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The S2K Pandemic; Part 2 | Degrading Roleplay Quality Abroad

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Processed_Grain

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While there is already a thread going on about the fundamental problems regarding S2K-worship on this server, I feel it to be lacking in some places as it purposely avoids some of the more pressing issues regarding player conduct, server culture, and even inequalities regarding how factions operate or fight each other. Issues that -- can only be mended by the system.

Whilst I'll leave most rants and qualms against recent events to the good people of the Willard Networks forums, I will at least briefly mention my side "Point of View".


Across the board, I have time and time again been reminded by both Rebel and Loyalist players by the distinctly terrible, RP-killing, unserious nature of the Liberator Rebel Group, fostered by this very server culture of S2K-worship. I'll skim over it here since I know for a fact someone else will expand upon the finer details, but to surmise:

- The Liberators obviously just did a Mass-RDM attack on a balefully defended Loyalist event. They killed everyone there. Period. This alone should warrant some especially grievous consequences, however I'm told they were given a Warning so, this more applies to their conduct as a group in general.

- The Liberators are full of questionable characters to say the least. As you may know, the member that almost got away with PKing me is a Mortal Kombat villain by the name of Liu Kang just to name one. Some other characters are, frankly, either completely unserious, have no character at all, or are downtrodden 2023-style ethnic stereotype characters (Take 'Bear').

- The Liberators are acredited by both sides of the aisle, both Rebel and Loyalist, for being total roleplay sinkholes. They do not do anything beyond shooting to kill.


I'd like to posit some sensible changes to the current ruleset. Mainly:

- Introduction of Rebel Deployment Limits

- Limits put on certain key faction leads/assistants/members on having characters within the directly opposing faction

- Rewarding Non-S2K venues

- Limits on gear transfers across map changes



(This post has been CO-SIGNED by @Armenian Union and @Omega )
 
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"Unserious" nature of the Liberators
The majority of your members are script-hungry S2K sloppy Eastern European ethnics. Try again.
The Liberators did not do a Mass-RDM attack on the Loyalist event, the aim was not to kill the random citizens but rather every cop, MCP, or CCA we came across. It was an assasination. Yes, stuff did go other way but the goal was achieved, out of the many rebels that was in there room the goal was a success.
You still did it, and you still defend it, crazy work. "We didn't do a mass RDM event." "Yes, stuff did go the other way, but. --" You're contradicting yourself in your own message. Someone was banned for this, so it was a rule break.


They just roleplay different and sometimes worse than most, which absolutely does not give ANYONE the right to slander my players.
We're pointing out that they're horrible role players and only do S2K. I bet the majority those who did this attack won't log on for the rest of the event.

guerilla warfare
"Gurrelia warfare" is not storming the HQ of the Combine and executing en masse a bunch of civilians, read a book on resistance movements; it'd do you some good, Curb.


one side and that faction only because they have been good at managing that faction and helping the server's health by doing so. Why punish them for that?
Helps limit the metagaming.


There are no one who disregard roleplay, but the ones who do different kinds of roleplay.
Deflect, deny, disregard. Classic. Different kinds of roleplay for you are S2K and gunning down people for fun.
LIBERATING, yes it did kill some people.
💀Defend itCurb, lmao.


the slummers by implementing anti-Resistance legislations and anti-Slum legislations
I'm CCA, wake up and smell the coffee, big guy. The slum legislation was blown way out of proportion and is actually in the process of being reformed, not that you give a shit.

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This is correct, and I do not regret saying it. You shouldn't be doing cringe local events as a rebel lead to a new CCA member "You have a target on your back."image.png


"most elite superior roleplayer" ever.
Bad faith Curb, where tf is this epic quote of mine?


find a Liberator ICly
Can't, none of them will be on for the next month now.
Arceneaux, and spell his name right
Nope, the rebel that killed me couldn't even do that, so why should I for some dead French CA, lol. Get a grip, Acrenaux must really strike a nerve for you with that French larp you were doing with Chevalier.
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The poorly written execution lines are found poorly by the ones who has never experienced S2K and the stress of taking too much time, I would like to state an example on what happens if too much time is taken as stated in the screenshot:
Doesn't take 6 minutes to write a /me to open the door.
Our goal is to enjoy the server while promoting roleplay
Ragebait, nice.

witness sterilizations are Mass RDM since they also get NLR full refund after being killed. The people in that room were in support of the very same CCA who Liberators were trying to assasinate.
Ahhh, justify it Curb. Witness sterilisation is a tactic by the le evil Combine. Mass RDM is something not usually expected from rebels.
You have personally misspelled "Arceneaux"
Holy shit, picking at straws. I didn't kill Acernaux, did I?
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Confirming that series of slander you have been stating without evidence to back it, other than your "own feelings" on how rebels used binds.
That's not me in the video.


considering they were in the SecCon meeting, a regular citizen who is not a collaborator could see that the rebels are dealing with people who are collaborating with the Combine who is causing extinction on the humanity.
Your failure to try and convince them to your cause and give the Combine a massive propaganda W is hilarious and your complete BLINDNESS to it is even funnier, the resistance is cooked with you at the helm, chief.
Here are the screenshots of your insults that you have been throwing around for no reason against me, my group, my group's roleplay and my roleplay without giving any effort to interact with us ICly on any other character.
Mmmm, yummers more bad faith screenshost.

Look at this, Curb!

Apology to Cengiz.

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Waiting for that apology for you shit stirring in SecCon discord.
doesn't make you a superior roleplayer,
Bro when have I been saying this?

chats when I was faction manager,
You caused a JW 3 days in bro, settle down.
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Nope, the rebel that killed me couldn't even do that, so why should I for some dead French CA, lol. Get a grip, Acrenaux must really strike a nerve for you with that French larp you were doing with Chevalier.
Mr Calloway, it's Arceneaux... Please.imaccxzxzzzccge.png
 
There's so much shit in this thread that it's all just flooding the zone tbh, so I'll just make a few points from my POV:

1. Yes, anecdotally I can confirm the Liberators are lacking in quality RP based on the interactions my free vort has had with them. Half of them are not proficient in English (no offense meant, but this is an English language server), and most times I see them outside their base is when they are shotcopping. However, I think they are a symptom of the S2K problem, not the cause.

2. To call the incident with the meeting anything less than a mass RDM event is laughable. I've been playing HL2RP since 2013 and even I have never seen anything as egregious as that. If I were in charge here, I would be handing out permabans.

3. Curbalas, your toxicity specifically is not helping. Armenionunion's comments are not justified, but in all fairness you have been immaturely ragebaiting since the incident, up to the point you were warned by the server director. Calm down and take a breather, for your own sake.

4. Calling the Combine bad at S2K is a silly point to make. Rebels have had their success because the Combine are, by server design, completely reactionary and are forced to assault defensible chokepoints against unrestricted superior numbers. This is not a serious point to make in the grand scheme of things.

5. Ultimately, the staff team bears the most responsibility for this degradation of roleplay standards. The utter lack of coordination is verging on laziness, and I don't foresee it getting any better without a complete overhaul of how the staff team operates.
 
"Unserious" nature of the Liberators is such a false statement that it only shows distaste against our group without any reasoning other than the fact that we have changed the status quo of the server, which people tend to cause a lot of trouble as the status quo is harmed, shown by many occasions on this server.
Rebel plays shooting loyalists in bad faith is hardly a change from status quo. See: Agatha Doe's PK

The Liberators did not do a Mass-RDM attack on the Loyalist event, the aim was not to kill the random citizens but rather every cop, MCP, or CCA we came across. It was an assasination. Yes, stuff did go other way but the goal was achieved, out of the many rebels that was in there room the goal was a success.
It is your group is it not? The burden falls upon you for cultivating such a terrible 'expression of roleplay'.
You have your choice of roleplays, same as others. You cannot insult my Bear because Plumber insulted his character due to not knowing the detailed background of the character which I will not state, due to the fact that it is a knowledge you can learn ICly if people try to roleplay with us instead of hating on us OOCly 24/7.
How are we supposed to roleplay with you, exactly? Sorry but, the Loyalist Faction's only experience roleplaying with your beloved 'Bear' is through a aurafarming jackboot through the skull written in a misspelled /me.
Fully wrong. We are not roleplay sinkholes nor we do shooting to kill only, the people who claim that are the same people who disliked this group since its formation OOCly, and they are the loud minority that keeps claiming we do not roleplay and we are only S2K-hungry players. That is completely false and fully slander. Some of our members are not the prime pinnacle of roleplay, but that doesn't mean they don't. They just roleplay different and sometimes worse than most, which absolutely does not give ANYONE the right to slander my players.
The first thing I saw when that Suitcase incident occurred but a week ago was how it should've been the Liberators as opposed to 'The Front'; the only people seemingly interested in roleplaying. The 11/9 Junktown charade was an example of actual roleplayers (not you) getting attacked by S2K players (mostly members of your faction on another character all things considered)

And- I do have the right to express my 'slander' towards your players. Your beloved players just thrashed MY Beloved player's attempt at roleplay. So, yeah, I think I am well within my rights to question "Who's in the wrong" here.

By the way, let's not forget that time *you* started a JW 3 days into the event and (rightfully) resigned for it.

The rebels are encouraged to do guerilla warfare, in a world where Rebel Deployment Limits were needed, it would be a world where 2 shotcops happened in a day, which would be total war, the rebels do not do any attacks without ensuring the safety of their own, which is gained with numbers.
Guerilla warfare such as: skimming a crime check to attack what may as well be a 'Capitol Building' in the middle of the day. Yeah, no. You lost any notions of 'Guerilla Warfare' the second you blew the head off a an i5 issued a USP with an AR2.

Contrary to what Armenian Union says; you are NOT the 'underdogs'. The Rebel Faction as a whole is, in fact, EXTREMELY OVERPOWERED compared to the Combine faction.

Limit the deployments done by the "opposing faction" as you stated, then it would be sensible. The constat shadow sweeps done by CPs and OTA would be killing the rebel faction, you would want that probably.
I want an end to the S2K-CVR fest - including that done by OTA-ers in their relentless, mindless running into the Leman Harbor.
The server is designed like this, we do passive roleplay within the Resistance and we have to conduct armed operations that includes gunning down important targets (CPs, HVTs, OTA, Synthetics) to improve the standing of the Resistance on the "would Rebels win or Combine" scale. You are oblivious to the fact that all these are rewarded according to the rules and we have done nothing but progress our attempts on LIBERATING, yes it did kill some people. But this server has PKs, I personally lost three or four characters of my own which I loved dearly. I accepted it.
Don't turn this into a "Just accept the PK anyway brah.. it happens!".

Yeah, the server is currently designed like this....

This is also the FIRST TIME I am EVER hearing a member of the Liberators complain that it is like this.

We are the ones trying to fix this. Do not play the victim.

You absolutely have no right to insult Cocohop at all, you are no different than him as you kept harming the slummers by implementing anti-Resistance legislations and anti-Slum legislations, and you cannot tell me "it was forced to us!!" same thing happened to you with the MCP, but you went so far with them and even tried couping them. You simply accepted this change because you wanted it. You have shown clear distaste against rebel players in the past as seen by your messages in the underground server and the SecCon server. You have an OOC anti-rebel bias which you take it IC.
So are you trying to say that Cocochop has done no wrong or are you trying to say that Armenian holds OOC bias - *whilst simultaneously* saying they are no different from them.

Also, all of those legislations were *reactive*, by the way, mostly in part to Overwatch's inability to actually fight back.

Fun fact - we also tried *mending this* (still are, because unlike you we respect Slummers and want to try and fix problems where we can, even if stopped in our roleplay-tracks by 'The Liberators) by making that restriction only apply when Socio-Stability gets low enough.

You absolutely do not know the lore and the ideas of the Resistance group and I will not bother explaining you this. That was not minge yelling but the part of our roleplay as the Liberators. If you want an explanation find a Liberator ICly and ask them about Arceneaux, and spell his name right. That is the same "mistake" you stated we do for your name. And you can check our base in no clip for the posters for him.
Yeah yeah yeah, you guys met some Hyper-Republicans once or decided to do it to fool the combine. It doesn't change the fact it's just stupid and mingey to hear it shouted over the plaza by someone with a fake description for the 50th time.

I would like to give an honest example for this situation. This has happened yes, and there is no reversing it anymore. But was this any different than any witness sterilizations that Combine does after rebels do something to the city?
Yes, actually. It's completely different. At least when Civil Protection does it there's some valid reasoning. The best I've heard the Liberators give is "Well erm.. they were in... the nazi room.. and .... complicit!"

By the way, I'll say it again. Your friend Bravo who you invited OOCly to join the Liberators hours before the attack was just recently banned *for* his hand in the attack and Mass-RDMing those citizens so; yeah, I think it's different.
The Front was wiped because they were writing a /me for too long instead of hastily, their entire group was wiped and they were forced to start from zero because of this. And our /me's were not low-quality nor against the rules of the PK policy, as they were ALL WRITTEN on the spot with no "binds" as you falsely state with no evidence to back, they were enough and usable for executions during S2K.
Again, this is a fundamental problem. I myself see the problem with shit like this too and also do feel some pity towards the Front (unlike you and the Liberators), seeing as they were the only rebels to do any substantial passive (even if I don't like their form of it).

The Front is as much of a victim to this server's S2K-terror as we are to 'The Liberators'. Period.
Our goal is to enjoy the server while promoting roleplay, and if S2K is a way of promoting roleplay we will be doing so. As you stated, this will change the opinions of some citizens in-regards to the Resistance. Use that ICly, we did what we did, and we wish to feel the consequences.

No roleplay was stiffled, but modified to a different path that they have to take now due to the deaths, we are not "anti-roleplay" because we changed the path of your roleplay, that is how roleplay works. Not everything goes according to plan, does it now?
S2K shouldn't be a way of promoting roleplay. It's the lowest form of 'GMOD' there is. You're pressing W and clicking Mouse+1.

And yes - roleplay was 'Stiffled', you tried killing three members of CCA in the first loyalist event of the I24.. 'event'. As he put it...:
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The plan happened normally, some members went out of their way from the plan but IC was IC. We will feel the consequences of such actions afterwards. I would like to also claim that witness sterilizations are Mass RDM since they also get NLR full refund after being killed. The people in that room were in support of the very same CCA who Liberators were trying to assasinate.
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Witness Sterilizations are, yet again, both a last resort and *completely different*.
Why would they challenge us? But ask us to help them in situations that require armed support, and we can do the same for mechanical and technological operations. You were actively trying to instigate Brennen to turn against us OOCly for the past two days. I know exactly what you are trying to do OOC-wise, and it is absolutely not wise.
Judging by the interactions you two have had in the SeCon discord for the past day, I'm really not sure what you gain here beyond calling yourself out to be some Ultra-Machiavellian hypocrite.

The JW shouldn't even been called for a couple of cop deaths in the City. You would know better that the past precedences of JWs and AJWs were extremely enforced in 2023-2024, it all changed after the lack of regulation done on those. That JW shouldn't have happened at all at the first place. You cannot use that excuse for this reasoning.
*Resigns*

It is exactly what you would want. You want every Liberator character to be PK'd because of your OOC opinions. Which is saddening for someone in your position.
THEY WANT THE SAME FUCKING THING.
You have personally misspelled "Arceneaux" in your thread, which just shows you as a hypocrite, no offense. The /me's written during-after S2K situations are filled with adrenaline and they have to be written fast and with haste to avoid being shot during the S2K while writing a /me, you guys kept giving example of a member typing "Calloway" instead of Callaway and it is nothing major.

This shit shouldn't count as a Perma kill for a character.1759173738951.png

Here are the screenshots of your insults that you have been throwing around for no reason against me, my group, my group's roleplay and my roleplay without giving any effort to interact with us ICly on any other character.
Hey @Curbalas, let's not forget your ragebaiting attitude you've maintained on the discord whilst celebrating PKs in DMs. So much so that several moderators have already had to intervene on your behalf so you didn't get yourself banned.

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Just leaving a note, Elias Siemens was PKd by a rebel at the time, without any roleplay or anything, just walked up to him and shot,and that was just the end, he accepted his characters end as is, high profile characters like that has a risk every time they are flagged on, you are PK by default, we all know this.
...Why the fuck are we supposed to accept this, again? remind me-- Why should my characters be inherently given *less value* than some fail-roleplaying scumlord from the CZ. This is ridiculous.
 
You're contradicting yourself in your own message. Someone was banned for this, so it was a rule break.
Someone, not the group. And I still claim it to not be a rule break, rebels didn't have gas masks, they are allowed to NLR people to hide their identity. They are in the process of being talked about.

We're pointing out that they're horrible role players and only do S2K. I bet the majority those who did this attack won't log on for the rest of the event.
You just ignored my points and proved the single point that you think you are the best roleplayer and everyone else is horrible. You are not the main character of this server, and will never be.


"Gurrelia warfare" is not storming the HQ of the Combine and executing en masse a bunch of civilians, read a book on resistance movements; it'd do you some good, Curb.
It actually is. Ambushing high-value targets is guerrilla warfare. No one was killed on the rebel sides, so it really was a successful operation. Also I don't have to read a book on resistance movements to decide what I want to do with the rebel group's path.

Helps limit the metagaming.
So you agree with my point that you guys want to ensure that people play only one character. Really limiting of free choice of roleplay given to players. Sad. How was there metagaming at this situation? With what proof?

Deflect, deny, disregard. Classic. Different kinds of roleplay for you are S2K and gunning down people for fun.
You are responding to everything I have stated with classic ragebaiting, but I will still respond as respectful as I am, unlike you. You were shot down, doesn't mean our entire roleplay was that. You are not the main character of this server and not everything is centered around that SeCon room or yesterday's events.


I'm CCA, wake up and smell the coffee, big guy. The slum legislation was blown way out of proportion and is actually in the process of being reformed, not that you give a shit.
And you were shot for it. Deserved.


This is correct, and I do not regret saying it. You shouldn't be doing cringe local events as a rebel lead to a new CCA member "You have a target on your back."
Cringe for you maybe. Happens to all characters by different GMs as well, you specifically took this because you dislike Cocohop, I was told that he had you blocked for over a month, and I can guess the reasoning that you take OOC distate to a much more far level anyone can. Saddening and unhealthy obsession.


Ragebait, nice.
You will claim everything as ragebait that you dislike, and it shows everytime. That time when you timed me out while I was answering your questions on the SeCon server without responding the answer you wanted to hear. Funny that you don't respond properly in a thread made against me, when I am clearly defending myself against the false information you have been spewing out.

Ahhh, justify it Curb. Witness sterilisation is a tactic by the le evil Combine. Mass RDM is not by rebels is something not usually expected.
Justified, those loyalists are working together with the CCA we aimed to kill, I stated that in my first response but you don't read I believe. We practically did witness sterilization with NLR full refund with no harm to their roleplay. Some rebels didn't have their masks on, what if they revealed the identity of those rebels with no masks?


Nope, the rebel that killed me couldn't even do that, so why should I for some dead French CA, lol. Get a grip, Acrenaux must really strike a nerve for you with that French larp you were doing with Chevalier.
I don't actually connect to my characters to the OOC extend where I obsess OOCly on insulting other players, I was proving that you were a hypocrite as you yourself typed a name that is older than your character, which is estimatedly 4 years old. So you proved that misspellings can happen, and it is normal. But you don't understand it because it doesn't fit your brain's ideals.


Holy shit, picking at straws. I didn't kill Acernaux, did I?
>proceeds to ignore the entire point, takes Arceneaux to give a point. Classic taking stuff out of context, and it still doesn't work.


That's not me in the video.
So? I stated that here is an example, not everyone clips our actions. Everyone wrote the /me's in-person as I watched them write the /me's slowly with the "Perfoming..." above their head, including me. You have absolutely no evidence to claim that we used binds and you are using your "thoughts" as evidence and slander.


Your failure to try and convince them to your cause and give the Combine a massive propaganda W is hilarious and your complete BLINDNESS to it is even funnier, the resistance is cooked with you at the helm, chief.
You think it would be cooked. It's Combine's job to do the propaganda because of our actions. You cannot decide OOCly what characters will choose what to do ICly, once again, ignoring my point.


Look at this, Curb!

Apology to Cengiz.
I can tell you to fuck off, and apologize later. That wouldn't change the fact that I insulted you. You kept insulting me after you did apologize to me? You timed me out and called me a dickhead, apologized to me after reece untimed you out, then kept spewing insults to me and disrespecting me.

You caused a JW 3 days in bro, settle down.
I stated why that JW was improper, and you ignored it. Classic, classic. Take everything from the context and shape it to the way you think is right. Ignore the solid points.
 
These past few days have made me feel like the Nuremberg Trials are happening again.

Are we seriously still using the "It was legal, so I'm not at fault" defense in the good year of 2025? People pulled this defense back when Agatha Doe was mingekilled. They pulled this when Xiao Chen-Ning was mingekilled. This point shouldn't even matter, because it WASN'T legal. Bans and warns were handed out. Frankly the rules shouldn't even be written in a way that could ever be interpreted that it COULD be justified.

All of this has already been said, and it bears repeating. It has to be repeated over and over again until this mentality, the server mentality, ceases to act this way. Players and groups whose sole purpose in regards to 50% of the server's population is to shoot them on sight should NEVER exist. A community which allows incidents and instigators of this sort to continue to flourish has failed on its promises. I applaud server moderation for cracking down on this, however small the response has been. Please keep this up, and go further. I'd rather see 9 minges banned and 1 false positive than 9 minges free to run amok and one group occasionally banned after mass outrage.
 
3. Curbalas, your toxicity specifically is not helping. Armenionunion's comments are not justified, but in all fairness you have been immaturely ragebaiting since the incident, up to the point you were warned by the server director. Calm down and take a breather, for your own sake.
Asks questions, responds to questions. Gets called its ragebait, everyone believes its ragebait. Shallow mind.
 
...Why the fuck are we supposed to accept this, again? remind me-- Why should my characters be inherently given *less value* than some fail-roleplaying scumlord from the CZ. This is ridiculous.
You accept being PK by default when you get the CCA whitelist, everyone does. The RP that led to your killing broke no rules. The only rule that you guys claim that we broke was the fact that civillians were shot, your killings was legal.
 
going into large complaint threads and shitposting in the comments until it gets locked
I mean, this wouldn’t have happened if the meeting room wasn’t in the nexus, genuinely. Anyone could have gotten to those catwalks easily. Not much points of defense.
 
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