BinkoBunko

Gameplay: 4/5. The opening 45 min had little to do (resulting in most of my batt leaving) but kicked up after that. Care and Effort: 5/5 Lots of effort put into the mission and the boarding action was well done Server Performance: 5/5 Crashes weren't related to the event, no lag otherwise.

I'm a very old/very new player speaking here. I tried Synergy when it launched years ago, playing briefly before departing from Gmod pretty much altogether as the Star Wars RP genre in the game was declining quickly in terms of quality as every server was reskinned DarkRP/Nutscript and the playerbase was just minges. I've come back recently as 2 of my close friends play on here regularly and while it has been a completely new experience and some fun, its hard to get the drive to get on when they're not online or my battalion (212th) isnt on deployment. I rejoined the day of the update and here's my opinion from someone who just joined essentially: - The lag. I live on the east coast in the US and routinely have 200+ ping playing on this server. Doing anything (main/event server ops, trainings, practices, etc.) is a lag fest and playing my role as support might as well disregard the piloting aspect because the ping is so awful all the time which is even more sour when you look around and see stuff like "prop limit: 1 per battalion" making the map extremely empty on top of laggy. - Chat spam. The chat feed never. stops. In event, in crisis, in defcon 1 or defcon 5, in briefing, the chat never ceases with OOC spam and constant bullshitting. The second anything meaningful concludes (or even before), its a spam of battalion recruitment posts by people who will do the absolute bare minimum to pass you through to get merit points for their next NCO rank. Its a bit ridiculous to see genuine advertisements for batts reading "join <batt> easy promotions". - RP. There is essentially none. If a deployment isnt happening, nothing else is. You can wander around base, listening to people micspam, talk shit, minge, and overall be a nuisance. It seems there's just no care for anything and I get downtime between deployments can be boring but that's what passive RP is and it can be fun. FiveM/RedM are massively popular and they are exclusively passive RP with violence being the 1% of encounters. In-event, people just want to kill things. Simple as. They dont stop for roleplay, they dont investigate, etc. they just want to shoot and talk shit. - Bounty hunters. This has been beat to death but why no reiterate. People openly dislike them. I get there's some good ones who genuinely want to roleplay and have a relationship with the Republic but it seems the majority of the time I just watch BH's run around the base being a general nuisance to which OOC gets open complaints about "why are bounty hunters still a thing". Hopefully this doesnt all come off as rude, I appreciate the effort the devs put in, I've worked on Gmod extensively and know that this is no small feat and is quite an impressive server mechanically, but the playerbase and its attitude are an active hinderance on the experience when it seems no one, including high ranking officers, seem to care about the RP in SWRP.