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I feel like if you had more or rather any time on the server/CSGO currently you may feel differently. People highly exaggerate how bad Prison Break actually is. In my eyes the player base does not take even half the responsibility for why PB is the way it currently is. It's a massive spit in the face every time I have to hear how cancerous PB is when I watch admins log online and punish/ban for flat out wrong reasons with little knowledge about the server or it's rules. Sure some of the player base can be brash or childish sometimes but it's honestly nothing so unbearable and horrible as people try to make it out to be. Regs have people shoving changes down our throats that we don't at all want/need. Despite the fact that we have little staffing, we get an increase in player slots. Despite the fact that the CA+ says the server is chaotic, we get forced dg that are extremely controversial and able to be abused. We have a lack of staffing that makes us constantly have to almost self manage the server. The server is as bad as it is because of a lack of admins & bad changes, and while I don't blame the admins for not playing (if they don't want to that's their choice obviously) it's one of the main issues the server has. Getting more admins on PB, whether that be by adding more of them, giving more incentive, requiring playtime (i dont agree with that obviously), regardless of how we do it the server could seriously use some more admins and good change (hopefully the meeting Friday will accomplish some of that). Anyway, I don't care about what we do but for how loyal the PB regulars are I'm getting pretty tired of seeing people take massive shits on them for the minority of the server that are mostly new players. As you said I hope the meeting Friday goes well with Caution but with just this thread in mind I feel like we should spend less time arguing the problem & actually figure a solution.

Gonna try to keep this thread productive as I see an incoming shitstorm. Just tossing ideas out there, please don't break my kneecaps and stomp my village. What about globally increasing an admins raffle points to x8-10 instead of x4? This chance is pretty self explanatory, it's just to raise incentive higher. What would you guys think about giving PB deal more points to admins than the other servers? The logic would be that since it's harder & more stressful to administrate you get a higher benefit in playing it (i dont know if i personally agree with the idea that its harder to administrate, but its something i keep hearing over and over) , hopefully increasing the benefits higher than the cost for administrators. Lets share some ideas and see if we can come up with something boys.

I disagree with the assumption of how the admin team in the past and present feels/felt about Prison Break. I know for a fact that in the past FAR more admins played Prison Break than now and I don't believe that maintaining ratio & acting on incidents that you see is particularly difficult. I understand what you're saying about people over extending authority because personally I have seen admins be very quick to ban some of the rude-ish PB players. (personally I think that it comes more down to a fault in the admin than the server) I wasn't saying add an incentive to just PB alone but considering far more admins play TTT than PB I could almost make the case that if every admin thinks PB is so "cancer" that adding an incentive to it alone for admins wouldn't be a terrible thing to do. In my mind the lack of admins has way less to do with disliking/liking administrating it and way more to do with them just flat out not liking the server. Anyway regardless of the reasons why there aren't admins online (its a useless & quite frankly a petty argument) adding some kind of incentive to help one of our most popular servers & reward admins does not sound like a bad idea to me at all.

I don't think you went overboard at all. Call me a cynic or an asshole but I definitely think some people join with specifically getting admin in mind. (not saying all of those people necessarily get admin, most of them don't) So many people join the forums and attempt to "integrate" themselves into the community by spamming & regurgitating other peoples posts. These same people are the ones who you see unhelpfully spamming "type !faq !rules" binds, making useless player complaints on people for petty reasons, and overall REALLY trying to make themselves seem admin-like. Another prime example is the people who make their admin applications, get rejected, then go inactive for a long while afterwards. I'm sure Four understands that there are alternatives besides having admins online (player complaints, cb, steam etc..) but, as a PB player where our server has a severe lack of staffing even when 25+ people are online I completely agree with him that we should be looking into at the VERY LEAST adding more incentive for admins to logon and help out.

Admins becoming inactive after getting rank is most definitely an issue but I would rather give them incentive to play rather than punish them for not. All of the staff are providing free labor to SG to help the community so setting specific time values and such would be a spit in the face.

Been here on PB and GMOD TTT since early 2010.

didnt like mg servers /=/ not an old fag

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Only talked to you a few times but you were a pretty chill dude. Don't let life get you down and always remember - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUfzMDryA94

I kindly disagree. It takes an AO stepping down from PB to even see more than 3 people SA+ logon at all. Having what is mostly 1 staff member ( @Dominic @Delirium @Frostbitten ) deal with anymore mic spamming, free killing, disrespectful children would be bad for the admins & the server. The server simply doesn't need to be more chaotic especially given the new rule changes.

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This guy. THIS GUY.

Your progression from PB kid to PB show runner is a testament to how dedicated you have been to SG. I have a special kind of respect for anyone that has to put up with the bullshit of climbing that far in the ranks only to deal with dumb PB threads and angst teenagers. Despite a rocky ending to your time as the SS PB's Captain you've done a fine job and I await your return. Thank you for fun times and please don't fade from SG too much. im gonna miss arguing with you about pb :''(

I disagree with adding this. Personally I see the highlighted portion as a big enough deal to not add it. I've played more than enough ArmA 3 for me to dislike corner peaking as I feel like it creates an environment for boring, skill-less and campy type play styles.

As of 2 weeks ago the only PB admins I even consider active "PB admins" are @Dominic and @Frostbitten.

Gravity gun from HL2-HL2:EP2 or Portal Gun from Portal 1&2

I used to have dreams about spiders crawling on my walls as a kid (would wake up and go watch GI Joe in my living room usually after) and some reoccurring dream about being trapped in a room in my house with something banging on the door. Around the end of Middle School to now I've majorly fucked up my sleep and ever since consistently get Sleep Paralysis among many other problems, but in my half awake sleep mind fucked state I've seen everything from deformed scary faces of people who I know to angels and shit. I specifically remember one of the first times I recognized it for what it was around Sophomore year hearing some raspy voice whispering and breathing in my ear and freaking the fuck out after I was fully awake. Further into this, last year specifically I was getting really chest awful pain and possibly trouble breathing in my sleep and I would dream of basically anything related to the associated pain until I woke up panicked in what seemed like a few minutes. Earlier nodded off and dreamed about someone backing their car up without being inside of it (was some kind of key controls) and almost hitting someone, it ended up keeping going in what looked like my school courtyard at about 30mph until just before it hit a wall it stopped. Weird dream but figured I'd share. I'll share next time I get an interesting one for ya.

Pretty much that.

It's only 38 mb. Wasn't really referring to file size than just a shit ton of unnecessary space that's just looks ugly as fuck.

Did a quick fly through for 5 minutes, looks like a good map but it's fucking massive.

160x220 emoji yes please i didnt like shout box in the first place

Kinda interested to hear an answer to Woopers question about whether it is within the realm of possibility as far as the permissions are setup on the Forums. Four makes a really good point that if we could soft delete our posts it would not do much as punishment would still be completely applicable. I could definitely foresee an issue of a ton of deleted posts and a ton of really ugly looking threads. It's honestly such a small rare issue though considering if and when people fuck up-their posts are usually quickly deleted by CA+ or simply edit nuked by the poster (the AO's+ can see edits aswell I believe?) +1 on this otherwise, even though IMO it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Life takes priority over gaming but make sure you understand that there is a very easy balance. Enjoy shit like SG while you're young without too much to worry about because as time ticks away life gets increasingly more complicated. There is a benefit and cost to each and every second you spend, it's about allocating your left over time to leisure and everything else towards busting your ass. If you procrastinate work and choose the easy, often lazy path it'll all catch up with you eventually and you will destined for a 9-5 job where you will be forced to bust your ass every waking moment. Anyway, if you do decide to come back I'm sure SG will be waiting happily for your return. Stay positive and take care of yourself. Good luck.