PLEASE READ. Suggestion for the New Map/Server for Faction Locations and other ideas.

[MinimalCash63]

Please Read the whole thing before you get mad and just downvote cause it sounds like a terrible idea.

So I mainly made this because I wanna get people to start thinking of new ideas for the map/Server. Obviously with the whole server situation that has went down chaos has erupted. We don't know if the Gmod Server will be coming back online soon, or until after the new map is done. I believe this is a great time for us, as a community to start making input on things we wanna see added or changed. So, I figured I'd put my personal input in coming from a purely RP outlook. So no, I'm not thinking of any sort of balanced or fairness in this. I'm PURELY thinking of it in a RP way.

I would like to mention I think we, as a community should get some form of Daily, or Bi Daily announcement on what is going on with the server, what's getting fixed/worked on, etc. Just until the server is fixed. I know a lot of people, myself included. Are very anxious, and worried about it currently. 

Anyways, here is the MAIN topic of this post.

I think that each faction should get a Pre Determined starting location on the map that Fits Lore wise when the NEW map is released. For example NCR gets Camp McCarron. Unity gets Black Mountain or Jacob's Town. Fiends get Vault 3. Legion gets The Fort. Enclave gets remenant bunker, BoS gets Hidden valley. Etc etc, you see the point. Each faction would get their MAIN base location from the actual Game. Now some of you may be thinking "what about custom factions like Talon." Those can get bases based upon what their faction is, and available spaces on the map. So IN MY OPINION. An example could be that Talon, a mercenary based faction. Could get the NCR base that's on the strip from in game (NCR Military Police HQ), or maybe they can get REPCON HQ. It puts them in a good spot for people to hire and trade with them. Other factions like U.S could get The Air Field or some other military base location. Obviously you'll have Your Van Graffs and Crimson Caravon or even Gun Runners (would be super cool to have cause then we could get their weapons hopefully) where they are normally in game aswell.

This is a RP server. With the new map looking to be much bigger I think this would be a welcome START. I simply say this as a start. Obviously people are gonna go to war and fight for other territories. I just think since we aren't doing a full reset. Just a map transfer. This would be a good way for people to have a guaranteed starting point without having to run around the map and worry about the best spots being taken, and it would also allow people to get their members back into their factions faster.

This suggestion of mine very well can be thrown out and forgotten. I definitely know it has many flaws. Especially because we don't even know how big the map is and what is actually gonna be there. Half the locations could not even exist. I just think it could be a good idea and wanted to get my thoughts out there and allow others to start thinking of some cool ideas to bring to the server.

 

(You can skip this part, its just a bunch of other ideas to feed peoples imaginations)

Side Ideas: I think The Dam should be added, and with it. It being a Nuetral location that can be won via wars for it. To start a Event will go down and the winning faction gets control of it. No idea what the event would be. Could be PvP, scavanger hunt, thats not what im here for, im not an event manager. Anyways,  whoever holds it gets some sort of bonus for their faction. And Once a week, each faction can choose to have a War/raid or whatever for the dam. Would be a cool way to do wars or events besides just attacking peoples bases. You could also make special events for the controlling faction to try and make it public again if they seem to be to strong to take it. Like aliens attack and take it over and now people have to fight them for it or something, you could even have a grace period after you lose it. Like you have to wait a week inorder to recover before being able to attack the dam again after losing it.

Maybe each location can have a special extractor or something that can be used by the whole faction, and if you don't own the territory you can't use it. Would give people reason to go to war to get exclusive stuff to that location, it would also give every faction a sort of monopoly/ way to earn money. 

Maybe you could have Crimson Caravan, or some other event faction be able to come around once a week with high value loot focused towards the factions they go to visit, oh yes, they also personally go to each factions base at set times for like an hour or something once a week. Like Mondays at 5 Unity, Tuesdays at 7 Legion, etc.

Maybe we could even add the Divide itself, it could be an entire PVP zone with Super rare loot. But it works like the Dark zone in the Divison. 

I have heard that we use to have the Institute as a faction and would abduct people and turn then into synths, we could bring that back, maybe even secretly bring it back. I think it would be cool to have that again.

I know a lot of my ideas here are WAY to ambitious for a Gmod Server, and some are outright stupid (like the dark zone idea) But I'm just throwing my ideas out as a player who loves this server and wants to see it grow. My ideas are here to give the development team, staff members, and community members ideas to think on and input their own opinions.

Apologies for any typos. I'm to lazy to fix the rest. Please leave a reply to your thoughts or even more ideas if you wish.

Edited March 21, 2024 at 08:57 AM by MinimalCash63
Forgot to add the last part. I eepy.

[MinimalCash63]

On 3/21/2024 at 5:23 PM, Eopsin said:

Have you played the server at all?

 

Dawg, many factions DO get a fitting lore location. Factions that don't really have one get to conquest for bases, where they fight for the best bases on the server. Also, Crimson Caravan exists, they sell high end gear every so often via auctions ran by staff. Otherwise, you can just go to their shop. We have PVP zones that have extractors to get good gear and rare items as well as a high concentration of lootables. 

 

As for the idea to have random events that causes a faction to lose control of the dam or their base or whatever, that would just feel terrible unless super strictly regulated. Also, the institute is normally ok but takes away from the RP of other factions pretty heavily as well as generally resulting in faction leaders getting made synths and just being stronger than they should be without much associated RP.

I have played the server, but from my understanding, when the NEW map releases, it's gonna be a first come first serve situation to who gets bases. So whatever faction leader gets to let's say... black mountain first, gets that base location. Again, I DO NOT KNOW anything for sure, hopefully we find out Saturday. I was purely going off of my understanding of how I've heard other people discussing what is most likely gonna happen when we get the new map opened up.

I also know that many factions do get their main bases, but with the map being larger some may be moved around, or have more contested spots. And yes, I know Crimson Caravon exists and does auctions. I never said they didn't. I was including them in my example of custom factions.

And I can definitely agree with the idea of random events making people lose bases would suck. But I was strictly talking about the idea of the Dam being a Unique building that is fought over by each faction. And the staff can do a Event to try and take it from them and make it nuetral again. It would obviously be scheduled for the defending faction and not sprung up like a raid or something, it would be a flag up RP event type thing.

Anyways I do thank you for your opinion on the topic. I'm genuinly glad someone had voiced their ideas aswell, especially concerning some of mine. I apologize if my long post had gotten the meaning of some of my ideas misunderstood. Thank you none the less for your participation.

[Garrus]

I have seen the new map and know the plans broadly. Frankly, a lot of what you said is going to be implemented already, without going into detail or spoiling much. I can't say exactly what is changing to keep it a surprise and/or still a WIP.

[Fearsome]

Tldr?

[Torr]

On 3/22/2024 at 8:46 AM, Fearsome said:

Tldr?

It comes with an eggroll you don't need to order an eggroll it comes with an eggroll

[Fearsome]

What if I want an extra egg roll?

[Garrus]

Only specific factions get pre-determined bases (TT, VT, PF) if it was designed with them in mind. Not all maps guarantee a base for factions. Cores get guaranteed bases. The Dam will be on map, just not always available, at least, it is still be discussed. Extractors will be placed in PVP zones and unique locations. Anything you want changed/added can be