Dear Community,
i'll be talking as a member of GoS Community and not as a staff, in my point of view, GoS is going on the same road since months, nothing is changed, no improvments, no activity.. And this is why me as a member of the community is going to say what no else could say or was willing to say..
Staff
i'll be talking about our staff in general and not exceptionally, we have 1 admin (idk why is Icesythe7 admin yet), 1 mod (the other 1 is retiring cause of this situation sadly..), 3 supports (even if those guys are underrated, they are doing their work well, respect for them ) and 8 local supports (half inactive..).
the staff need to be more close to the community without abusing or acting like they are more special than a normal member, they should try to be active and helping people without censoring something because of self disagreement (hopefully i never saw that in our staff ), staff shouldn't be offensive and insulting members publicly and also having an off day doesn't mean you can overbear with your moderation, bans should be done for what damage the community and not because someone is new.
talking about script developpers now.. we are 9 devs, 1 is not active since 3rd March, no info on him, some of us are developping just for the sake of rank and not for the the community (that's the case if you see no activity after getting the rank), they even flame members/hide error posts..i don't blame those who have jobs or are busy with their real life, it's a pleasure if someone code in his free time just for the community .
Community
2015, that was literally the last year i saw some random member talk to another without asking for support, like for real, the community is pretty dead, shoutbox and last topics are all about users asking for support, we as community should talk to each other, share opinions, give suggestions, any room for improvments is welcome, we need to be together so the community can grow up.. for example, designers could share some designs for new loader, or thread designs for scripters or even a menu design, everything is possible, just try to share something for the community and you'll be a good part of it , we also need to report bugs instead of flaming or raging at the developpers because of 1 game..
we need to have more moderators, more supports, i can even apply for moderator rights if that's needed (considering i'm one of the active members if not the most active..)
Tool
the core needs a rewrite/optimizations, it's pretty bad to see someone with 300 fps drop down to 30-60 fps, it's really unplayable, also the loader needs some design updates in my opinion, the injector needs some fixing for getting path/injecting (especially for windows 8+), some people can't even inject (it hangs in loading screen or exactly after injecting, happens to me on my main pc..) and some people bugsplats randomly also (not full screen), and talking about ingame experience.. the fps drops are way big, also our event functions are all done through lua (lua callbacks) also the Object indexing which is too bad for the performance and they rather should be made in the core itself (dll), and the drawings are way too bad in my opinion, they looks like they are hand drawn and they drop too much fps.. i won't talk about the quality of scripts as you can't judge someone because he isn't experienced..
Admin
Feretorix, you should be more open to your community, talk with them, consider their opinions, since you decided to share your tool for public you should be kind of responsible of the forum and not just to update the tool, you are here for taking care of a whole community and trying to improve by their feedback/criticism also sharing your ideas/changes with them so they feel like they have a real admin that is sharing his time with them..
Conclusion..
if you noticed, each month we are loosing one of our greatest members, we should learn from that and not continiue on the same road until we are dropping down the 0, we are doing it as hobby, it should be done for a pleasure and not self gain, it's not bad to get some money for your hard work, but don't make that money as your priority, rather the community satisfaction, that's all i had to say, feel free to give your opinion, i didn't make this for the drama it's rather criticism/feedback, it's aimed for staff and especially Feretorix, i had to say that before.. but it doesn't matter, i hope that the message will be clear and understandable, with all the respect for the staff and the work that has been done
Regards,
Community