Everyone of us has noticed the decrease of population in SAES in the previous years, People leaving without new people joining, And I've thought of a solution to help fixing this before it gets to a helpless point because SAES is a server that requires a respected amount of players online to be able to enjoy it.
I've first thought of a way to keep players but it's not the best problem to fix and instead keeping the new players is the way for it, we see that people turn so generous, lovely and helpful only during Staff Recruitments periods in which we manage to keep every new player that joins the game since he gets someone to teach him and show him what is this server about, I even tried to recruit some of my real life friends to the server but those I did not show / teach them the game didn't stick because they completely didn't understand anything.
I know that there exists "F1">Gameplay but let's be honest, imagine you are joining a GTA:SA online game and you will have to read 300+ line, no one will bother to do this and especially new players and my suggestion to fix that is to create them a small tutorial explaining them in a smooth yet easy way how to play the game, a tutorial where they understand what each icon mean, what does the yellow ones ((civilliants/truckers ect...)) do, what does the blue ones do (( cops/polices )) and what does the red ones do (( criminals ))
for example, give them a target to practice at in cop tutorial, where they first start with understanding that nightstick arrests, tazer drops them and shotgun slows,
for criminal you create them a tutorial SR/BR ect... where they get the point of it and teach them they only allowed to kill cops chasing them
for Civillian you give them a load as trucker and you give them time to deliver it ect..
I ensure you that if this project gets live we will see many new players coming to the server and we will have more active players, (( we really need more players ))
The Idea is when they create a new account and log in, they get teleported to a 2nd dimension where they get those small led tutorials then they come back to our dimension to play the game so you kind of force them to do it to understand the game