[TommyB]

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Originally Posted by Kalcor DL isn't going anywhere. You can stay on that version if you want. Looking at the player numbers, it looks like adding custom content ultimately hurt rc-rp and ls-rp.

Sure, I can stay on 0.3.DL but if it eventually dies out completely I'd be forced to go back to 0.3.7, removing all of our custom content in the process. As it stands, I don't think the server would ever recover from having custom assets removed. The feature is basically embedded into the core of the server now. If I wanted to improve the longevity of my server by moving it back to 0.3.7, I'd basically be sending it to die regardless. There's no winning.

I disagree with the idea that custom content hurt RCRP and LSRP. I can't speak for what may be going on in LSRP, but custom content is very well received by my community and we've done a lot of awesome things with it. The obvious elephant in the room is that 0.3.DL is segregated from the rest of SA-MP. This wasn't a problem when I first moved to 0.3.DL, since the move came with the largest update the server had ever seen and there was a lot of hype surrounding it. However, what is immediately apparently is the large drop in the amount of new accounts being registered, even though our player counts peaked higher than the previous month. This dip happened as soon as we moved over to 0.3.DL in February 2018. Here's a list of new accounts being registered per month since 2012 - https://gist.github.com/TommyB123/82...6ad08e3a290b5f

If you really want to push forward with 0.3.9, include downloading in it. Otherwise, it'll probably be a waste of time. I doubt you'll see a lot of people moving to the new version unless there's a good reason to do so. Shuffling packets and whatnot probably won't do it for most people. Maybe I'll end up being wrong, who knows.