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Server Beta Reviews and opinions

Kinglightning07

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So what I'm going to do, is at the initial end of each of the days on the server, I'll do an overview of, and on my opinion on how the day went and what about it could be improved.
 
My first review is about today AKA the first day of the beta.....

So first off let me start with on my first impressions on the actual server, (I may have been on for the first beta test, but there was no RP so I could only experience the mechanics as intended) I think it went well, the server had a lot to offer. Even for me as a nimble citizen, I was able to enjoy RP, such as a few CWU work shifts here and there, and then topped off at the end of the day with the (still in construction) CWU HQ being set of fire!

I do have a few suggestions based off of what I witnessed.....

so first off sleeping, so while playing I had noted that there was no sleeping /act to use, instead you had to use the /actinjured, which is a problem because then when you sleep it looks like your having a stroke. I think Atle should implement a /actsleep or /actlaydown for people who want to lay down without looking like they're having a stroke. Then secondly interact animations, so I know it's RP, but hear me out, we need more emersion, for example using an interactable devise like a Terminal or a Computer. I think it would be cool if we had a typing animation, so let's say we click on a computer, our character would move into position and then start typing, then the GUI would show up.

All and All I think today was a great success, that being said, I know a lot of you will say no to the additions I thought would be nice to have because then "Atle will delay the launch again" ok, that would not be the case, since he can just add it in after launch. It's a small minor thing that (if atle does want to add them) can be waited for, but either way, I do think today was a great success and hopefully tomorrow will be even better!

Edit: So I also want to mention that I agree with Adam's suggestion, where he thinks there should be some changes made to the workshift machine, here's a link if you want to check it out yourself: https://willard.network/forums/threads/the-workshift-machine-is-abusable.1722/
 
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Considering you come from Impulse I'm not even going to read your monstrosity of text wall
I don’t really even like Impulse anymore, and I bet if you told them they probably wouldn’t even care so leave me the fuck alone
 
Don't be so insulting like that, geeesh. We all come from different places.

Thank you for the review @Kinglightning07
Your welcome, I will be releasing one today so I’m exited for what the community has in store for us, I’ve also devised an interesting concept, I’m going to imagine that because eventually my character is supposed to move to city 24 after he stays in D47 for two years, I’m going to imagine that the two weeks we have to play the beta will actually be two years, and honestly that would actually make a lot of sense, not only because the day and night cycle is shorter then in real life (like most games) but also because (especially) with the tools we have to use to rebuild the city, it would take much longer to do labor we have to do then in real life where we have vehicles and electric tools to make things much easier, we have to use shovels and literally claw at rubble with our bear hands to do that kind of work
 
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yeah yeah ok ok I'm gonna stop being rude

The first day was cool, waited to play for 4 months... or 5? I've lost count, anyway, I've made Joshua, my best char so far and I will keep that man alive as much as possible. Everything went smoothly, besides the errors I have since I don't have css, but that's my personal problem. CPs do their job excellently, even got the chance to get a haircut. About haircuts, @Atle, Benny had posted a suggestion some months ago on haircuts that got approved, where are they? That's actually one of the reasons I joined the server in the first minutes, to customize my char. Like a dumbass, I paid a guy 10 tokens to make my haircut and the model is still the same lol, don't even know what was I expecting.

Long story short, had fun in the beta but stood about an hour to finish my char and my haircut, I had to talk to some people but we've decided to meet ICly in City 24 when the map changes. Lovely.
 
I’m gonna post my review for today when I get home, sadly I didn’t get a chance to play the second half of the day, I hope there weren’t any major events I missed, by major I mean something I would consider to be the arson that happened on the unrepaired CWU HQ
 
I’m gonna post my review for today when I get home, sadly I didn’t get a chance to play the second half of the day, I hope there weren’t any major events I missed, by major I mean something I would consider to be the arson that happened on the unrepaired CWU HQ
You think that was major? That was just two players roleplaying the starting of a fire lmao.
 
Ok, because of the smaller time I had on the server then on the first day, I'm only going to discus smaller things for my review for yesterday........

So I want to go back to my discussion on sleeping, and I think I've thought of more idea's to make this feature more compact, I think it would be cool if you not only add a feature to sleep, but also to have a certain amount of stamina, what I mean, is it would make it so you have to sleep, and RP could also be built off of this, like with workshifts that require a lot of labor, if your more tired you could act less productive, basically the only way would be to sleep, and that is where a custom bed model could come in, I think you should make a custom bed for this mechanic, with a custom animation along with it, that being said, I discovered how to take "Sleep RP" even farther

So yesterday (at one point) it had gone dark, so I went inside the habitation center and initiated "Sleep RP" and what was cool is others did the same thing, you see the trick is to:

First, stand in the right position on top of a bed, then you do /actinjured, then finally, you have to click the "fall over" button, this will then cause your character to essentially go limp, basically what happens is the weird injured animation goes away but you're still laying down, that being said you will go back into first person and the screen will go blurry, but to be honest, that just makes sleep RP even more immersive, you could also just click pause and the affect will go away until you unpause (by pause, I mean Gmod's pause menu, not the servers pause menu) and even when your sleeping you can still chat, but that would mean that you have to talk only in LOOC or OOC since I don't think you can have a sleep talk conversation with another person, one thing I did note was that in the Habitation Center you can only sleep on the top bunk, because the second bunk is to small for you to crouch into that space, so this goes back to my idea on making a custom bed rather then having it require you to make pretend since although it's RP, there are some things that are there to make it easier and adding a sleep meter would be very cool, this could make it so (No matter how high your running skill is) if will run out faster based off of how tired you are in game

Please note once the beta is over, I will transfer some of these idea's over to there own standalone suggestion, but for now they're here to back up my opinions on the beta

But like I said for the first day, all and all it was great, I may have left for the second half, but I had to do something IRL so I hope I didn't miss out of anything that I would definitely mention normally, but thankfully today I will hopefully be able to experience the entire thing
 
Ight, this is going to be my last review, since my only good character died and I really don’t see any point in contuing on until the server releases, and no my character didn’t die because I was in the riot, he died because he fell off a fucking bed for some reason which makes zero sense to me, but I did realize I’d have everything reset in city 24 anyways, so I’m just going to assume my character didn’t die and just act like I was there when the server comes out
 
Ight, this is going to be my last review, since my only good character died and I really don’t see any point in contuing on until the server releases, and no my character didn’t die because I was in the riot, he died because he fell off a fucking bed for some reason which makes zero sense to me, but I did realize I’d have everything reset in city 24 anyways, so I’m just going to assume my character didn’t die and just act like I was there when the server comes out
LMFAO PKED BY A BUNKBED
 
Ight, this is going to be my last review, since my only good character died and I really don’t see any point in contuing on until the server releases, and no my character didn’t die because I was in the riot, he died because he fell off a fucking bed for some reason which makes zero sense to me, but I did realize I’d have everything reset in city 24 anyways, so I’m just going to assume my character didn’t die and just act like I was there when the server comes out
WHAT
 
remember gear wont last, so don't feel bad for handing out some useful gear. i'd like to do things, but have very few items to improvise with.
 
might be permabanned. rules have a special stipulation that says death by bed is absolutely permanent, no appeal, no loopholes
Well then what should I do? he's a really good character in my opinion, and I've made him an entire Information sheet, I don't want to just delete him.
 
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