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Big Bang is 100% correct. He's one of the people that have realised the situation in Garry's Mod "Roleplay". Also the best RP you can get, if you're a true roleplayer, IS LARPing. That's what roleplaying is, that's where it originated from. That's the only TRUE RP you can get.

[QUOTE=LauScript;24306068]Big Bang is 100% correct. He's one of the people that have realised the situation in Garry's Mod "Roleplay". Also the best RP you can get, if you're a true roleplayer, IS LARPing. That's what roleplaying is, that's where it originated from. That's the only TRUE RP you can get.[/QUOTE] Problem with LARPing is that it's like acting but you're not getting paid for it worth shit. I've seen some guys that go into regimes to fit their own characters, like, for the kinda buffed up chars. God knows why, it's like cosplayers, I've actually seen some cosplayers blow a couple hundred bucks on a suit they use ONCE. I actually enjoy GMod RP, due to just how direct can it be while remaining anonymous. You can play a female character ( Why? Story. A male writer usually doesn't limit himself to writing only male characters, some can understand the female psyche and actually not descend into the uncanny valley of female perfection. Vice versa for female writers ), you can play ANY character actually, with a little imagination. Do I consider it dying? Yes. Something like RP can't last for long. RP tends to be played sporadically, nobody can bear being IC for more than a couple of hours without exhausting him or herself out. The main problem with RP is funding, you can't sell an RP game, and by adding schemes like VIP ranks, you remove the freedom that you're meant to have.

Yeah well if it's your hobby, you might as well right? haha.

[QUOTE=LauScript;24305773]So, what other games have you roleplayed in. [I]WOW, SWG, Doom 3 COOP, DOD:S[/I] Also yeah, your server lasted a MONTH. Amazing. [I]Yeah, it was amazing since I took it down because I didn't have the time to administrate it any more.[/I][/QUOTE] Thanks for ignoring the point of my post and further spreading the roleplay philosopher disease.

RP still exists in Gmod, and it is still very much alive, from my perspective anyways. Stop bitching about public RP servers and start a private one, the one I go to has about 17 members or whatever and hasn't shifted that number for years, and we still RP together fine, we do get kinda tired of each-other though.

Well, its the whole, 'no-one can tell the real definition of RP' that is fusterating and I actually had some fun in TnB. I was actually scared the first time I went through the rations line. Then this one time I had over 1,000 in debts and CP's all threatened me to pay it back by the end of the week or else... Though, when you walk around and there seems to be nothing happening, it gets quite boring.

I remember playing on ********'s server quite a lot. It was fun when we were all rebels and had a massive room full of contraband. CP found it and we spent ages hiding from them and being in secrecy. Stuff like that was fun, then they made it so you could only become a citizen and someone had to promote you to a rebel, that's when it got boring. I haven't been there in well over a year so I have no idea what it's like now. [editline]01:26AM[/editline] lol censor

[QUOTE=cbrain;24326910] lol censor[/QUOTE] I laugh at that every time.

Same. I think you were there as CP when I used to play iirc.

[QUOTE=LauScript;24306068]Big Bang is 100% correct. He's one of the people that have realised the situation in Garry's Mod "Roleplay". [B]Also the best RP you can get, if you're a true roleplayer, IS LARPing. [/B] That's what roleplaying is, that's where it originated from. That's the only TRUE RP you can get.[/QUOTE] Sir. Please step out of the vehicle. In all seriousness. Larping is just Silly. There is also no such thing as a "True Roleplayer". [QUOTE=LauScript;24277038]I tried to explain it the best I could, [B]Also for anyone that is interested in trying out a specific style of Arma 2 roleplaying[/B], it's more on the light side, this style is called [B]Realism[/B]. It's [B]extreme re-enactment of a military division[/B], or multiple divisions, with ranks, and the sort. [B]Visit [url]www.17thmeu.com[/url] to apply [/B], and to read for information. You can also connect to the teamspeak with the following information: [b]Adress[/b] ts37.gameservers.com [b]Port[/b] 9125 [b]Password[/b] Canadia I'm in here for any questions you may want to ask about anything, along with the leader and a few members of the unit.[/QUOTE] This is advertising. If its not. Then what is it? [quote]The advertisement isn't hosted by me, nor involved with me, it's simply a good server. It's also not a "roleplay" server, it's more of a tactical server with a sort of "roleplay" feel. [B]And why not advertise a good environment to play in, it's a good example, and if people want to try it, I gave them a place to try it on[/B].[/quote] Its called the Server Advertisement section. You don't have to be the owner to be advertising something. Just because its not related to you doesn't mean its not advertisement. To be back on track. Roleplay was only fun in Gmod9-10ish. It died 2 years ago, and back then. There were no fancy scripts and all that Bullshit. It was all "setname info S.W.A.T" Or whatever.

Talk about melodramatics or what. You guys are treating this like it's a life or death situation. RP isn't dead. You simply don't have good admins or good players.

[QUOTE=foxxeh;24330250]Talk about melodramatics or what. You guys are treating this like it's a life or death situation. RP isn't dead. You simply don't have good admins or good players.[/QUOTE] And why do you think that is? Why do you think that there aren't good admins or players?

Because no one cares about others, or progress, or anything for that matter, so we will be in the same situtation, unless a person, or group of people step up to the plate, and do something great. (Hey... I think that rhymed.) For example, like said before, if you have Comptent Players and Administrators, you can make a typically mingey script, good. But, most players dont strive toward improvement, and instead to just fucking around, and not contriubting. And most of the time, admins might start out good, but soon realize it is fun for them to abuse thier power, I mean what are the players going to do? It is this attitude that is destroying communities, regradless if they run Darkrp, or Cakescript, or Nexus, or even just sandbox for that matter. Soon, unless people start to rise up again, we might not have such great( Not as in the best, but more of big, and organized), and big communities like Sass, TnB(At an Earlier time), or Gmod Tower. I know that there are people out there, we all need to just come together on this, not go flee to Arma(Or any other game), we CAN fix things, and we WILL if people can co-operate.. But that my friends, takes time, and effort, and teamwork, which many dont see in this section or genre of gamemode for Garry's Mod.

Big complicated nice scripts work both ways, on one side, its nice and automated, it has a lot of good looking ui and nice features, and it can boost that rp experience a lot. Then you have the other side, the less complicated things become the easier it becomes for your everyday idiot to walk in and fuck everything up, because everything is laid out for you on a nice table. Back then, it was sandbox, nearly everything was imaginary, which required people who had the ability to role-play with imagination, recently we removed imagination and took role-play down the path of something you'd see in normal game development, adding restrictions and mainstreaming it with many features and caving everything into a nice box, this works nice for shit like battlefield but with role-play you need an open box or it'll fail miserably, and with nearly every god-damn item in the game being scripted into something with an actual physical in-game use, new people see these RPs as RPGs, and if you ever played a normal wow server, you don't see people role-playing, you see them striving to get the next armor set or their favorite pet item or crafting for skills or whatever. tl;dr RP =/= RPG, learn the difference and meld the two if you feel you need rpg elements, your focus should be roleplay not your sprinting skill.

Can we please stop making these threads. I am at a great community right now which isn't minged infected and there isn't ass holes running it. GMOD isn't dead, its just people saying it is because they don't get with a community and stay with them. Roleplay is something that you like to do and get to meet some really great people. If you don't like it, then just don't play it.

[QUOTE=Mr.Goodcat;24344980]Can we please stop making these threads. I am at a great community write now which isn't minged infected and there isn't ass holes running it. GMOD isn't dead, its just people saying it is because they don't get with a community and stay with them. Roleplay is something that you like to do and get to meet some really great people. If you don't like it, then just don't play it.[/QUOTE] Rate this man agree.

Can we get back to the RP discussion?

Don't you forget that arma 2 requires a super computer?

i hope Roleplay isnt dead i've been dying to play in those servers

San Andreas Multi-Player is by far the best suited game to roleplay in. Fuck Arma II

Roleplay is far from dead, its just the majority of gmod users who are either decent at administrating/ decent at roleplaying rarely play gmod online anymore.

In my opinion. Roleplay has died a bit due to a epidemic called The "Eliteism bullshit". Its a type of bullshit that spreads around causing anybody to develop a superiority complex. Highly contagious.

[QUOTE=LauScript;24276951]Probably from those who are correct, and those who have realised it.[/QUOTE] Right. /sarcasm I am correct and have realised that even though 60% of the RP "Community" is troll filled and filled with little Adv Dupe plasma balls, the other 40% isn't completely hardcore, die hard, roleplay fans where you can't say anything in /ooc unless its advertisments. From what you've said, you are clearly stating that all RP servers and bad, and that Arma II is better. [editline]07:38PM[/editline] [QUOTE=ntzu;24344568]Amazingly right :words:[/QUOTE] Agree x1

[QUOTE=leader1337;24367263]San Andreas Multi-Player is by far the best suited game to roleplay in. Fuck Arma II[/QUOTE] Have you ever played Arma2.. [editline]06:32AM[/editline] [QUOTE=mr.killa;24365728]Don't you forget that arma 2 requires a super computer?[/QUOTE] hehehe [QUOTE=gk99;24374673]Right. /sarcasm I am correct and have realised that even though 60% of the RP "Community" is troll filled and filled with little Adv Dupe plasma balls, the other 40% isn't completely hardcore, die hard, roleplay fans where you can't say anything in /ooc unless its advertisments. From what you've said, you are clearly stating that all RP servers and bad, and that Arma II is better. [/QUOTE] Actually I am, in my [b]Opinion[/b]. You can't have a fact over this, if you compared fact to fact with arma II and GMod, the only thing that would have superiority in GMod is the source engines physics.

[QUOTE=LauScript;24380409]Actually I am, in my [b]Opinion[/b]. You can't have a fact over this, if you compared fact to fact with arma II and GMod, the only thing that would have superiority in GMod is the source engines physics.[/QUOTE] Funny that you should now use the word 'opinion' to defend your own points despite being quite clear in the OP and subsequent posts that you are right and all other opinions are wrong. EG: [QUOTE=LauScript;24276951]Probably from those who are correct, and those who have realised it.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=LauScript;24277085]Hah, that is not what you think it is my friend, I can't explain it better than what I said in the thread, you can call that roleplaying all you want, but the community it's formed inside of, will [b]always[/b] be bad, simply due to the roleplay community GMod provides.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=LauScript;24277299]You clearly don't understand, I'm not going to explain it to you. Those who have realised what I'm saying, they will know.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=LauScript;24380409] Actually I am, in my [B]Opinion[/B]. You can't have a fact over this, if you compared fact to fact with arma II and GMod, the only thing that would have superiority in GMod is the source engines physics.[/QUOTE] At least GMod doesen't use/need highest settings or complicated double keyboard controls or bad gameplay or disallow jumping or many other things that I don't feel like remembering... AKA: GMod is bettah than ARMA II

[QUOTE=Savaril;24282838]"RP" On Gmod has basically devolved in two two categories. DarkRP servers full of retarded 12 year olds running around with scripted jobs, disregarding what RP actually is. These servers are admittedly fun for a little while, but as soon as somebody picks the lock of your door, shoots you, and steals all of your belongings it dawns on you that you've just wasted so much of your time. You also have to keep in mind that it's not actually a gamemode where anyone roleplays. And Cakescript/Tacoscript/Whatever servers, which are essentially too "realistic" for their own good. They're set in stale environments with absolutely nothing of interest going on. Most of the "RP" consists of making small-talk with one another. There's absolutely no driving force or motivation to do anything, and many people have such a broad view of what minging is that they'll ban you if you walk around with the phys gun out.[/QUOTE] Then there are certain servers who used to be great, but became mingy shit.

There is no possibility that "Gmod Roleplaying" is dying. Bullshit. [b]Even[/b] if people would stop using roleplaying scripts like "DarkRP" or "TacoScript" there'd be you and bunch of friends playing on sandbox. Yes! All you need is to implement /me command, launch sandbox then enjoy serious roleplay. Make a hotel, sell melons do whatever you want without having hundreds of stupid, useless commands or restrictions. Before calling yourself a good roleplayer think of you playing on "RP" servers. Did you play, because you wanted to roleplay or you wanted to collect items and money? "DarkRP" isn't a roleplaying script it's DeathmatchRP. Nexus, blueprint and all that serious scripts are also pathetic, [b]forcing[/b] you to choose a role. You have a right to choose your role if you want to have a satisfaction with your roleplay. One more thing. I wouldn't like to some of you misunderstood me. Some of features are good. I'd say [b]very[/b] good. OOC/L-OOC system for example. That's only my opinion. Flame off, please.

I don't even know what to say but, OP is totally wrong.

[QUOTE=GameAdict;24386111]At least GMod doesen't use/need highest settings or complicated double keyboard controls or bad gameplay or disallow jumping or many other things that I don't feel like remembering... AKA: GMod is bettah than ARMA II[/QUOTE] If you want to do Gmod Vs Arma II, okay. Also BIS didn't implement jumping on purpose, they wanted vaulting. Message me with your arguments, and I'll respond. [editline]11:39PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Metanar;24385924]Funny that you should now use the word 'opinion' to defend your own points despite being quite clear in the OP and subsequent posts that you are right and all other opinions are wrong. EG:[/QUOTE] I don't need to state that it's my opinion or not, any intelligent mind can look at the thread and think "It's an opinion". [editline]11:40PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Brandon;24388731]I don't even know what to say but, OP is totally wrong.[/QUOTE] Hah, okay.