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Originally Posted by kaisersouse "That provides false hope for players and gives them very little reason to stay with the server in the future, especially if they cannot help. What you should do just ignore or in extreme, suspend them (like I do) for 1 hour just to make them stop asking. But always do make it explicitly clear that it's possible to become a staff member." I never said people have no chance of being admin. I simply tell them its earned, and nagging about it will put them out of the running. In the 10-ish years I've been doing this...I can honestly say that while a small majority of people who ask for admin genuinely want to help...most of the people who ask (and ask and ask) just end up getting fired after a month because all they do is brag about being admin, and show off their powers by abusing players (usually new players, which is worse than abusing old players)

Your post says otherwise...

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Originally Posted by xSaint Honestly, most communities never make it to the opening date due to the creators losing motivation.

Very true.

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Originally Posted by Godly When the server began I was happy having 5 players online.But I couldn't pay anymore since the server didn't get enough players, a common reason to a lot of servers getting closed.Getting players is not as easy as it seems.A lot of people think "Owning servers is easy" and criticize you at any way possible without knowing the hard work dedicated to getting players, and even owning a community.Getting players requires a lot of things, such as having a playable gamemode, having nice and mature staff, I've also noticed, that the name is very important tho.But one of the most reasons is having you're server on the hosted list.Sure some servers are on the hosted list but they have 0 players on.Why?Probably because of a not so playable gamemode, a lousy name..70% newly formed servers are doomed to close for many reasons which we all know.It's a shame a project you work on so hard, dedicate you're time and knowledge goes to waste, but hey you learn from you're mistakes is what I always say, just don't repeat them.

Yea, I touched on a few points you mentioned. Server name + hosted tab need to be on point, imo, to get some form of traction going.

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Will be making some more additions to the thread, stay tuned. Give questions so that I can answer in the main thread, I guess!