What are the best servers on fivem, which server is good, which is bad? A lot of people that want to start playing GTA 5 Roleplay often asks this question and its something that is kind of hard to answer, let's be real all of us have different opinions, different styles and different things we like in the servers. Personally I have a lot of experience with Fivem Servers so I am making a list of best things that makes a fivem server good!
1. Community.
Let's start from the most important thing, which is community. A lot of servers more or less have same or similar scripts, but what every server has different is it's own community, we have servers that are more or less "gang" type of servers, where majority of people are interested only in illegal - gang type of roleplay, here you will get pressed and you will get humbled.. A LOT. At least from my experience.. Am I a fan of these kind of servers? Well.. Sometimes.. I think its sometimes fun to go around and get some action involved with GTA gangsters, but it wouldn't be a server I would "main". What means a good community for me is a community that doesn't break rules (atleast the most basic ones), doesn't mix IC/OOC, does not Combat Log, or does not RDM, VDM for no reason at all. I think those are very basic things to ask from a server, but i was honestly suprised how often things like these happen in a lot of servers..
2. Custom Cars & Speeds.
Everyone on Fivem Loves cars, let's be real most of us started playing, because you can drive cool cars in the server, however nothing triggers me more than cars that go over 300 miles per hour. I'm not sure if people actually like going that fast that they are not able to control the car anymore, but that is not my cup of tea. One of the best things in my opinion we implemented in 17th Street RP, is the custom made engine stall system, which makes players drive more carefully, meaning if you hit a wall or something your engine will stall X amount of seconds, (X varies from 10sec. to 60sec.) depending on your speed.
3. Economy
Another extremely important thing is the economy in the server, it is one of the hardest things to set, because you need to find a good middle ground, because if people get money too easily, it will become boring, if it's too hard than it's not rewarding enough and people will complain about it once again, well unless it's nopixel, but it wouldn't be wise to compare any server to nopixel to be honest.
4. Scripts & Development
There are really two ways to go with it, either you buy public scripts from other developers or you create scripts yourself or your developer creates them for you. If you are building a new big serious project such as nopixel or prodigy rp than you definitely need to create custom made scripts, if you just started out and want to create something cool without having to spend a full month on one script, than go for public scripts. Bugs is another serious thing that every server owner has to get sorted as soon as possible, especially if the bug is game breaking, talking from my experience I remember when I was using QB Inventory and had a bug that would allow players to duplicate any item that's in inventory, bugs like these might appear and these might destroy the whole server, because imagine, why would you grind for guns, when you can duplicate one into hundred and imagine what kind of outcome one person might have on the server, would be hard to imagine if 10 people were doing the same thing..
5. Events
And one more important thing is Events.. People Loveeee them. It's important to come up with some ideas your community might enjoy, we were hosting a bunch, car meets, fight clubs, party events and so on, its important that admins allows a good giveaway prize that would bring people in, whenever we host an event, i noticed that around 80% of the online players would show up to it, which in my opinion is a good indicator.
So that's gonna be it for this post, i hope you guys enjoyed reading it, maybe this will help you understand what kind of server you want to aim for or even what kind of server you want to create!
If you want to join my server I will leave a discord here: https://discord.gg/17thstreet