Though many current players can agree that the current map made by gz is great and that his work did pay off, giving players a new map to experience for quite some time, the shift almost feels necessary to bring some of, and hopefully most of, the population back. Note that the player drop cannot and should not be completely blamed on the map change for any reason, as other factors such as school also play a major part.

Back in the old Tits map that we used to use, the server would hit cap almost daily and since the switch the population has been on the decline since. Yes, the current map is great and having a custom map is also great, but players have been dropping since the map has been switched and no one is sure why, so that has been linked to the map. I think personally that there could be another issue lowering the player count.

I don't think a map change would really at all change the player count. I just looked at a clip not to long ago from June that showed 84 players on mid day. I also want to draw attention to the fact that DarkRP still had a big player count after the map change. Changing back to the old map would most likely just give new players the chance to have base dupes, and all the people that actually played a lot on this map would have to make new ones. I see you mention base dupes, I have up close to 30 base dupes on this map and I am very sure others do to. All the time spent on the new map would be a waste especially all the money people had spend to play on this server with the map. Going back the other map would make everything special about Exhibition just go away. The custom map made Exhibition, in my eyes special, and stand out, its what made me put over a thousand hours into the game and play as much as I did and eventually staff.

Personally I think the map should NOT change.

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