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As one of the most controversial players on monolith, here is my surprising opinion:

Although I do completely agree that there is a lack of new content that has led to burnout and declined player count, I believe that even with new content the amount will only increase by a little.

In regards to staff, the staff that tend to be the most active are actually quite lenient and respectable- I should know. So I do not necessarily think that staff play a major role in decline player count, however, I do feel that maybe they should realize that we they ban someone they are taking away from everyone else's experience.

**MY MAIN POINT** The true factor that has lead to the substantial player decline is an irreversible factor- the server's staff history. It was very unfortunate that in the golden ages of monolith, there tended to be horrible staff(most of which are no longer staff)- these staff made the active and daily players begin to hate the server. Like as many of you know- there is a whole community of hundreds of ex-monolith people - like I feel like it is crazy how monolith has not acknowledged that it is weird that there is a whole community of people that hate them. No other server has anything nearly as similar, just Monolith. This reveals the problem- that there is something especially bad about monolith. And in my opinion, I believe it was the past staff that completely screwed the server.
 

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Those changes have more impact then you think, we have created things that allow us to expand more quickly. The MonoPhone will become essential down the line on certain tasks.
mark we need a development livestream, us players need info desperately
 
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mark we need a development livestream, us players need info desperately
Most recently we did a community Q&A. The reason why I stopped doing livestreams so much is that people don’t really get to ask what they want and get a full response, the last community meeting was very productive overall.

In terms of information, the Trello board is currently updated with current 2.0 features.
 

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Most recently we did a community Q&A. The reason why I stopped doing livestreams so much is that people don’t really get to ask what they want and get a full response, the last community meeting was very productive overall.

In terms of information, the Trello board is currently updated with current 2.0 features.
is there a link to the trello? I don't see it anywhere on the forums.
 
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is there a link to the trello? I don't see it anywhere on the forums.
 

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Player count at an all time low and report ticket times at a all-time high.. what do we do to respond to that? "Do you have video evidence" i have to legit spell out certain scenarios and explain how logs prove the thing that i'm reporting for. Mark saying the Staff team cares about us deeply is forsure an overstatement the only people i think that actually do fair enforcement/punishments off the top of my head with actually looking at the actions and the consequences of them would be; Tazdevil, Hockey, and Brad, jet being that they are actually involved with the community itself actual PLAYERS that PLAY. honorable mentions to mods being agam, which he had also been around for a good time, broken, astero, acrasia and numbers are all fair and seem outgoing for us players i must admit they deserve their position but the rest? are just too high in their thrones to foresee what they do to make players act or play the way they do.. i'm forsure not the one to comment on the punishment aspect of the staff team but this current team has to be the most bias one i've happened to witness in the 2-3 years (like before it was 1 maybe 2 now its half of the team) i've been actively on the other year and a half [2020] i had to just leave cause it was toxic dealing with the STAFF not the community, you guys are the direct influence of the players. please don't take me commenting outloud on this topic as insult it's a long long overdue CALLING for you guys to step up your attention whilst being a admin.

Another note: this ^ is making us players not care, hackers hiding their shit as long time players and new players abusing the ability to hack without being confronted yet you guys think us players that break rules as long time community players like the less serious shit that have to do with RP are the targets no its because why go and do things by the book when the people around us don't care about RP itself. and with the bias comment i mean bias towards the cop mains/ admins

ALSO VALENTINO GOATED MOD GLAD U BACK GZ <3
 
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lmao yea, this update. this is the one.
 

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id rather sit here playing with 20 pple instead of 80 players and a mix of hackers and MRDMers
 
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id rather sit here playing with 20 pple instead of 80 players and a mix of hackers and MRDMers
MRDM dont stay on server, hackers are still in the 20 ppl who are here? So many ppl closet cheat. It isnt fun with this little pop imo.
 

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Haven't been playing mono for 4 months now, nor do I intend coming back, due to lack of new content, player count is low, and the toxic orgs. Mono has turned into a cops and robbers server, but with strict rules. There is absolutely no role play between orgs. It's just "Your org is trash" "Get fragged garbos" etc.
 

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Theres pp that don't like to do farming or mining, instead they prefer to have a job, and in monolith the jobs paychecks are too low to waste 15 mins of u life playing as it, so most jobs i would say, need a ajustment + to paycheck and more variety of jobs, low quantity of jobs.
I found out a nice little lifehack. Just type +attack in console when mining. Then Shift+tab and open a good youtube video. Mining is the "fastest" way to level up but takes so long. On top of that, youre stuck with an inventory full of materials that nobody ever wants to purchase.
 

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what i think would be great is unban everyone who has rdm, vdm, and punishments alongs those lines aswell as other small bans for the who made unban request. i think most r sorry and wanna play again and i bet the server count would go up alot
Yeah but, a lot of people don't realize, that it's not you who have to deal with these players who break the rules constantly, it's the staff. We aren't just going to simply "unban" random people just because they said they're sorry lmao that's just unrealistic and makes 0 sense to even give out punishments anyway if we are just going to go back on our word and unban everyone. There is a negative connotation around this action, if this is done (random unbanning that is) then what do punishments matter.

And actually, you guys seem so concerned about having a low player count, that it might end up not being a real issue.. Well, at least from Higher ups point of view.
It doesn't looks like the higher ups are concerned about it, If they were really worried about it, you can be sure there would be a lot of changes going on right now to somehow gather more players, but you guys seems to care more about it than they seem to do.
The player count has lowered, but we are not concerned because this happens all the time lmao, its just highs and lows of connectivity. Plus a lot of people are acting like the server has a population of 10 members a day. We reach 70-80 during our peak hours, which is around average.
This sort of thing happens yearly, time and time again. Monolith hits it’s serious highs with a amazing player count tons of players and events and a swing of new content, and it’s lowest of lows with very low player counts, low amount of events and low content stream.
Exactly ^
MRDM dont stay on server, hackers are still in the 20 ppl who are here? So many ppl closet cheat. It isnt fun with this little pop imo.
They don't stay on the server, because they get banned LMAO. But you guys want them to be unbanned and not saying all will, but a majority of them will just go ahead and do it again. Cheating is an issue, I agree, and we try our best to prevent this, however, I cannot really comment on this issue but do believe that we do everything we can to stop this.
 
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They don't stay on the server, because they get banned LMAO. But you guys want them to be unbanned and not saying all will, but a majority of them will just go ahead and do it again. Cheating is an issue, I agree, and we try our best to prevent this, however, I cannot really comment on this issue but do believe that we do everything we can to stop this.
Imo a mass should be a 6 month ban never a perm, cheating should be a perm no appeal. When i said they dont stay on the server its cus he said "id rather have 20 players, then over 80 players who are massRDM/cheaters. Which isnt true.
 

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Imo a mass should be a 6 month ban never a perm, cheating should be a perm no appeal. When i said they dont stay on the server its cus he said "id rather have 20 players, then over 80 players who are massRDM/cheaters. Which isnt true.
I'd rather not have a mass RDM every 6 months ty.
 

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Imo a mass should be a 6 month ban never a perm, cheating should be a perm no appeal. When i said they dont stay on the server its cus he said "id rather have 20 players, then over 80 players who are massRDM/cheaters. Which isnt true.
It depends how they mass if it wasn't intentional meaning they thought they had a legit rp reason to kill more than 3 people in a group then its usually not even a ban but if someone intentionally masses to ruin the rp of others I wouldn't want to see them for awhile on the server which is why we give 1 year or perm in certain cases
 
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It depends how they mass if it wasn't intentional meaning they thought they had a legit rp reason to kill more than 3 people in a group then its usually not even a ban but if someone intentionally masses to ruin the rp of others I wouldn't want to see them for awhile on the server which is why we give 1 year or perm in certain cases
A year just seems like too long
 

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I agree with this; as someone coming from the days where we had 2 servers filled with nearly 100+ people each I feel like the server has been trying to become something it isn't - too serious. A lot of the fun on the server comes from messing around with friends and passive RP but it feels like the police force will come after you for anything you try to do (because they have nothing else to do); 6 minute timers as well shouldn't exist; I'm playing to have fun, not to wait the time 6 minutes which is like equivalent to 2 full rounds of CS:GO and then some.

Some recommendations;
- The server should stop trying to nerf everything (I.e., cocaine prices, weapons etc.)
- Stop voiding situations; literally 7/10 situations I've been in have ended up being voided for really stupid reasons; let RP play out.
- Reduce max kill timer, it shouldn't be 6 minutes.
- Reduce the power of police; implement stricter rules and rule enforcement (literally every raid or hostage situation ends in failure to value hostages life).
 

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A year just seems like too long
Another thing to consider is that what you're seeing in bans isn't usually just a mass rdm. There are small scale unintentional "mass" rdms that don't even necessarily get banned. The ones that get month/year/permanent bans usually have some added elements that you're either unaware of or intentionally leaving out.
 

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- Stop voiding situations; literally 7/10 situations I've been in have ended up being voided for really stupid reasons; let RP play out.
99% sure this would cause riots in the streets
 

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That makes people just fight cops or run whenever confronted, which leads to shootouts and FragRP. Plus, raids are more of a military operation than a simple drug bust.
Would you rather surrender and go to jail, and loose everything and possibly wait 30m, or would you rather get in a shootout and have a chance at keeping your stuff and only wait like 6 min if you arent successful. Dying is less of a punishment than going to jail, and killing is fun, thats why people fragrp
 
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