DarkRP Moving Forward

[eXg-Buddha 729]

As I mentioned in our previous staff meeting, I wanted us to put our heads together in order to add new content and gameplay to the currently stagnant DarkRP

Hello everyone! I've been playing GG DarkRP for almost 3 years now, and have pretty much experienced all there is to the server. That being said, these last couple of months especially, I have seen a stagnation of the current playstyle in DarkRP. Currently, from my POV, all that happens is basing and raiding. While this may be fun for some of you, it eventually gets old (as I found out last year), and it leaves you with nothing to do once you step outside of the basing/raiding realm of DarkRP. The point of this post is to gather ideas of what you would like to see on DarkRP. Whether it be an emphasis on RP, or more events, please explain in this thread what YOU would like to see added to the current DarkRP gameplay. 

 

Things to NOT suggest in this thread include the following:

Buffing printers/Raid tools

Jobs like DJ, or similar jobs

Vague ideas, such as "more prestige jobs", or "more ways to make money". Try to be specific and lend some examples

A casino, or other ideas that have been scrapped/removed

 

To get this thread started, here is what I would like to see in the currently stagnant DarkRP gameplay -

Large scale events, possibly involving NPCs, that require teamwork from the players in order to complete.

Organized crime families controlling the PD, directing every action.

A dictator mayor who strikes fear into citizens, and players are required to make a resistance and overthrow the government.

More player involvement in events.

 

Currently, all I see people doing is basing, making money, raiding, making money. This gets stale fast. It just doesn't last. I tried to do this for a very long time, and saw myself having less and less fun on the server. Now that I've stopped basing and raiding, I often find myself with nothing to do on the server. No one wants to duel. No one participated in the events I create. Every time I try to talk to people inside a base, I get instantly sniped because I am past their KOS. DarkRP has turned into a bunch of clans, running around and making money. If you aren't in this closed loop of basing and raiding, the server doesn't offer much else. And those who try to get more involved, including actual RP aspects into the gameplay, are often simply ignored by those too busy farming money. 

I will make sure to bring up everything in here during the staff meeting, which currently looks to be held on May 1st, 2020. If enough good ideas are expressed on the thread, I will bring them up with Garnet and see how he feels about implementing these ideas. Thank you for your feedback!

[Fetn 1,217]

You could give the idea to garnet to add a purge system like other servers in which ever hour or so a purge for 15 or so minutes in which everyone can kill each other with nothing to stop them at all. 

[HOT-GIRL 50]

What if we where to add a refund system for people who loose their items in game and if they where truly rdmed and opened a case we can do a refund for that item. just a idea

[MikeSteele 17]

Rework the rules for Mayor. I’m sick of having the same 2 laws (no guns and no sweps every fucking time)

 

The mayor is locked until level 50. At least allow him to make laws on movement. Give people a REASON to want to kill the mayor.

[IAreGunner 264]

3 hours ago, MikeSteele said:

Rework the rules for Mayor. I’m sick of having the same 2 laws (no guns and no sweps every fucking time)

 

The mayor is locked until level 50. At least allow him to make laws on movement. Give people a REASON to want to kill the mayor.

The only way the mayor system would work in my opinion Is if there were more raiding tools or just stricter building rules for the mayor. Like whatever happen to the EMP, was going to be such a huge update for raiders.  Adding raiding tools to where it makes it easy to raid It's the only thing that I could see that actually really is going to benefit people to wanting to actually raid places like the PD, not just to kill the cops but to actually get in and kill the mayor.

[MeLikeFood 39]

On 4/30/2020 at 3:35 AM, HOT-GIRL said:

What if we where to add a refund system for people who loose their items in game and if they where truly rdmed and opened a case we can do a refund for that item. just a idea

That sounds like a great idea aside from the fact we would need proof because that would cause people teaming up that are friends in order to get like 30k guns

[Cameron 46]

Ive also been apart of the DarkRP off and on for 3 years and I agree and yes the game play of the server is pretty simplistic with just basing and raiding. Again the DarkRP server is pretty vanilla in a sense with the jobs on the server being heavily based around those two aspects, basing and raiding. With this suggestion Buddha im guessing you want players to suggest how to add more RP aspects into a server where printer farming is a boring norm? 

Well, 1 im not sure if NPC controlled events like SWRP would do much benefit in the server performance wise due to the nature of DarkRP being performance enduring with people spawning props and entities. What I do suggest be implemented is Garnets old automated event system (Im not sure what happened to it.) Where players have the option to participate and every X minutes an automated event happens where people have a free for all battle

Ideas for automated events

- RPG

- One Deag

- Crowbars

- D-lores

- Nerve Gas

- Fists

These would be free for all battles where the final victor would take a cash prize.

Things to consider with this though is when being spawned into the event everyone should be stripped of perks and health all forced to 100HP because the perk machine would create an unfair advantage.

On 4/30/2020 at 1:50 AM, eXg-Buddha said:

Organized crime families controlling the PD, directing every action.

Groups like Hydra I find to be alright but people in these groups tend to recruit players with OP set ups (VIP, DB, Nerve Gas, RPG's) and people tend to get an ego because they can just bombard lower level people just starting DarkRP. Although I dont mind the RP aspects of organized crime families I think we should focus on balancing raiding and basing. People shouldn't be allowed to RPG spam a base while there friends take no damage due to friendly fire being on in parties cracking keypads and the person getting raided cant get close to there defenses because of the splash damage. 

 

On 4/30/2020 at 1:50 AM, eXg-Buddha said:

A dictator mayor who strikes fear into citizens, and players are required to make a resistance and overthrow the government.

 Mayor's should have more RP added into them also.

Mayors should be able to control a Tax that can be set from 1%-100% from peoples automated payroll. 

Also when a mayor is on if people want to have a gun out legally they should have a gun license they can purchase from the mayor.

On 4/30/2020 at 2:01 AM, Fetn said:

You could give the idea to garnet to add a purge system like other servers in which ever hour or so a purge for 15 or so minutes in which everyone can kill each other with nothing to stop them at all. 

+1 but I wouldn't do every 15 minutes because the server would be in a perpetual state of chaos 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hours would be more ideal. Also for logs they wont be so flooded if every 15 minutes there was 100+ kills being stacked due to everyone spawning in one place and people having donator weapons. 

 

Since I can only quote 3 people at once Ill address Optic

As for an EMP im for the idea of it being a donator or a /unbox but printers would have to buffed significantly which could be tricky.

Anyone could throw the EMP and virtually enter anyones base untouched. So if we could figure out a way to balance EMP which is open for discussion.  

 

Next suggestion I have which has been accepted is Hostage/Kidnappers

People can RP kidnapping and do a variety of things. People can raid the bank with a hostage and PD have to figure out how to negotiate with the raiders and save the hostage and make sure they dont raid the bank. People can force a negotiate a ransom price with the mayor. With crime families like Hydra being on the server people can kidnap family members bring them back to their base and have Hydra either raid you and get their member back or negotiate a ransom price with their kidnappers.

 

If anyone else has any ideas im more than willing to discuss them with this next meeting coming up

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk