Garry's Mod - DarkRP - Suggestions

[Standalone]

Alright, Now that I've gotten Mass Effect 2 out of the way, I can partly put some of my time back into the GMod Server and School (pfft), Having said that i am requesting that anyone with any idea's for the Server to step forward and make yourself heard, But keep in mind that we don't have any Lua Kings so please try and take that into consideration when suggesting something.

Now there might already be threads in existence that suggest things for the GMod server, But with this thread i am specifically aiming at enhancing the gameplay of each of the jobs, i.e Making them more fun and Interesting to play, Like giving them each a unique special feature that makes that job fun to play, Instead of bland and boring.

To get the ball rolling, I'll lay an idea that I've been thinking on over the past few weeks on the table, An Item/Build type system.

On Player Spawn, Players are assigned a randomized number depending on what Job they are, And according to the number that they are given, Gives them the ability to buy/find or spawn with a unique item in their pockets which when combined with 3 or 4 other unique items that others spawn with (The Idea is to barter and negotiate with others to get their item or what not) can create a IED (Improvised Explosive Device) if they are a Rebel or maybe be used to Upgrade a Microwave to give the cook the option to sell more diverse food that restores a partial amount of health as well as satisfying hunger. Now there's more aspects to this but i haven't worked them all out yet and i'm still in the process of determining whether or not i can complete this and have it balanced.

Anyway, Any suggestions or critiquing is appreciated, If you have a problem with someone's suggestion, Let us know, Unless of course it's a stupid argument that has no point behind it.

Looking forward to what people have to say.

[Buck]

Okay thank you for making this thread/section I have lots of ideas that don't make any sense!

There should be a swep which all cp's have or cp requitions officer can spawn which when you equip is like a riot shield off MW2.
Bullets ricochet off it and can reflect and hit the shooter. Could just make the swep out of metal since mad cows weapons automatically reflect off metal.

With the microwave, some foods should give different bonuses not just health. Perhaps carrots make you see in the dark?

I also think that underground resistance should have more of their weapons silenced, since they are meant to be less like a rebel and that they are meant to hide and not confront the CP directly.

Another cool feature would be that you could send an item to a player in a package, Kind of like a call but it doesnt spawn infront of them until they click accept,so they can get to a safe location,a message comes up saying:

<Player> has sent you a Package.
Accept Decline
Note:
You will not know what it is unless you accept it.

This would allow people to send entities, weapons and maybe if they are implemented small bombs.
You would type
/send <Player>
Whilst looking at the entity.

Thats all I can think of for now ill probably edit this later.

[Mikle]

See what i always wanted was a swep to allow you to kidnap the mayor or CP chief or something like that, but i cant think of a way that would work without minges abusing it.

[Nine]

Originally Posted by Mikle

See what i always wanted was a swep to allow you to kidnap the mayor or CP chief or something like that, but i cant think of a way that would work without minges abusing it.

Only way for that to work is get have the kidnapper and the person being kidnapped have good RP skills, and combine players that will cooperate in the roleplay. Can't really make it into a swep, since like you said, no matter what, it will be abused.

[Buck]

Maybe an option to pistol whip with a gun to save ammo.

[Eroo]

Wat about merchant selling TV, flash light battery.paint even radio maby

[Jonneh]

Jonneh here.

I was thinking, the server is a bit to general, I mean, there a 3 sides, 1 of which is not played enough as there are no real reasons to. You see, most of the time, the rebel/resistance are just constantly waring against one another. Now turning hungermod on 100% of the time would be great. Also changing the different foods produced by microwaves. This would attract more players to be food salesmen, and make a male food salesmen character would be a good idea, because its annoying to have a woman walking around called Bob.And Bucks package idea, but instead of sending it to someone (which would be a bit stupid if you think about what could be taken advantage of with such a feature) it packages an item, and you have to take it personally, or something like that, like to could message the person telling them that you will drop 'the package' of somewhere for them to go and collect. and since most items are small (like cash or a pistol), that small brown box would be a perfect package skin.

Thanks for reading.

Jonneh (current ingame name is Harry Deckland)

[Standalone]

The Riot Shield SWEP is a good idea in my opinion as well, As is the SWEP to Kidnap the Mayor, But the trouble with that is balancing it, Would it just be similar to an arrest baton that transports the mayor away to a set position when certain conditions are met (i.e Admin Approval) , Would it be sort of like handcuffs and once attatched to the mayor, loses control of movement and looking and is drawn around to follow the player that used the cuffs (I'd have no clue on how to do this, But there might be a SWEP that does it already, Or something similar to get me started).

Another thing i might have a look at is the Combine Scanner, eg The Requisitions or Normal CP Unit gets access to 1 single Riot Shield (If Possible) And the Combine Commander has the ability to send out and control a Scanner Unit for Recon (Again, Not sure if i'd be able to do that, But there is an addon already in existence that does similar things and transforms you into a Scanner)

[Jonneh]

There is a thing called like pill or something used on another server which transforms the user into a pigeon. Worth a look.

[Midnightmare]

I've seen some people make a primitive form of scanner in which they would simply spawn a scanner NPC and attach a camera to it, which then displays on a monitor.
I thought it was quite nifty! :3