Kawaii

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

Only thing that we want 


 

More than anything the server needs constant development and new content to stay afloat. It's obviously easier said than done and previous dev teams hid behind a 'lack of ideas' or community ideas to build upon, but it is the most core necessity other than revisiting core leadership. If you need to finally pay someone to do it or have the creativity to have ideas then do it, as mentioned above a cash incentive to work on and keep the server alive should be more than enough to bring someone here to work on it. Is it not a 'long term investment' to keep the community going? Frankly if ownership doesn't see the future for the community 1-2 years ahead or how to get there then there needs to be an immediate change at the helm. The fact that after all of this the owner of the server itself hasn't stepped in to make a comment is insane. 

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.

Remove AFD Chef and make Ari Petrou an admin

We agree. We are planning to hold another one in the near future. We'll put out an announcement once we've decided on a date and time

So it took an troll post made by mitch for you to realize this? It has happened before it'll happen again. Remove & start over with staff.
Do more next time. 

Remove inactive admins. Promote people who not only play the game but also check comp requests etc.... The only active admins i see ingame are mainly @Ronald@Ken @Hubschrauber @DarkKnight& @Louie.   Promote some support guys to take their place. I myself had to wait 6months just to get Mod. If they are active and interested make them mods give them a chance. Better than having inactive Senior Admins/Admins Do more fun admin events in game. I miss the good old days playing around calling Hookers ( Smirnoff's admin event i think) or Clints Christmas event or Bada &  Subaru do some crazy shit or just some random convoy transport, Something rather than nothing. Why dont we have more events. Hell make it a weekly event. Get the people interested in playing the game. Make a post each week about an event so gangs and even the APD officers get on to take part in. But please make the rules clear so you wont have to ban them for using a sui vest. Don't be too harsh on your player base. Stop banning people for small things. Just have a talk with them 1v1 like grown ups.  Bring back gang wars?. Maybe not i don't know not that many active gangs on anymore. Think of something other than gang wars to get players excited to play rather then just make money fight cops. Maybe APD related but cops should have a policy not to charge new players too harshly. Search and see if they are new players. Give them a small ticket. Dont make them rage quit. Too many money hungry cops running around ruining new players experience. Its the same thing with the current Lts and Captains. None of them even want to fight. When there aren't any gangs around to fight cartels you only get to fight cops. But even when they dont want to fight whats the point?. Too many inactive higher ups and those who are active give their 2 lives and start flying around Helis just to get their playtime for the month and get off.  Stop hiding in back channels. Admins should be visible on teamspeak. Go hide when your handling requests. 

We just need the Smirnoff Quadbike Parkour Admin event the server will Heal!

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back strife for a third time problem solved

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
 

This is the biggest issue. 0 involvement from the owner 
atleast mitch would come on and blow us all up with a tank at an event

Too busy sucking the life out of everything (bananas, peoples' enjoyment) rather than focusing on the bigger issue that asylum hardly scrapes 50% of the average time played of Olympus. For asylum to be getting raped by an altis server that has NLR in 2024 is kind of a sad state really, but glad to see we are worried about discord reaction harassment, shedding vehicles and suicide vests on 30-player "domination"
@Fitz is doing great work, but without paid incentive for devs in what is a limited talent pool asylum is well behind the curve
#remove@skimancole

the snowflakes who made shedding bannable

Getting rid of the medic faction solves this problem

literally all RNG, just download some more of it

Hotfix 1:
Fixed furniture and jewelry crafting Patched a series of exploits/bugs surrounding the prestige system

This is fantastic.

then we make a mailman job where we deliver the mail

This gang has a horrible name.

He would specifically be barred from advancing past lvl 1