TangoDown

Suggestion:

Make a waiting period for mayors to take money out of the safe & if Auto Demote mayor if the econemy tanks below 20 or 10% the mayor gets auto demoted.

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How will this improve the quality of Aether?: Despite me voting no 100% of the time for mayor every once in a while some player gets mayor. Almost all people who become mayor Take the money and quit. There are few players who actually RP as mayor.  So its basically job abuse and Fail RP in my opinion.

Welcome, been talking to you a bit in game you seem chill hope you stick around.

Suggestion: Names that suggest any type of Rape/Pedophilia be immediately force changed by a staff member (if they cannot force it ask them to change it & explain why) if they refuse or in the case of a forced name change they change back Ban them. (of course in both situations the rules should be explained to them)

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How will this improve the quality of Aether?:

I am all for freedom of speech and expression but By No means is this funny at all (whether or not it has hapend to you) Its a very serious and horrendous thing to do & joke about and think it shouldn't be a allowed subject matter at all on the server. Apparently some one had a name that suggested pedophilia in his name and had been playing with it for a couple days and I just found out about this morning. That player has been dealt with for the moment though the name is still some what offensive and I'm not looking for a witch hunt on this player.  It should be 100% unequivocally against the rules to have this kind of garbage name on this server.

• the green Letters/Numbers can be anything you want thats the "Alias" name.
• everything after alias name must be in quotations
• use ent_name is the weapon you wish to use (if you don't know how to find the ent name follow the guide here)
• after use ent_name you will need a ; and then bind the the key to the next alias so the first alias w1 when pressed will automaticlly bind that same key to the next alias w2
• you can do as many alias alias as you want counting up the # (easiest way to keep track) but all "commands" need to be in quotations with a ; separating the commands.

Once you've done it a few times its a fairlly easy process to do.

Sadly gmod does not save aliases for some reason so if you wish to keep this as a permante

Still would be cool if there was Interactive leader board on the server it self that displayed a bunch of the info. quite possible

Agreed and it is kind of a pain to keep up with a lot of printers but still well worth it.

Well Loading screen doesn't stay up long 🙂

Money Leader board too, cus F4 only shows Top 🙂

10 minutes ago, RevoltPlays said:

+1

pretty good and in depth application (one error)

the second part of this is not answered

Likeable person

Experience

I think you'd be a good addition to the team and should get a shot.

that one question you forgot isn't a huge deal just fix it up and I think the app will be pretty much perfect

Fixed, had previously typed it all out and sent a Screen shot to some one to look it over and had lost the text so I was copying it from the screen shot. 🙂

• In-Game Name (List ALL variations, if accepted your Forum/Discord name will be changed to your most used one): TangoDown
• Age: 28
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:47434864]
• Discord Tag: Tangodown#6221
• Total Playtime: 4 Weeks
• Timezone: PST
• Steam Profile: TangoDown87
• Times you're most active (If you have a unpredictable schedule let us know): 5PM to 12 AM

General Questions

• How can you contribute to Aether?: With tons of previous experiences in gmod (In Several Roles Up to "Server/Staff Manager") and personal Real life experiences as a manager in the food industry I understand what it takes to the job. Patience, Teaching, Conflict Resolution are all things I have had to learn and use in the real world every day in my job.
• Have you read the rules fully, understand and feel comfortable enforcing them as correctly as possible?: Yes.
• Are you willing to listen to any Staff member guide you as a Staff, even if you feel you don't need to?: Yes.
• Are you certain you will be able to staff for several hours a week?: Yes.

DarkRP Rule Questions

• Raids can last how long?: 10 Minutes
• What initiates a raid?: A proper raid is imitated with a /advert Raid
• If the owner of the base is standing outside on their base entrances sidewalk as you're about to raid, can you kill them?: Yes if with in interfering distance
• List all default Laws of The Land:

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  • Raiding is illegal.
  • Money Printers, Drugs & Explosives are illegal
  • Bitcoin Racks are illegal except for Bitminer S2 (Small Version)
  • Harming other citizens is illegal unless in self defense.
  • Threats are illegal.
  • Kidnapping, theft and harming another player are illegal.
  • Shooting firearms in public is illegal
  • Law's must be enforced with AOS instead of KOS unless the Police Officer's life is in danger.
  • AOS/KOS Laws must have a 10 second warning before enforcing

• How many bases can you own per party?: One.
• A player is refusing to co-operate with you in a staff sit, how do you handle the non-cooperative player?: I would try reasoning with the player. If necessary using commands such as freeze, mute and gag to try and and Stop said player from continuing the disruptive behavior causing me not to be able to communicate with him. If necessary and if possible at the time If the player absolutely refuses to listen I would ask a higher ranking staff to assist and try and see if they can talk to the person.
• Can you punish a player for intentionally ruining others time, even if they say it's out of fun?: Yes, A verbal warning can be issued on first offense if the player harasses another player to the extent it causes the player grief
• Give an example of a Staff abusing their powers and how you would handle it: Teleporting to a player and changing jobs to supply them with items. I would report it to a higher ranking staff member. I have no issues with speaking directly to them my self but unless so specified it is best to let the upper management handle it.
• A player is excessively RDMing, how would you intervene/stop them from continuing and what punishment would you give?: if I notice a massive amount of killing (not reported) I would begin to spectate the player and if it does seem to rise to the level of mass RDM I would teleport the player to a safe location and speak to him, listen to his reason make a assessment of what should be done. If the people he killed does in fact say they where "messing around" I would let the player go and let him know to be very careful not to kill any one who is not a willing participant in the "fun" and warn him that it could be a ban if it happens. If however there is no RDM with reports I would handle it similarly, teleport to the player ask him what is going on and explain to him the rules and what needs to be done 3 Day Ban.
• A Mayor enabled a lockdown without reason and is refusing to turn it off, how do you resolve this?: I would teleport tot he mayor (TP a player who has a job that is lost due to death should be treated a little more cautiously) ask him why he has started a lock down and explain to him the rules and advise him to always /broadcast or /advert a reason for the lock down. If he dose not have one.

Extra Comments:

If accepted I hope to help bring more sense of community amongst the staff (not implying there isn't one already). It is a tough job and underappreciated position and Besides being a teacher to the community (for those who need it) and Law Enforcement having fellow staff members who already know the struggles of being in a leadership role and Willingness to not only Teach from the well of knowledge I have but also always willing to listen and grow new skills along side fellow staff members can hopefully only Grow the stringent off all the Staff members including my self.

27 minutes ago, RevoltPlays said:

-1 ban forever

but then how can he use his mommies credit card on the server?

+1 Ban RevoltPlayer for denying mommies credit card use.

23 minutes ago, wiggy but less cool said:

Suggestion: Buff the Banker Job, Increase the salary or pay of the banker job, Make how many printers they have a exponential thing so if they have x amount of printers they get even more hour.

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How will this improve the quality of Aether?: Bankers if they are solo they have to deal with lag if they have over 60ish printers, keep there bank secure and refill all the printers. It is a very difficult job. They should be given more money or better yet 10% of each printers, So if tier one printers make 1k they should get 100 dollars of it every payout, and that happens for all printers and all the bankers would be hella happy.

Jouaram just nerfed the banker job. So its not likely its going to get a buff any time soon.

5 hours ago, Kennyy said:

woke

are you really awake? are you sure we aren't just some hologram on the desktop of "gods" office desk? how can you be sure this is all real?

I have bought not only "Premium" rank but I have also bought AB So whipping everything including perms for people who have spent there hard earn money is Def a No for a lot of people.

The economy is some what complicated, yes People can easily earn millions of dollars in a short period of time if they are smart about it. However not many people really horde it to the extent that its blown up. there are only a few with a billion or more in RP Cash, but then that eventually gets spent on Perm items, I was close to 2 Billion dollars until I bought a Nomad and the person I bought it from currently does not have a billion $. So they spent it on something.

The economy's echo system Is really Perm weapons. Cash does not mean a whole lot to those who have been here for a long period of time.

use Big brain and there's no real need for any of this. All you have to do is hold tab once you die and look at the time (witch I think is your local time not server time)

But with that said I've used a NLR bubble script before and removed the "visual bubble" effect so it simply ghosts you when you are in that bubble zone. Can't say 100% that it still wouldn't cause lag due to I don't know how it will interact with all the other add-ons but that might be wroth a shot.

9 minutes ago, Sosu said:

This was considered and implemented to a degree back on ret (back then we just removed a three zeros so say you had 1 bil you would now have 1m) It was a good change in the sense that you wouldnt have to worry about going over the the integer cap but still left the issue of people have millions and new players only have thousands. This was prevented on Aether slightly by having multiple money sinks (which ret did not have once you had a decent perm) but from what it seems its getting to the point where people have everything so there's no money sinks left in place for the people who have a lot of stuff. (which I'm guess is at least 5-10% of the server not a large majority but enough to warrant a change in some sense) The only way i see this being changed for the long run is either the proposed "wiping" of money so to say or either a set schedule of content releases that give people a reason to spend money. (I understand the second option is going to be a lot more work than just getting rid of money but I feel as it would make the majority of players happier since they don't get to see their numbers go away) Jouaram could have help with this from staff members or even players finding content from the steam workshop like me and a few others tried to do back when Aether was made because you cant expect him to do everything and expect it to be amazing with no flaws or oversights. Another option could be what Tango proposed with the whole prestieging thing but i would not give an hp increase or armor increase because all that would do is make people complain about older players having a built in unfair advantage. Giving people who prestieged special perms would be a good option though as it would give people a "flex" so to say. As to what perms those people would get is not an answer I can give as it would be up to jouaram but maybe listing a community vote on the perms people would get from prestieging would be a good idea cause you can get a feel for what most people like and go with that option. (or even then you can implement a system to let people choose lets say 1 perm out of 4 for that specific prestiege to try and please everyone) With that said prestieging wouldn't be a permanent solution but would at least combat the issue as of now till a better system could be implemented.

This isn't a new issue and is an issue every server comes across at one point or another but I highly suggest @Jouaram get feedback from the very least the higher ups and favorably the entire staff team and the community. Its a community effort required to fix an issue such as this one (so don't just expect Jouaram to fix it and make all of you happy so if you have a proposed solution to the issue no matter who you are I highly suggest to make it known as feedback is necessary) and I know its possible to make the majority of players happy with what happens as long as they are informed and feel as if they have a say in what happens to the server when it comes to an issue as I said like this.

With all of that said I don't want to see the economy turn into what it was like on ret because even though I don't play anymore nor am higher up/staff member I still don't want to see Jouaram's server fail because I know he's still capable of running one for as long as he did ret if not even longer and I'm sure you all want that too. (sorry for the massive wall of text but its kind of necessary when it comes to stuff like this cause if it isn't fixed to a degree it only gets worse like ret did and everything is in the billions before you know it.) any 600 gold bars homies in chat???

Well Said. To your point of "Perm Advantage" If you've been here long enough you already have a Perm advantage over new players, I have 2 medical devices that I can instantly add health to my self before even leaving spawn. Further more I see players who have a lot of these devices like the syringe because the top rich people buy a ton of crates and end up putting them on the market witch devalues them causing it to be much easier for newer players to obtain them.

Back on the subject of Prestige. I mentioned some perks like HP and player effect type perks. You could also do Perks that have absolutely no Value other then a "Visual" effect such as titles. You could have a title for each Prestige and the Top title being "Jouaram Bitch" But I don't see that being a hefty enough goal for most player to want to obtain it.

Yes every DarkRP server goes thew this and it is damn near impossible to not eventually run into this inflated economy. If we look at this from a pure "Real Life" point of view the Issue with DarkRP is that there is no "Cost of Living" witch if you started doing that Would make the server more serious then I believe Jouaram wants it to be. But at its core this is the issue with most DarkRP servers. There is no need to do anything that ensures your survival. No Hunger, No Rent. No Electricity Bills simply being on and in a job regardless if you do that job well or not gets you paid. Then you have passive money like printers that do need to be tended to but are not a huge burden (if you throw them in the bank (assuming there are bankers on). Add to that illegal jobs that pay well Again mostly there is No burden on the criminal aspect of a Job you build your self a base hide away grind it out and sell and get rich.

So apart from constantly adding things to the server for players to buy witch is a short gap stop measure Addressing the lack of burden on the player to survive the outcome no matter what you do will always end up the same a inflated economy. And I will add that Jouaram has recently changed a bunch of things in regards to how Drug jobs work making it A bit more difficult. So more then likely Adding Burden of survival would help improve the inflation of the economy.

So this is all to say that there is no Real aspect of role play on the server and if you look at the totality of what is presented to us its get on Get rich and there's nothing much else to do.

2 hours ago, ImmortalxReaper said:

Issue with this is that veteran players will have an advantage over new players, which Jouaram has been trying to avoid when possible. 

Understandable, but things like higher HP and Armor are obtainable by all players some like (150 HP) from perm items but also from other Jobs.

Don't remember if I have posted on this topic before, but A "reset" isn't the only answer.

I honestly don't see this doing much as the only reason the servers economy isn't flooded with even more money is because people Don't care much about "RP" money. The true value in most peoples minds are Perm weapons. Though with the recent changes made to some jobs like Meth, Banking etc I have yet to find a easy way to stack up tons of cash. So what could be the answer? Frankly being some what new to the server I would not be very happy about a reset (wouldn't be the end of the world & I wouldn't quit over it) but none the less people who have less money then me would prob be even more upset.

Prestige?

Cost 50 Levels & X amount of in Game money (and cost would step up per level of prestige) Now the ultimate question what "Reward" would be worth the effort and make you want to level prestige? It obviously can't be something that increases your cash flow else it would just compound the issue of inflation. As Perks (F8) are currently broken from what I'm told this could be removed and added into this Prestige System. Perhaps Every "Prestige" level can unlock up to 3 Options. Some Ideas (and I don't know what every perm does but I try not to include anything that's already a perk/feature of a perm) Most of these will be "On Spawn"

LVL 1

25% Armor | +50 HP (Total of 150) 

LVL 2

50% Armor | +75 HP (total of 175)

LVL 3

75% Armor | +100 HP (total of 200)

LVL 4

100% Armor | +125 HP (total of 225)

LVL 5

100% Armor | +125 HP (total of 225)

HP armor would not detract from the use of most medical devices as they will still be very useful in battle. You can do stuff like weapon accuracy (though it would prob be only for non perm guns as it prob would be impossible to add for every single gun, run speed, fall Damage decrease, Increased storage space (dunno if that would be easy as donators get more space), Increase Scanner Jammer Radius, Weapons hold more ammo (again prob only for non perms).

I am sure there are tons of other things people could think of that would make it worth while.

I don't even know what to say.

1 hour ago, mreggman said:

jokes on you i cant read

So this topic is just a construct in your head?

17 minutes ago, BadGraphics said:

I’m sorry. Now really taking the time to really think about the verbal warning, it didn’t have to be given. I’m sorry for handing this warning out to you. You didn’t mention anything about having video evidence until I got off and you talked to Danny about it. Honestly when the situation first happened i thought you were lying about it being an accident mainly because you didn’t respond to me when i asked you about it before you executed me. I said as much to Danny and he felt like the warm was accurate which is why i went though with it! The only reason was i didn’t own up to my mistake in the beginning of this appeal was because I hate being wrong and was in a denial state ig lmao. Sorry again, and i hope this gets appeal, but also, maybe like don’t put the printers in front of the shooting area, ik they weren’t yours, but pass the message on to your friend 🙂. 

No worries, Things happen just glad we all could have a civil conversation. I spoke to Danny directly sense he was the one who advised you in the matter. I though I did mention. I can't say for sure I did or did not. So I apologize for not communicating that to you more directly & effectively.

Edit: and yea I told him that I got a warning because of him 🙂

As far as I can tell there is no rule stating that you may not destroy your own property in the event of a raid, It is generally a rule on Most DarkRP servers but is not a "common sense/De-facto" rule as in the event of a criminal doing something "Illegal" and dose not think they will be able to ward off the intruders They will often destroy there own property in order to stop said intruders from obtaining anything of value. But as I stated before and shown in the video I clearly did not intent to destroy the printers and the fact that they where in a area that is obviously going to be "under fire" if a raid was to occur makes this warn in my opinion questionable.

Something good can come of this regardless of the out come (I clearly hope the warn is lifted)

A rule added stating that destroying raid-able's is not allowed?

It is the owner duty to keep entity's reasonably safe and away from props that are used to deny entry into there base of operation (witch might be a tad hard to determine as not all locations are the same smaller size and throw-able weapons that do Area of Effect damage is quite large.

In-Game Name: TangoDown

SteamID: STEAM_0:0:47434864]

Who Warned You: BadGraphics

Evidince:

Why Should You Be Un-Warned: As seen in the video I did not go about trying to destroy the printers in questions. I threw Motive Cocktails over the maze in a attempt to kill the intruders. I do not believe a warn is warranted for accidental destruction of "raid-able" items.

13 hours ago, RevoltPlays said:

The second Admin Mass RDM event has now concluded. Those that participated what did you think? How would you improve it?

 

I think it was much better this time than last.

 

Any and all feedback is appreciated!

Corrected for Accuracy 🥰

I don't