Duplicate Another dispatch suggestion

[Devistral]

The one thing that always bugged me is how there’s only one broadcast type and the fact players that are non-combine immediately see “DISPATCH” as the broadcaster.

Broadcast should have two types:
/Dispatch - District-wide announcements
/City - City-wide announcements

This gives more emphasis for roleplay in my opinion.

Second of all, change “dispatch broadcasts” to simply:
District speakers broadcast:
City speakers broadcast:

Dispatch should be mysterious, a strange voice that people hear, not “dispatch”

Eg.

/dispatch judgement waiver

District speakers broadcast: Attention all ground protection teams, judgement waiver is now in effect.

/city (Insert long quote)

City speakers broadcast: Incursion warning. Stabilisation teams move to hardpoints.

This more or less says:
“The district the server is in has gone to shit. After it ends there will be district consequences, and not city-wide consequences. OTA have also prepared for any further incidents.”

This also means if I did

/city Judgement Waiver

City speakers broadcast: Judgement waiver is now in effect.

It makes it more of a “oh shit” moment as now you understand the whole city is in trouble. It also means that if the combine manage to suppress the uprising the city will then suffer the consequences as a whole rather than just the district.

It envelops a secondary benefit too:
Rebels can now work between city-wide incursions or district incursions.
Major rebel cells in the city would be the only ones capable of causing city-wide incidents.

It also removes the 1 rebel assassinating some high tier CCA and causing the whole city to go to shit out of bumfuck nowhere.

 

[Tsunami]

I do like the suggestion, I don't really care for separating the announcements.

If dispatch has something to say, everyone and their mother hears it. The messages sent over dispatch transforms an ordinary lifeless day, into a day of curiosity, wonder, and fear.

People hear the calls made over the intercom and discuss it with the people around them. They could spend hours conversing over the uproar, expressing what they think is going on, rumors start, even better: spread. The point of dispatch is to churn the melting pot between Civilians and Civil Protection, or really any faction. It doesn't discriminate and those announcements affect every single faction.

Dispatch should be heard by everyone and anyone regardless of the situation, though I would be happy with it displaying "City Speaker Broadcast" instead, ultimately this name change will not affect the effect that dispatch has on a city.

 

[Devistral]

I do like the suggestion, I don't really care for separating the announcements.

If dispatch has something to say, everyone and their mother hears it. The messages sent over dispatch transforms an ordinary lifeless day, into a day of curiosity, wonder, and fear.

People hear the calls made over the intercom and discuss it with the people around them. They could spend hours conversing over the uproar, expressing what they think is going on, rumors start, even better: spread. The point of dispatch is to churn the melting pot between Civilians and Civil Protection, or really any faction. It doesn't discriminate and those announcements affect every single faction.

Dispatch should be heard by everyone and anyone regardless of the situation, though I would be happy with it displaying "City Speaker Broadcast" instead, ultimately this name change will not affect the effect that dispatch has on a city.

If cities have like 100k to 10 million people then we don't need city wide announcements for johnny rebel shotcopping two low rank CPs in a single district. Nearby districts can obviously faintly hear our districts broadcasts. It also provides an option for GMs to pretend that another district nearby has gone to shit and we can faintly hear their district broadcasts.

If johnny rebel killed 3 CPs and caused the district to go fractured it doesn't mean dispatch should be doing:
city speakers broadcast: 1 rebel in community
when jimmy jones in the cwu is at district 1 packing my bi-hourly ration pack at least 10km away from my district
it's an unnecessary escalation and makes the player feel like gordon freeman when they're being called out like anti-citizen one throughout the ENTIRE city for a quick shotcop

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Seperation doesn't negatively affect the control or impact of dispatch on the server at all, in-fact I would argue it improves both and creates opportunity. GMs and staff have a habit of instantly causing the WHOLE city to go to shit when fractured or judgement waiver is called for a district incident (i'm guilty of this) and I believe seperation may assist better in handling post-fuckery CvRs.

 

[Tsunami]

If cities have like 100k to 10 million people

we got like 50.

 

[Devistral]

If cities have like 100k to 10 million people

we got like 50.

You and I have way different views.
You see the city as the servers pop.
I see the city as a lore narrative.

We are not the same...

 

[Tzangdilli the Erudite]

I really doubt population centers would have theese kinds of numbers, seeing as how there was a global spanning conflict that must've been pretty destructive and all the uh, you know... Genocide and transhumanism.

 

[Devistral]

I really doubt population centers would have theese kinds of numbers, seeing as how there was a global spanning conflict that must've been pretty destructive and all the uh, you know... Genocide and transhumanism.

City Eight in willard lore had ten million people and industrial 24 had about a hundred thousand so that's where I got my numbers.

 

[Lost Coast Chanties]

City Eight in willard lore had ten million people and industrial 24 had about a hundred thousand so that's where I got my numbers.

Ten Combinion people

 

[ItsLiam]

I'm BOB reacting this

 

[Marco]

If cities have like 100k to 10 million people then we don't need city wide announcements for johnny rebel shotcopping two low rank CPs in a single district. Nearby districts can obviously faintly hear our districts broadcasts. It also provides an option for GMs to pretend that another district nearby has gone to shit and we can faintly hear their district broadcasts.

If johnny rebel killed 3 CPs and caused the district to go fractured it doesn't mean dispatch should be doing:
city speakers broadcast: 1 rebel in community
when jimmy jones in the cwu is at district 1 packing my bi-hourly ration pack at least 10km away from my district
it's an unnecessary escalation and makes the player feel like gordon freeman when they're being called out like anti-citizen one throughout the ENTIRE city for a quick shotcop

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Seperation doesn't negatively affect the control or impact of dispatch on the server at all, in-fact I would argue it improves both and creates opportunity. GMs and staff have a habit of instantly causing the WHOLE city to go to shit when fractured or judgement waiver is called for a district incident (i'm guilty of this) and I believe seperation may assist better in handling post-fuckery CvRs.

I feel like this goes against the Combine doctrine of punishing everyone for the actions of average rebel.

I can see uses where a district wide announcement could be used, for example, requesting someone to come to Nexus, standard announcements, but ALL INCURSIONS should be city-wide, not only to allow the rebel groups to know when someone did something, but so they know when to start the crime timer


And anyways, the boundaries to trigger fractured code and judgement waiver are so high that they deserve to be city-wide.

Anyhow, I don't see how this suggestion could be implemented if we are going to Terminal-7, which is nowhere near the size of a city from what I know.

 

[Devistral]

I feel like this goes against the Combine doctrine of punishing everyone for the actions of average rebel.

I can see uses where a district wide announcement could be used, for example, requesting someone to come to Nexus, standard announcements, but ALL INCURSIONS should be city-wide, not only to allow the rebel groups to know when someone did something, but so they know when to start the crime timer


And anyways, the boundaries to trigger fractured code and judgement waiver are so high that they deserve to be city-wide.

Anyhow, I don't see how this suggestion could be implemented if we are going to Terminal-7, which is nowhere near the size of a city from what I know.

Wdym city wide for crime timer? District announcements will be map-wide regardless. They will know when to start the timer.

The combine gets constantly attacked, like in half life 2 and half life alyx; literally in the introductionary scenes. Dispatch always announces it locally, the only time it was city wide was when multiple districts started rebelling.

Judgement waiver was also broadcasted locally in hl2, it doesn’t have to be city-wide and neither does fractured code.

I don’t think you read anything past the suggestion.

 

[Marco]

Wdym city wide for crime timer? District announcements will be map-wide regardless. They will know when to start the timer.

The combine gets constantly attacked, like in half life 2 and half life alyx; literally in the introductionary scenes. Dispatch always announces it locally, the only time it was city wide was when multiple districts started rebelling.

Judgement waiver was also broadcasted locally in hl2, it doesn’t have to be city-wide and neither does fractured code.

I don’t think you read anything past the suggestion.

I'm saddened that my light attempt at humour, (that being rebels constantly asking admins about crime timer and such) was ignored. [also for those rebels in outlands]

In half-life 2 and half-life alyx, We do not know which announcements are local and which are city wide, it's just speculation. Of course, it make more sense.

I don't, however believe that there should be two variants. It will rarely be used and it can always be inferred that every speaker in every district is broadcasting the same thing, but we wouldn't know. It wouldn't make sense to proclaim it as a city broadcast anyway, if only as an excuse for the citizens far away.

I don't think we should be comparing Willard Network's broadcasts to Half-life Two broadcasts, it usually ends up in confusion as Valve likely didn't care whether the speakers were city-wide or district-wide.

Not to mention- city speaker broadcasts would realistically rupture your eardrums to be loud enough for a citizen to hear, but that's a playful statement.

I think this suggestion is similar to my own types of suggestions, that being largely un-neccessary. The only thing I can see being implemented is the change from [DISPATCH BROADCASTS] to [The district speakers broadcasts].

Other examples of what it can be changed to would be similar to the MOE/CCA broadcasts, in which there's a blue text that pops up saying 'the speakers turn on' or some variant of that phrase.

 

[Devistral]

I'm saddened that my light attempt at humour, (that being rebels constantly asking admins about crime timer and such) was ignored. [also for those rebels in outlands]

In half-life 2 and half-life alyx, We do not know which announcements are local and which are city wide, it's just speculation. Of course, it make more sense.

I don't, however believe that there should be two variants. It will rarely be used and it can always be inferred that every speaker in every district is broadcasting the same thing, but we wouldn't know. It wouldn't make sense to proclaim it as a city broadcast anyway, if only as an excuse for the citizens far away.

I don't think we should be comparing Willard Network's broadcasts to Half-life Two broadcasts, it usually ends up in confusion as Valve likely didn't care whether the speakers were city-wide or district-wide.

Not to mention- city speaker broadcasts would realistically rupture your eardrums to be loud enough for a citizen to hear, but that's a playful statement.

I think this suggestion is similar to my own types of suggestions, that being largely un-neccessary. The only thing I can see being implemented is the change from [DISPATCH BROADCASTS] to [The district speakers broadcasts].

Other examples of what it can be changed to would be similar to the MOE/CCA broadcasts, in which there's a blue text that pops up saying 'the speakers turn on' or some variant of that phrase.

Humour in a SERIOUS forum post is grounds for character PK, watch your back…

 

[Marco]

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[MrMindBlow]

Mhm, sure I guess.

I will consider this alongside other Dispatch changes.

Accepted, implementation TBD.