Brian-Limmon

Name: Brian Limmond SteamID: STEAM_0:1:108403890 How long have you played on the server? [Hours]: 591:22:53 From 1-10, what would you rate your knowledge of the Clone Wars?: 8 Why do you want to join the Gamemaster team?: I would like to join the gamemaster team as the part of star wars RP which I have always enjoyed more than any other in the past, is hand crafting and delivering events to a small, medium, or large playerbase, taking great enjoyment in the creativity that it affords me as well as the knowledge that I am directly contributing to the enjoyment of other players. I have been a gamemaster twice before, once on a different server and once on synergy from late 2021 to early-mid 2022. During this time I created and hosted numerous events for the playerbase both on the main and event server and thoroughly enjoyed my time doing so. One of the largest events I was heavily involved in planning and hosting alongside other great GMs of the time, was the battle of geonosis lore event series that was carried out over multiple days back in march 2022. Said event involved multiple map changes on the main server, the addition of new models exclusive for said event as well as multiple carefully thought out deployments per day, the first of which was an event that simultaneously occured on both the main and event servers, the document for which is linked here if anyone is interested in how such a series of events was carried out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r_MbuFgdodWMyU0Mz_HDKGcjqwRAr1UnTWggbC96GfI/edit?usp=sharing After my previous time as staff and GM, I left due to burnout and maintained good relationships with those I met during my time on the server. I recently rejoined and have been participating in and observing events to see how things have changed, and, from what I have seen, am very excited at the prospect of utilising all of the new features and tools at a GMs disposal which have been added since my time away from the server. I have also re-read the ruleset and guidelines just to brush up on my previous knowledge of them as it has been a while, and am eager to rejoin the GM team and begin creating (hopefully) high quality events to deliver to the playerbase once again. Do you understand that if you are inactive, you will be removed from the program?: Yes Link us to 2 documents. One that is a deployment for the event server and one for a main server event. These will likely be the first events you do as a GM. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rOVJ3wEDVgLnsdpBLqwCqpzo7hUHpKT34mqpNFixUnc/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qPWJtujzq0MiQhdTs6Z0HUYA63cQvNNCSO9SMl6thTQ/edit?usp=sharing

4/3/4 Boom boom shoot shoot it was very yes

Name: Brian Limmond Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:108403890 Staff Rank: SA Are you VIP?: yes Date: 26/03/22 Reason for leaving: Fell out of playing gmod and don't intend to for the near future, may return one day but not too soon

Name: Brian Limmond Staff Rank: SA SteamID: STEAM_0:1:108403890 Length of LOA/ROA (Please specify date if possible): 17/03/22 - 24/03/22 Reason: Going to not be able to get on for the majority of those days because I'll be away from home for most of the next week, I only put ROA because I may possibly be able to get on for a couple days in the middle but I'm not certain Do you understand that if you go LOA/ROA on a named Jedi Character for more than two weeks, go on LOA/ROA on any RC character, or go LOA/ROA while being clone commander, you will be removed from that position: Yes Do you understand that if you are going on LOA/ROA for more than two weeks you may lose your leadership position?: Yes

I can't speak for the time you're talking about, but having used this map for events on another server I never really noticed any performance issues though said server does perform better than ours overall so that might be the case still?

PLEASE be kind to your fellow community members

Name: Brian Limmond RP Rank: CPL Suggestion: Add this endor map for the event server Implementation: It's an Endor map that looks a lot better if used as a Kashyyyk map than either of the 2 maps we have right now that are actually meant to be Kashyyyk Lore: Kashyyyk Workshop content if applicable: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=568835546

Name: Brian Limmond Who helped (If applicable): Kabal, Monty Link to Event/Encounter Document (optional): N/A Description of event/encounter (required if no document provided): CIS miner Cortex arrived on the outskirts of Anaxes base to steal their crystals! The republic tracked him and his forces to the cave he was using as an FOB and he was killed in the raid. A CIS ship arrived as backup but was promptly dealt with. Did any Bounty Hunters Participate: N/A

If there's one thing 90% of the server acting like the main character in every situation has shown me it's that you're never going to be able to encourage anyone on this server to RP in any way other than exactly what they want to regardless of how it affects others.

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This cannot be right, I have a bit under 3 mil right now and last I checked I think my playtime was somewhere about 600 hours, and that's partly with the salary of a senator job

This ^^^, so many strange decisions made on features for this exact same reason, acting as if GMs have a collective 3 brain cells lmao. Next thing we'll be losing NPCs because "they cause lag" ???

Name: Brian Limmond Staff Rank: SA SteamID: STEAM_0:1:108403890 Length of LOA/ROA (Please specify date if possible): 10/03/22 - 13/03/22 Reason: Going away from home for a few days again, won't be able to get on Do you understand that if you go LOA/ROA on a named Jedi Character for more than two weeks, go on LOA/ROA on any RC character, or go LOA/ROA while being clone commander, you will be removed from that position: Yes Do you understand that if you are going on LOA/ROA for more than two weeks you may lose your leadership position?: Yes

Something that's always been an idea with SWRP servers but has never come to fruition is tying in the in game currency with actual events and giving GMs the ability to reward players for successful missions. This is a concept which is extremely interesting and engaging in theory, I don't think I have to explain that, the sense of reward and engagement players would get for actually playing in events, which is the main draw and focus of the server as a whole, is self explanatory. But said system would obviously have a lot of flaws, particularly with the potential for abuse. ALTHOUGH, I do think we could still actually reasonabely have a very very scaled back version of this concept, maybe with even the GMD being the only person able to actually administer these rewards, with there being a limit on what could be given out per event with anything higher than said limit requiring an extremely high level of scrutiny in order to get perms for it. It would be a risky concept to roll out to the whole GM team but I'm sure that at the very minimum the leader of the GM team could be trusted with overseeing and managing this system.

There were 5 deployments throughout the weekend total, the purpose in this AAR is for feedback on the whole structure of how they were all handled and connected rather than for the single events as they all have their individual AARs

Yeah the economy is completely busted rn to the point I personally have no desire or intention to ever actually bother with perma weapons because the cheapest of them will still take you like 1000 hours of playtime to get and if you decide later you don't actually want it you've wasted hundreds of hours of your time. Something like this is long overdue, maybe even decreasing the price of weapons rather than increasing the earning of credits so that people who made a ton before don't get any kind of inflation type deal from it. +1

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Bump as we're still looking for more feedback on this structure as a whole, please send this to your battalions if you see this so we can get more perspectives and opinions on how to improve for future events!

SYNERGY LORE EVENT TEAM Who made this possible: Dono, Bacta, Brian, Embark, Unkindled, Guac Event helpers throughout the weekend: Attack of the Clones (Full server Deployments): @Brian-Limmon@Dono@cubby @Daytona211@MrNeptoon Galactic Assault (Siege): @Dono@Katy@Brian-Limmon@Daytona211@Zen 501st Journal (Attack): @Brian-Limmon @Daytona211 Republic Commando (Spec): @Brian-Limmon @Katy @keller @Prophet @Babatunde Classic Battlefront (Operations): @Brian-Limmon@Dono@Katy@Bacta@Midnight@Beetle Link to Event/Encounter Document (optional): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r_MbuFgdodWMyU0Mz_HDKGcjqwRAr1UnTWggbC96GfI/edit?usp=sharing Description of event/encounter (required if no document provided): This lore event series began on Friday with a prelude on the main server, where the server was set for the day to Kamino, 22BBY before the war broke out. Late in the day, the Jedi order were sent to Geonosis for their own small deployment, this was immediately followed by a massive full server deployment utilizing both the event server and the main server at the same time, beginning the first battle of Geonosis. Each regiment was given their own special deployment throughout they day which were each based on a different on screen piece of star wars media, from entries in the battlefront game series to the republic commando video game. We seriously hope everyone enjoyed these events throughout the weekend on main and on the event server. In total there were 6 events ran throughout the entire weekend all linked and connected through the First Battle of Geonosis. Overall this was a huge success and will most likely be the largest event series we run as a part of these lore events (until we get to coruscant...). We would appreciate if you leave any and all feedback specifically on the structure of this event series overall rather than in the specific events as they have separate AARs. Until next time. The Synergy Lore Event Team will see you at The Battle of Muunilinst...

Yeah the event document is all over the place from what I can tell. From what I can gather it seems like the premise is that spec reg are going to a captured (or possibly destroyed the doc switches randomly between both) republic ship with the goal of either: A. Recovering a holocron B. Finding the location of the CIS general's base (On their own ship? Why would the general have left before getting the holocron he came for?) C. "Finding the killers"? The doc randomly mentions one of these 3 objectives in different parts of different sections without any real clarity or explanation on any of the details to them. Overall the app is really barebones in terms of details and all over the place with the ones it gives, I'd reccomend reading over it again because I'm assuming you wrote it over a certain period of time during which you were still coming up with new ideas and changing your mind halfway through, at least that's what it looks like.

That's definitely fair, the original plan was to have it be an SOBDE event but as the overall battle became this big thing we wanted to give every event their own unique recreation of a different on screen portrayal of the battle and we could only find just enough for each reg deployment and the full server deployment, ideally we would have done something different for spec and have this be SOBDE but we couldn't find anything else to base it off of

Name: Brian Limmond Who helped (If applicable): Katy, Keller, Prophet, Babatunde Link to Event/Encounter Document (optional): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r_MbuFgdodWMyU0Mz_HDKGcjqwRAr1UnTWggbC96GfI/edit?usp=sharing Description of event/encounter (required if no document provided): The Spec deployment recreating the Geonosis mission from the Republic commando video game Did any Bounty Hunters Participate: New & Experimental AAR system! Please rate using this scale (And give us feedback on the actual rating scale! This is not the new official AAR system, and we are testing it with events like these.) Please Rate 1-5 on each of the below categories (5 being perfect, 1 being horrible) How would you rate the Gameplay in this event? How would you rate the overall Care and Effort put into this event? How would you rate the server Performance of this event? (was there lag? Low Ping? etc) (If you can't read the pic!)

Name: Brian Limmond Who helped (If applicable): Dono, Bacta, Katy, Midnight, Beetle Link to Event/Encounter Document (optional): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r_MbuFgdodWMyU0Mz_HDKGcjqwRAr1UnTWggbC96GfI/edit?usp=sharing Description of event/encounter (required if no document provided): The Operations deployment for the First Battle of Geonosis series as seen in Battlefront 2004 Did any Bounty Hunters Participate: New & Experimental AAR system! Please rate using this scale (And give us feedback on the actual rating scale! This is not the new official AAR system, and we are testing it with events like these.) Please Rate 1-5 on each of the below categories (5 being perfect, 1 being horrible) How would you rate the Gameplay in this event? How would you rate the overall Care and Effort put into this event? How would you rate the server Performance of this event? (was there lag? Low Ping? etc) (If you can't read the pic!)

I should have probably clarified since command post in the context of star wars has 2 different meanings, but this is what I had in mind with this suggestion

Name: Brian Limmond Who helped (If applicable): Day Link to Event/Encounter Document (optional): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r_MbuFgdodWMyU0Mz_HDKGcjqwRAr1UnTWggbC96GfI/edit?usp=sharing Description of event/encounter (required if no document provided): The 501st Journal Lore event as portrayed in the Rise of The empire campaign from battlefront 2 2005 Did any Bounty Hunters Participate: New & Experimental AAR system! Please rate using this scale (And give us feedback on the actual rating scale! This is not the new official AAR system, and we are testing it with events like these.) Please Rate 1-5 on each of the below categories (5 being perfect, 1 being horrible) How would you rate the Gameplay in this event? How would you rate the overall Care and Effort put into this event? How would you rate the server Performance of this event? (was there lag? Low Ping? etc) (If you can't read the pic!)