HL2RP Prospector - HL2RP Community

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Welcome to the Prospector Roleplay community, I will be discussing in this thread the Half-Life 2: Roleplay partition of our community; please feel free to join us at http://www.prospector-station.com/ and our related servers. Prospector is a community that was founded and is ran by multiple people, we primarily used to host a Space Station 13 Serious Roleplay server and have since then started to expand into developing and hosting for Starbound and Half-Life 2: Roleplay. I hope you will take the time to read our forums and perhaps even join our community, as we would love you to join us.​

Server IP: 176.31.117.48
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/0lvreCYANujTwwax
Launch Date: 29th of January - 10pm GMT, 2PM PST, 4PM CST, 5PM EST
Content Pack: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=603501758
Forums: http://www.prospector-station.com/forums/#half-life-2-roleplay.41
Server Rules: http://www.prospector-station.com/threads/server-rules.166/#post-528
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It has been a few months since we decided to move onto doing Half-Life 2: Roleplay and since then I have developed, designed and tested a new custom roleplay map as well as adapting the schema itself with plugins. This map is known as City 38, which is located within the city of Kharkiv in the country of ukraine and you may see a development/showcase thread for the map located here: City-38-Showcase-Thread

I would like to thank those again that gave feedback as well as commented in the thread, checked on development and tested the map with me.

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The lore within our server is relatively simple and easy to understand, it sticks to the normal HL2 lore and tries not to deviate much from it. The date of the server is the OOC date plus two years. Everything that happened in real life up to the year of the Black Mesa Cascade (Rougly the year 2000 to 2010) happened and may be talked about ICly. The city is a much more peacful and loyalistic like city, but still has plenty of ruffians and typical citizens who live primarily within the slums while the loyalists live within the plaza. (Though for the sake of not to seperate, all citizens may be assigned anywhere.)

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Citizen Roleplay will be a high concern and something that will be highly saught to stimulate and create, low-ranking Combine Civil Authority will be free to converse with Citizens and vice versa to provide a friendly and high roleplay enriched environment with no seperation of factions. Though don't think the Combine Civil Authority soft, as should things go wrong they can easily deal with it in full force.

Citizens will be able to choose jobs that they can handle, things such as delivering items between areas or assisting metropolice with cleaning detail or even medical matters. Workshops will happen quite often and once population is high will be something that can happen constantly to allow people to opt-in and opt-out of any kind of roleplay and specific jobs as they please.

Civil Worker Managers will be able to create their own jobs for both Citizens and CWU alike, Civil Workers are simply higher-valued Citizens who have a dedicated job/employment area.

Here are a few basic jobs that a Citizen and CWU may be able to partake in -

• Cleaners
• Cooks
• Deliverers
• Doctors
• Nurses
• Engineers
• UU Clothing Packer or Manufacturer
• UU Food Packer or Manufacturer

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Combine Civil Authority is the known metropolice force within City 38, while friendly and well-mannered towards its citizens; they are in by no way pushovers or leanient. They may freely chat with citizens and citizens may freely chat back, as well as working together to better the city and perform jobs and workshifts. (Simply meaning they won't yell isolate at everyone and shouldn't get pissy when talked to.)

Combine Civil Authority are still people after all, and should act like it; while their face is covered this doesn't mean that will not feel or have emotion, but will often show it through other means due to having their face covered.

Their ranks work like most other servers and their divisions are also simple and not over-convulted. The divisions on the server are; Union, Helix, Grid and Judge. Union being the typical patrolling and more police-force orientated units, Helix being used for medical treatment and training CWU as well as training Citizens that wish to know basic first aid, Grid is used to teach CWU and citizens how to be Engineers and how to manufacture and pack the clothing and food that will be manufactured while Judge units are the more intimidating units who are used to gain information as well as survey crime scenes.

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The Refugees & Resistance on the server will be pretty much non-existant, none of the staff will have any primary roll or much of a secondary roll within that sector except for the BMD which will be strictly limited and will not have access to anything other than grown/stolen food and perhaps club-like weapons and a pistol at most. Ass-pulling will be a thing of the past as they will have a monthly qouta on what they can and cannot sell, as well as having to spend actual IC time fetching the equipment and also having a chance of death or losing items on the way back.

There is a slums district and a canals district, as well as underground areas and a full sewer system that covers the map as well as travel around it. However be warned, the sewer is quite toxic and prolonged time spent in there without a mask or not moving through it quickly can be harmful. The areas that Refugees and Resistance can hide within City 38 are not locked up or hidden away like most other maps, refugees and the resistance should be pressed for time and made to fear for their life due to the lifestyle they have chosen; instead of hiding behind a wall and sticking in their little groups of roleplay.

Staff Members -
Manager - Xenoxia
Co-Manager - Serenity
Game-Master/Event/RPDevelopment - Soret
Admins/Operators -
AbroadHawk
Brax
LeafCatHead
Reiken
Roach
Rare
Vakarian

We're hoping to have opening events such as an election for Citizens to become a spokesperson for the city, people who may or may not get promissed to meet the City Admnistrator as well as a reformation of how divisions, squads and the CCA work as a whole within the upcoming weeks. Several other roleplay developments should take place over the course of the servers life, making sure the server does not stagnate and keeps people hooked and integrated with us as a community.

We, as the; owners, managers, admins, operators and players of the server welcome you all to join us and partake in an experience that I hope will be unique for many months and years to come.

Would you perhaps like a position on our staff team? Then feel free to message me on the C16 forums, I will personally speak with you as well as check your C16 posts to see if you would be a successful candidate on our team.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you when the time comes!

 

It would be true that my previous communities ended shortly after they began, mostly because I thought it would be a good idea to start it all alone and just get people without actually thinking; with this there is already a community that should hopefully be a part of it.

 

There is a full, dedicated staff behind this one. Most of the work is already completed. Now we just need the faith of a community.

 

Exactly, I was very hasty with my previous endeavours; but with this I've taken my time to speak to several people over the course and have even managed to convince Soret to join us and he will be taking a position as Game Master for events and other roleplaying experiences.

I feel honored to have Soret, someone who has had their literature works endorsed by university professors and an endorsement from a writer/ex-employee of valve themselves. (Soret is the Lore creator of Projekt Kaskade)

Edit - Just updated the thread with our Discord Server and the launch date!

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/0lvreCYANujTwwax
Launch Date: 29th - 31st of January​

 

Greetings people!
I am Leafcathead. One of the staff members you have the pleasure of working with.

This server is going to be amazing. You have my word for it, and if it isn't amazing...... Blame Xenoxia!
Anyway! Just from seeing all the work Xenoxia has done in the past I can guarantee this server will be a success, and if it isn't....... Blame Brax!
My role in the server is the head of the CWU. My favorite faction, so I guess I'm lucky. I'm excited to meet all of you who wish to join the CWU (AKA The Crazily Wonderful Union) and for those who don't........ Schadenfreude.

I'm very excited to meet everyone! Goodbye!

 

I just thought I'd elaborate on our policies concerning citizens and cwu, they are pretty equal in terms of abilities and jobs they can do; however CWU are more trusted and loyalistic compared to their citizen counterparts. This allows them greater benefits when working with the CCA, but Citizens may still just as well gain these benefits.

Everyone may work together to make the city a better place, but if you shouldn't and upset the CCA then you'll know about it.

I hope not to split any of the factions and I hope I can work with some of you to make a pleasent server a reality, obviously there are going to be IC troublemakers which I can understand people also enjoy doing; but my take on this is that I don't want people to feel alone or isolated in their roleplay so people are encouraged to work together to remove that alone feeling and to brighten up the roleplay experience to allow fun for all people.

 

I look forward to launch boys!

The custom map that has been made, is amazing, looking at screenshots of it got me excited.
Hence why I'm here

Oh yeah, forgot to mention. I'm another one of the staff members who will aiding in the maintenance of the community.

 

Howdy. I'm Brax.

I'm happy to work for this community, and I can't wait for the server to launch! If you wanna hear more about me, please go see my bio on our forums!

 

heyyyy thats pretty good.
jokes aside this looks nice, the fact that citizen RP is of high concern is awesome.
the unit divs arn't a huge cluster (spear, sword, ghost, super edgy death squad of D4nk Meme$) and the how BMDs act like actual BMDs instead of just player salesmen.

 

I'm trying my hardest and working with several people in an attempt to make the server true to what HL2RP should be about, I know it's a large buzzword to do something like that; so many people say it all the time.

I also want to make sure that I listen to everyones ideas and can incorporate them if they are viable and make sense.

 

It been two years since I last touched Garry's Mod and anything HL2RP related, I wasn't even planning on coming back yet, but truth to be told after I took my precious time to talk with the fellow man behind this, he really managed to convince me he deserves a chance at proving his abilities that he wasn't able to show off in the past. Xenoxia convinced me that he is able to get something like this together, he have all the unique ideas and takes on HL2 that are needed to run a unique HL2RP.

A place where you can get involved in roleplay.
A place where members of the community promotes your integration.
A place where your roleplay doesn't feel like a chore or an unrewarded job.

I'm convinced this is gonna be a good one.

 

We're hoping to have opening events such as an election for Citizens to become a spokesperson for the city, people who may or may not get promissed to meet the City Admnistrator as well as a reformation of how divisions, squads and the CCA work as a whole within the upcoming weeks. Several other roleplay developments should take place over the course of the servers life, making sure the server does not stagnate and keeps people hooked and integrated with us as a community.

We, as the; owners, managers, admins, operators and players of the server welcome you all to join us and partake in an experience that I hope will be unique for many months and years to come.

Update -
Server IP: 176.31.117.48
Launch Date: 29th of January - 10pm GMT, 2PM PST, 4PM CST, 5PM EST

 

god i still hate loyalism in hl2rp

 

Lol, not my fault if you prefer the idea of being a webul and hating on the MPF to cause issues.

 

How did you convince Serenity to come back?

 

She was just kind of there when I signed up for the project, Vakarian was the one who seemingly convinced her. We were going to do Black Mesa RP at first, but deemed it a bad idea.

 

yes, because being oppressed by an alien empire is always such a good thing, lets help them. >:V

 

maybe that wouldnt be a problem if people actually knew how to great a good roleplay enviroment instead of making up idiotic concepts such as the CWU to prevent "rebels" (god forbid people oppose a tyrannical government right guys??)

edit: your server, however. just pointing out my personal gripes with the loyalist system. good luck with your server.

 

Lol, I know what you mean; But I'm sure there would atleast be some form of loyalists in the system, you can't expect everyone to hate on the combine. I mean, they took over the world in 7 hours right? So I'm pretty sure if an alien race can take over your world in less than half a day I'd be pretty shit scared to even ATTEMPT to fight back or think about being un-loyal, but hey; maybe that's just me.

The main reason why people fight back in HL2 and such is because it's a game and it's a common video game thing or movie thing for people to somehow manage to fight back and win; despite in reality it'd be pretty damn near impossible I'd say to pull off such a feat. I mean, freeman singlehandedly destroyed the citadel and everything; pretttty sure no one in real life could do anything like that. But eh, I dunno.

I just think there would be more begrudgingly being loyal than those being dis-loyal, just for the sake of not dying.