Retro

Howdy Everyone!
We know it's been a wild couple of months here on Asylum.  We've made a lot of changes and are continuing to do so to enhance the Asylum experience.  As we look towards a better Asylum community, we want to thank all of our loyal players for sticking around to make this place what it is.  
In the last 10+ years we have had a lot of ups and downs, from dealing with the depths of the pandemic, to Turkish lawyers, and rough days at work, this community has always been a place for people to come together to be away from the outside world.  We just want to thank everyone for being a part of this crazy community we call Asylum.
In honor of this we are going to be running a slate of giveaways to reward all of you, all in all we are giving away $2,000+ of Asylum gold rewards, and $20 mill of in-game content.
They will be running for the next 2 weeks; you must be an active member of the server to be eligible to receive the rewards.
Must not be banned at the time of winning Must have been reasonably active on the server within the last 30 days at time of winning In order to enter the giveaway, please like this post, and make sure you have your player id linked to your forum account.
Asylum Gold Items:
2 Winners x 6 Months of Asylum Plus  4 Winners x 3 Months of Asylum Plus  15 Winners x 1 month of Asylum Plus  Donor levels (the value of that donor level gets added to your account) 1 Winner x Donor Level 8 1 Winner x Donor level 7 1 Winner x Donor level 6 1 Winner x Donor level 5 1 Winner x Donor level 4 1 Winner x Donor level 3 1 Winner x Donor level 2 1 Winner x Donor level 1 15 Winners x 10 crate keys of your choice 5 Winners x 2200 Asylum Gold 10 Winners x Camo bundle of your choosing 4 Winners x 25,000 Asylum Points
In Game Items:
2 Winners x Mar-10 2 Winners x SPMG 1 Winner x M320 LRR + MOS scope 1 Winner x lynx + MOS scope 2 Winners x Cyrus 10 Winners x Ifrit 5 Winners x 750k Cash 10 Winners x 100k Blood Money 3 Winners x Ghosthawk, civ, cop, or medic (rank doesn’t matter) 5 Winners x 1 next token of their choice 5 Winners x 50,000 prestige on cop 5 Winners x 25,000 honor 5 Winners x 25,000 Infamy Thank you all for being a part of this community, and good luck! 
-Asylum Staff

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

thought we got rid of @Ronaldsmh stupid forklift drivers

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

its not that its become too easy, its the problem of if you aren't apd staff or know the SA's you just wont get a chance. Its like high school all over again, there's the group of people who are too cool for everyone else and wont allow anyone in their group. There's the group that just meddles around that's toxic and fucks with everyone and then the randoms who have no clue what to do because all the vets don't want to introduce new people into their clique. I've seen staff members be straight up toxic to new players for no reason, I've heard staff members say they don't care about the community anymore, but yet here they are keeping the rank because it benefits them. I get it people get busy with life and may not have all the time in the world, but at that point give up the role to someone who does. Just because you aren't staff doesn't mean you cant still play or help the community in other ways. 

Preach my nigga preach!!

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

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
 

Another shit patch. Once again built for cops/rebels, because you keep adding stuff to the game that regular civs can’t do, and now because of this prestige shit, I can’t use the CMRs in my house I have been buying from Asylum exchange unless I am on at the perfect time with the perfect amount of guys to do this fucking raid.

yeah if any admins ever watch dom people like @Kingtell people to go for caps and he targets the lower points or less people caps kinda sad he was on every cap we went to today didn't see them uncap one point from a dominating group
Also whats with the ifrit tire drops at 40km how is this allowed? @Ronald@Akula@Mayhem

Please remove king from Asylum
Vote in the shit poll today

I think the Huron should not be an exclusive item for higher-ups in the APD. Since the APD had them added exclusively to their fleet, I've maybe seen a hand full of them pulled since it was added in 2014. I have done some testing with one. There are not many benefits to the APD for the Huron to be APD exclusive. It takes about a half of a mag to shoot out the rotor, and one shot will penetrate the glass while using a 7.62. The inventory space is only 100 so it isn't unmanageable for a civilian, inventory space wise. The only real plus side to this vehicle is that it is able to tow Hemtts and Ifrits. This helicopter would receive more civilian use than it would should it remain an APD exclusive item. If we want to have a poll, I can create one to see how the community feels about it.

I think the Huron should not be an exclusive item for higher-ups in the APD. Since the APD had them added exclusively to their fleet, I've maybe seen a hand full of them pulled since it was added in 2014. I have done some testing with one. There are not many benefits to the APD for the Huron to be APD exclusive. It takes about a half of a mag to shoot out the rotor, and one shot will penetrate the glass while using a 7.62. The inventory space is only 100 so it isn't unmanageable for a civilian, inventory space wise. The only real plus side to this vehicle is that it is able to tow Hemtts and Ifrits. This helicopter would receive more civilian use than it would should it remain an APD exclusive item. If we want to have a poll, I can create one to see how the community feels about it.