What is with the modern...seriously.

[Spark910]

Perhaps the problem is, as there always has been, that the division between players and developers have different ideals. Perhaps all these people developing are doing so as that is where they get their kicks, with no realistic intention to make an actual finished product for players to play. So when we all server hop and look at these worlds, as players, people get annoyed at the lack of originality.

But making a working clone of Era, for example, may be hard enough a challenge for the developers that just want to develop. I wouldn't get too stressed, as it's unlikely we'll ever have a server list of "modern" clones!

[DustyPorViva]

I think a lot of it does with the drive to always 1-up someone else giving people more motivation than just doing something original would give.

[Jiroxys7]

I always get the feeling that modern servers are the easiest to make.
All you need to do is come up with a tileset, and a bunch of weapons using shoot. each with a different gfx, speed, and amount of spread to the shots.
LAT an overworld and a few insides..
Then add a few shop and ammo scripts and its pretty much open from there. Cars, gangs and events, etc. can be figured out a little later on from that point.