Monoxide

Plot twist, the scam list is an intricate scam to divert attention away from the users own dishonest ways. Lol

The other day a user thought it was a good idea to tell me "I don't have to listen to anything you say because you're not on duty" after which he proceeded to continue to break rules directly in front of me. Needless to say the user was punished. But this got me thinking, hence why I'm making this thread. I suppose this is more of a PSA than anything. On titsrp there is no such thing as "on duty staff" yes there's a job for it, but that means nothing. Whether a staff member is on duty, a thief, or the mayor it makes no difference. If a staff member tells you to stop doing something, and there's a valid reason behind it, you stop. You don't ask why, you don't question the authority of that staff member, you stop doing what you're doing. Now obviously what I'm talking about entails a rule being broken, don't get it twisted, I'm not saying if a staff member tells you to jump you ask how high. That's not what I mean. But what I'm saying is, if a member of staff sees you doing something you're not supposed to and tells you to stop, you listen. Were here to help and have fun, but we're also here to be strict and enforce the rules. Were the police force of the server. You wouldn't backtalk a police officer if they were telling you not to do something illegal while off duty, so why would you do it to the servers police officers when you're violating a server rule. Aright I feel as though I've ranted long enough.

I am SO glad you made this thread. Here is my take on LTAP: the term LTAP should be reserved for special cases, I feel it is grossly overused. In order for the term LTAP to be included in a ban report one of two things should have to occur. 1) the user in question clearly and excessively breaks the rules and then disconnects (i.e. mass RDM, mass RDA, Server threats, etc.) 2) the user in question is brought to a sit, upon being teleported the user recognises they have been brought to said sit and disconnects immediately. I feel these are the only two instances in which LTAP should be a viable addition to a ban report, in any other case there is plausible deniability. We as staff can't prove the user left to avoid punishment, and the user can't prove that they didnt. It winds up landing in a "grey area" which makes it difficult and to be honest annoying to reach a clear verdict. This is my own opinion however, someone else may see it differently.

The Dark Carnival would like to extend a hand in alliance to Dark Venom Mr. Harvey. Should you accept this offer of alliance then Dark Venom will become a member of the "family" meaning you will stay off our radar and be offered protection in trying times should you need it. Regards Monoxide, Dark Carnival ringmaster

Please pm sugar about these things. Don't make a public thread. 1 week warning at 50%

+1 I second that motion

Yeah I changed my plus 1 to a denial and closure of the thread

And if you watch chat when there are mods on we are constantly teleporting around helping people. It's not that your report doesn't matter, it's that we are so busy handling other things. I'll admit some of the staff don't pull their own weight, and I see where you're coming because last night I was dealing with sits alone for a good two hours because other staff was afk. But life always take priority over gaming. Things happen that we can't help. I apologize if I missed your sits last night but my screen was literally so full with sits that they were disappearing before I could claim them

Okay maybe I can shed a little light here. When you call for a sit, we get a little notification in the top left corner of the screen. Within an hour on a normal day at least twenty of these come up, usually more actually. We read through these reports and organize them based on priority. Unfortunately however these notifications only stay up for a minute and if we're already in a sit it's easy to miss another notification of priority. Not to mention the people who recognize us as staff and pull us over on the street to answer questions or handle issues off the record. I understand the frustration, however please do try to understand that we do the best we can . We can't always get to everyone in a timely fashion, and flying off the cuff by killing a member of staff for no reason does nothing to help your case, in fact it hinders you greatly as you may now know. Just be patient, you may have to call staff four times before it's seen, but eventually it will be seen and handled . We're people just like you, we want to play the game sometimes too, and we may make mistakes, but the staff on the server do the ABSOLUTE best we can. And we need your help in being patient to ensure that we are able to continue to do everything we can to help the users the best way we can.

"More ways to reduce sit calls / ideas for automatic systems to help prevent / assist with sits" Implement a system to prevent people from calling a sit for a single rdm

Yeah it's all the crouch boxes that make 1 ways look bad. A good ol killbox is fun for the whole family. Only three total directionss you could be shot from in most cases.

Only suggestion i have for this week is a clarification on what is and is not demotion worthy, so that a dedicated thread or rules post can be made. People don't seem to know how to handle demotion so I feel this needs MAJOR clarification for non staff users

Not sure what I just read. But I enjoyed it

What in the unholy heck did I just look at

Yeah I hit to close it. I guess it didn't work

Closing this thread. A staff will unban you when they can. Your ban appeal is open therefore this is unnecessary.

Okay gotcha

Links?

And where will these meetings be taking place if I want to attend?

Okay so since I've heard a lot of people talking about client-side crashes I figured I'd put my two cents in on how I got the server running smoothly again on my system. set all of your render settings the lowest possible in gmod. This will not affect the way the game looks as gmod is a very low-res game to begin with. Turn antialiasing to either 2x MSAA or 4x MSAA this will smooth edges and increase the abysmal framerate on the downtown map due to the graphical overloading Disable multicore rendering in the menu, but enable it server-side when the game loads . This seems contradictory I know but trust me it works. Clean your add-on folder of any unnecessary files, these files may be affecting performance for one reason or another If you do all of these things it should stop your game from crashing and create an overall more fluid gameplay experience.

Staff giving eachother shit about how they moderate. Whining and boohooing in @ chat. Typical stuff youd expect a four year old to do.

accepting sits that dont follow the "Call for a staff" guidelines. Accepting sits for a single RDM even though stated explicitly in the MOTD that it violates one of the general rules (ties into number 1 but needs to be touched on individually) Staff drama, get everyone on the same page (or at least try to. This has been a huge issue as of late) Possibly create a proper "call for staff" guideline and checklist thread as I can't seem to find one anywhere on the forums.

Haven't had much of an interaction with you. From what I've seen you're a cool guy, just need to learn not to let other people (especially other staff) get to you so much. Loosen up a bit.

I ony ignore sits for a single RDM or for stupid reasons. We need to start enforcing the rule stating and I quote: "do not call staff for a single RDM. You have to understand that when four or more sits come in at the same time we have to read them all to see which takes priority. These sits however disappear very quickly so you can imagine with four lengthy sit reports on the screen a couple sits may vanish in the time it takes to read them all. We do the best we can, we volunteer our time and test our patience every day in an attempt to appease the masses. If you truly have staffed many servers they must've not been very populated, because this is a daily struggle on titsRP also i acknowledge that some staff need to better balance rp and staffing BUT there isn't a single staff that lives just to staff. We want to have fun too. Staffing is in no way a burden it can be lots of fun, at times it also becomes very stressful especially on a capacity server.

Eh leave it as is. They'll probably vanish on server reset anyway. So somebody has to wait twelve hours to get new ents. That just makes proper base building more important