What we need (for now) is dedicated staff to populate daily, that is what will keep people coming back day after day. People notice a server that has a daily 15 people and will want to come back to a server that is populated daily again, it comes back to populating. Sure hub will give a bigger incentive, but we didn't have hub a few months back, but the server was populated daily. What we need to do is establish a daily population and go from there. We can't use hub as an excuse for not populating when our server was one of the most populated jb servers at one point, without hub.
you're just proving my point, sure it was fun.. but to what extent. people get bored, same things over and over again, of course people are going to leave.. and dont put this all on the staff and dont make yourself look so high and mighty like you're some saint for staying in an empty server for 30 minutes. Dont bag on m-town, i've seen him populate the xG server all on his own.
I wasn't trying to make myself look all "high and mighty". The only thing i wrote here that would lead to that conclusion is when i said shadow and i populated. I wasnt targetng mtown specifically, i was using him as an example, as many of do the exact same thing (notice in the post i wrote other people i didnt mean to target anyone specifically). This thread isnt so that i can say im better than anyone else, this is (just as the last one was) a wake up call, a message saying we need to do something about this division before it dies.
I can't say this isn't a valid argument, as that would be a lie, but what about before the big cs go update broke the server? Back then, other servers had these cool plugins that we didn't have, but we were still populated everyday. Why were we populated? Because we had already established a daily population. That's the hard part. Now, as corvo (cloud) said, theres not much keeping people in our server, but there also wasn't much keeping them here 6 or 7 months ago when we were populated.