Thirty Thousand Registered Players
posted by Peter on Monday, January the 21st at 10:30 PM
It has been approximately 616 days since Las Venturas Playground was started as the Gathering of Tweakers server, which happened on May 15th, 2006, a mere five days after the San Andreas Multiplayer 0.1 release. In this period, alot of things have changed. Ranging from three different server hosts, a huge amount of administrators, the gamemode and of course the player counts: the week in which we were the largest gameserver on the planet.
A couple of minutes ago another milestone has been reached. With the signup of CheekyJem on the website, we have a total of over thirty thousand registered players. This is not only a huge amount, but also far beyond any expectation I ever dreamed of when starting the server. Sadly we have little to celebrate this event with you, however, we can talk about the current happenings around Las Venturas Playground, as well as the future plans we have with the server.
As you probably have noticed, it's not as crowded on the server as it used to be last year. The main reason for this is our removal of the San Andreas Multiplayer Official list, which is used by most new players as an indication which servers are worthy to play on. This has an immediate effect to Las Venturas Playground, being that we won't receive many new people who start to play the multiplayer modification. Nevertheless, on a daily basis there still are an average of 65 players online, which still means enough people to do that single cool minigame with. Although we expect the average to drop some more, it certainly doesn't mean the end of our server: Las Venturas Playground has a steady player base, with the gangs and minigames associated with them.
Next to that, there are a number of plans pending for the future as well. Development of Las Venturas Playground 3.0 has actively started, and a number of new developers have recently been recruited to speed up the actual developing process. The final feature list shows some very unique and entertaining items, including a variety of new minigames, gameplay aspects as well as the introduction of a Role Playing Game part in LVP for the people interested in this. Together with Badeend, I will be leading a team of seven developers to implement everything we need. Betatesting will begin shortly - most likely within the next four weeks, depending on the progress the team has made. The betateam members will be invited based on their post in this topic, without any further notice.
Finally, we also would like to unveil the new Las Venturas Playground logo. It has been used unofficially for the past few months already, however, hereby it has been made official. You will find a number of links under the logo itself, which contain the logo for a black background, as well as a big version and a vector-based version. PSD-files and other formats are available upon request, please contact either Peter of Badeend if you feel you have a reason to receive it.
White background: 150 pixels height - 280 pixels height - vector image
Black background: 150 pixels height - 280 pixels height - vector image
On behalf of the Las Venturas Playground Management,
Peter
A couple of minutes ago another milestone has been reached. With the signup of CheekyJem on the website, we have a total of over thirty thousand registered players. This is not only a huge amount, but also far beyond any expectation I ever dreamed of when starting the server. Sadly we have little to celebrate this event with you, however, we can talk about the current happenings around Las Venturas Playground, as well as the future plans we have with the server.
As you probably have noticed, it's not as crowded on the server as it used to be last year. The main reason for this is our removal of the San Andreas Multiplayer Official list, which is used by most new players as an indication which servers are worthy to play on. This has an immediate effect to Las Venturas Playground, being that we won't receive many new people who start to play the multiplayer modification. Nevertheless, on a daily basis there still are an average of 65 players online, which still means enough people to do that single cool minigame with. Although we expect the average to drop some more, it certainly doesn't mean the end of our server: Las Venturas Playground has a steady player base, with the gangs and minigames associated with them.
Next to that, there are a number of plans pending for the future as well. Development of Las Venturas Playground 3.0 has actively started, and a number of new developers have recently been recruited to speed up the actual developing process. The final feature list shows some very unique and entertaining items, including a variety of new minigames, gameplay aspects as well as the introduction of a Role Playing Game part in LVP for the people interested in this. Together with Badeend, I will be leading a team of seven developers to implement everything we need. Betatesting will begin shortly - most likely within the next four weeks, depending on the progress the team has made. The betateam members will be invited based on their post in this topic, without any further notice.
Finally, we also would like to unveil the new Las Venturas Playground logo. It has been used unofficially for the past few months already, however, hereby it has been made official. You will find a number of links under the logo itself, which contain the logo for a black background, as well as a big version and a vector-based version. PSD-files and other formats are available upon request, please contact either Peter of Badeend if you feel you have a reason to receive it.
White background: 150 pixels height - 280 pixels height - vector image
Black background: 150 pixels height - 280 pixels height - vector image
On behalf of the Las Venturas Playground Management,
Peter