What happened...

The economy we have now is closest to the original one. In fact this one may be better. As said by Mario, the old economy is not coming back. Period.

 

If the community and player base statistically shows disagreement then it's gonna have to come back whether you guys like it or not. That's in order to keep the server alive, of course

 

What happened is that one team who invited every single player who could put on a set of armor took over.

 

The issue in my opinion is that wildwest's player retention is utter crap. No new players are joining. Those that do are dominated by the enormous pre-existing teams that plague the server. Why doesn't anyone stick around? Wildwest is currently breaking every rule in the book of player retention. :v Aside from drop parties, no limited time events are going on. Notice how when advertised drop parties are going on the player count skyrockets. Yeah, imagine long-term challenges with rewards. Also, new players are immediately faced with frustration. It takes too long to get from place to place and they are often killed after harvesting and processing drugs. First impressions are also really bad. The spawn isn't as good as it could be, the tutorial is optional and boring, etc. Finally, the entire gamemode is based around grinding. Harvest, ride your horse for ages, practically afk to process, sell, repeat. Not good. Here is what I was thinking.

• Advertise the server better - Get new players to join, voting incentives, youtuber, youtube ads?
• Limit frustration and boredom - Less grind. Less punishing (guild bases, lower jail times, faster travel, better tutorial, etc)
• Limited time events - Bandits v. Sheriffs, Competitions, Gold Rush, Better x for a week, etc
• Spawn has to be breathtaking - First impressions m8
• Mandatory interactive tutorial with progress bar. - Must be fun. Like a minigame!
• Actual tutorial quickly covers the very basics and then gives the player the option to interact with different, more complex parts of the game.
• Stress combat further instead of grinding - Lower travel and possibly harvest times

• ^This - Team caps

 

You're oblivious to the fact that your large monopoly teams slowly killed and drained the fun out of the game.
Also the economy is completely broken. People value sitting AFK and processing opposed to having a fun, fair fight
Diamond armor is literally worth nothing.

 

Why? Why do that if you're aware it hurts the server? Personal benefit?

 

I think if the big teams do a rule like no killing noobs till they have 50k or something like that the noobs would be able to buy and do more stuff besides dying and getting killed every time they go rogue or go WG
NOTE: This ONLY can be implemented if WE (the ruler teams) agree about it.

Also the links of the videos posted above should be added to the tutorial so noobs can get a better idea of what can they do if they play the game, how big they can be and how funny it is when you have the skill and power.

 

Anyone remember when bandit wars were a thing? Now that was good fun.

 

Do you think rewards based off of some sort of team reputation thing would encourage fights? Say you kill a guy from Dev. Dev's super pro, so you get something good for killing them (a big rep boost? Some sort of cash?) while their team reputation drops because the dude died.

 

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I think this would work and same for sheriffs, for example:
You kill a cuffer: you get a 5k head and 1000 G
You kill @JustFamouz: you get 4000 G
You kill @mack211 the T-G god: you get 5000 G
Different prizes according to the skill of the player and more achievements would be good maybe some random wild west themed music appearing while proccesing/fights/traveling.

 

There's the risk of friendly fire.

 

Step 1: Leave Dev and fight them. Revitalizing the competition will attract more players, unlike the current monopoly that stands.

Couldn't have put it in better words myself.

I capped W for a reason, I had hoped that other teams would rise and challenge us. It never happened, the only thing I saw were unloyal members desperate to join/truce the best team in the server.

 

I feel like what makes Wild West fun and successful is having multiple teams that have a chance of beating each other. That's why making team caps is a good idea, plus making so that only one team can process at a processor at a time. That would leave a team to be able to protect the other team, but it might provoke competition, which is what Wild West needs right now imo.