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Me and @Deag met up got trashed then went to 6 flags together the next day. Real friend in my book. Still waiting on @{GG} CJ to pull up

You know how to get in touch if you ever want to play like league. Regardless of you're disgusting sense of humor, you seem like a pretty chill guy. I wouldnt worry about this type of stuff, showing this much toxicity simply because you decided to cheat on a game says more about them. Give people with social anxiety a keyboard and a screen and suddenly everyones trying to pop off. Also, i'm inclined to believe that you started hacking in November. Because the lord knows you weren't throwing up anything impressive in my MARSOC(joke)

It allows up to 4 people on the whitelists at one time. However, you can give it to as many as you see fit. Unless something has changed. But regardless of that, there is no way Garnet will allow people to buy permanent factions for the simple fact that there are a lot of people would buy it.

Then we're at an impasse. At this point I agree with you fundamentally 100%. Under @CodyDrax I trained hard to get into MARSOC, and the feeling you get after failing a few times is really good. So I carried that ideology into my own reign. I also made sure that my players behaved to a certain expectation. Do I think factions would perform way better with higher behavioral standards? Of course. However, I never thought that it was my place to force other leaders to maintain the same standards that I had in place. If you're trying to get SOC's in a healthier position, I'd recommend talking to the leaders and offering advice instead of trying to go over their heads and force it on them. I don't know if you play US or RU, but I know if you held a meeting among leaders to talk about this stuff, your side will start dominating compared to the counter part. And once that happens, the other side will have no other choice than to conform. I'm just trying to say there are multiple ways to deal with this issue that you have without causing a complete "overhaul" Edit: Just to clarify I don't mean to imply that I think you have bad intentions, simply offering other solutions compared to complete staff monitoring. I wish you were around to see where I'm coming from, but I watched 3 factions get wiped based on 1 manager's opinion on the players within the faction. Once a staff member fucks up that bad, it's a little hard for anyone to be willing to put themselves in the position for that to be able to happen again.

Lol, throughout my entire time on the server, I kept the mentality that everyone else was trash. However, I didn't go to the extent to try and get everyone wiped because of it. You're not going to find enough star players on the server to fill soc factions. Part of joining a soc is to get better while in the SOC faction. Now if the leader isn't doing what they need to be doing, Gildarts can look into it. But if a leader has "bad" players, thats a little subjective. If they aren't breaking the rules, and they aren't terribly inactive, I don't think that's anyone elses call but the leaders themselves

If you go back and read my recommendation, it was to implement what you wanted, but without wiping anyone. My main reasoning being that people will just get back into their faction either way. That's not me saying just leave it where it's at. That's me saying gradual systematic change will bring more positive results then a dramatic 8-9 faction wipe

Not going to split hairs with you. Minus a few mistypes about you thinking option B is stupid, I've covered exactly why I personally believe both of your options are stupid. You've spread your arguments and have gotten way too defensive immediately to try to get anything accomplished. Personally I believe you're wrong, and I said why.

If this is a suggestion simply to reform the abuse of handpicking into soc factions, I'd +1. However, if it's a suggestion to allow "higher ups"(As that word has been thrown around, but no one has suggested a formal rank) to start micro-managing/puppetting faction leaders, it's a no from me. As you've said, Option B would be server suicide. Unless you're telling me that Gildarts or Garnet himself would handpick leaders for factions, that would just put factions in the hands of "vets with clout" who will leave in 2 months time. Argue all you want, this is tried and true. Latest example less than 2 weeks ago, GB. I won't continue on about that, because you yourself has said that Option B is stupid. Here's why I personally think Option A is equally stupid. Keeping the same leaders and wiping the enlisted won't improve anything, it will only serve as an unnecessary disruptor. Telling faction leaders all of their faction members are gone will cause 1 of 2 things. 1, the faction leaders will leave. Or more likely 2, faction leaders will get the same people who were removed back into their faction regardless of the amount of time it takes. TL:DR It will do nothing but make it take about 2 weeks to get back to where you are in the current moment. My recommendation is to not wipe anyone from any faction, and instead implement the rules as a "clean slate". No one gets removed, no one else gets handpicked. Shaming handpicking is cool and all, but it would be completely ignorant to say "anyone who was handpicked regardless of when doesn't deserve to be in their faction. Throughout my time as general I had some regrettable handpicks, but I'd say majority of them significantly helped out the faction throughout their stay, "earning" their spot so to speak. There's no need to dramatically hit the server with roster wipes when you can just implement systematic rules to promote gradual change on top of it.

It's been a while, but i'm pretty sure warns clear after 2 weeks lol. Unless a user has 3 or 4 active warns at the time of making an application, it's really just nit picking.

I mean yeah, the whole "people are sheep" is a real concept, scary even. Any idiot can join the staff team and start taking over. Because, like you're insinuating, not many people will stop them. That's why I'm simply stating that players should start talking about the "problems" being tossed around, before someone just as incompetent as them starts applying the solutions.

In a perfect world, I could agree. In a non perfect world the management team will clique up, wipe anyone they don't like, and only resign after being completely pushed out by the community. Staffing cannot be preventative, it has to be reactionary. If you look at the track records of "staff oversight", Trips DF was the first faction that was "staff ran". Trip was micro managed and eventually wiped not for anything he or anyone in his faction did, but because of staff's opinions on the players that were in the faction. I'm not too down for maining garry's mod anymore, but if I was I'd much rather join a server where the opinion of the collective mattered compared to the opinion of 1 or 2 members of the staff team.

You and I both know that your ban was always broken. There was a time of what, a month, where you would just spam connect, talk shit in ooc until you were gagged and perma jailed. Then you would rinse and repeat the next day. If you're trying to come back, I don't recommend starting it off with a lie is all.

Yes, yes you did

Throughout my time as General and even as an officer, I tried and (would say) succeeded to keep 1MD and MARSOC as a solid faction to lead the way in terms of leadership, management, and accountability. To push a seperate agenda, I would say a lot of this was possible due to little to no staff interference within the faction. My perspective of it was that while everything was falling apart or going through rapid change, MARSOC and marines would remain at a comfortable constant in strength and general maturity(As much as one can when it comes to playing a Garry's mod server). Although it's not my problem, nor am I in the position to care, I will say this is pretty disappointing. I haven't talked to anyone about what happen, but from an outside perspective it sure looks bad.

made my day