What is going right?
Things seem to be more calm and serious versus the normal chaos of CWRP. There has been a marked improvement[save for recent days] from the staff and players that is pretty encouraging. People are actually starting to roleplay and acting as they should in the roles that they have. There's still that element of goofy fun to keep that BLN flair going, with the somber undertones that Halo brings.
There seems to be more effort due to the lack of EMs. The double-time has kind of pushed a lot of effort onto people and it kinda shows. The rivalries tend to be mostly harmless save for maybe one, and most of the drama IC stays IC.
Absolutely unheard of back on CWRP not including a couple specific scenarios.
Unlike the CWRP server it's not been bogged down by years of 'lore' and history. It's a fresh new slate for you to write on and many people have been making beautiful drawings on it. Literally.
Seeing what people have been doing, taking what they knew from CWRP and applying it to HaloRP has been pretty fucking neat. Acapella being the best example I can think of when it comes to that.
There's been a shitton more PassiveRP here without encouragement than I've ever seen in my entire time on CWRP.
I don't just mean BLN CWRP. I mean CWRP period.
People are constructing and fleshing out their characters[At least in Spartans/AI, along with a few chads in the infantry], almost like something someone would do on a roleplay server.
I think I said that already. Well shit.
There seem to be a lot more opportunities for character growth and plots to develop as well but that might just be because of what I do when I get on and who it's been around.
there's a few other things but my wrist hurts so i'm gonna just leave it with this
What is going wrong?
Content Pack is a joke. Combining the both of them without trimming off what isn't necessary has lead to issues with newer players joining and learning they need TWO INCOMPLETE content packs in order to see almost everything. Even still missing quite a bit because the CWRP hasn't been updated.
Server seems to be dead later in the evening due to a lot of EMs normally up at that time not wanting to or aren't willing to play on the server. That's somewhat fair. But at the same time it's still a problem as to where there's 30 people on and absolutely nothing is going on.
Relying on the entire playerbase[Especially this one] to come up with it's own bullshit to keep themselves occupied has obviously not worked in the past. Granted, it's not as bad as it would be on CWRP. There are still people doing things, but it's still noticeable.
That also ties into the fact that apart from ODST Bullfrogs I see absolutely nothing happening that circles around the marines/forecon/nORMIes in terms of events or even training. That's not to say BF do a lot either, most of this boils down to inactive leadership or just lack of interest.
Speaking of lack of leadership, even now the Covenant Runaways[soS] are still a pretty chaotic mess. A chaotic mess that could've been prevented if there was an actual leader apart from that one character Resh had. No, the solution isn't just having Resh as the permanent leader either. Unless he wanted to I guess.
Even still, they've been notoriously mingy even during peak hours when you're supposed to, you know, not do that. Because of no leadership there's been little to no discipline going on. Plus some of the favorites mentioned in the last community meeting have been doing/perpetuating it which just causes more problems.
The start of the server was pretty fucking bad, I'm not gonna lie. I don't mean launch day - Although seeing it restart ten times over because no one apparently bothered to stress test or test the server at ALL didn't help.
I mean the machinima this was going to be based on being paraded as gospel and then suddenly dumped at the last second for a more unclear timeline. I understand that Resh wanted SoS to be put in earlier but sweet mother of fuck please decide on this a month or so in advance.
Just so everyone's on the same page and there's less confusion than what's going on.
The speediness and lack of clarity on where we are in the timeline is also kind of a bother, since now it just seems like we're permanently in between Halo 3 and Halo 4. Which is fine, just be more clear about it and don't rely on exclusively the discord to explain these things.
Fireteams are more than one color. They don't have to be power rangers. Most of the S3s were already fairly muted colors[save for our Medic] and now we just look like angry traffic cones. But it ain't piss yellow, so.
In the past 5 days the amount of mingery has skyrocketed even during peak hours. Something that's been happening since launch is an increased amounted of fucking around with vehicles and crashing them into people who are obviously trying to do things. Such as either roleplay or train. Believe it or not it's really not that funny. It's annoying.
It was said in the last community meeting that Resh would improve on his fucking around. I've seen none of it here.
ONI
Just ONI.
Were the events great so far?
Although things were off on a rocky start, I will say that the events done by Void have been... Interesting to say the least. He actually let's players interactions matter in his own dorky way and it just kinda works. Decisions matter.
Giant's have also been fun and creative, not to mention somewhat worth investing in.
Pluto's also been doing something but literally no one has noticed and to me that's the funniest fucking thing.
Apart from these three, they've been okay. Even the ones I've mentioned have had mostly 'good' to 'ok' to 'eh' events.
How could we improve HaloRP next time?
Make a new content pack and don't just copy paste from an old server. Especially if it's considerably old.
Decide on what timeline you're using long before you launch the server and be absolutely crystal clear on how it should run.
Encourage your EMs to go out of their comfort zone and actually try out the new thing instead of just... Watching as all but 3 go on LOA because they're scared of shooty shooty bang game.
Test out your server and make sure it works before you launch it. This is gmod 101.
really just address what i brought up at least somewhat seriously
don't blue ball me with actual good rp like this i genuinely have enjoyed myself here mother please
believe it or not although a lot of this post is really negative i have actually loved the time that this server has been up and it's been some of the most fun i've had on gmod in a while. that might be limited to just me because of who i've been around and how things have been operated. i still have enjoyed the shit out of it and would hope that it returns sometime soon.
no i'm not saying have a second server because BLN is not and probably will never be healthy enough to sustain that.
not for a while at least.
honk
Edit to add:
Locking threads because you don’t want to read ‘big posts’ is dumb.
You are dumb
I am dumb.
This is dumber.
The one time I actually somewhat gush is the one time you actively prevent it from being posted.
no fucking wonder people think i’m a negative nancy.
As a wise man just said 2 seconds ago
“Wow, don’t you just love hearing ‘i dont wanna hear what you have to say because i’m lazy’?”
Half of these problems have also kinda been caused by that philosophy. Go figure.