Fried Rice

Big announcement, two weeks.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

or maybe the game was released in 2013 and people are just tired of it.
cheating is just to easy now aswell 

1. Scared / too lazy (not their fault they don't get paid) to add new things, IMO this happened after house weed because of how significantly it effected the economy but its not that hard to see if things are going to be balanced or not. Also this is the simplest way to incite people to return to the server.
2. There is too much reluctance to do the simplest things like adding vehicles or removing money making methods that don't get used like LSD for new ones to attract old and new players. (on another note, there is too many things in the middle of the map which causes everyone to sit in cities which just isn't fun for anything (cop, civ fights, medic)
3. There is no vision or plan for the future
4. It became way too easy to rank up in the community/ there are too many admins. Admins that barely understand the rules or nitpick at the most simple situations for whatever reason. Things that would never have never been considered ban-able a few years ago are now ban-able (depending on the admin you talk to because they seem to have read different rule books). 

Preach my nigga preach!!

Bring back the Taylor Swift T-shirt 

My god, what the fuck has happened.
Start tagging, let's hear who is to blame and why. 
 
Neck Beards
 
Let them air it out simps.

If you want my honest opinion, it’s because there’s no competition on asylum and management doesn’t care. Also no idea where all this key money goes to but it’s not development.
asylum has been on the downhill ever since we stopped gang wars and gangs stopped actually fighting each other. 
The days stellar, tenacity, envy, temper, and requiem actually fought each other were the best days. Back when people would push for HOURS. Notice all those guys left for other servers except a few..
 
gangs fighting each other also mean there’s more time for cops to interact with everybody else instead of major spam. Everybody’s happy. Gangs get fights and cops get rp.
Now we have a single gang with all the good players and everyone else sucks. It’s hard for newer players to get to know these guys. I know these guys and they’re great dudes but even when I was in the gang it was boring not having anybody to fight except cops who end up rage quitting. It’s not their fault either.
 
server management is pushing what they want. Not what the community needs. Not thinking big picture. I’m sure it’s hard to reach these guys too unless your  in a hidden channel or compiling 3 months of admins logs to witch hunt and leaving your friends @Innate.. 

On big G

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
 

Getting rid of the medic faction solves this problem

getting shit on all the time with the amount of tools at your disposal is definitely a skill issue

Allowing snowflakes to infiltrate admin positions led up to them taking everything good away including my discord reaction perms 

@skimancole is to blame 

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

Such a simple mind.. pre evolution. 
 
Think beyond that box molu. 

where is Jimbo?