Hudson's Staff Resignation

[Hudson]

Name: Hudson

Steam ID:STEAM_1:0:50951842

Staff Rank: New Admin

Date: 8/4/18

Reason for leaving: 

*Warning, the following contains ranting*

Flat out I'm leaving because the staff team's work ethic is utterly disgusting. I have never seen a more unmotivated and slow to react team anywhere. The other day while playing on other servers with other members of my battalion (because there aren't nearly enough events taking place to keep the base active) and that shitty RP server had more responsive staff. It took them half an hour to get us whitelisted and the staff wasn't even online then, even that's better than having a fuck ton of staff on and having not a SINGLE ONE take a ticket. It disgusts me to say the work ethic of the team at Icefuse was better motivated, because I left there to come here. 

Take notes gentlemen, because you should be training your admins better, and motivating them, because honestly I think half of them think of it as a god damn badge they get to flaunt around like a parade float. 

Fix your shit and maybe, maybe I'll come back.

Farewells: 

 

I'm not leaving the server outright just the staff team, but...

@Joah I really hope that questing system that you are going to push out is going to increase retention in players, because it ain't happeneing with the gamemasters you have right now.

@Jackson I appreciate the words on the staff discord about the staff team getting active, but is too little too late for me to be honest.

@Medic Thanks for being the only high staff (besides Joah sometimes) that actually makes an effort to talk with me, it makes me feel like you and I are still equals and friends instead of some sort of peasant farmer.

Chambers: Thanks for the staff interview, sorry it didn't work out.

To all Admin-Vet Admins, step your game up. I'm disappointed.

Yeah, that's it.

[Arroyo]

So I don’t want to complain or anything but like I disagree with you a lot.

[COC4IN3]

07, but icefuse is completely ruined buddy and far far much worse than any other community so you shouldn't really compare us to them but hope you have a great time in what ever you do. ❤️

[WaterMelonWolf]

Thanks for what you did, But im following this to see joah roast you dry o7

[TayTay]

here's the thing bud, you are fully allowed to have your opinion. But comparing us to Icefuse is about as disrespectful as you can get. Sure the staff team currently are not in the best they have been, but how about instead of leaving like you have what 3 times? You get off your ass and make some change, talk to people, like anything. If you want to go play on one of the most corrupt servers on gmod then be my guest, but when you eventually wander back here don't be surprised when I don't welcome you with open arms. Good luck and farewell.

[Stockings]

Shoutout Hudson !

[Sock Monkey]

I love how its all the staff getting mad at him lol, I think he is completely right. quite often I need CCs white-listed or staff to pull TRs and when an event is going on I get nothing (of course some staff are running the event) still though I dont want the CC waiting around for even 5 min to be white-listed there should be immediate response time for new players especially. Staff lately have also been just slapping people with bans without looking into it and it has caused some issues. (A good amount of time staff do come, but we have enough to where it should be expected that they come every time)

 

Lastly I've never actually played Icefuse and a lot of people are getting upset over the staff comment that was made so I cant really have an opinion. But you are all taking it with a grain of salt like he is completely wrong, but if he thinks that, how many other players on the server think the same... You cant disregard his opinion because you disagree, but instead prove him wrong and show we are the better staff team, a team that can take criticism without whining or getting upset about it.

 

Take care Hudson.

Edited August 4, 2018 by Sock Monkey

[Snadvich]

Well Thanks for your Service Hudson. Our work has kinda been lacking when it comes to that department. Most of the time I usually see admin+ Tickets never claimed and the People who've asked then have to start constantly asking. It feels sucky to not be able to help those people 

Edited August 4, 2018 by Snadvich

[Bbstine]

Hudson is right, you fuckers need to step it up.

 

[Daytona211]

Had 2 staff members tell me I'm playing in an event on the event server. When I poked them to spawn the selections dupe for me (no other staff was on). 

Some staff has to realize that even though they might be a senior or vet admin. You still have a job to do and shouldn't offload all the work to new admins. Drop the superiority complex or leave staff and reevaluate your attitude to the team.

Hudson you were a great staff! O7

Edited August 4, 2018 by Daytona211

[Tristan]

I'm with Hudson on this one. 

Before things fell off with Icefuse and Synergy was created, Icefuse had an UNRIVALED Staff team. We were the fucking best and we were damn good at our jobs. I can't speak for how things are over there now because obviously, I'm here, and not there. 

I love this server, and I love this community. It brings me joy and makes me laugh

But the team me and @Hudson and @Medic were on back in the day, blows this one out of the water. I'm sorry.

[Tackle]

It's gotten garbage. Only a few of us are doing our jobs these days.

Edited August 4, 2018 by Raider

[Life-]

1 hour ago, Hudson said:

 

Fix your shit and maybe, maybe I'll come back.
 

Hope u do.

 

Comparing us to Icefuse is not fair you cant give the whole staff team shit because everyone were deployed to the event server when selections were going on. It were your choice not to post pone it alright so dont come here screaming at us for not doing our work when we are trying to make people happy and enjoy their time on the event server.

Edited August 4, 2018 by Joshua

[Egg]

Eks fricken dee

Hudson's got some points and the "everyone was deployed, it's not my fault" excuse is just straight rarted because it's not an isolated incident the staff team has had its ups and downs and recently it is in a pretty big down in terms of quality of events and actual work going on. There's only a few people that are consistently doing events and it consostently takes multiple minutes of making tickets to even get someone whitelisted. Sad to see you go again @Hudson, you're a good guy and I hope to see you around.

[Dragon]

I'm going to have to agree. Last night during selections we asked several admins+ to help us spawn for it. They all told us, "no we're doing the event." Seriously what happened to staff duties over RP. It delayed selections by 20 mins until we were finally able to find someone. 

It's sad to see you go from staff Hudson. 

[Arroyo]

11 minutes ago, Dragon said:

I'm going to have to agree. Last night during selections we asked several admins+ to help us spawn for it. They all told us, "no we're doing the event." Seriously what happened to staff duties over RP. It delayed selections by 20 mins until we were finally able to find someone. 

It's sad to see you go from staff Hudson. 

I could’ve done it if it was earlier I’ve done it before ❤️

[Bart Versock]

14 minutes ago, Arroyo said:

I could’ve done it if it was earlier I’ve done it before ❤️

That's not the point..

[Jackson]

I do agree with you in that the staff team has gotten far more lazy recently and we will be cracking down on it soon if it continues the way its going (possibly with another staff purge IF it comes to that). However if you believe that the staff team is in a bad way right now and then leave as a result the only thing you are doing is making it worse rather than working to improve it. I understand where you are coming from but it seems like you have no intention to help improve things and would prefer everything to be perfect as is then your just leaving that work to others rather than helping out by showing what an example staff member should be.
Just my opinion but in the end its down to what you want to do not what others think.

[Max]

Sad to see you go I agree that the team we had back on IceFuse a year ago was a lot better. I hope the staff starts to get better because being one of the biggest servers and having these complaints are horrific. I hope you stay around and play. 

[BigMan/TimmyThicc]

Legit i remember the days when it was a fuken fight to get tickets

[Hudson]

I'm at work right now and I just got a chance to look at my phone. I would like to clarify a few things.

The Icefuse staff comment is talking about the staff that do the work (Head Admins and below) not the executive types, and our equivalent ranks.

I would also like to restate that I have no problem with the New Admins or anyone Head Admin+ at all. It is specifically the group in between.

But I would like to point out some things that I have seen flaws in. @Jackson @Arroyo and all the other people that stated similar things I would like to state this.

You are making it seem like me leaving is making such a huge dent in those comments. But it takes far more than one man to solve the problems of the many. It needs to be a team effort. I see far more teamwork ability within my own battalion and would rather work in RP with them. 

In closing I would like to quote a children's TV show that summarizes exactly what I've said here completely

"What's gonna work? Teamwork!"

Start working together instead of against.

Take this as you will, but this is a call to action and a wake up call that will make more impact than I could do as a New Admin tbh. 

All luck and power to you.

-Hudson/Commander Colt

[Hudson]

2 hours ago, Sock Monkey said:

I love how its all the staff getting mad at him lol, I think he is completely right. quite often I need CCs white-listed or staff to pull TRs and when an event is going on I get nothing (of course some staff are running the event) still though I dont want the CC waiting around for even 5 min to be white-listed there should be immediate response time for new players especially. Staff lately have also been just slapping people with bans without looking into it and it has caused some issues. (A good amount of time staff do come, but we have enough to where it should be expected that they come every time)

 

Lastly I've never actually played Icefuse and a lot of people are getting upset over the staff comment that was made so I cant really have an opinion. But you are all taking it with a grain of salt like he is completely wrong, but if he thinks that, how many other players on the server think the same... You cant disregard his opinion because you disagree, but instead prove him wrong and show we are the better staff team, a team that can take criticism without whining or getting upset about it.

 

Take care Hudson.

Thanks Monkey, hope I get to continue training with you mate.

[Joah]

Here's what I have to say in regards to this :).

1.) Thank you for at least trying for staff

2.) People are getting burnt in SWRP in general, However, we are trying our best to push people, ~ 3 months now. It's this way on literally every single SWRP server right now. Gmod is just getting old. It's hard to find the motivation, especially when everything is old. I personally am trying my best to push a very large update to refresh everyones cooldowns.

3.) I agree that the performance needs an increase as I have already spoken to Jackson in regards to this and have hinted at a (staff wipe) multiple times to get rid of a lot of individuals that aren't doing anything. To keep the ones that are.

_______________

However.

_______________

1.) Giving up on us and then getting angry cause others aren't doing anything and going down swinging calling everyone isn't helping and is simply contributing to the ever-growing problem

2.) Every server is currently having this exact same issue.

3.)

3 hours ago, Hudson said:

Fix your shit and maybe, maybe I'll come back.

^ WE need individuals who want to fix it. However they end up leaving because they're players that are old and are burnt (like you and I)

4.) I'm not focusing on fixing something that will die again with the same content. I'm aiming towards doing something that no other swrp server has actually done. Releasing a metric shit load of custom content

1.) Actual New Map (Not copy pasted) 
2.) Quest System
3.) Custom Gamemode

________

It's gonna take awhile, Please kill me.

Was good to see you here, best of luck in the future.

[Tyrone]

1 minute ago, Joah said:

Here's what I have to say in regards to this :).

1.) Thank you for at least trying for staff

2.) People are getting burnt in SWRP in general, However, we are trying our best to push people, ~ 3 months now. It's this way on literally every single SWRP server right now. Gmod is just getting old. It's hard to find the motivation, especially when everything is old. I personally am trying my best to push a very large update to refresh everyones cooldowns.

3.) I agree that the performance needs an increase as I have already spoken to Jackson in regards to this and have hinted at a (staff wipe) multiple times to get rid of a lot of individuals that aren't doing anything. To keep the ones that are.

_______________

However.

_______________

1.) Giving up on us and then getting angry cause others aren't doing anything and going down swinging calling everyone isn't helping and is simply contributing to the ever-growing problem

2.) Every server is currently having this exact same issue.

3.)

^ WE need individuals who want to fix it. However they end up leaving because they're players that are old and are burnt (like you and I)

4.) I'm not focusing on fixing something that will die again with the same content. I'm aiming towards doing something that no other swrp server has actually done. Releasing a metric shit load of custom content

1.) Actual New Map (Not copy pasted) 
2.) Quest System
3.) Custom Gamemode

________

It's gonna take awhile, Please kill me.

Was good to see you here, best of luck in the future.

@JoahI know for a fact im going to be here to support you from start to finish bro, ima be up there doing the best i can in the future for the sake of Synergy.

@Hudson Thanks for trying, but i learned from alot of wise individuals that giving up only digs the hole a bit deeper

[Egg]

47 minutes ago, Joah said:

3.) I agree that the performance needs an increase as I have already spoken to Jackson in regards to this and have hinted at a (staff wipe) multiple times to get rid of a lot of individuals that aren't doing anything. To keep the ones that are.

 Oof time incoming?

 

Edited August 4, 2018 by Egg

[Washington]

50 minutes ago, Joah said:

(staff wipe) multiple times

[IKE]

This is my submission

[Egg]

we should probably make a separate thread for this

[Hudson]

1 hour ago, Joah said:

Here's what I have to say in regards to this :).

1.) Thank you for at least trying for staff

2.) People are getting burnt in SWRP in general, However, we are trying our best to push people, ~ 3 months now. It's this way on literally every single SWRP server right now. Gmod is just getting old. It's hard to find the motivation, especially when everything is old. I personally am trying my best to push a very large update to refresh everyones cooldowns.

3.) I agree that the performance needs an increase as I have already spoken to Jackson in regards to this and have hinted at a (staff wipe) multiple times to get rid of a lot of individuals that aren't doing anything. To keep the ones that are.

_______________

However.

_______________

1.) Giving up on us and then getting angry cause others aren't doing anything and going down swinging calling everyone isn't helping and is simply contributing to the ever-growing problem

2.) Every server is currently having this exact same issue.

3.)

^ WE need individuals who want to fix it. However they end up leaving because they're players that are old and are burnt (like you and I)

4.) I'm not focusing on fixing something that will die again with the same content. I'm aiming towards doing something that no other swrp server has actually done. Releasing a metric shit load of custom content

1.) Actual New Map (Not copy pasted) 
2.) Quest System
3.) Custom Gamemode

________

It's gonna take awhile, Please kill me.

Was good to see you here, best of luck in the future.

I see what you are saying Joah, and respectfully disagree as we have in the past. I'll say what I need to and I'll leave it at that, anything more would be petty fights and no one wants that.

Secondly, I see where you're coming from in the aspect of the dying out of the SWRP genre as a whole and I can say only one thing. Ride that train till the end man, because it's coming to a stop soon. I can tell. 

By updating the server with these new ideas (which I do like and will increase player retention for sure) you are fixing something that is dying, the SWRP genre. 

I love the genre now, and I'll continue to play on, but for how much longer can you keep the player base entertained before they find a new game? 

Again, I love and respect you dude (in a non-homo friendly football player ass slap kind of way), but I thought I'd voice my opinions since that's allowed here.

Thank you for your input and your understanding Joah, and I hope to talk to you about things like this more often.

Keep in touch,

Hudson/Commander Colt

Edited August 4, 2018 by Hudson

[Kj12344]

Hudson i wish you the best and congrats on getting colt

 

[Hudson]

10 minutes ago, Kj12344 said:

Hudson i wish you the best and congrats on getting colt

 

Thanks Kj!

[BlackiSblack]

uohuiWAHURFHuegjhiEUSTGIUtIUGS
 

**STAFF WIPE INBOUND** 

o7 Hope you return ! 

[Smeck]

5 hours ago, TayTay said:

comparing us to Icefuse is about as disrespectful as you can get

Now now, lets not throw hate or ur just as shitty as this situation. No need to get you're dick in a twist my boy.

[Esitt]

o7 goodluck in life!

[Ching]

What the fuck are these memes, holy shit, it's like my eyes bled for the inside looking at that shit. 

Anyway, gl in RANCOR. o7

Edited August 6, 2018 by chhing