Cypher Roleplay [Half-Life 2 City Roleplaying Community]

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Release Date - July 24th 2:30 PM EST​

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2014. It's been a handful of years since we've all lost something. Small or big. But most of all, we lost total freedom. Total control of our entire planet. To what? To who? An empire. A intergalactic empire that consumes any and all that it encounters. Truly they have no limit to their potential, and no bounds to what they will or will not do. Our story takes place in the once bustling culture palace of Boston, Massachusetts, or well what has survived after the great Seven Hour War. City 22 they call it, a desolate place of slum-lands, beaches, that has recently recovered from a plague which left her streets with disease thus causing the city to become uninhabitable until now in which the Universal Union had so graciously cleaned the city of such a plague and now is filling in the surrounding overfilled cities with new inhabitants.

That enters you, the player. You have recently been notified in your ration package to be sent to City 22 as your current city is facing overcrowding. You've packed all you are told to pack and funnel onto a train or a ship, whatever the Universal Union provided for you to arrive at the City, but all come through her train-stations. Soon you will arrive in City 22, ready to start a new life, whether you may be a hardened conformist, looking to serve voluntarily in the Combine-Civil-Authority or in the Civil Workers Union, or maybe you don't conform to the laws put in by the Universal Union, and you keep to the more slummy parts of town, finding any way you can 'fight' what keeps your freedom away. Who knows? Maybe you are just a average Joe, looking to be a laborer in the city and live out your life normally, visit the local bar on the scummy side of town after work. Whatever you may be, the only limit is your mind and determination.


Cypher Roleplay is a medium-sized and growing roleplay community founded out of the depths of multiple roleplay communities. Most of our members are veteran roleplayers, including our administration team that all come with at least five-years plus experience in roleplaying. From places like old Taco'N'Banana(Prior to 2011), Exotec, TheBioticRoleplay, Avox Gaming, and even the ol' Revotech, our community stretches far and wide with where we have all originated from. Currently we only are starting our first main roleplay server, that being Half-Life 2, but may start more in the future depending on playerbase and community size. We are currently finishing up all bugs with the server and the additional plugins and content we have with it and are establishing a foundation prior to launching so we have organization. More information can be found in our forums(link above) including a roster of our administration.

• Working HL2:TS2 Models (Which means a bulk of clothing-items for citizens/CWU alike.)
  
  
• A working drug system in which drugs both have a IC and OOC effect on your character.
  
• M9K Firearms & Half-Life 2 Beta Firearms?(It's a possibility right now. Not certain.) We thought the server could use some actual weapons from the modern age.
  
• Working Vortigaunts (Thank you RJ? I think that's who made the plugin awhile back.)
  
• In-Character Movie Nights via PlayX. We thought it'd be a fun yet corny thing to do, get a few laughs on a later Friday night (Full Metal Jacket is up first by the way).
  
• A heavy focus onto citizen roleplay. We want to give more opportunities, whether it be working in a factory or as a repairman or being a shop assistant, we want to give more choices to the citizens instead of sitting around inside your apartment with your arse up your thumb.
  
• A IC plague, remnants of the old plague of the city, allowing for some diverse roleplay if you do catch it. It's nothing zombie-like, don't worry. Just think black plague (P.S -Don't get caught having it).
  
• Eventually, not on launch, we'd like to open something like a canals server up connected to the main server that will allow players the ability to roleplay to getting to the canals, hiding out or smuggling supplies in, or maybe even taking the fight out there?

Metropolice Force - The volunteer police force of the Universal Union. They are humans who volunteer to enforce law and order within the established 'cities' on the Combine-Occupied Earth. They are still human, well most of them. They are the 'lightest' armed of the entire Universal-Union, and are most commonly seen within the city (If anyone remembers how Revotech did their MPF back in 2013, we are going along the lines of that. Who needs 5 different divisional's for each specialization? Christ).

Civil Workers Union - The Civil Workers' Union is a faction that is mainly based on supporting the Universal Union . The Civil Workers' Union sometimes initiates projects to bring humanitarian relief and small comforts to the populaces of Combine-controlled cities, including public utility improvement projects, a City newspaper, and the only (legal) shops in the cities (due to the extremely limited, communist-like economy which the Universal Union practices).

Despite their concern for the populace, members of the CWU are firmly loyal to the Universal Union and are considered to be the most trustworthy citizens by the Metropolitan Police Force. As such, they are granted special priviliges in some cities, including priority in ration queues (though the rations do not differ) and housing blocks that are of a higher standard than those of typical citizens depending on the whim of any particular city's administration.

Entry to the CWU is dependent on a city and its current CWU leadership - certain chapters, for example, require only application and a trial time of service to the Union, whilst others required proven records of loyalty and service to the Combine.


Overwatch Transhuman Arm (Event Only) - The Overwatch Transhuman Arm is a branch of the Combine Overwatch that is formed from transhuman troops and whose main task is ensuring Combine rule on Earth.

Overwatch Soldiers are heavily augmented, trained, and brainwashed, meaning they have no chance of going rogue or disobeying the UU. These units are usually created from unco-operative Citizens / Resistance Members at Nova Prospekt . The units use a much wider arsenal than the Metropolice Units, and are augmented especially to use the Overwatch Standard Issue (AR2 Pulse Rifle). Soldiers also use MP7 Submachine Guns, and SPAS-12 Shotguns in close-quarters situations.

Citizen - Citizens are humans that live under control of the Combine. They are forced to have the bare minimum of food and supplies. They are extremely oppressed and usually do not have the spirit to fight back. Citizens are usually weak from malnutrition, and spend much of their time either talking to each other, working at Combine factories, or simply walking around. They are the lowest priority when it comes to protection, as opposed to loyalists, or Civil Workers.

However within City 22, some of their freedoms are increased. Things like alcohol, Union approved films, and diversity within occupations are now open to them, but are subjcet for removal depending on the behavior of the 'city' itself.

Vortigaunts -The Vortigaunts are a race of aliens enslaved by the Combine, much like humans. Seen most often in cities as enslaved janitors, Vortigaunts are a wise and artistic race, and make excellent allies if one wishes to go against the Combine (This faction is NOT donation only, if it appears as such we apologize when you were looking at the donation page).

Resistance? - Ha! This sort of faction isn't official. There are going to be a few different groups that will be player made. Everyone is open to form or combine their own groups. Administration will not be freely backing any of the groups. Things like propaganda, improvised weaponry, and general community service to the citizen populace is how we'd like to see it planned out, not a group of Kevlar suited petite girls shooting SMGS. Administrators may have characters that will have some form of dealing that is either non-conformist whether it may be smuggling in goods, assisting in conflicts, or running fight clubs, though there will never be a official faction for them.

City Administrator- Administrators are directly appointed by the infamous 'Wallace Breen' of City 17 or the Sectorial Commander. Each Administrator has a headquarters of their own in the city they co-own- for the Administrators of larger cities, such as Cities 8 and 11, 17, 18 this means the Citadel. For those in smaller cities, such as 23 and 45, this will mean an office in the local Overwatch Nexus. From this point, they are able to carry out and see to the day-to-day affairs of the city they have been tasked with running and ensuring everything is running smoothly. Some Administrators have "Interns" or "Assistants" who are minor figures with low authority who act as a "helper" or a propaganda figure. These are usually any high ranked units, in service high rank units, high ranked Civil Workers Union members or a extremely loyal, trusted and brainwashed citizen.


I hope you all enjoyed the read. I apologize if it didn't have a flashy trailer or any edgy posed pictures. I wanted to keep it clean, divided and straight to the point without looking sloppy. We hope you check out our forums (link above). We estimate our launch soon and both this page, our forums, and the Steam community page(link above) will be updated with announcements. Things such as faction applications and flag applications are already up and open for all who wish to apply. The administration team hopes to see some of you from here on launch and thank you for your time. Also, yes we will truly sing/write you a song for donations because we feel like giving things like tokens/guns or 'custom' models is bullshit.

 

Now this is how a thread should be made upon first posting, not having people come in and say "Hey, this needs changing up" and "Hey, this looks terrible!". Seriously man, I applaud you for being one of the first few here who has actually made a good thread first try.

 

Should switch the colors in the font pictures from white text on a black surface to the other way around, since it looks like it isn't a picture, just text.

 

I give you props....this is thread is amazing. Overall this seems like one of the most formidable servers iv'e seen in a while. Only thing is if the server itself is as amazing as the thread, which i'll probably check out soon.

I wish you the best in your endeavors.

 

Thanks everyone for the support and replies. The entire team appreciates it a lot!

 

Nice thread, might hop on later.

 

And then I looked at your forums. Use something like SMF, XenForo, and what not.

 

SMF are really good forums I will admit, so much to do with them.

But, I do like the thread itself, it's refreshing to see a decent one now where the owners aren't so defensive to criticsm and change and such, I honestly hope this does well.

Best of luck.

 

We actually haven't really done any criticizing.

 

Oh trust me it'll come soon, there always is a bit, no server is perfect off the start.
But that's fine, as long as he knows how to handle himself and take it it'll be dandy. Which I have no doubt he doesn't.

 

It was mostly the rest of the admin team recommending that, though I was open to a lot. We probably will plan to move everything quickly if we find that SMF or XenForo will fit better. Thanks by the way.

 

Looks really good, packed with info, and you managed to make a decent looking forum without SMF.

Although I recommend you change to SMF, because it looks great and is generally easier to use. Chuck me a message over steam if you want a premium SMF theme (Steamname same as forum name)

 

Alright man. We'll keep it in consideration. Might end up doing so. Thank you.


Also update, content is there now on the thread, forums, and community page. Just for anyone wondering.

Enjoy all the comments and criticism. Also I hope this isn't bumping too bad

 

Spoiler

I personally didn't respond like I did because Desiderius was the first to reply, because I really could not care about who's supposedly popular or a high upping's opinions are. The thread itself just seems well organized and a nice touch of descriptive.

 

What I find funny is that he thinks I'm popular, (I'm a pretty hated moderator for some pretty stupid reasons I won't get into other than people being childish). None the less OP, I hope everything goes well for you as everything looks cool.

 

u r the coolest tho i mean like ily

Anyways though back on topic, the thread is amazing as I said, also I might try stopping by. Only problem is I don't roleplay much....but i'll probably go on.

 

Not to do a self-plug or anything of the sort but I've updated the thread a bit more, put the IP up and what not.

Glad to see all these responses. Enjoy the criticism and praise a lot! Thank ya'll.

 

Hey guys, sorry to do a self-plug about anything. Anyone who was wondering where we were or what happened to us just calm. The current serverhost(Thank god we are replacing it soon) was not the best, however we did not have to invest funds into it, though however it caused us to have a very sub-par launch and first day and a half, though I hope by tomorrow/Saturday the entire team will be able to redeem ourselves with another great launch.

Also, if anyone has any private questions please forward them to my inbox or onto my personal steam page.

Happy hunting.

 

I want to play this server someday..
Like everyone else said, nice job on the first try.