How to make a good DarkRP server

Hi

I've owned, co-owned, managed multiple servers over the past 2 years
I know mainly what people want and don't want in a DarkRp server
I will be talking about 6 main points that i think make a good DarkRp server



1. Planning

ALWAYS plan your server before launch. This is a mistake that I made one time when I launched my first server. Try to code jobs,shipments and plugins before your server launches. You won't have to struggle to add and remove things as you already know what works and what doesn't. Try to hire staff before the server even launched to prepare staff for a server staffing job. Even after the server has launched planning is still a big deal. Always plan out what your going to do, also try to never make a decision by yourself.

2. Staff

Make sure your staff knows commands, what to do in sits and how long to ban people. This makes the server flow smoother because you have well trained staff. If you have a forum post a ban time thread in a staff only section to help staff. Make sure to have well trained staff members to train other staff members to be good at there job. Make sure you don't have to many pointless ranks for staff or your team will start to get tired of promotions and think of it as no big deal. Try to have someone on the staff teamthat has lua/coding knowledge.

3. Jobs

You must balance donater jobs and non donater jobs. If you don't do this people won't play because to play anything besides hobo there must buy member. Try not to have dumb jobs or jobs that don't have a meaning or purpose. All jobs should have some sort ofability that makes them fun to play. I.e. kidnapper is meant tokidnap people and hitman takes hits. This part relates to staff. Don't have a staff job for each rank i.e. admin on duty, senior admin on duty, Moderator on duty. It clusters staff jobs. just have 1 staff on duty job that all you need.

4. Donation system

Try to have a easy to use donation system. A donation system that is too confusing or too hard to understand will drive away donations completely. Keep your prices to a low. When making packs for donators to buy (you don't need packs) try to keep all packs balanced and at the same price. i.e. 1 cop, 1 raider and 50k per pack. Even if your not using packs keep pricesbalanced, it helps the server gain more donations. Make sure people like what there donating for. Don't have stupid things for donators. Make sure you treat you donators well. Don't be a sellout server and let players buy admin powers, if you really want to do this I wouldkeep the price at a high.

5. Addons

Try to use addons from the steam workshop, some addons on the workshop are pretty good, here's a link to my server collection.http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi...1152049341.When choosing addons think about donations. What can we give to donators only? Make sure you have some sort of universal money making method beside job salary. For this I would recommend bitminers. They are a easy, legal and balanced way of making money. Choose if you want cars in your server. Cars can be good or bad everyone has there ownopinion. I prefer hl2 cars only. Choose a weapon addon. There are quite a few good weapon addons around, here are a few. M9K, FAS and CSS. One of the most important parts of the server is yourpremium scripts (plugins/advanced addons). One good way to use plugins is too restrict certain plugins to to donators only, keep some for non donators to keep a steady server.

6. Flow/Economy

Once your server is off to a good start you have to keep the server fresh. Update your server frequently, add new things frequently and overall keep building upon the server. Once you lose your flow you lose your momentum. Your server starts to die. You also can't add something that could hurt the server. You always have to think about what your about to do before doing it. Having community meetings and/or a suggetions tab on your forum is a good way to see what to add and what not to add.




I hope you agree with some of the things I discussed.

~AligatoR

Before starting only get very few maybe 4 staff and some users, having everyone staff deosnt work

I think that would open the server need to spend money wisely and buy what is needed for the server you need

Dont thats the best type of darkrp, create StarwarsRP or even something new mate. Darkrp will ruin your gmod altogether.

There are so much DarkRP Servers. Don't try it xd .

To make a good rp server don't use downtown as it is now boring and get rid of the f4 menu and add npcs to buy stuff and to become another job from.

Just try to make custom thing and dont use gmodstore to much

try to put your garrysmod server, some custom things

Nice ! Thanks bro I love you ! Those are nice hints !

Be slightly knowledgeable in some GLua, so that you can make some custom changes even if visual.