Not to be rude. But FSE stopped bothering about NW for many years. We in NWRP and Jailbreak and minisiege invested alot of time and money building scripts to increase the player base. Keeping the game populated for many years. We never got a thank you once. We had to pay money to fix basic problems like the flag glitch. Due to FSE being unable to admin the forums. All the major servers had to move of FSE and host our own dedicated forum sites. There simply wasn't any modders around and willing to do it for nothing. Servers like NWRP and Jailbreak relied on public donations via skins. A player would give 5 £ and buy a custom skin. This would keep the server funded and allow new scripts. Such as medic, grenades, teleportation doors etc. I don't know who's responsible directly but we're not allowed to continue this practice any longer. Long-term I believe this is damaging.
It speaks volume that you never played on Napoleonic Wars Role Player server. Because we had the Holdfast Devs on the server and they took a special interest to our ideas and methods of creating 200 public player role-plays. Such interest that two of the NWRP team and 59th leaders went on to work with the AGS on holdfast. NWRP along with minisiege literally kept NW playable in the public eye. Because of Holdfast research and willingness to engage in RP and listen, the 59th along with other regiments moved to holdfast. Its great that you're updating the game now. I am just confused and baffled as to why now?
I see your argument and it's wonderful people like you are keeping the game alive,
however I personally don't like the fact that there would be one or two servers with the only chance to get population and exist.
Because then you have one person, or a clan in power of the public play of the game, which basically means trouble.
I can just imagine, clan fights, personal grudges, plenty of bans just for affiliation.. you name it.
If people have the ability to create alternative servers, that is good.
Naturally there should be a balance, where people can create unique servers with maps or mods, and actually what we did was adding plenty of the extra bits and bobs so server side only madders could do more..
Like custom input fields and buttons.. which is helping people create mods.
Though some things people asked us to make like groupfighting game mode, medics and so on, are basic features that now everybody can use.
I would say that improves the game for everyone?
