every game has stuffty people, but like other games, this one has some great people in the community as well. it would be nice to have a sizable population and less 0 player servers more often.
this only changes when people bother to host good servers, rather than the same monotonous exclusivist (aka only appeals to a very specific target audience) gamemodes like grapple knife, jail rp, murder mystery, and mini-empires.
my personal favorite servers are TDMs (esp capture point and ctf), Creeper, and Space RPs, but i almost never see these gamemodes hosted, let alone in a quality form. the last time i played a space RP server i actually enjoyed was over 6 years ago on Comr4de's server.
I've pretty much entirely given up on joining other people's servers at this point because of how disheartened i've become with the lack of good servers. It's always the same type of MERP or grapple knife garbage i see dominating the player list, and when it's not, it's either a potentially fun gamemode being hosted by a bad or abusive host, a potentially fun gamemode that's executed poorly, or a good host running a very exclusivist gamemode.
I've decided that because of how garbage other servers continually are, the only apparent solution is for me to host my own gamemodes, done properly and correctly with high quality. I've been working on two new gamemodes: a large-scale space capture point TDM on a space station, and an infection-based zombie mod gamemode, but so far they've proven more ambitious and complicated than i expected so i'm not done with them yet. been working on the space tdm for over a year of solid development now and the zombie mod gamemode for six weeks now. hoping to have the zombie mod gamemode done sooner but i'm still waiting on modders to fulfill their part to get the mods needed for the gamemode to work as intended.
