Jeri :)

Gaming Divisions Changes Hey everyone just wanted to make a post to say that there are some changes you are going to be seeing around HG in the next couple weeks in relation to Gaming Divisions. Overall we feel like we are stretched too thin on a multitude of servers and games that aren’t going anywhere right now and that we would be better off consolidating and building teams dedicated to our individual servers that we feel have the most potential. Once all of our changes are in place and we have everything sorted we will be making a post in more detail about all the changes that have been made and the structure of Gaming Divisions we will have moving forward. That being said this change is going to require dedicated people that want to push the population and work on the servers that will be staying around so if you have any interest in moderating or leading these servers fill out either of these applications. Server Advisor Application: https://hellsgamers.com/forms/30-interest-in-leadership-position/ Moderator Application: https://hellsgamers.com/forms/22-hg-moderator-application/

We do be out here.

Over the past couple of days there has been conversation internally on what can be done to help get Jailbreak populated again. Something that I feel is important is not only getting information from Staff/Mods, but also reaching out to the community, as this is your server too and if there are things we can do better to get you to get on Jailbreak we will seriously consider them. With that said I wrote up a brief survey for people that play JB so I can get a general idea of why you aren't playing JB and what we could do to bring you back. If you could reach out to people you know on your friends list or to people that play JB that might not visit our forums often that this survey exists I would really appreciate it! https://forms.gle/o8jYJvvW3iRy9Hbp9

It’s kind of funny that this post happened today, because very recently there has been chatter internally that JB has been dead for to long with nothing in the works. Below I’ll kind of write up my thought process with what went well with the JB relaunch and why I think JB is struggling currently. For all intents and purposes JB is a RP Server in my eyes. With that said, it’s important that there are good guards/leads to facilitate good RP and that there are internal systems in place to help continue to facilitate conflict/interaction in the server. Other than the round to round interaction, the best facilitator of interaction in our JB server is gangs/gang identity. With the relaunch last year and gangs having been reset all the way to 0 there was a huge surge immediately to claim a gang and begin grinding so you could be the top gang on the server. For me personally being in Rebooglites at the time this was some of the best weeks/months personally I have ever played on the server. The amount of time and energy we put into grinding/idling for our spot on the top of the leaderboard against Bald Men was truly something to behold. We actually at one point had a spreadsheet tracking our rep vs. Bald Men’s to see how close they were to their next level compared to ours. Some other gangs that have since made a name for themselves followed behind us on the quest to be on the leaderboards. Along with the groups and gangs grinding rep for their gang, there were also individuals that wanted to cash in on this wave of rep grinding by collecting rep and selling it to gangs for cash or steam items. This was totally fine in my eyes as rep was only able to be collected at a fixed rate and rep was limited by those willing to sell it and how much rep could physically be collected by an individual before it could be sold (besides people who used a vpn to play on multiple accounts to double their idle rep per hour. Who were then banned btw lmao), but once the cash shop rolled in for rep, I feel like that’s the moment the element of gangs was essentially depleted. Why would I grind/idle for weeks when I could buy the rep with a few hours off of my paycheck? With the cash shop rep became completely meaningless in the matter of a few weeks. Gangs with more money than time started climbing the gang leaderboards and the people that had spent hours and hours for their gang felt obsolete, because they could never afford to keep up. With the grind/identity of gangs being wiped out what incentive was there to play JB? Well we were simply back to round to round interaction and the hope that the leads would stick around. Unfortunately, by burnout or other means people started to not get on. People also seem to forget that we had a couple bad weeks of database issues (no one at blame just acknowledging it) that I think did more damage to JB then people realize. This along with leadership not being around as much (no way to sugar coat this one, they've been kind of mia one way or another). JB has fallen into a rut. I do really want JB to come back and be great again and I want it to be as fun as it was when it got relaunched. We have awesome devs and a kickass map, but when there aren’t any players playing why would they do any dev work on the server? Spawn/I and others have a lot of work to do, but I can say publicly that I really want to work on getting our JB back on top. A lot of what I wrote is from personal experience and might not apply to everyone on why they feel like JB is dead, but this is why I feel it has really taken a hit in the last couple months.

Étant donné que vous nous avez donné un faux identifiant Steam et que le trolling général sur les forums, je vais le rejeter.

Shout out that guy!

Considering we created the Rust division from nothing with players consistently coming back week after week with Anycast I would disagree. Also a lot of these players are going to have a shit connection on the vast majority of servers and really are just clicking on populated ones that pop on their screen first.