Garry's Mod is dying? - Garry's Mod

[QUOTE=Tomelyr;47590934]Someone is still hosting Q3FFA? Count me in. Just hit me up on Steam i will try to join you guys.[/QUOTE] Still am but server is dead pretty much.

[QUOTE=Vipes;47599490]Still am but server is dead pretty much.[/QUOTE] Well you clearly need to add more FNAF playermodels and Pewdiepie sound clips e: and only allow donators to use weapons

[B][I][U]I think Garry's Mod isn't dying, because i feel every server has excelled very "good".[/U][/I][/B] [CODE]<html>DoOBaav Out!</html>[/CODE] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Don't sign your posts, don't post in all bold/underline/italic" - postal))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Tomelyr;47590934]Someone is still hosting Q3FFA? Count me in. Just hit me up on Steam i will try to join you guys.[/QUOTE] Because I'm an idiot, I forgot the IP. 192.99.39.14:27075

[QUOTE=DoOBaav;47601086][B][I][U]I think Garry's Mod isn't dying, because i feel every server has excelled very "good".[/U][/I][/B] [CODE]<html>DoOBaav Out!</html>[/CODE][/QUOTE] And look what happened to every civilization to which happened the same. The Romans, the Greeks, as soon as they met their potential, and their creativity peaked, soon followed a decline.

[QUOTE=DoOBaav;47601086][B][I][U]I think Garry's Mod isn't dying, because i feel every server has excelled very "good".[/U][/I][/B] [CODE]<html>DoOBaav Out!</html>[/CODE][/QUOTE] Please dont

Sorry to bump but I would like to see people's input on this. I myself, a semi-good coder, am seeing Garry's Mod die. There are lots of reasons, some of them being the youtubers. Others being the 12 year old kids who think it is ok to RDM on all of the servers that popup in the server list. I will openly admit, I am 12-13 and I do some of the shit, but I don't go overboard and hop on some server and RDM, and I don't treat my server like shit. I put work into it and make custom stuff like say, a custom pointshop tab, hell, maybe Ill try to go beyond my boundaries of what I can do and link peoples forum accounts to their profile on the servers. Anyway, people think that they can go on and do what ever they want on some random server. Coders love to half ass a lot of their shit now days and make it very cheap. A lot of the time, coders like to provide little to no support and other coders don't see what they can expand on their addon and keep it as it is so there is nothing new and exciting for us to explore and have other coders branch off on their own ideas because they had an idea that came from the addon (Yes I know its confusing. Read it slowly and you will later get it) Also, server browser. Yes. A major problem. I don't care if we keep the same ol cheap HTML server browser but I would like it if we could not list the top gamemode automatically and show other gamemodes that the players may be interested in.

What is killing gmod is the lack of people doing anything about the lack of content, I suck at coding, in fact 2 years ago i couldn't even create a simple function. it has taken me a good bit of time but i have taught myself how to code in an acceptable manner and i am currently working on a gamemode that i am planning on releasing for free (though it will be on sf as well for anyone who wants to pay for it and support me) Complaining about an issue doesn't fix an issue, it doesn't even get people who can fix the issue motivation to fix the underlying issue. The gmod community is hateful and spiteful. granted there are some really nice people in the community who will do anything for just about anyone. Youtubers are not the issue. the lack of people showing these new people the ropes is the issue. people complain of rdmers and crap like that. Has anyone sat down and taught these players how the gamemode is supposed to be played? how many of you invite friends at school or work to play gmod? i can imagine next to none. I remember when i first started hosting servers there were people who sat down and taught me how to code in e2. Even back then there were shitty servers with shitty admins and worse players. its just we only like to remember the good parts. I cant stand to play on any servers but my own and then i can only play it for 10-15 min before i'm bored. I do not enjoy playing gmod anymore. what i enjoy is creating things for others to enjoy (coding). If i charge for some of my scripts it is because i have bills to pay and it is either code for gmod and sell scripts or not host servers, not code, and generally have nothing to do with the community. Right now my SF scripts make me just enough to not spend much on my server and as soon as it gets to the point that i cant afford the server again i will post another script to script fodder and use the increase in sales to pay for the server again. The gmod community is hating on darkrp and ttt for what reason? being the only reason players even play gmod online anymore? without those two gamemodes sure we would get more players playing the less popular gamemodes, but then what? as soon as one gamemode gets more popular than others you are going to hate on it too. "shitrp" is fun, when you are a child and don't want to pretend like you are an adult who doesn't know what they are doing. "ttt" is a way for those same children to kill each other while trying to use their head to find the traitor. Lets use another game as an example here UT2k4 There is only one real popular gamemode anymore and that is invasion rpg particularly "Moster Mash" That game is older then gmod by 6 months and it has been dead since ut3 failed to take off. Gmod is old but there is still a HUGE player base and HUGE development community. People complain about gamemodes not taking off? that is because most game modes are so buggy the developers give up on them the ONLY reason darkrp is so popular is because Falco(FPtje) is one of the few DEDICATED developers out there. put in an issue on darkrp and he answers within an hour or so normally and if it is an issue with darkrp the darkrp crew fixes the issue within 24 hours if they can pin it down. Look at ulx? it has been days since an update they have like 10 people working on it and there are 50 or so issues on their github. Developers can make gamemodes all day long and NONE of them will be popular without proper support. TLDR just read the last sentence.... Sorry went on a bit of a rant here. dont rate me boxes if you are a developer and are pissed at this post (that only means i hit close to home and you know it ;) ) edited ooops old post double bumped...

I'm finding it hard to get the content I want for the servers I run, so I'm being put into a position where I am paying people to provide things I believe would've been relatively common a year or two ago. This flips the whole concept of why someone would run a server on its head, but I'm hoping the content I'm paying for (tutorials, maps) will grow our community in turn and lead to more content.

I'm surprised I've been playing the game for just about 10 years now, and I'm constantly on the sandbox mode, sometimes I'll be on the TTT mode. I remember playing oldschool roleplay in GMod 9, so much better than this wack ass DarkRP (seriously, I don't know what it is about DarkRP that has messed up RP, but it has), and I remember playing oldschool ZombieSurvival. It just...worked back then, I don't know, it feels too [I]cluttered[/I] some of these gamemodes. Deathrun is a pretty original gamemode. Anyone remember the hoverboard gamemode? That was great half a decade ago. I feel the sequel to GMod will hopefully revitalise the life that GMod had around the midpoint of its current age, I for one would love to have a big map size to play with. I would feel much more comfortable creating a roleplay map that has build built into it. (I'm a huge fan of buildRP, but it's an extremely rare thing to see)

[QUOTE=Kickin Balls;48675337] I feel the sequel to GMod will hopefully revitalise the life that GMod had around the midpoint of its current age, I for one would love to have a big map size to play with. I would feel much more comfortable creating a roleplay map that has build built into it. (I'm a huge fan of buildRP, but it's an extremely rare thing to see)[/QUOTE] I always add a building section or areas where building is possible on my rp maps, what is the point of playing gmod with a physgun if you are not allowed room to build Also i cant wait for the map limit increase.... i am so tired of "max" this and that having to delete half my detail just to get the damn map to compile... so many people saying deathrun is fun...... i guess i'm going to have to give it a shot

I do partially agree with kulcris about how DarkRP is very well managed by the maker and he sure as hell is a great coder and likes to give support, but DarkRP is sorta that gmode that strikes others down. It's sorta like say, Apple iPhones. A lot of people have them even though they are very strict with what you can and can't do while Android is open source and has good support.