Uprising HL2RP - Valance Roleplay

A link to the forum, to start us off: www.valanceroleplay.boards.net​

In the simplest way possible to explain the server, we are not post-Gordon Freeman nor City 17 related at all.

Essentially, this server takes place inside City 3 now, with the map cityruins. It will have plenty of space for each of the factions included in this server, which are Resistance, refugees, Overwatch, Civil Protection, Conscripted Scientists, Antlions, Necrotics, and Vortigaunts. This map is currently seeming relatively bland, and the head admin team is looking for a new one.

The year is 2014, the month August; the day is somewhere in the middle. This Uprising isn't a part of the major HL2 uprising in any way, but it (in our own server canon) simply explains why cities 2&3 are destroyed, as the soon-to-be CityRP server will wind up being in 2018.

The server itself has a relatively medium-sized playerbase at this point in time, with a peak time average of 15 or so. It first went public nearly two weeks ago, with an 18 player cap.

Slots: 18
Map: cityruins.bsp
Head Staff: Centurion, Twiley, and Pie.
NPC Use: Yes.
Black Market Dealers: Yes, with extreme regulation.
Primary Antagonist: Overwatch Transhuman Arm.
Primary Protagonists: 'Deathwatch' Resistance Movement



Frequently Asked Questions!

Q. Is there a resistance faction?
A. Yes. As this server doesn't take place in Europe and Asia like the normal HL2RP servers, do, and Half-Life 2's Lambda movement was in central Europe, there is no Lambda movement here. The main resistance group is 'Deathwatch'.

Q. Is it an all-out firefight at all times of day?
A. No. There is plenty of room and time for passive rebel/OTA roleplay, and passive IS encouraged more than full on firefights.

Q. Can I apply for staff?
A. Unfortunately there is no staff application form at the moment, nor do I plan on creating one. All of my staff are offered positions by myself, all are hand-picked from the community based on maturity/RP skill and/or people backing them up for staff positions.

Q. How do I get weapons?
A. There are, in fact, ways to acquire weapons that don't require you to battle against Overwatch soldiers. The Resistance subfaction leaders normally have supplies that they can share or sell, including everything from watermelons to RPG's.

Q. Do you use NPC's at all?
A. At times, depending on what the reason is, NPC's are used. They may also be used to enhance the scale of a major battle between OTA and Resistance, as we have an amazing plugin which makes NPC's recognize factions and not attack their own. This includes OTA not attacking OTA, and Rebels ATTACKING soldiers.

Q. Are all applications IC or do I have to apply on the forums?
A. All applications, those which change your species exempt, are attainable IC. This includes: Overwatch, Resistance, Civil Protection, and other human factions.

A. No.
Q. Do you normally switch around things without telling anyone first?

Q. Can I bring my character, ____, to your server, with his backstory, fully?
A. Of course you can! In fact, depending on what equipment they have, you may be eligible for starter equipment. However, remember, the year is 2014, and it's likely pre-normal date, thus making it likely your character hasn't really developed yet, as most servers are 2016/17.

Q. Where can I read this server's lore, so I can be prepared?
A. On our forum, under the Uprising RP general board, there is a 'Roleplay Canon' subboard. Everything you need to know is there!

Q. Are there special donation perks?
A. Yes, of course. The details can be found under 'Server Information.'

If you have any questions to ask, simply post below!





About City 3's Civil Protection:

CP's are no longer the primary rulers of the city, and are considered equally as much of an enemy as the Rebellion is by Overwatch. As the Citadel's Singularity went, the Civil Protection units' biosignals were cut from the database and they were all considered to be KIA. Though the CP force was technically ordered to stand by and let themselves be killed, a lot of them abandoned their posts to ride the trains out of City 3 and survive. Due to memory replacement, only un-altered CP's were able to evacuate, because they had the mental capability to be insubordinate. Now, in the end the way the player's character feels about the UU is up to the Player, but it is likely that most Civil Protection will choose to side with the Resistance.

About City 3:

The refugees and resistance will soon be relocating from eastern California to central City 3, for better conditions.

The city itself is in Los Angeles, California. All of the refugee Civil Protection officers were originally from City 3, but were considered KIA, and thus, do not register as Officers in City 3. Therefor, all relocated Civil Protection officers are considered as rogue, due to their lack of biosignal. Secondarily, City 3 will offer the ability to play as a Union-loyal CP officer belonging to City 3; this does in fact mean that the Civil Protection force will be split down the middle; characters from the original Civil Protection force in City 3, now refugees, and new characters running City 3's Civil Protection.

Applications on the forum for the faction of CP itself will remain as a singular application, instead of breaking it in to two.

About Overwatch:

The Overwatch factions (synthetic and transhuman) will be freely used. There will be no restriction on when one can flag up and play their character, nor will there ever be. However, there will certainly be rules on patrolling/engaging in firefights, though.



Zone Control:

The different zones on the map can and will be controlled by the different factions at different times. This will allow for, as an example, Resistance group 3 to attack Overwatch-controlled outpost A, killing all soldiers inside and making it become Resistance outpost A.

The details of this take time to explain, but there is an explanation for the map rp_apocalypse available on the site.

Firefights:

All major firefight interactions will require staff presence to observe and regulate, and this rule will not change. Note also: Firefights do not happen unless there are equal numbers of PLAYERS on both sides, and the highest ranking character consents OOCly to an open firefight. However, additionally, a faction can engage in a firefight secretly and take the enemy by surprise. This does not include walking up to the enemy's base, opening the door, and walking inside to find and kill everyone. All building-breaching will require RP in a breaching format, and will require a lot of noise to be made, giving players on the enemy side time to prepare OOCly with weapons being equipped, ammo loaded, and et cetera.





Staff Roster

Centurion - Owner
Twiley - Head Administrator
Pie - Head Administrator
Kenzy - Administrator
Javert - Administrator
Hink - Moderator
Kittens - Moderator
Pinky - Moderator

Staff are here to help you, and respect is appreciated. We can all be contacted if you have any sort of problem, but it is best to try and state what the issue is with the least amount of bias and emotion as possible. We're currently looking for more staff, so if you think you can help out and have experience, contact Centurion (www.steamcommunity.com/id/triageseries/). You can find a roster including steam community links on the forum, under 'Server Information'.



Plugins!

We use quite a few plugins here at [VR]. Below are all of the ones I can think of!

+Enhanced Voice Library
+Enhanced Vocoders
+Antlion Faction
+Vortigaunt Factions
+Necrotic Faction
+Hunter Faction
+OOC Radio Chat
+Dispatch Radio Vocals
+Binoculars
+MPFv5 T-Pose Fix
+Much more!


We also use some custom content, but not much. There is a full list with a link to the workshop pack on the forum, under 'Server Information'.

+Easy Bodygroup Tool
+NPC Controls
+cityruins.bsp
+MPF Pack v5

 

The fact that you are using rp_apocalypse was an instant turn off.

 

Yes, that's what I was intending to do. However, this was very late last night and I wanted sleep more, I'll be editing it soon.

[quote author=somebody]*Something about rp_apocalypse*[/quote]

And about that: We're switching maps soon, but RP apocalypse was a good representation of how the surrounding area is post-Singularity. Seeing as though we're right on the edge of a massive city, which would be covered in smog anyways, the foggyness and city area works well. However, as I said, we're currently organizing a new map to take over.

 

Post updated to look less faggy!

 

I love this guys attitude.

 

Looks interesting, I know I've played only one 'Aftermath' RP Server which I enjoyed before it closed down, I'll give the server a look.

 

Aftermath doesn't sound... familiar - at all.
hue just kidding
I would try this out if I wasn't too lazy to copy/paste the IP. I'll probably end up joining at some point.

 

Could always add me on steam to join!

www.steamcommunity.com/id/triageseries/

 

By the by, aha, Sloth, this is Sundown, from DG. I'm sure you remember Wraith sending Zoe(y?) to be protected by me? Mmmhm.

By the way, great plugins! I'm currently using your necrotics faction, works wonderfully but unfortunately models set manually don't stick.

 

Ahh, I remember ya' was great RPing with you, I'll give the server a look, as for the models you can remove the class folder then just edit the both models in the faction one.

 

Nice, thanks. Now to figure out if it's the plugin or the manually installed faction to alter!

 

Something wrong with your server or copy of Clockwork then.

 

I thought he meant the Headcrab plugin, with classes.

 

I did

 

I don't know. He said manually setting your model so I assumed CharSetModel.

 

Yeah, I meant that for Sloth's Necrotic faction. The class default models override /charsetmodel.

 

Played for a little while, not bad. I have some issues and suggestions though.
- Install the faction plugins correctly.
Go to cwhl2rp
Go to schema
Go to plugins
drop the file in example:
necrotic>
plugin
plugin.ini>
classes
factions
sh_plugin
ect ect.

Some of the staff abuse observer, the forums could use a lot of work such as more topics.
Different theme.

All in all It's not bad It just needs to shape up on those things and I can see it being a fun server for people.

 

Joined, and then...

 

Soree m80, was testing my first self-made plugin. It works now, going to be trimming out the plugin and putting in a new one which will work properly.