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Het was toch ook een superleuke tijd haha:)
Soms komt er nog eens wat van je op facebook voorbij.
Speel het zelf hoogstens nog eens a twee keer in het jaar ook al beloof ik sjomp elke keer weer opnieuw om meer te spelen.
Deze community ben ik tot nu toe nooit ergens anders weer tegengekomen. Alle CB5 gasten bedankt!:) En iedereen die dit stiekem vertaald, ook bedankt!

so gtaV online is down? or what ? xD

What is this?

aslong as my beautifull Mother Of Dragons has a role in the show i'll keep watching:)
She is just...
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yo ik heb geen geld meer XD zal binnenkort ff onlinekomen om met de clubwagens te rijden

You may consider it cheating:)
I always found great joy in helping players that got stuck.
Especially the newer players.


So i find this sad to hear. I had fun helping people that got stuck. It was voluntary to help or not, eventhough i adviced everyone to help as much as possible, since it promotes loyalty towards staff, and better gameplay.


But ah well, i guess, thats just me being nice and all and always thinking about others.
Basically:) im not affraid to say, i think this is a wrong decision. But loyalty and happiness cant be measured in numbers, so its hard to prove;)

Most likely, it was bought from an external sales website. Like www.g2play.net  or something similair. If it was indeed bought directly off Steam itself, you should contact steam and explain your story, but i doubt that scenario most unlikely unless your gf lives in another continent.
So if the code/ gift came indeed from an external sales site, contact them, explain them your story and see if you can swap it around for other shit.

I believe mick88's thought always was, that petrol convoys are not realistic. I think by now, players have shown great interest in this way of convoying, and that thought is outdated. There is alot that is not realistic on the server Also, if this is possible, and it achieves fun for players, why not.


2. nah not needed, if you are here long enough, it wont happen daily unless you are an idiot:D Just relog after you finished your mission if it does happen once a month?

Not only that, road rules are not universal. Each nation/country has some exceptions of seperate road rules that other nations do not have.
For example, in my country it is so, that when there is a crossroad, and there are no trafficlights or signs, the person that comes from the right, must go first.


The same situation but then in Curacao is different. Then the traffic that goes on , on the same road may go first ( go on).

I have been around long enough, to know where the flaws are , and potential unique and epic points of CT can be realised.
Every number i gave was an example, every suggestion i made is based on my experience with this server.


As i said, if the development team can realise, that when you have purchased a good house and such, that there is still something to aim for, and work for. I gave examples and i strongly believe in them. Big convoys is the most simpliest one to realise and has little to nothing to do with money, but mostly the epic fun it creates. The flawed club system can be made way more interesting for new and old players. Buyable properties, for whatever amount, is in whatever SAMP server, one of the biggest goals you can achieve, so why not.


In the end, we most likely know how things will evolve, and that is, that the players will talk and talk, and dream. But it wont be realised. And that is sad.


Basicly, everyone become a veteran, an old player some day in CT, give them something to stay for. FUN  is one of the easiest things to achieve.


Have fun.

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Hi


Over the last past days, some players tried to beg me to come back to the server. I dont know lol.
But then i saw this topic and i think that whatever plan you guys have for 2015, the best thing is to listen and learn from the past.


CT had some glory moments from 2010 - 2012 then it became less and less simply because the lack of updates and in my opinion wrongfull decisions that changed the style of the server.


In my opinion these are the things that went wrong, did not get fully optimized or used to its potential:


Community misbehaving

- There was, maybe still is a huge fight / annoyance going on between nations. Basicly it was for more than a year USA against $nake/ EU. This had a negative effect on the server it surely did. Basicaly, the community was not behaving at its best, and for a good server, you need a decent community. Now i cant judge how the community is right now, because i am not part of it.


Server issues

One of the most annoying things that took place in the history of CT , where the laggy servers and DDOS attacks. There is not much mick could do about it, because he simply had to pay for the server himself with the slight help of donations. Add to the fact, alot of things in the code where outdated/ not optimized, all together you get a bad server performance.


Achievements

On the one hand i'd say, Achievements killed the trucking part of the server.  On the other hand i'd say, Achievements made the older players with basicly everything work for something. So i think it is important to decide as CT scripting team, where your focus is gonna be with the realisation of new Achievements. To my opinion, adding new stuff, might work. But the real CT is the CT where you do stuff together, please take that with you!.


Big convoys

I tend to believe i was/ am one of the strongest believers, this is the core part of CT. This is what CT makes wonderfull and epic , no matter it is based on a game that is more than 10 years old. Joshy can back me up on this one, Joshy and i talked hours and hours about the Big old convoy days and that we should bring it back. I was gratefull that Joshy tried, but sadly it was not enough.


If you want to keep getting new players and give something to everyone, regardless of score or money, it is having fun together. I still, and i always will believe, that whatever the intentions of the development team may be. Big fatass old convoys ( 15 + players ) is the way to go.


Clubs/ bases

Basically, it is pointless to have  a club base, especially nowaday, because less players will contribute to your club compared to the past. Unless you have a tight core group of friends, you will be facing trouble making the payments each month unless you are an addict. To my opinin, the club system has to many flaws, and to less to offer.


Above are basically the main issues, which in my opinion we could learn from, if you guys want a better CT


Konali's list of suggestions for 2015

   
• Bring bigger convoys back. See the fun and importance of it. Money is not that important in CT when you spent 2 hours a day on the server, eventually you will get more than enough money and you will be able to spent it anyway.  Bring big convoys back for the fun. Back in 2012 i suggested CONVOY SCORE, make it so that this is needed for something.
  
  - increase the convoy bonus per 2 o 5 members by 5- 10% ( example, but make it just enough to be a noticable differance).
  - Make convoy score usefull and not useless. In other words, lets make it so that you can use the convoy score to unlock certain things, get small rewards of increased bonusses, maybe even small discounts on vehicles.

   
• Club system needs to be usefull and needs to give something back. 
  - Clubs should be made more important in deliveries. Lets say, a club can select out of the 4/5 ? truck classes, one of its core bussiness and get a 5% bonus for doing these missions, doing them in convoy gets you a 5% bonus which goes to the club.
  - Club vehicles are good as they are now, but clubs bases should come with some minor vehicle slots, so people will no longer have to waste personal money on insurance and repairs, plus it should not be more than 10 slots for the largest base. But it will make a huge difference
  
  If you are driving/ doing missions for a club+ club vehicle. You should get rewarded by the club. This can be realised when things like clubs can get extra money for choosing a certain branch where they  specialise in, and get more automated funs. This way, players will not select clubs based on name and fame, but on importance and diversity.
  

   
• Achievements:
  
  - New achievements are cool , but it is important to mix it so, that new players wont feel they are forced to do just achievements while giving the older players something to do.

   
• the bada boom, the eyecatcher, the thing, everyone silently wants.
  Ownable properties.
  - Own a casino, spend lets say 50.000.000 on a casino, and the revenue will come from people delivering to your casino. Like club funds, it will go to a fund system, and when you have reached a rendement of 50% (50.000.000 +50% = 75.000.000.) it will no longer bring in revenue for you. This way, a property can never be obtained for years by one player as it has reached its max rendement and becomes useless for that player.
  
  - Ownable gas stations
  Like casinos, each gas station will get revenue based on deliveries, invest lets say 25.000.000 into a gas station and be able to get 40.000.000 back.
  
  
  These are examples given, when interested i can give more detailed information as to , exclude abusers and such, but the basic idea is, let those old bastards spend there money, give everyone something to work for, instead of getting a house and fill your car slots and thats CT for ya. Mick said no in the past, but if you realise, that this is epic, this is fun, and when scripted properly its great. there are plenty of gas stations out there.

Conclussion:

I think, in order to have a great 2015 with CT, dont focus on new maps, as there are not enough players. ( more maps is more deserted roads, which is boring) Upgrading maps, ok, but new maps, why? no house shortage right?.

Also dont focus on new achievements, focus on fun, letting players that have spent their time here on ct, be worth it. Let them invest in good clubs with a proper system based on economics. and businesses.

This is Konali, hope you enjoyed this. For some reason, this is what the Chip made me do, because whatever other games i have played since i left, the community rocks, and the simplicity of driving your truck around is unreplaceable. ( except if ETS 2 mp becomes like CT  haha). But yes this game is old, but it cannot beat alot of games, if you are into trucking and having fun together.

Konali out!

The Pink trucker has spoken

it is actually a fresh install of both. Very annoying.

My samp keeps freezing ingame randomly, it becomes really annoying. Does anyone knows a simple solution to this? i had it in the past too , and something simple fixed it, but i forgot xD


Konali

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