Jouaram

I would like to say we do not interact much but from an outside view it looks like you really either do not care about being banned or enjoy being banned, there is no hesitation to breaking rules and you often comment about how you wish you could break more rules. 

With that said, this is one of the bans that are really, really necessary since you are getting on and ruining a couple of other players time and then getting banned repeatedly. If you do not stop and understand that you need to keep messing around between you and your friends then you'll end up with longer and longer bans. 

Appeal denied.

1 hour ago, xojiq said:

Jouaram, I'm not gonna lie to you I was a little pressed when I came back the first time after he killed me, but the second time he started the conversation and came outside trying to kill me so I waited until he swung first then killed him. I didn't clip it because I didn't think it would have turned out like this but its not really NLR x2 it really should have been just NLR x1 (that I tried to mention in my ban appeal about how the moderator didn't see both sides of the story) and I served my one day sentence already. And today I reviewed all of the new rules to make sure situations like these wont happen, do I have any chance of getting unbanned?.

It is your responsibility to clip especially if you're in the vicinity of NLR and kinda 'pushing' the limit on the specifics of the rules, however I will agree that 1 day is a perfectly fine for the rules broken. 

Your ban has been listed as a 1d ban and you are now able to rejoin. Please try and completely avoid the area for 3 minutes so nothing like this happens again. 

5 hours ago, xojiq said:

i was getting raided by ballsack and got wiped so i waited patiently outside so he decided to kill me and my friend while we were just waiting for him to be done so when he went to kill me and swung his ember blades at me so i splashed him up and killed up so he got mad and started a sit over it.

Got a clip by chance? In logs its definitely NLR breaking just curious if you were interacting/beefing with him or not, if you were just standing there like you say its not a big deal but if you were BMing or interacting with ballsack then it gets rid of the point of NLR.

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You are a very cool player to be around and have been nothing but pleasant the whole time I've seen you on the server, you started by being kept to yourself in your shop and have recently branched out interacting with many players in the streets, all pleasant. I think you've got tons of potential as Staff and I am very curious to see how you do! Good luck!

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You're a pretty funny guy most of the time, I think the seriousness does need to increase just a little bit so that communication can occur between yourself and other staff in non-memey ways but that doesn't mean always be serious, you can still have fun as long as it's not at the sake of others misery or making people frustrated. 

Your staffing capabilities are solid and you can take sits perfectly fine, people have said they can rely on you for help which is great. There's no concerning responses to your application so I have no reason to deny this re-rank. 

Welcome back to the Staff team, you have your rank across the board now!

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'Behavior that is considered malicious (harassment/targeting, doxxing, NSFW behavior) towards players, staff or the server itself will result in a harsh ban; however these situations are usually rare and should be assessed fully by higher ups before being applied. ' - Staff handbook/punishment guidelines. 

Considering anyone could come across the TV I would find this malicious which means your ban could be up to a week, making your ban valid. 

The only decision I have now is judging whether or not it was malicious enough to warrant the whole week ban.

Personally, I think yes. However you have already served 5 days of your sentence which leaves you with 2 days left of your adjusted ban. 

Thanks for the appeal, don't put any NSFW on TVs - see you in 2 days.

Oddity has +1'd so I will go through with the unban, for future scenarios make it 10000% clear they're gonna die just to save yourself any headache; even though this kill was fine in my books as the player was intentionally disrupting you. 

You may now join the server again, your ban and warn has been removed.

2 minutes ago, Canadian said:

Like the emissions & the moving plants n all that jazz, Can be turned off. Really just the aesthetic of using the job, making your own stuff, there's so much potential to the job. 

Optimally, just the emissions from the bond/blunt should be seen. Anything else fan included can be turned off to stagnant.

The UI is also a big part of the client side hits, almost every entity (and there are tons of them) have their own UIs, ideally they would all have draw-distances but that still doesn't stop the lag from occurring when you're inside the base farming or raiding the base that has weed growers inside.

It's definitely not an easy or basic job to optimize his addons correctly.

5 minutes ago, Canadian said:

Are the files able to be worked on, re-coded, edited to better optimization? Would that be too hard to do? If I found someone to do it would you look into it? Please let me know. 

The main issue is the way everything is done, the reason it's so satisfying and nice is because of the performance sacrifice, it probably could be optimized but at the sake of a lot of pretty-ness and maybe even features.

51 minutes ago, Canadian said:

if the server wants to keep to a pretty low download time

The issue isn't the load time with it, although it is 500+ lua files which already shows how little optimization was considered the main issue is the CPU and FPS hit you get from Zero's addons as they almost appear to be made for singleplayer/very small servers because as soon as you get 5+ people on the job things get aids fast. 

And you're not wrong that people WILL play for the job but it's kind of a trade-off I've held off on and would prefer to keep the server going without them, a good example is zero's scratch cards, one of his most basic addons we had it on the server for a month or so and every time I played and used a profiler it was the TOP fps hog 99% of the time. 

Almost every server has these addons, another reason I didn't add Zero's to begin with is because you become a copy-paste of majority of gmod servers. So many get high playercount just throwing in as many Zero's addons as they can and call it a day - it feels very cheap and lazy to me.

55 minutes ago, Canadian said:

id buy it for the server so there wont be a "loss". But even as more incising ill donate another 10-12$ to the server after so not even the money goes to waste.

Buying it is not the issue, the only issue is what's stated above in my comment. 

Though I am not one to cut discussion and debates so I can leave this open for opinions. 

We have TVs now and have managed to run cinemas with them I believe the way it is now is best suited for Aether. Thanks for the suggestion.

I will try get this in for tomorrows update, I don't think it would hurt to let Cats have a rival! Thanks for the suggestion. 

This model is 40mb uncompressed so 4x too big for me to accept sorry. Thanks for the suggestion. 

Good size, decent model - will be added! Thanks for the suggestion. 

The SCP and deadpool are unfortunately not fit size-wise and file-formatting wise. 

The other two will be added though! Thanks for the suggestion.

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Gonna move this to denied because I don't understand the math or reasoning behind lack of responses. 

This scenario was handled fine by Thicc, he was trying to assist the guy and had good intentions this is not something I punish for, I apologize that it caused you and inconvenience however. 

Not much proof to go off of and it seems to be a miniscule scenario that shouldve been handled in game. 

Thanks for the report.

This appears to be a valid ban. Please wait it out and re-read the rules/these comments before playing again.

Re-testing jobs, specifically the ones you say are bad over 10 minute periods to give time to average out RNG level perks - none of these were boosted/2xd: 

-Lean, I am slow and didn't get any level procs I managed to get it at a rate of $9,600,000 p/hr - this is just slightly under the $10,000,000 - $12,500,000 mark but I got very unlucky. 
-Meth equaled out to exactly $6,000,000 p/hr with no unlucky explosions.
-Hobo I got $10,926,000 p/hr whilst getting pretty unlucky with level perk bonuses. 
-Cigarettes got me $8,100,000 p/hr which surprised me based on your statement. 

I can check the others another time but is it possible you are basing your numbers on boosted jobs vs not boosted jobs without realizing? Meth is very low compared to the other more active jobs but its just more common that people stick with stuff they're comfortable with and many people enjoy the AFK and stress-free aspect of meth head.

Meth is not RNG and makes $6,000,000 per hour - are you saying that every other job makes less than 6m an hour?

Nobody would pay 100m to enter anywhere so having that as an option to be abused in some way doesn't seem worth it. 

It should be increased from the 1m to a reasonable amount so I have increased it to 25m for restart.

Thanks for the suggestion.