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01-08-2016, 09:45 AM
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(01-08-2016, 06:34 AM)Viljo Wrote: You taught me alot in 2012, from former administrator's point of view, how was aggressiveRP back then versus now?
In my opinion it has increased drastically and is basically now in "meta" to earn money, the aggressive way.
What do you think, will "meta" shift?
It's different. Back in the day, you rarely saw violence spew out into the street unless it was an escape attempt. Hostages used to be used more frequently and they were regarded more seriously. Recently it seems that it is okay to attack people based on job, a formerly bannable offense. Criminal wasn't even a valid option for custom jobs back then, you had to have more class than that. You had to think a bit harder to get away with robbing someone, killing them was even harder. Now it's hard enough to get an admin to respond to these kinds of calls. Then you have the differences in staff from then to now which also helps shape up how it played out. Back then we had enforcer type admins like Ruxandra, who's only purpose in life was to catch and ban anyone who even minorly infracted on the rules. There was a degree of fear and respect towards the staff from older criminals. Only the smart ones were able to pull off a good raid with collateral damage and not be banned. Nowadays, unless you have an issue with a staff member, you can probably kill 2-3 people no problem. Even after I was demoted, I was still pulled into the UBRs because my spray from a shotgun collectively hit, not killed, 3-4 people whom some claimed non-involvement.
Then you have the different way old players did it verse new players. An old player was used to being robbed. We didn't complain to the staff when we were clipped by every single car. If you knew it was intentional, sure, but not every minor offense. If you got hostaged in the alley by Ludo, you rolled with it, you eventually are cut loose, then you would spend time trying to seek justice, tracking, roleplaying. Now it's cry cry cry, commit crime, win/lose, try more, win/lose, try more, get stopped by admin, provide excuses, continue, more admin sits, more crying. It's a joke. When you see the "hard" or "evil" crew, crying to an admin about how some other dude called him a name, it ruins your image of being a tough customer. Old Ludo, Enzyme, Kula, they wouldn't even think to call staff. They were plotting which root to prune your family tree, while draining your money out in the process and end up having you in jail by the end. Elaborate, well played, classy revenge. Not flag down superman to go get your randomly stolen car back.
I've watched as the meta was aggressive rp, to passive, to clan war, to random admin events, a gap, now we are on aggressive rp again. Since this place roles in cycles, and since passive night is no longer a thing, I will assume that passive night will return to try to kick off some passive theme based rps. Most themes tend to fall into what is popular, over the time I have seen apple stores, starbucks, baskin robbins. And at those times, all of those companies were influencing real world youth in some way, so I can only guess that the next stores will be of things like Occulus, Amazon, and probably some new resurante like Chipolte.
Hope that helps, I kind of had to interpret the term "meta" I assume you were talking about how FL rolls through these kicks of "blank" is the new popular cool way to play, that it goes through all the time.