probably the worst thing it will do is it could possibly backfire and cause people to leave, since they will MRDM and shit like that, they have been banned for a reason you know? (although some of them were complete BS and SOME people deserve to be unbanned)
^^Agreeing with this^^
Unban wave's don't work it has been tried and most of the people who get unbanned and come back end up re-banned within a month.
^^And this^^
I understand the intention of doing an unban wave, for player count right?
Well here's the thing; as mentioned above it's a good way to lose the player base we have now, what's left of it. There are people here now that find the server boring asf a lot of the time but still play. Something like this could be an easy way to just push those players over the edge and say "fuck it, I'm leaving" and likely not come back.
IF we did an unban wave, I would suggest it only be for certain things AND if we can get the server back up to a... more sustainable player base.
I haven't been on monolith terribly long, but I think with the right things happening there is more than enough hope for the server to be pushing 128 again, it'll take time, a good bit of time, but we have a pretty awesome staff team (especially upper management) that can make things happen.
Perhaps going through the bans that aren't alts, 3rd party software, doxing, or attempting to crash/DDoS the server and re-evaluating some of the other long-term/permanent bans. You know, not the super crazy bad bans, even though alts don't particularly hurt the server, it's just what people typically do on the alts, including the fact that it's attempting to circumvent a ban.
And if we did do it, doing it slowly might possibly be best, perhaps let's say there's 1,000 banned players for example purposes, maybe on week 1 unban 100 accounts, week 2 unban 100 accounts, week 3,4,5, etc. as to avoid a mass influx of players that are statistically more likely to do stupid shit. (only for eligible accounts like what I mentioned above)
Overall, I completely
disagree with an unban wave, I'm just giving my thoughts and opinions for IF we were to do one, how we could possibly avoid some of the negative results.
