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Post your horror stories from HL2 RP here
Heres mine;
A few years ago I decided I would try my hand at running a HL2 RP server (even though I had no idea how to even set it up). I ended up using clockwork as the framework and got a 15 slot server (I had planned to start off with a smaller size and increase it if needed).
I contacted a few people I knew that would be interested in helping out, only one of these people had any experience with lua, so I ended up having to rely on this person for all of the stuff regarding scripting or setting up the framework, I didn't really know the person all that well and should have seen the red flags when they were right in my face.
The person in question was named Verniy, he seemed like a normal person (despite having an anime profile pic) when I spoke to him in voice chat. After I gave him access to the server and he set things up, more red flags started to appear, the biggest of which was the character he played.
He played a vortigaunt named Gangut, seemed normal at a first glance, but he told me that this is a character he has re-used on multiple different servers. It got worse when he told me about the name.
He said the name Gangut was actually the name of a type of russian battleship, it seemed fine at first, but only later did he tell me his anime waifu was also named Gangut (it was from some show or game where the characters are anthropomorphized battleships), meaning he named his vortigaunt character after an anime character.
After he set everything up, all he did was try to make his character the center of the world, he would have grand-elder levels of power, able to teleport entire cargo freighters with ease, the rest of the people I had on the staff team just put up with it. Verniy eventually gave guns to a bunch of citizens to "start a resistance", the problem was that he gave guns to a a majority of the players on a 15 slot server, so it was pretty much just combine vs rebels after that.
The players he gave the guns to threatened to all leave if we took the guns away, meaning if we tried voiding the situation and taking their guns, we would lose pretty much the entire player base excluding the staff.
While I was offline Verniy allowed all the rebels to break into the nexus somehow, I rushed on to try to stop it, but it was too late, and if we fought them and killed off their characters we would lose all of the players, so I was forced to let it all run its course. Though afterwards the rebel players said that they had a ton of fun, though it was at the cost of all the union players.
Because the rebel players had pretty much done what they wanted, they all left, the rest of the staff gave up as well, leaving just me and Verniy, I gave it up shortly after, and was bombarded with constant discord calls by Verniy, because he wanted me to get back on the server to get people to join, after this I just ghosted him and eventually took the server down.
One of the reasons why I didn't remove him after I saw the first red flag was because he owned the clockwork key and had access to the server, though I eventually bought my own key and it pissed him off because he couldn't say he's the co-owner anymore
But the biggest reason why I didn't remove him was that I was stupid, and he constantly tried guilt tripping me into letting him stay. He constantly told me that the other members of the staff team (namely the ones that were vocally against Verniy) were just trying to screw with me and ruin the server, and I was dumb enough to believe it at the time.
Heres mine;
A few years ago I decided I would try my hand at running a HL2 RP server (even though I had no idea how to even set it up). I ended up using clockwork as the framework and got a 15 slot server (I had planned to start off with a smaller size and increase it if needed).
I contacted a few people I knew that would be interested in helping out, only one of these people had any experience with lua, so I ended up having to rely on this person for all of the stuff regarding scripting or setting up the framework, I didn't really know the person all that well and should have seen the red flags when they were right in my face.
The person in question was named Verniy, he seemed like a normal person (despite having an anime profile pic) when I spoke to him in voice chat. After I gave him access to the server and he set things up, more red flags started to appear, the biggest of which was the character he played.
He played a vortigaunt named Gangut, seemed normal at a first glance, but he told me that this is a character he has re-used on multiple different servers. It got worse when he told me about the name.
He said the name Gangut was actually the name of a type of russian battleship, it seemed fine at first, but only later did he tell me his anime waifu was also named Gangut (it was from some show or game where the characters are anthropomorphized battleships), meaning he named his vortigaunt character after an anime character.
After he set everything up, all he did was try to make his character the center of the world, he would have grand-elder levels of power, able to teleport entire cargo freighters with ease, the rest of the people I had on the staff team just put up with it. Verniy eventually gave guns to a bunch of citizens to "start a resistance", the problem was that he gave guns to a a majority of the players on a 15 slot server, so it was pretty much just combine vs rebels after that.
The players he gave the guns to threatened to all leave if we took the guns away, meaning if we tried voiding the situation and taking their guns, we would lose pretty much the entire player base excluding the staff.
While I was offline Verniy allowed all the rebels to break into the nexus somehow, I rushed on to try to stop it, but it was too late, and if we fought them and killed off their characters we would lose all of the players, so I was forced to let it all run its course. Though afterwards the rebel players said that they had a ton of fun, though it was at the cost of all the union players.
Because the rebel players had pretty much done what they wanted, they all left, the rest of the staff gave up as well, leaving just me and Verniy, I gave it up shortly after, and was bombarded with constant discord calls by Verniy, because he wanted me to get back on the server to get people to join, after this I just ghosted him and eventually took the server down.
One of the reasons why I didn't remove him after I saw the first red flag was because he owned the clockwork key and had access to the server, though I eventually bought my own key and it pissed him off because he couldn't say he's the co-owner anymore
But the biggest reason why I didn't remove him was that I was stupid, and he constantly tried guilt tripping me into letting him stay. He constantly told me that the other members of the staff team (namely the ones that were vocally against Verniy) were just trying to screw with me and ruin the server, and I was dumb enough to believe it at the time.
