your guys effort and your non-profit volunteering to single-handedly fuck up the server. My guess is you guys will fall right back into place until one of you holds a higher position than the others and actually takes charge of the server, independent from the influence of any one faction or group of people like how it seems to be now. It'd be easier if you owned a stake in the server but that's just my observation. I can't put all the blame on you guys, arma is seriously a dying game but I still think Mitch would've done it better even though I hardly liked that faggot.

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here i was in dp14 driving my .50 cal, running away from the police with millions of dog meat dollars in my bank account. when all of a sudden I get a "come talk" ban. i was like WHATS THIS???? I've never done anything remotely suspect EVER on asylum. 0* bans on my record since I started playing in 2015. anyway, he pulls me into a channel and proceeds to berate me asking me questions like "where did you get all this money?" and "why did you just buy 10 ifrits, 7 .50cals, and 20 orcas?" like he doesn't know im always on that grind smh 💯😤 😤 here comes the worst part, he then proceeds to TAKE my HARD EARNED** cash and leaves me destitute. servers been trash ever since that terrible day.
 
disclaimer
* i had like 12 bans on record
** and i exploited that shit no cap frfr

Essentially the issue summed up pretty much. 

Rogue is a woke politically correct hypocrite and was an awful person to be chosen to handle the server.

Anyone who has played this server for any length of time prior to rogue taking over, is going to cringe by reading these two examples of how the culture has changed here. 

You can get banned for calling people fat.
You can get banned for shedding things.

There are a shit tonne of other examples but that's honestly all you need. 

@Mitch (IFRIT)you put out a post once regarding toxicity, as memed as it was, the toxicity level at the time was a bit out of hand, but not from people saying "you're fatty mc fat fat, go eat another burger @Bag Of Funyunsya fatty mc blubbernaught. How are you still alive you fucking parade float @Farmer Steve, you're both not going to live past 40, how come when you both leave the server 6 player slots open up your fucking gargantuan pair of hippos" For example. 

Half the fun of being here was talking shit in sidechat and getting people to call you all sorts of shit and ragetype. If asylum sidechat is to be believed, i'm a 55 year old balding fat arthitic sterile diabetes ridden Mexi-arabian jew, with brittle wrists knees and ankles a goatee who is in both antifa and the KKK, AND THATS OK. DONT FUCKING BAN PEOPLE FOR SAYING THAT KIND OF SHIT YOU RETARDS. 


This is an old server with very little development and the only real thing you had going for it was the community that has Stockholm syndrome towards asylum, and it has been alienated by the current soft leadership, alongside trying to reshape it a decade in.

we've been playing with house money for a while but you're biting the hand that not only feeds you but has propped this community up for 10 years. 

Life servers in general are facing an uphill battle, GTA:RP is where most people from Arma life servers have ended up, you're trying to compete with a game where the cops can pit maneuver you without sending you to the fucking moon. 

you cant alienate the one thing you have going for you and expect numbers to go up. 

You bunch of fat fucking retards. 

Hi @curley
 

Love you hubs. But this is exactly what people r talking abt

Whooooooooooooooooosh 
 
Jesus fucking Christ

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Ever since I stopped playing a while back the servers been in decline, I take full responsibility. 
 

Be real, taking Kavala from the top of the spawn screen did this. This server has been on a decline since that exact moment. You say we deterred new players from the server and compared it to a genocide but tbh it worked. Currently asylum has no new players, there is no addition to the player base. Kavala was the perfect breeding ground for initiating new players to the server. It was idiotic to try to push Athira to be the spawn city when it has barely any houses. Not a single new player can even buy a house in the "starting city". Kavala probably has more currently market priced houses than there is total properties in Athira.

While there are a lot of layers and variables to this discussion, many which have already been highlighted above so I will not waste my time repeating the detailed gripes from within. However I will offer a perspective from a completely different place based of my experience and history here. 
Simply put, the connection between the current staff as a whole and the player base is severely hurting right now. We saw a similar scenario occur during the Gnashes era where a large majority of the community felt like he was damaging the server more then helping. I would be hard pressed to find anyone that knew what was going on back then, to disagree with that statement. Although, and to his credit, as great as some of Gnashes efforts on the backend were that the community was mostly unaware of, they strongly disliked him solely because of how he carried himself and how he interacted with the player base.
Digging deeper into the issues from my perspective, having spent most of this servers life engaged in some part of this community whether as an average player, an LT, an admin, a backend dealings aficionado, and a retiree, I will say with absolute confidence that our current leadership with the Senior Admin team (Community Manager back in our day) is the worst its ever been in this communities history.
I do say that intentionally, but I also believe that its not entirely each of their faults either (Current SAs). If you look back to how the community was managed over the years, after Bamf and Gnashes left,@Clint Beastwoodtook over ownership (alongside@BaDaBiNg_10-8for a short time) and carried @Mitch (IFRIT) and @Leady over as CMs. We had a solid foundation of actual grown ups operating from the ground up coming from a good place and painstakingly trying to not repeat history that we all disliked about Gnashes (and Olio before that) and repair the server at the same time. When Mitch became owner he maintained this presence with the community, although I will say looking back toward the end of his era as server pop fizzled, I don't know if Blake was a great choice for CM (still have love for you buddy), Jayshawn had a better temperament but absolutely no one will ever compare to Leady.
Leady showed us what real leadership was like. He didn't get angry, he never acted like a child, he was almost overbearingly level headed. He did not feed into drama and create rules in and out of game to cater to and enable more of that same drama. He was a true leader that was passionate about helping our community and most of this servers players respected the hell out of him for it. Sure, a few here and there had qualms with Clint, Mitch and Leady just as any other ownership era but it was SIGNIFICANTLY less than it currently is. 
I point this out because its important to see that during those transitions, the servers quality of life and interaction with the staff team and the player base grew substantially. At the same time, the server file was cleaned up and added to greatly during Jesse's (paid) time here along with an incredible amount of help from Azeh and many others. What I'm saying is that the development that was happening then ALSO played a huge part of the success during that time.  
The admin team back then was much more respected in my opinion. Without nitpicking specific scenarios or even individuals right now, most of us will agree that that is no longer the case. Not saying everyone is horrible by any means either. 
I personally see how much of it went wrong with the progression of our staff team including who was added to it over the years but without proper leadership absolutely none of that will change. However, it must start somewhere. But how will it start if some of the issues at bay are almost all the way to the top? We revolutionized after Bamf and Gnashes, Clint & Bada bought the server and turned it into Asylum 2.0 and even though we didn't have 4-5 servers during their time or even Mitch's, the community was much healthier than it is today. And even if we remove development out of the equation entirely, the leadership was much stronger back then without a doubt. I don't know if it was because most of us were all older and had jobs, wives, kids and or other adult related responsibilities that we carried ourselves differently back then or what, but something was definitely different. 
I have a lot of love for all of our players and staff, past and present, anyone that has spent time here to be apart of this community, even though I enjoy banter I don't truly dislike anyone enough for it to impede my judgement. With that said, I think its silly to have someone that was permed for mass rdm to later not only become an admin, then a captain, but now also a Senior Admin leading our admin team and our community. If you look at the problems we are currently facing within the community and you think that lack of respected leadership isn't the most important issue, I regret to inform you, you are part of the problem. I'm not just trying to pick on people either, I just genuinely believe the lack of trusted and respected leadership is the core of the issues we are seeing and the more we ignore that and bicker about the little things, the less anything will change. 
Its a trickle down effect from there honestly as well. Favorites are played and friends of certain people are being brought up as staff without thorough evaluation and training and then we as the community are stuck with more unhealthy leadership continuing to drive everything downhill. And who do we run too about it? The same 3 people that seem to be the primary point of contention for all of this chaos? It was somewhat of a rigorous process back then to even become just staff let alone CM. It is a very large responsibility and I am sorry if this hurts your feelings, but none of the current 3 are fit for service in that role based on all that I have witnessed and experienced since being staff. They individually lacked the experience necessary to succeed to begin with so again at the same time, I don't really blame them. We have a smaller community now and the circle of potential candidates for staff are in turn smaller so I understand how that has also played a part in it. 
TLDR

Replace the current CM team and start over. They have lost a significant amount of confidence within the community and fighting to repair that at this point is unrealistic. I can think of 3 potential candidates that currently have healthy relationships with the community as a whole to be effective in that role. Although I am in favor of 2 CMs instead of 3. 

Dont @ me
 

General opinion on how to retain player base. From all my years within several communities, the #1 reason why players comeback is to relive old memories with past and present friends. The mission is simple, make the server as user friendly as you can to allow players to relive these memories no matter which play-style they prefer. While attempting to build this idea, it’s important to also maintain balance within the current active community keeping all rules and features simple/ easy to understand.

Big announcement, two weeks.

Getting bullied and hazed into reverting policy is a really poor example for "server leadership".