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some people seem to have trouble doing this ive noticed in the past and i understand some players may not be as advanced with certain tools but ive prepared a rough clip to show the easiest way in my opinion how to make a "ladder" with gear props. E-Z Ladder Tutorial.mp4 In the clip you will see the gears are directly vertical to the nearest 90 or right angle, you can achieve this by gripping your props with your physics gun as shown, and then pressing SHIFT + E and or holding these keys to maintain this, and moving your mouse till the prop is in the desired position. this can also be achieved by using the "Apply" mode of the precision tool with the box checked that reads: WHILE THE PROP IS somewhat close to the desired position and it will snap to the nearest 45 degree angle. "Precision" tool is selected first in the "Move" mode in order to place the prop against the flat wall. this is only suggested if you would like to have your ladder against a wall it is not a requirement. Once the gear prop is in the desired location and position, the next step is to switch your Precision tool mode #2 "Rotate". I like to have my rotation snap degree at the lowest setting on the slider () as the prop does not need to be moved much in order for the gear to work well as a ladder. As shown in the video the gear is ever so slightly turned from the top point of the prop and as you can see i am able to walk up against this prop very quickly with no issue. Furthermore this prop can be pushed into the wall or other prop depending on where you place your gears at up to about 90% of the props location in order to save any extra space as you can see below the gear is very slightly rotated and actually pushed at 99/100 on the default slider and i have no problem walking up it even though more than half of the prop is behind the plate/wall: @Angel Dust

Personally gonna use this as a way to afk while i play other games, never knew you could do this lowk

the timing for this is incredibly awkward/unlucky! config editing for lower spec PCs is nothing unique to GMod. at a certain point, the lower level arguments being added do look a little sketchy, and in multiplayer games the line is blurred since other players are not going to go through the same hoops for the benefits. that being said, the arguments provided in allow's post are available to all users who own a copy of GMod, no external software is being used to gain an advantage over other users. I've had to edit configs for other games in the past due to having nearly unplayable framerates, and I could certainly see this method being of use when a player wants to farm AB passively while doing other things on their PC. again, the timing of this post is spectacularly unlucky given the recent server changes, but on any day prior I think this would be a well received method to save resources on lower spec PCs, while still staying on the server (which incentives AFKing) clearly allow does not intend for this post to provide any unfair advantage by providing it in open detail to the community, and consulting the owner directly with the method.

-64bit - Launches using 64bit branch -textmode - apparently runs the game in text mode only, meaning there's no graphics or interface to use -single_core - runs on a single CPU core -nojoy - disables joystick support -low - sets to run on low priority -nosound - this one is obvious -nod3d9ex - no idea what this one is. Apparently it isn't advised unless you're having issues -sw - no idea what this one is either -noshader/-noshaderapi - disables shaders -nopix - disables pixel shaders -novid - skips valve intro -nopreload - stops resources from loading on game start -nopreloadmodels - stops model files from being preloaded

-1 In the short time I’ve interacted with you, I noticed you interacting/joking with others in overly explicit ways. I spoke to you about this when I saw it and still saw you continue with sexual jokes/builds after I told you they were over the line. I think you may have potential but for now you need to chill out on the joking and remember that we do have kids that play on the server. We don’t need people walking up to others talking about sexual acts and fetishes, especially if you are going for staff.

Update! Turns out I picked a really good day to post this(!) Today (12th May 2025), a hotfix has been launched that gives you 50% bonus AB that stacks with boosts if you're not AFK in the server. I want to clear up now, because it seems like this is going to generate some very differing opinions - this is quite literally in no way a cheat, a hack, nor is it intended to be a circumvention of any rules, systems or anti-cheats on the server. This method of being AFK doesn't let you do anything in the game, even if you tried! Nevertheless, I've contacted Jouaram via a Discord ticket and asked him to review this post to determine whether it is in violation of any rules or server systems. If it is, I'll ask that the post is taken down, and if asked, I'll happily assist in combatting this method in any way that I am allowed to. I'm aware that Aether Networks already has a pretty decent population of people that sit around and do nothing (some specifically in the Lumberjack area - I dunno why), and it's not my intention to encourage absolutely everyone to do this. You should only do it if you understand what it is, how it works, and how it might contribute negatively to the server's activity versus its player count. Original Post If you just reached Prestige 10 but have too busy of a life to constantly play, or you just want to farm some AB while you sleep, there's a way to do so without firing up your laptop or PC fans for the horribly unoptimised Garry's Mod that we're cursed with today! Full transparency - I learned this method while playing on another DarkRP server, but I don't have the guide link on hand. I'm pulling this from my knowledge that I dug up from a shortcut I had laying around for that server a few days ago. What does this actually do? (If you're not concerned and you just want to AFK farm, scroll further down.) To make a long story short - it makes your GMod look like this: And allows it to consume way less resources than normal: While still keeping you in the server. You'll persist through restarts, but server crashes or internet outages will exit you out. For internet outages, even temporary ones will kick you out, as GMod is incapable of maintaining a server connection even if you change your computer's network for example. It'd be worth checking the server's GameTracker every few hours if you don't think you're in the game anymore. This used to display a console so you could actually check this for yourself - not sure when this was deprecated, but you might know more than I do, so feel free to drop your knowledge or methods of your own in this thread! Why would you want to do this? I know a lot of people like to AFK to farm AB (as do I), so this is a way to do so without eating up system resources while getting on with your day. As someone who works from home and often has a lot of tabs open, I do this for a few reasons: I leave my PC with more resources to actually do my work - I'm often in code editors, game engine development environments or I'm playing other games during downtime. I don't feel tempted to play while working, and I still get to farm AB and playtime, so I don't feel so bad (FOMO is a real thing guys). How do I do it? Glad you asked! Before you attempt any of this, I highly recommend setting your GMod version to x86-64 - there will be guides on this forum telling you how to do that if you haven't already. Not only does it make this work better, but it also improves your performance when you actually play. Step 1: Open your Garry's Mod local files however you like! I just use Steam for this. Right click Garry's Mod in your library -> hover over manage -> press Browse Local Files. Step 2: Create a new shortcut for Garry's Mod Find "gmod.exe" -> right click -> press Create Shortcut. Step 3: Open the new shortcut's Properties, then the Shortcut tab Same deal. Right click the shortcut -> press properties -> find the Shortcut tab. Step 4: Add arguments to your shortcut to achieve the desired effect To be completely honest - I only know so much about the source engine, and so I don't know what 25% of these arguments do. Either way, here are all of the arguments I use: -64bit -textmode -single_core -nojoy -low -nosound -nod3d9ex -sw -noshader -noshaderapi -nopix -novid -nopreload -nopreloadmodels +connect 193.243.190.5:27034 All you have to do is find the end of your Target, and paste these in, so it should look something like this: Important: Don't delete the path of the target when doing this. Just put it on the end after gmod.exe and make sure to leave a space in-between the path and the arguments. Doing otherwise might break stuff, and that's inconvenient for you. "Why not just add these to all of your launch arguments on Steam?" A fair question! If it's not obvious - having to store these arguments somewhere then re-apply / remove all of your launch arguments whenever you want to AFK is boring and inconvenient. This way, you can just do it whenever you want and re-launch GMod normally when you actually want to play. Step 5: Apply and OK, then pray! The moment of truth! Save and OK out of your shortcut, then launch it and pray it works! The window will be unresponsive for about as long as it normally takes you to load into Aether + a minute or two since this instance of Garry's Mod will only use one core from your CPU. Honestly, you can leave it be. Make a coffee, do work, whatever - check in on it after about 5-10 minutes; if you don't see a map indicator in the bottom left that is the server's current map (refer to screenshot near the top of the post), try again or make sure you did everything correctly. Step 6: Become the bot you were destined to be! That's it! Go farm the AB and playtime that you always wanted to get while still doing stuff in the background! As a bonus - you can add this to your taskbar or start-up apps for extra and more convenient farming. I won't detail how to do that here, since there are plenty of tutorials online. Side Effects Every hack comes with its due course of side effects - this one only has a few, but I've compiled all the ones I know of below: When re-launching Garry's Mod after AFKing like this, I've found my video settings reset; this is very likely a symptom for those who use host_writeconfig in their autoexecs to save their current settings to GMod's config.cfg, which is read on startup. If you don't want to re-configure your video settings every time you play, either remove host_writeconfig from wherever or don't do this. I haven't tested this further because it doesn't bother me. I've found that on some rare occasions while checking GameTracker, it says I've been playing for less time than I actually have; this could mean that I reconnect at random intervals, but the jury is still out on this one. Like I mentioned at the start of the post - this AFKing method should (and used to) come with a console that you could read to track your game a bit better; I have no clue where this has gone, but because I'm AFKing anyway I haven't looked into it. If you use a minimised taskbar on Windows that hides itself unless an application has some reason to prompt the user for input, the small window might occasionally flash your taskbar up. I'm not sure why it does this or how (considering how low-maintenance this instance of GMod is), but whenever it happens I just open the window and minimise it again to put my taskbar back down. I've tried to play other games on Steam while doing this to variable success. Keep in mind that some games will think you're offline or not connected to Steam if you try and play a game while doing this! On some very very rare occasions, audio will sometimes play through GMod. I'm not sure why this happens (and it really shouldn't), but don't freak out if this happens to you! If in doubt, just mute the window. I don't know if this is compatible with Linux or MacOS. Sorry! I don't know how to end posts, so this is the end of the post. Thanks for reading, and good luck AFK farming!

I became aware of it AFTER I made the original post and made an update to it, and have even contacted staff to see if this is allowed on the server. I don't stay up to date on hotfixes as much as everybody else does. Categorically, this isn't, and never will be, cheating? To call this cheating would be a huge stretch of that term. I'd call it cheating if I had a bot set up to do things for me while I'm actually AFK.

No idea what the actual standing will be on this, but it doesn't seem to give any real benefit other than just being able to stay AFK on the server with crappy computers

This was very well made thank you!

1+ Genuinely a chill & helpful dude. Helped me understand the fundamentals of the server when I first joined, built me a proper base and continues to be a pleasant soul to encounter for free.

SHOW ME YOUR ANIMALS this mine.

dang yung your first post on my app, I'm flattered ❤️ thank you bud.

+1 Always Friendly in game would love to see you as staff

-1

+1 yeah i agree

-1 ThiccYe and Vetes brought up the exact points I wanted to make, both with issues with your application and especially your behavior / comments on Aether, even if they are said in a joking manner. There are times when you can be goofy yes, but not with sexually explicit comments. You gotta drop that entirely, and you need to know when to be serious. Tone it down a bit, touch up on your rules knowledge, and get some more play time under your belt. You do have potential, just need to keep working on it.

-1 who is u

-1, While our interactions has remained on the positive side, there are a few concerns. I understand that you love to joke around for the shits and giggles over completely explicit material in terms of your conversations within the community, however you need to tone that down if you're truly serious about applying for staff as people aren't going to take you seriously as staff if this continue. Your server activity could also use some work and I suggest that you refamiliarise yourself with the DarkRP rules in the meantime. Link to DarkRP rules:

I agree with vetes here. You definitely put effort into your app which is good but also reviewing the rules is always good. If you do ever need any questions feel free to make a sit or message me on discord and I’m willing to answer any questions. But over all good app but get you’re activity up and interact with the community more so that’s why I’m going to be giving a -/+ -1 So after all the things that have been said which I had no idea about. Unfortunately I had to change my vote for that. You will need to improve on that and hope this doesn't stop u from applying again but good luck

Decent application but I do have to point out for this rule answer: In this instance if someone returned to continue a raid immediately after being killed, not only would it be NLR, but also fail raid as they have to wait the raid cooldown timer as well (30 minutes per the same base). I appreciate the enthusiasm to want to become staff so quickly but it's best to get known around the community in game, and preferably also on the Discord and forums, so that people know what you're like, how you act, and if you would make a decent staff member. You've been here for 3 days so far and I've seen you very active in-game, but I also have some concerns regarding rule knowledge and being able to follow the rules. A few times I've had to mention to you that certain adverts you're using are invalid in this server, such as "assist". I've also had to mention to you that you cannot use models that are shorter than your hitbox during activities such as raiding. The other thing, as you point out in your application, is you seem to be constantly joking around, which is great so long as it's not harming anyone/breaking rules, and you claim to be able to be serious when you need to, but I haven't seen that side of you yet. Overall I'm going to go with +/-. Keep up the activity, stay out of trouble, and try to get involved more in the community so we can see if you have what it takes. Good luck! Edit: Changing opinion to -1 due to people mentioning your jokes have been inappropriate for the server and especially inappropriate for someone that wants to represent the server as a staff member.

-1 i have no idea who you are, I've never seen you anywhere. this is your first post on forums and as of this reply you've only been in the discord for 14 hours. you need to show you can have consistent activity cause being just above 24 hours within a few days doesn't fill me with confidence. get your activity up and get to know the people in the community more. Update: Yeah my -1 is reinforced by the fact that this guy is HELLA WEIRD.

I'm fine with it since there is no 3rd party apps being used and if you are doing this you either were gonna be AFK or not on the server at all anyways.

i love firearms!!! sadly because the laws in the UK are much stricter, i can only show my love through airsoft :(( i'll try and get some pictures next time i play of my gear!!

i like +1

IIRC it disables Direct3D. Honestly, as I suspected, a lot of these are very useless when stacked on top of each other

i love my smith and wesson mp i carry it everywhere their abt 600$ new but u can find them used at pawn shops/some guns stores have a used section for abt 400/450

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Idk what game's you're into / which ones you have played on console but here are some PC game suggestions The Talos Principle (Like Portal 2 but better?) Super Auto Pets (Free fun little game thats quite addicting) Insurgency Sandstorm (My favorite FPS set in the middle east) Cookie Clicker (Click the cookie) Car Mechanic Simulator: (Got me into cars, if you don't like car specs ignore this one) BeamNG Drive (Realistic IRL cars in a game engine, all types of sandbox things you can do) Also the great thing about being a PC gamer is Steam often offers 50-90% off discounts of very popular new games, so I usually wishlist the games I want then buy them when they are half off or more in price edit:// OH OH OH AND BLOONS TOWER DEFENSE 6 IS GOATED

Rainbow six siege is a fun game

makes our jobs harder and ruins other players experience by being able to get to 1000 armor

hey guysth wanna see this awesome glitchth that'll give you 1000 awmor?!?!? and not request it be fixthed becauseth it'sth OP?!?

-1 Crazy

bro?

VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) is a very loose and not good Anti-Cheat system. In order for a successful VAC ban to occur, you need to 100% be cheating to the point where even a 5 year old with no game knowledge can tell. If you can't quite remember why, maybe that should remind you. Your game bans mean that a developer of a game manually banned you for any given reason. The two most common reasons are either toxicity, or of course, cheating that's detected by a third party anti-cheat/manually reviewed by a member of the development team. If you can't own up to the fact that you were banned for what's likely cheating, within the past year, I do not want you to be staff. My -1 has been reinforced.

I talked a bit with others on the topic. still doesn't look good to me but who knows. -/+

Yikes bud.

cwinge

get a giant deagle

This man was the best mentor I could have ever asked for and my favorite staff member. After he left I held fond memories and admiration for Tango. Thank you for everything. Now its my turn to return the favor. +1 Sus react if you eat corn the long way