Perspectives

[Nutter 15,155]

Just one of these sentimental posts I'd like to be able to reflect back on in a few years unless I die to covid-19.

 

This time last year (and the years before) I was a terrible leader/community owner who wasn't very receptive to criticism, stuck in his ways, and not all that active. Around that time (and the years before) Garnet very very stagnant having had only 2 servers, being DarkRP and MilitaryRP, both of which were struggling to get past 60-80 players at certain times for nearly 6 years. It has gotten to a point where I spoke to players/friends who I considered  close to me about shutting down the server due to its financial burden on myself as well as the fact that I was not able to dedicate enough of my time to it due to medical school. Many people retaliated telling me how much the community was meant to them, and I decided to take a year off of university (originally it was intended to be only a single semester, if you manage to find the forum post) to see what I could improve upon if I were to fully dedicate myself to the community. Literally my life since then has purely consisted of waking up, working out, grabbing a cup of coffee, and spending my day on my computer talking to players on Teamspeak/Discord, finely tweaking the servers, attempting to create content from scratch with lua for the first time, and mapping. (not to mention how bad it is now with Corona going on and having NOTHING else to do haha)

 

Truthfully, this all paid off as this year we're looking at 12 servers most of which are at near full capacity, with a whopping playercount of over 1000 concurrent players, with over 10,000 different users joining in a day. Thanks to @421 sm0k meth and a few others such as Dan Gardner I was able to finally get Rust populated and set up properly after literally blowing a $5,000 hole in my pocket, due to the fact I knew nothing or Rust and lacked the time to dedicate to fit. Thanks to @shrimp who came back after being gone for nearly a year, MilitaryRP is once again being roleplayed on with the narrative our awesome event server set.  Shrimp also dedicates hours of his free time towards it PURELY to bring a smile to you guys' face. Thanks to @Phantom and his dedication I was able to get StarwarsRP up and running after 3 fucking years, and only the future will show what's in store for that server, but it's looking promising.

 

It was literally 3 months ago that I took pride in the fact that our community had double itself in size, but since then, we have become nearly tenfold of what we were just 12 months ago. Some achievements we've reached since literally the beginning of 2020 include:

 

MilitaryRP finally accumulated enough maps to have a proper map rotation (Chaharikar, Taiga, Siberia, Delta, Echo)

Rust Sierra 2x had 400 players online and over 300 in the queue (must've been a record of some sorts?) regardless, it made me very proud.

DarkRP #2 launched seeing as our primary server was at full capacity of 128/128 for HOURS out of the day

StarwarsRP re-launched after 3 years of being down with tons of money invested into its content

I had just purchased our first ever EU servers to try and expand our community internationally

 

 

Going through the forums it's insane to me the number of people who I come by that have stuck around for over 3 years, and I am extremely thankful for that. With the return of StarwarsRP I've been seeing an influx of "veteran players" who have not been online in YEARS making a return, and I thank you for giving Garnet Gaming a try again! hope you're not disappointed.

[Malmood 33]

You've got a hell of a thing going man! Keep up the good work!

 

[Ching 51]

You've come very far, I would've never expected the community to be this big 4 years ago. We only have more room to grow. Proud to be apart of it. 

Edited April 10, 2020 by chingchew

[Jared Cox 650]

Don’t thank us for sticking around. We wanna say thank YOU for being dedicated to making our experience a fun one.

[WhiteBolt 33]

The memories and fun times I have on the is what brings me back everyday to play, and I'm thankful for that. Thank you Garnet 

[Ziggy 1,353]

Really everyone has learned a lot over the years, me especially. I used to be one of the biggest critics of this community even though I loved to be apart of it. It led to nothing good, but after that second chance, now I’m doing my best to help out around SWRP/MRP. I’m fucking ancient in this community and a year ago when I was banned, I never thought I’d be back here leading a bunch of new guys on SWRP. It’s crazy how things change. 

[Nutter 15,155]

56 minutes ago, Bishopil said:

Really everyone has learned a lot over the years, me especially. I used to be one of the biggest critics of this community even though I loved to be apart of it. It led to nothing good, but after that second chance, now I’m doing my best to help out around SWRP/MRP. I’m fucking ancient in this community and a year ago when I was banned, I never thought I’d be back here leading a bunch of new guys on SWRP. It’s crazy how things change. 

You can say that twice for @shrimp. Never thought i'd be sitting in a Teamspeak room talking to this bastard for 10 hours

[blooms 50]

I’ve only been apart of the community for a month and some change. I have to admit I downloaded GMOD again just to mess around and ended up going on the darkRP server and pressing the “ESC” key and saw militaryRP and that immediately peaked my interest as I’m still currently serving and I’m into that stuff. Joined in and got hooked immediately and have meet some amazing people and have made a good amount of friends. After work I log into the server everyday and I have loved every second of it 

Thank you Garnet for creating this community and for spending countless hours on the server. 

Edited April 10, 2020 by blooms

[eli_ 641]

Don't need to thank people for sticking around. We all need to thank you for building this community and even being so dedicated you took a year off of medical school to get some shit done. 

THANK YOU!

[PrisonNightmare 741]

The community really has grown significantly in such a short period of time, I'm glad to see everything is working out so far. Keep up the great work Garnet, I'm happy to have been apart of this community for so long.

[shrimp 764]

2 hours ago, Garnet said:

You can say that twice for @shrimp

Not in a million years did I ever even think that I would ever be back here with this sorry bastard, yet here I am.  Been three years since I joined this community, here's to a few more.

[Dillan 750]

I've played with this group long enough to get my hs dioloma, my degree, and leo certifcation. Can't imagine not.

[Yamagataa 42]

Started playing on this server the end of my sophomore year and got staff that summer, it's crazy that i'm here now at the end of my senior year. Time goes by fast! Glad to be apart of this wonderful community! Thank you Garnet for the memories and the more to be made!

Edited April 10, 2020 by Yamagataa

[Spooky 116]

Been in this community since 2017 leaving and coming back. But one thing for sure is that I made dozen of new friends and people to talk to.

I'm really happy to come back now with @TJ__ and help you garnet with DarkRP 2

[National 169]

I’ve been in this community on and off since December of 2017, and you’ve done nothing but amazing for this community! I’ve been considering coming back with all the great changes I’ve seen