Ever regret leaving CG?
If you were SeC, how different would the CCA be in comparison to how it is currently?
Ye' oldfeg BB's, plus support and a rant to boot.Especially on bringing the focus away from the CCA.I've run the CCA as the SeC twice in the past year. So, I know what I'm talking about when I say HL2RP has become much too CCA-focused. And, I've been resisting the urge to call some of you egotistical megalomaniacs who have your heads up your asses. I've long supported trying to get citizenRP up. I've been RPing as a citizen lately, and I feel I could accurately rename the class to Shit-izen. Everyone's end goal seems to be getting accepted into the CCA. Why? Because it's the only faction most of you care about expanding.IF you'd just take a few seconds to see further than your noses, you'd realize that HL2 revolves around the humans. Most personal encounters with other characters as you play Gordon Freeman are toward the humans! They're the ones being oppressed, and it's through their reactions to the oppressive regime of the Combine that develop a fertile atmosphere for RP. In HL2, the Combine remain nameless, anonymous, and blend into the background as a force of nature rather than a prominent, highly organized, conspicuous establishment. We really need to go back to that.For starters, I would like to see most people with a CCA unit to just make a citizen character and spend a lot of time on it. Trust me, you'll see the issues right away. The over-the-top, downright OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH application requirements for CCA need to be drastically lowered. To the people accepting them, you do realize that by making it more difficult, you are a)making the concept of getting accepted the center of attention and b)not actually weeding out the lower-quality players. By point B, I'm talking about the correlation between increasing application requirements and unit performance. Sure, in the beginning, raising requirements provided a greater good-unit turnout, but they're so exorbitantly high that the trend has plateaued. What's worse is the apathetic application-accepters who would rather deny you for having a sentence less than the stupid requirement than actually check for quality applicants, good knowledge of canon, etc.Another thing. The CCA's been given too much room to expand. Back when it first began, we were rather small and undesirable to most players. This was the ideal time because most of the playerbase used their ingenuity to expand the citizenRP base. However, that began to change, and people began to expand the CCA in lieu of the Citizens. This growth progressed at an exponential rate until all effort went to the expansion of the CCA until it hits its limit. This expansion is like an invasive species; it crowds out the indigenous population and pushes that population toward extinction. The quality of CitizenRP, in this case, is the latter.So, I ask you, Catalyst-Gaming. If you could, have some of your units take a few days off and go get a taste of what citizenRP is like now. Stop expanding on the CCA, giving yourselves new gear, building new machines, and creating new features that require ludicrous training regimens. Instead, think about what you could do to help your fellow RPer in your collective experiences as citizens.
Do you want to return to SeC to make CCA better?If yes why dont you?How was it being a SeC during the best time of CG CCA?
What's it like to be the Sectorial Commander or otherwise, SeC? Rebel or Civil Protection? Do you think that other factions (official and unofficial) should be more targetted at than Combine Civil Authority?
How would you go about ending the earth?Do you believe in Global Warming?Do you believe in Big Brother (IRL), if so do you believe he is always watching?Favorite TV show?If you could have a yacht, an airplane, or a helicopter which would you choose, and why?
[CG:SA] OzJackal has banned OzJackal for 12 hours (Gonna be very drunk, will probably do something dumb if I reconnect - its for my own good lol).
Are you a gangster IRL?
Quote from: Martinerrr on August 03, 2012, 11:48:28 PMEver regret leaving CG?I can't say I'm glad I left in the first place or regret leaving, I have no opinion of it really. There's really nothing attractive here that I missed out on when I left.Quote from: Nikolai v.II on August 03, 2012, 11:52:26 PMIf you were SeC, how different would the CCA be in comparison to how it is currently?ZEALOT would be gone. I'd remove a lot of pointless or otherwise redundant training requirements. I think the CCA application requirements are downright stupid. I think the CCA's path of growth has far exceeded healthy limits and is now the number one reason why nobody really enjoys RPing as a citizen. Here's a rant of mine that everyone overlooked.Quote from: Burning Bullet- BF3 Anyone? on August 01, 2012, 03:25:10 AMYe' oldfeg BB's, plus support and a rant to boot.Especially on bringing the focus away from the CCA.I've run the CCA as the SeC twice in the past year. So, I know what I'm talking about when I say HL2RP has become much too CCA-focused. And, I've been resisting the urge to call some of you egotistical megalomaniacs who have your heads up your asses. I've long supported trying to get citizenRP up. I've been RPing as a citizen lately, and I feel I could accurately rename the class to Shit-izen. Everyone's end goal seems to be getting accepted into the CCA. Why? Because it's the only faction most of you care about expanding.IF you'd just take a few seconds to see further than your noses, you'd realize that HL2 revolves around the humans. Most personal encounters with other characters as you play Gordon Freeman are toward the humans! They're the ones being oppressed, and it's through their reactions to the oppressive regime of the Combine that develop a fertile atmosphere for RP. In HL2, the Combine remain nameless, anonymous, and blend into the background as a force of nature rather than a prominent, highly organized, conspicuous establishment. We really need to go back to that.For starters, I would like to see most people with a CCA unit to just make a citizen character and spend a lot of time on it. Trust me, you'll see the issues right away. The over-the-top, downright OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH application requirements for CCA need to be drastically lowered. To the people accepting them, you do realize that by making it more difficult, you are a)making the concept of getting accepted the center of attention and b)not actually weeding out the lower-quality players. By point B, I'm talking about the correlation between increasing application requirements and unit performance. Sure, in the beginning, raising requirements provided a greater good-unit turnout, but they're so exorbitantly high that the trend has plateaued. What's worse is the apathetic application-accepters who would rather deny you for having a sentence less than the stupid requirement than actually check for quality applicants, good knowledge of canon, etc.Another thing. The CCA's been given too much room to expand. Back when it first began, we were rather small and undesirable to most players. This was the ideal time because most of the playerbase used their ingenuity to expand the citizenRP base. However, that began to change, and people began to expand the CCA in lieu of the Citizens. This growth progressed at an exponential rate until all effort went to the expansion of the CCA until it hits its limit. This expansion is like an invasive species; it crowds out the indigenous population and pushes that population toward extinction. The quality of CitizenRP, in this case, is the latter.So, I ask you, Catalyst-Gaming. If you could, have some of your units take a few days off and go get a taste of what citizenRP is like now. Stop expanding on the CCA, giving yourselves new gear, building new machines, and creating new features that require ludicrous training regimens. Instead, think about what you could do to help your fellow RPer in your collective experiences as citizens.That's how I feel about the CCA's crazy growth and the fucking retards who keep raising the application requirements.
Y u never Outlands? I miss Walter