Bring back downtime minging

[Jack P]

So, little controversal but back in my older days, when you were fucking around and having fun. I remember making a report on somebody and staff were like "Well it's downtime". ANYWAY, I understand some people want to actually RP at that time too, and that's fair and fine, yesterday early morning I was messing around with some friends(As I often do, especially in the morning), and I realised I might have annoyed somebody, so I went off duty.

Due to this incident certain actions has been taken, I don't really care much for them because I did what I did, so I'm not gonna dispute or whine about it, but here's what I'm trying to get to, if the server is dead, nobody raiding, nobody growing just afk etc, LET people have their fun as long it doesn't affect anybody, now I understand that police did get life alerts, had they asked me to stop I would have in a heartbeat so I didn't annoy them or waste their time, and I think this should be allowed again, it's ridicouless we can't have a bit of fun when there's quite LITERALLY nothing else to do..


TL;DR - Bring back funtime at downtime, as long you don't annoy anybody. If somebody asks you to stop, or atleast stop doing smt near them, honor their request but if not, let people have fun.

 

[Dave]

I’m not entirely sure what the server population drops to during degenerate hours, but the last time I was active around then, it rarely went below ~25 players. While you might find this kind of “messing around” fun, it almost always comes at the expense of others’ enjoyment.

It also reflects poorly on the server when behavior like that isn’t addressed, especially by staff. Imagine a new player joining for the first time: within 30 seconds of spawning, they walk past PD and see someone prop-pushing or shooting randomly. If they then take the time to read the rules, file a report, and a staff member dismisses it as “fine,” what impression does that leave? To them, this so-called “roleplay” server will just seem like a chaotic mess where the staff don’t care about enforcing the rules.

I’m not claiming to be perfect or pretending I’ve never messed around myself. But the key difference is that the potential for consequences always made me ensure that when I did, it never interfered with anyone else’s experience and it was done in isolated areas. If you remove that accountability, people will simply do whatever they want, wherever they want, with no regard for others.

 

[Jack P]

it almost always comes at the expense of others’ enjoyment.

And I would have stoppeed in a heart beat if they requested it, but this is literally a game, even staff fucks about and have fun, if you can't stand that you shouldn't really be around at these hours.

It also reflects poorly on the server when behavior like that isn’t addressed

No, no it does not. A vast VAST majority of players and people understand joking around and having fun. A lot of servers has these downtime mess around sessions and even purge events before server restarts etc, because PEOPLE ENJOY IT. Just cause YOU don't which trust me, you're a vast minority, doesn't mean it reflects poorly. It's been proven over and over again this is smt people enjoy, being able to sometimes, especially if they are JUST messing with their FRIENDS and not randoms.

To them, this so-called “roleplay” server will just seem like a chaotic mess where the staff don’t care about enforcing the rules.

Again downtime and actual gametime is 2 different things, I'm not saying staff should completely avoid rules, it also depends on what's been done but warning/banning over every single rulebreak cause it was inconvenient for 1 single player when he is on his periode should not warrant punishing everybody.

I’m not claiming to be perfect or pretending I’ve never messed around myself. But the key difference is that the potential for consequences always made me ensure that when I did, it never interfered with anyone else’s experience and it was done in isolated areas.

This is perfectly fine, and as I also mentioned, I understand it'll annoy some people and again as mentioned several times. A simple "Please stop" goes a massively long way, if they still continue after then that's where it should be more enforced agree.

 

[Creepis]

2016 flashbacks when banter isn't allowed in bases where every staff member revived each org member but they continued killing

/looc ignore shots


While it's fun it just brings its own problems. Keep it on your own private property and don't get others involved for your enjoyment, I don't care what you do as long as it can be kept between consenting parties. Don't involve guns and cars and it's pretty much whatever.

It also comes to staff discretion but the rules should still be enforced where necessary, and if someone is upset and has been affected by this banter we will most likely seek action or tell you to stop.

 

[roos]

I’m not entirely sure what the server population drops to during degenerate hours, but the last time I was active around then, it rarely went below ~25 players. While you might find this kind of “messing around” fun, it almost always comes at the expense of others’ enjoyment.

It also reflects poorly on the server when behavior like that isn’t addressed, especially by staff. Imagine a new player joining for the first time: within 30 seconds of spawning, they walk past PD and see someone prop-pushing or shooting randomly. If they then take the time to read the rules, file a report, and a staff member dismisses it as “fine,” what impression does that leave? To them, this so-called “roleplay” server will just seem like a chaotic mess where the staff don’t care about enforcing the rules.

I’m not claiming to be perfect or pretending I’ve never messed around myself. But the key difference is that the potential for consequences always made me ensure that when I did, it never interfered with anyone else’s experience and it was done in isolated areas. If you remove that accountability, people will simply do whatever they want, wherever they want, with no regard for others.

Biggest cap ive ever heard “ive never messed around myself” lock in mush

 

[Dave]

Biggest cap ive ever heard “ive never messed around myself” lock in mush

can you even read

 

[rogue]

we will never allow this simply due the fact that there's always 1 person or a group of people that take it too far, then it's a pain for our staff team to deal with when they already have enough to do

 

[Vollgas]

What if someone can only play during downtime due to timezone differences and real life responsibilities, should they arbitrarily be locked out of having a good Roleplay experience because of it?