Post by Ploggy on Aug 14, 2019 10:45:38 GMT
As you already know, the only place -[IFwsI]- hosts its servers in is CS2D and therefore, whatever is happening in CS2D has a direct impact on this community aswell. For a while now CS2D has been dead and inactive; I thought we should already talk about the future of -[IFwsI]- in forum and see what admins have to say about this.
First off, I wanted to say how reliable CS2D is anymore for the community. If CS2D is not dead yet, it is a dying game at least. Two years ago, DC released the game on Steam to keep it alive and for some time it worked, new people came in and started playing, however, that did not last for long. Many of them left CS2D after a month and the game reverted to its old state. CS2D was slowly but surely dying out, having less and fewer players every week and a few new people. Right now, there are 30 online players on average and that is the smallest number I remember. None of those players are in -[IFwsI]- servers either because Jail feels too old and tasteless, especially after Lubo also let those people enjoy his new map. That is enough for me to think that focusing on CS2D is pointless at this point, but if the admins do have any plans to successfully maintain this community this way, then I think we deserve to hear it.
So if we all agree that we can't stay in CS2D, what is going to happen to -[IFwsI]-? Instead of waiting until we expire ourselves in this game, we should expand our community to other games, right? This is definitely not anything new; expanding to other games has already been tried in the past:
fwsserver.forumotion.com/t3668-new-section-for-games-to-expand-to#51750
fwsserver.forumotion.com/f69-server-trialsexpansion
I tried asking Elfing some questions about this in the past and he said -[IFwsI]- did not have resources to host servers elsewhere, but before we even expand anywhere, I want to see the mentioned threads and discussions about expansion reopen and in an urgent situation like this, we might also look for a way to host the servers. But again, for starters, discussion about this should start from somewhere.
Lastly, -[IFwsI]- servers have been down for 3 weeks and it is still unclear why. This is the only thing Elfing said about it on discord:
First off, I wanted to say how reliable CS2D is anymore for the community. If CS2D is not dead yet, it is a dying game at least. Two years ago, DC released the game on Steam to keep it alive and for some time it worked, new people came in and started playing, however, that did not last for long. Many of them left CS2D after a month and the game reverted to its old state. CS2D was slowly but surely dying out, having less and fewer players every week and a few new people. Right now, there are 30 online players on average and that is the smallest number I remember. None of those players are in -[IFwsI]- servers either because Jail feels too old and tasteless, especially after Lubo also let those people enjoy his new map. That is enough for me to think that focusing on CS2D is pointless at this point, but if the admins do have any plans to successfully maintain this community this way, then I think we deserve to hear it.
So if we all agree that we can't stay in CS2D, what is going to happen to -[IFwsI]-? Instead of waiting until we expire ourselves in this game, we should expand our community to other games, right? This is definitely not anything new; expanding to other games has already been tried in the past:
fwsserver.forumotion.com/t3668-new-section-for-games-to-expand-to#51750
fwsserver.forumotion.com/f69-server-trialsexpansion
I tried asking Elfing some questions about this in the past and he said -[IFwsI]- did not have resources to host servers elsewhere, but before we even expand anywhere, I want to see the mentioned threads and discussions about expansion reopen and in an urgent situation like this, we might also look for a way to host the servers. But again, for starters, discussion about this should start from somewhere.
Lastly, -[IFwsI]- servers have been down for 3 weeks and it is still unclear why. This is the only thing Elfing said about it on discord:
