Happy Holidays & A Special Announcement!

[Nutter 15,158]

I wish all you Garfield Gamers happy holidays; whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, or nothing at all!

I hope you take this time to relax at home, with a break from everyday work or school. Our management team extends their warmest wishes for a joyful holiday season to all you players who have supported us over the years.

 

This brings me onto 4 fucking phenomenal things to announce.

StarwarsRP

We have managed to have the server online for exactly 1 year today, I would love to have a big celebration, but realistically, everybody will be celebrating the holidays with their family - and I don't want anybody to feel obligated to sit infront of their monitors this holiday season, so I will reserve this huge celebration to a later date (early January). Our server is BY A HUGE margin the most content-filled server in the category, over-developed to even make me question if we should make our own stand-alone game in a different engine, with everything we've got going

This trend will NOT slow down anytime soon, instead, our server will continue to get new items for our character customization system, more optimizations, and new features, such as MMO-style quests!

 

DarkRP

What can I say? we got rid of MANY problematic people who abused our community to no-end over the past few months - we have effectively been cleansing the server of bad individuals. For nearly 2 years, we had a server sitting at 128/128 (which is very impressive) however, atleast 40 of those would be just 5 individuals and their alts, destroying our server's economy and selling their in-game currency for Crypto/Venmo/PayPal cash. This tore into our community, and previous leaderships actively encouraged this behavior to continue, because that was their easiest way of demonstrating they did a good job at maintaining high numbers for our population - unfortunately while doing 0 to prevent this behavior from being exploited via selling this cash. Well, now that these individuals are banned, and our new server leadership consists of @Derpza and @Merk, I have found that it is far more fun to play with 60-90 GENUINELY active members who are doing things other than mass-printer farming within their base walls. Our server is one of the most stable servers in the category at this point in time, I am actively fixing exploits with the help of our managers, you can get on knowing there's 128 players online, and yet still get 300/300FPS . This server has been a staple of ours, and will be celebrating its 10th year anniversary in about 8 months!

There is a potential DarkRP 2.0 server coming up sometimes soon, which will blow any other DarkRP server in the category out of the water, with an extreme amount of custom content  if you want to know what it'll look like, join our StarwarsRP server to get an idea. (HINT: Character customization)

 

MilitaryRP 

With the help of @Ozzy (who as it turns out will unfortunately be leaving our community to carry on with life next month), I have decided to bring the server back on its feet, with the most unique content that anybody has seen in the MilitaryRP category - genuinely. I am so thrilled to announce this significant leap forward; not only branching into the "Nutscript" gamemode and away from DarkRP, but also the sheer amount of content we will provide. This much-anticipated revamp of our old server is anticipated to have an open-beta shortly. 

We will no longer have 2 sides just fighting a glorified TDM match that spans 30 minutes, but we will also have civilians running around taking care of their everyday life, fishing, manufacturing drugs, delivering main, and many more tasks...

This attempt would have not been possibly without @AlexConway who stepped in when I started feeling overwhelmed with Ozzy's inevitable departure, and started questioning whether the server should even be brought back. Conway has shown an INSANE commitment and visions for what the server should and could be, bringing a breath of fresh air to the team,leading me to.. (and I can't believe I'm writing this)

 

Welcoming Our community's Second-in-Command, @AlexConway 

This little rodent has been on-and-off my best friend in the community for a few years, we have gone through more heartbreaks and periods of blocking eachother than even your parents - and it's hard to believe we're here . Just 8 months ago if you told me that Conway will one day be the second highest figure in this community, i'd tell you to lay off the pipe (and that I can't believe he's unbanned in the first place) but here we are today.

Conway has been a member of our community for a VERY long time (I believe 7 years at this point) always showing an interest in growing the community as a whole, and expanding. Since rekindling our friendship last year, and after nearly a full year of his FULL dedication to StarwarsRP by heavy restructures and bringing it up a notch in terms of content/management/overall professionalism, I'm for once finding that I'm able to take a step back from my PC when needed, while resting assured that everything is in working order because Conway has it handled. Not only this, but no matter what time of the day it is, if I post "HEY GUYS, I NEED HELP" across the DarkRP, Military, and StarwarsRP discords, 9/10 Conway is the first one to message back saying "What do you need?" - even when he's at work. This has been the case since his return, and it's been SUCH A NICE CHANGE.

 

Alex, your contributions have been on a complete different level from any previous leadership we've had, you spend the extra time training people to take positions as you see fit (rather than trying to assume full control of a given server) and this brand new approach has paid tons of dividends, as our SWRP and DRP servers have an incredibly friendly team of staff with minimal problems (as compared to the past) knowing they can reach out to myself and you for a second opinion as needed. In addition to this, using you for second opinions has always proved to be the right approach, as atleast in my scenario, you seem to know exactly how to tweak something I worked on to make it look that much nicer - (I assume this is because you're homosexual), but regardless, thank you for all the countless hours spent moving a UI 3 pixels over, just so it's "PERFECTLY ALIGNED". I'm looking forward to our future working on the community together (half homo), and hopefully soon, branching into FiveM .

 

On some more personal news, pertaining to what I had written about Conway above,

I finally have enough freedom from the server to where after 4 years and a pandemic, I will be returning back to college in this upcoming Summer semester to hopefully become a Physical Therapist  (fingers crossed I get accepted). I also picked up a part-time job where I teach guitar some days of the week, which will be such a nice change, reclaiming my life after 10 years of nearly consistent 70-100 hours a week of staring at a PC screen, working on Garry's Mod and Rust servers.

 

I hope this new year proves to be just as nice for all of you, and once again, thank you for supporting our now almost 10 years old community

 

Warmest Regards,
Nutter

[Captainswag 894]

Lots of good news here. Glad to see how all things are looking great across the network right now! 

 

Congratulations to you Conway and I'm happy you and Garn are back to working with each other fully!

 

And good on you for returning to college Garnet, I wish you the best of luck in your studies!

 

As for everyone else, I hope you all have a good winter season and have good endeavors during it!

[AlexConway 1,147]

55 minutes ago, Nutter said:

This little rodent

I- 
 

It's been a pleasure working with you over this near year, truly we hit a stride - and I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to comeback and assist, and now do the same thing at a whole new level, this time whilst you're away at college, and part-time.

 

59 minutes ago, Nutter said:

You seem to know exactly how to tweak something I worked on to make it look that much nicer - (I assume this is because you're homosexual)

I always find it funny when during development we both scream at each other, but I'd like to think its the compassion we share for the community. 

This will probably be one of the best Christmas gifts I'll get this year, surrounded by amazing teams across the servers, both In-Character and Administration wise. I hope you have all have a very Merry Christmas

[Failed401 64]

can't wait for Conway Gaming starwars rp extravaganza 

[Kicks 254]

3 hours ago, Nutter said:

Just 8 months ago if you told me that Conway will one day be the second highest figure in this community, i'd tell you to lay off the pipe

Man, I log back in after a while to see the man himself that made SWRP the greatest has returned, I may need to hop back on the 501st SWRP grind...

Can't wait to see my beloved 501st First Squad back 

[AlexConway 1,147]

1 hour ago, Kicks said:

Can't wait to see my beloved 501st First Squad back 

Already is back! 

[tdizz 1,058]

merry Christmas

Edited December 25, 2023 by tdizz

[Fat Good BOI 205]

NICE

 

also alex been a W on darkrp me and him base sometimes and have fun being bankers and stuff

[special 318]

5 hours ago, Nutter said:

Welcoming Our community's Second-in-Command, @AlexConway 

"Now I am become power, the destroyer of roleplay"

Edited December 25, 2023 by special

[1998Corolla 325]

I remember seeing the server at like 100 people and thinking "Hell yeah lets fucking go" only to see a few people actually roaming around doing things, so server population considered even when I see what was normally not a normally high population I see more activity around DRP from the previous high count. Shoutout to @AlexConwayfor coming into DRP and helping out, and on the Director role. 

 

Also, 

 

9 hours ago, Nutter said:

 

There is a potential DarkRP 2.0 server coming up sometimes soon, which will blow any other DarkRP server in the category out of the water, with an extreme amount of custom content  if you want to know what it'll look like, join our StarwarsRP server to get an idea. (HINT: Character customization)

 

I've seen another server pop up in my favorites for GDRP (Since Garnet was the only favorite) and was wondering if it might allude to something. Not sure if related or not but cool to see. 

 

Lastly, where's the City RP update?

Edited December 25, 2023 by 1998Corolla

[Horse 350]

Nice to see and re-confirm that people are capable of change. I for one have seen significant improvement in Conway’s motivation and dedication to the server despite me and him having a rough past he’s been extremely supportive recently. I hope to see a new era of MRP blossom backed with a new- confident management team. Good looks.

[Dan Gardner 346]

happy holiday garnet people

[Monkey_withagun 186]

USA USA USA AMERICA FREEDOM AMERICANS ARE FALLEN ANGELS SENT DOWN BY GOD TO RECLAIM HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH USA USA USA

[eli_ 641]

Great to see the servers going strong after years of playing in this community. While I don't play anymore, hope all things continue to move forward and glad you finally get to step away from the shitstorm that can be the GMod community. Cheers to 2024, Garnet!

Edited December 25, 2023 by eli_

[KingMash 388]

On 12/24/2023 at 2:54 PM, Nutter said:

60-90 GENUINELY active members who are doing things other than mass-printer

 

There use to be a certain time at night when all the alts would log out and you'd have like 50 players online but everyone was there and roleplaying. It was peak RP tbh. @Ghostieee and I called those hours the International hours since we'd have people from all over the world on.