with exclusively hobby coders, we progress much more slowly. i suggest paying devs per project, so that they have real incentive and focus on it much more, since they’d be getting paid.
look at oly, they pay, and everything added is well thought out and works great. from QoL updates to completely new content, it’s all well thought out and integrates nicely with what’s currently on the server.
no disrespect to the current devs at all, they are doing an amazing job, but they could be doing a lot better, doing things that the majority of the server wants, instead of adding stuff that they’d enjoy doing. for example, processing from a vehicle. i’d imagine that’s not hard to code, but hasn’t been done because most, if not all, devs don’t play civ and make money like that, so it doesn’t interest them. why waste their time on something they won’t use, and also not get rewarded for adding?
edit: just realized that processing from a vehicle is already in the works but still, can’t deny that giving devs more incentive will equate to better content.
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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
Do you say "Fuck rogue" now because you didn't get your "event menu" you wanted and then they gave it to the event coordinators right after you left? Or am I missing something? Or was that King? Can’t remember.
probably better dev/staff team. as bad as i hate to say this i have played thousands of hours on both servers. Asylum has always had a shitty staff team, if its not some old men that never think they are wrong its frail children that got bullied their whole lives and now that they have a little power they are abusing it.
Fuck rogue but honestly he is probably the best owner asylum has had, unfortunately he was handed a dead horse.
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.
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