the population pendulum swing

[Trains]

MAYBE ACTUALLY USE REBEL PLAYERS FOR EVENTS INSTEAD OF RAGDOLLS WITH HIGHLY-ADVANCED POSES

it’s really hard to get people to help with events sometimes so you gotta make do with animated props

however

to not play a character at ALL is fucking stupid

 

[Alexander The Great]

it’s really hard to get people to help with events sometimes so you gotta make do with animated props

however

to not play a character at ALL is fucking stupid

honestly, if u ask
i think you'll get more and beyond volunteers than you'd expect

u dont need to even forum it

just pm someone u like ingame, and i have no shadow of a doubt they'll be on your roster
and you'll find quite a lovely event character for future events

@A. Vaher did it
and always has a whole roster for the lovely SPIRE events


just ask ingame

 

[Trains]

honestly, if u ask
i think you'll get more and beyond volunteers than you'd expect

u dont need to even forum it

just pm someone u like ingame, and i have no shadow of a doubt they'll be on your roster
and you'll find quite a lovely event character for future events

@A. Vaher did it
and always has a whole roster for the lovely SPIRE events


just ask ingame

yeah ttue
normally i only ask staff or other event team people

although it’s usually met with absolute silence in op chaf

mfs literally just have the rank to press v

 

[Komchan]

yeah ttue
normally i only ask staff or other event team people

although it’s usually met with absolute silence in op chaf

mfs literally just have the rank to press v

just ask anyone, i'd do it, heck, most would

 

[Numbers]

yeah ttue
normally i only ask staff or other event team people

although it’s usually met with absolute silence in op chaf

mfs literally just have the rank to press v

you dont get it man... i was busy thinking about talking about running something potentially so i couldnt help..

 

[Verräterpackaging]

I really wanna interact with CPs as rebel, gives a new flavour and oppertunities to create lovely stories but it is hard as a rebel to get ahold of anyone because you only meet in s2k

 

[Alexander The Great]

yeah ttue
normally i only ask staff or other event team people

although it’s usually met with absolute silence in op chaf

mfs literally just have the rank to press v

i believe
that having normal players as event characters will get u a much better event characters than getting staff on it

the enthusiasm you'll hear from an ordinary player that will get to experience an event making participation experience
is different to a staff member that has been doing it for a while :)

as much as staff events are lovely,
there's really magic in random volunteers, once you know already the staff personalities


I CANNOT UNSEE the man that plays the character, once i get a feel on their rp, from the way they rp
its like leonardo decarpio, same man, different characters
cant fool me





plus......................
ppl cant outrun their own personality in playing characters

so staff playing an event character eventually u can catch up to who that is

but a random player?
you'll never guess
extra free diverse event character personality

 

[Rabid]

mfs literally just have the rank to press v

At least with staff you can argue they intentionally avoid events knowing that it isn't their wheelhouse.

Wtf is the event team's excuse when they're there to help with events lol

 

[MaXenzie]

Wtf is the event team's excuse when they're there to help with events lol

too busy staffing

 

[Dallas]

the finus factor can't be ignored

HL2RP2 borrows heavily from the formula of the 3 weekish event that ended the helix timeline, which in turn borrowed from ww3rp

the factions are asymmetrical, with greater choice and freedom on the rebels but better structures for roleplay on the union side. i believe that the framework of the union side (copmain kultur of ranks, privileges, rivalries, etc.) gives players an instant sense of progression and satisfaction, this is a side that is also means-tested - you need to be able to pass the application process to play it, there is faction leaders ensuring a level of consistency, guaranteeing that the faction not only has a stable structure to build rp around but it has a consistent tone

compare this to the rebel side: anyone can walk up into your group and talk to you, and that's very egalitarian, but it is hard to create any kind of coherent force to challenge the cmb when you have none of the advantages the cmb structure has (extending to things like supplies, for example - people are driven by self-preservation of their scripts)

the problem as i see it is baked into the formula of the entire server, that we are living a longer version of the final event on helix

 

[Hunk]

it’s really hard to get people to help with events sometimes so you gotta make do with animated props

however

to not play a character at ALL is fucking stupid

i think theres ways around

and Im convinced that using ragdolls as actual characters that have part in the plot is just a way to make events linear and 1 sided (players should be given the freedom of influecing the outcome)



But like i said i dont mind ragdolls its a cool tool to fill the background n improve immersion and i rly like when its used that way...

 

[Hunk]

i think theres ways around

and Im convinced that using ragdolls is just a way to make events linear and 1 sided (players should be given the freedom of influecing the outcome)



But like i said i dont mind ragdolls its a cool tool to fill the background n improve immersion and i rly like when its used that way...

but this is just personal preference

 

[Numbers]

extending to things like supplies, for example - people are driven by self-preservation of their scripts

honestly not as much of the case anymore. some shred of the mentality is still present by hoarding but it's way less severe than it was on previous iterations

people have been able to challenge the combine faction quite well. sometimes so well that they need external special support - and vice versa to the rebels

 

[TheInnkeeper]

honestly not as much of the case anymore. some shred of the mentality is still present by hoarding but it's way less severe than it was on previous iterations

people have been able to challenge the combine faction quite well. sometimes so well that they need external special support - and vice versa to the rebels

from what ive experienced it very much gives off the [in my eyes, correct for the time period] vibe that the combine really ARE on the back foot

 

[Rabid]

Tbf Finus had its own share of problems that exacerbated what went wrong - the allowance for conscripts to bail for almost no reason for almost a week solid, the absolutely abysmal whenever something went poorly (mainly from rebels) and the lack of any real reason for staff to stick around when things went south given the attitudes.

 

['77 East]

Tbf Finus had its own share of problems that exacerbated what went wrong - the allowance for conscripts to bail for almost no reason for almost a week solid, the absolutely abysmal whenever something went poorly (mainly from rebels) and the lack of any real reason for staff to stick around when things went south given the attitudes.

"we need to do something about the mass of cop defections"
"skill issue bro"

faction leaders told me face to face they didn't give a shit since "everything is ending anyway", people broke the rules left and right

about fifteen of them went rogue simping for that union medical worker and almost started a cop/conscript skirmish, I regret not asking @Appetite Ruining Kebab to kill more of them

 

[Komchan]

"we need to do something about the mass of cop defections"
"skill issue bro"

faction leaders told me face to face they didn't give a shit since "everything is ending anyway", people broke the rules left and right

about fifteen of them went rogue simping for that union medical worker and almost started a cop/conscript skirmish, I regret not asking @Appetite Ruining Kebab to kill more of them

that sounds both fun and hilarious butttttt


...Knowing how it goes, it probably wasn't lmao

 

['77 East]

that sounds both fun and hilarious butttttt


...Knowing how it goes, it probably wasn't lmao

They palmed her off to me for a trial, as she was a conscript.

She waved a gun around at a superior officer (& threatened to use it), mouthed off on the radio constantly, nearly got a bunch of people killed and acted like the world's most insufferable stuck up pig frequently.

So, naturally we decided to deal with her, fittingly as she was a fellow conscript, and the cops themselves gave her to us since none of them wanted to do it. Me and some other cop were chosen as the judges and after some discussion, sentenced her to vanish into the mines.

Then a bunch of cops ran in as we were taking her there, claimed she had been designated some bs under overwatch (which was not around, we all knew it), was not to be touched and then threatened to massacre the lot of us if we tried to stop them. Faction leaders did not want to discipline anyone as, quote, "it's all ending anyway".

I consulted with a few people who didn't have dicks for brains, and rather than kowtow to a bunch of simps we just pretended not to care and then ambushed & shot the lot of them. Should have killed more given the defections.

 

[A. Vaher]

yeah ttue
normally i only ask staff or other event team people

although it’s usually met with absolute silence in op chaf

mfs literally just have the rank to press v

I know the pain
It is painful to ask and have your summons greeted by cricket_chirp3.wav
The desolate silence....

 

[OneClassyBanana]

mfs literally just have the rank to press v

Now, now, that's not true.
They also get a shiny yellow name in the Discord.

But no, real talk, the event team has very few actual responsibilities on the server. And their primary responsibility - creating player engagement - can often be fulfilled with just a little creativity and some small setting-centric events here and there. People get so caught up in the drive, or perhaps excuse, of overarching storylines and running riot with ideas that are rarely communicated to the rest of the event team that they utterly neglect just ... doing the little things.

It does not take much to spice things up for a few players each day/night. It really doesn't. Often, the smaller and more intimate goings-on are the ones that can spawn the most interesting character interaction and growth. But the people that allegedly signed on to handle those little things, those small, world-focused events to bring the server's setting to life, have developed a bad habit of just not doing anything period. Let alone actually talk amongst themselves or collaborate if an idea is taking too long to come together.