A New Take on DarkRP - Games

One night I was talking to a friend about Dark RP. We both lamented the fact that the game mode of Garry’s mod has never really evolved. It has been a stagnant wasteland of buying guns and shooting other people with guns. We racked our brains about how could we move this obscure little game mode that could beyond the bull ♥♥♥♥ RDM. We came up with an idea that changes the money dynamic. What if instead of getting money to buy items from players, the players invest money into a new type of economy called Supplies. Think of Supplies as a lifeblood of the economy. To buy a gun you need to go to the gun dealer and buy from his gun shop. Now this isn’t the shop we have all seen before. This is a custom shop that takes supplies and the person can interact without the gun dealer even being present. ***** BIG NOTE***** When I say custom I do not mean we ran to the workshop and downloaded someone’s entity that is a dime a dozen. We hand crafted these using the Lua code. You will not find these anywhere on the workshop. ****************** A big issue with Dark RP is that money seems to come from nowhere. Right not in Dark RP there are two ways to obtain money: Money Printers and Salary. The problem with money printers is that most servers it comes in too fast and everyone is rich. Also, the salary is not a living wage. If you are poor the salary is too slow and if you are rich it doesn’t matter. SO INSTEAD – NO salary. All money will be exchanged from other people or obtained from selling contraband. Supplies ^^^^ The primary movement of the economy is the flow of the supplies. The “Warehouse Manager” will spawn the supply depot (a custom entity). [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/gnGtewn.jpg[/IMG] This machine has 4 buttons on the bottom that allow players to buy supplies. The supply cost can be changed by the warehouse manager for him to profit. The warehouse manager will need to obtain the supplies by allowing other players to work. He can spawn and put funds into supply machine (a custom entity). It is essentially a mini-game that will pay players for working. Remember this is not free money, but comes from the warehouse manager. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/e7skWQs.jpg[/IMG] Gun Dealer ^^^^ The gun dealer has always been the focal point of the Dark RP economy. You need guns to flow through the server to move money across players. One problem with the dealer is that they had their way of screwing the player without them knowing. We have created an entity (Custom) that is a new take on the gun shop. It allows the player to interact with the gun shop without having to deal with the gun dealer. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/dhxE6NP.jpg[/IMG] The red buttons signify that there are not enough supplies to buy that gun or shipment. The gun dealer also gets a sexy little ammo crate (Custom) to sell ammo. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Me7SoKX.jpg[/IMG] The buttons light up when you point to them. It also requires supplies to work. MEDIC ^^^^ The medic was an easy change to do. Both entities are custom to sell health and ammo. This allows the medic to finally get paid for providing a service. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ErvPbWy.jpg[/IMG] Smuggler and Contraband ^^^^ Most servers a player will buy a money printer and make money on the side. In this Dark RP players will need supplies to make their Contraband Printer (Custom) produce contraband. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/F04gWQM.jpg[/IMG] That contraband will have to be sold to the smuggler who gets a small percentage. He also has a very nice custom entity to “Launder” the money. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kcpM0uT.jpg[/IMG] This is another way for money to flow into the economy. COPS ^^^^ It seems that the current motif for the cops is to hang around the PD and just mess around. We decided to change the dynamic by making the only way for cops to receive pay is to go to checkpoints placed around the map by the chief. The checkpoints can also be used by players to call for help. When a player calls for help it will alert the cops to that checkpoint. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/tk5cCo6.jpg[/IMG] A couple things: A chief cannot check in, but he will get some money whenever a cop does. A cop cannot check into the same place twice. So he much move around the map patrolling. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BKPdywl.jpg[/IMG] All these ideas are still changing. Every day for the past two months my friend and I have worked to use Lua and our minds to think of new ways to progress this Game mode. Now, we need people to test these. To see if this economy can be sustainable. But it also puts something else on the community. Do you really want change? Join us on the server. DarkRP by Fox – Custom Economy – Beta Join our Foxlawz gaming group too! IP Address: 74.91.113.77

What about the community it self? Do they behave and roleplay atleast decently? Sure the flashy features on the entities might be nice, but let's be honest; What really matters here is the juicy roleplay content.

What matters most IMO is that people actually [B]roleplay[/B] their characters. Actual roleplaying is something that's missing in most darkrp servers I've seen. You have all these things that "force" people to sort of roleplay but honestly, the most important thing are the people on your server, and whether they actually joined to roleplay or to fuck around and play some shitty level-gaining RPG (like pretty much all the servers advertised in this section are this). By roleplaying I don't mean HL2RP /me shit but just sticking to your roleplaying your character. It's not that much asked for people who joined an RP server. [editline]16th July 2014[/editline] I really like this economy stuff , but if you make an RP server it should be about roleplaying. I don't know know if yours is, maybe I should've tested it before writing all this.

I whana play cop on this server. Cops have been so boring in most Dark RP servers so hopefully this checkpoint system changes it some.

The cop checkpoint thing will probably cause cops to go to checkpoints rather than actually help stop crimes, even if one is witnessed on the way to a checkpoint.

This doesn't look half bad, congrats on having a non coderhire-custom DarkRP server.

Hey guys, Fox here. I'm the owner of the server, as you can tell by the server name in the first post. Please keep in mind that all of what you see is only beta. We are taking in everyone's suggestions and adding new concepts and ideas all the time. Like for instance, we are currently working on a whole hacking system that interacts with the machines. We are also working on casinos that involve Slot machines and other gambling features. I understand that the community can make or break a good server and we completely agree. Hopefully that in the future we can have a blossoming community with forum and server interaction. We also have a wiki that's in the works and you can check that out at [B]Wiki.foxlawz.com[/B]. You can also check out the forums at [B]foxlawz.com/forums[/B]. Find a bug or have a suggestion? Post it at [B]bugs.foxlawz.com[/B] and we will check it out! I hope to see all you guys on the server! And if you see what you like, help us out and tell a friend! Want to contact me? Friend request me on steam [URL="https://steamcommunity.com/id/Foxfire28/"]here[/URL].

This actually looks pleasing, that there are still some people that take their time to code decent addons for DarkRP. Away with all this coderhire garbage! Good job.

I gotta say im actually amazed with the detail put into this, looks good keep it up!

this isnt bad either

You did a great job on these addons! (although they look somewhat complicated to work with)

Nice...A non-CoderHire server with some actual custom stuff.

Been playing on this server for a couple days, really well done.