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Originally Posted by turk55
Well that can be found at Love2Hate, I have been playing for a week now and te staff is very nice and willing to help.
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That's beside the point, but I do hear that. The sad part is, that if it is true, why, out of all the servers, is only one or two like that? The problem isn't entirely the staff, but also the users who enable them by purchasing the items just to be able to cheat their way to the top! The whole idea of private servers was to escape the people who paid their way to the top, and play the game we originally loved in a fair and balanced environment. That idealism has been torn to shreds by the recent excuses for "servers", and frankly it's sickening. Maybe if these servers were run by teams of competent people, instead of one or two middle/highschool kids that've never seen a $50 bill in their lives, it might be different. Or, hell. Maybe if the servers were run by people who actually put a real effort into creating and maintaining them, things would be just a little bit different. You can't take someone who just leeched and downloaded the first source they saw, and expect them to be a decent and respectable server administrator. And you can't expect any server where they're part of the "management" to function in a proper and normal faction. In a way, we, the developers, have helped this problem along. We unknowingly released our sources to people who we thought would at least have some small shred of willingness to learn in them, and instead what we got were a bunch of kids with no idea what a server really was. And what can we do to stop the problem? Not much. These kids upload the sources countless times, with countless, messy, broken edits to every single upload service and "friend" they can find. And from there, it just spreads onto forums like ePvP to be re-released as an "original source". They couldn't write a damn "Hello world." application, let alone modify a working source. All they've done, and will do, is spread a viral infection amongst what used to be a growing and helpful community.
Some two years ago, when CoEmu V2 was "released" into the ePvP community, I thought to try and prod some new developers into helping out in the Conquer pServer community, and try and get them to make contributions by releasing simple, easy to modify additions to the CoEmu source. I tried everything, from helping these people over team viewer, to helping them over email and even the phone, just trying to get them to even understand SOMETHING and want to LEARN. All I found were people who took what was available, trashed it, begged for help, and demanded more like they were entitled to something special. Out of all the people I helped, I cannot say I found more than two or three people that even wanted to learn something. And those few people were quickly shut out and shut down by the vast outnumbering of requests/demands in comparison to the number of tutorials and releases. A community cannot be sustained when the majority is leechers and the developers are forced into minority. If these people truly want help, they will in turn help others as well. Only then will even a small shred of this community have light shed upon them, and maybe, just maybe, they will start to accept learning again, instead of just leeching.
I urge you, those of you who are downloading these sources, to LEARN something, and to share it with others. I'm not talking about all this demand for new encryption data, and all that crap. I'm talking about the basics. Write tutorials on how to understand servers, on how to understand code, on how to understand conquer private servers, and on how to understand this community. When you get a positive response from these people, then the developers will start coming out and making an effort to share their works once more.