First of all, we cannot say that this is totally true: although in
this suggestion most people have voted no, there are other polls like
this, like
this or like
this one that show the opposite.
We cannot forget that the R-gang has like 4 or 5 regular members, apart from me (that am not in that gang), and 5 players out of 20 is not a majority, but is a 25% of the server's population, which is a percentage to take into account: there's a difference between having 20 players or only 15.
But apart from that, if really nobody here cares about Rustlers is just because, as the server offers almost nothing for them, players who are interested in Rustlers don't join the server, or just join it but leave it after a short time. That's why I find this funny:
Only the R gang uses rustlers on a large scale and they are hardly every online except for qwerbeet hes on regularly, other than that no one uses it except gryphus together with qwerbeet.
He says
"the R-gang is hardly online"... well, of course!! how do you expect them to be online if there's almost nothing for them? imagine that now we suddenly remove all weapons and duel arena, so all dmers leave the server, and then I come saying
"why implement weapons and da? nobody cares about them".
Also, if players currently aren't taking an interest in Rustlers, is because they don't give anything like money or stats. However, imagine for just a moment the old LW, in which banks weren't full and everyone was fighting hard for every single dollar. Imagine that in that moment, someone had made a Rustler event with 1 million prize for the winner: a lot of people would have joined it!!!
Many people play only those things that give something in return: if transport missions and car exports didn't give any money, do you think that anybody would bother doing them? or if helikilling didn't count to the stats, do you think there would be so many helikillers? no, everyone would be just saying
"nobody cares about transports, exports and helicopters". THIS is what is currently happening with Rustlers.
The only situation in which we could
truly say that nobody cares about Rustlers, would be if, with having things scripted for them, nobody were using them, but obviously this is not the situation.
Besides, Qwerbeet and I have seen some newbies that, sick of being killed all the time, instead of raging /q like others, just started to fly instead, seeking freedom and safety. However, as the server doesn't have anything for them, they were soon getting bored and finally leaving the server. I remember a recent case, in which a new player was making questions about planes, and I told him about a plane server that I know. He just left LW and I saw him playing in that other server for a long time, so LW just lost another new player, who probably would have stayed here if he had had something for him. Then, some people complain that I tell newbies to go to other servers, but what else do you expect? I guide newbies to those servers in which they can stand a chance and have something!!
It's true that Rustler pilots aren't a majority in all Samp, but they are enough to make a difference: that plane server that I have talked about, usually has more players than LW, and before that I was playing in a server called "Steal the plane" that had about 20 players, but it had to close due to cheaters and technical issues.
Take into account that planes are one of the most unique features of San Andreas and Samp: shooting on foot, racing and other things can be done also in VC-MP or GTA4, or even in other games that aren't GTA, however flying can be done only in San Andreas/Samp (well, it's true that VC has planes, but the flying in that game is shitty). Ohh, and before someone says something like
"if you want to fly planes go playing Tom Clancy's Hawx", what I want is a game/server in which you can do everything: fly, drive, shoot, swim etc. and Samp is almost the only one that can offer all of that.
