So I might not be able to play Gmod for a while. My old AF computer finally comitted sepuku and it looks like I might not be able to fix it, and until I figure out what is wrong with the graphics card in my newer custom PC i'm not going to be able to play gmod at all though I will leave steam open for messages and still visit the forums.
Onto a scarier note did you know my driver's licence makes me look like a potential child molester? No, well you do now.

Steam Name(Current): Pringles Can

Age: 17

Current Rank: Member

Have you ever been banned and why: I have not been banned

Why would you like to be promoted?: Currently I have been playing on FRG for 300+ hours and in that time I have found that the community is a nice place to find friends and groups and enjoy playing both TTT and the events in lobby. I am looking to be able to give back and help out with keeping things orderly in TTT and help take some of the load off of other +members with all the reports that come in.

Why do you think we should promote you?: From what I've seen there are many hours where +members are offline or unreachable and it leaves moderate windows of time open where reports and rdm's go unattended. Along with that I've also been noticing many more new players joining the community and as a result there has been a higher number of reports. Sometimes there is only one or two +members on that have to deal with a large amount of reports and I think it would be nice to help reduce the amount of report traffic that stacks up when fewer +members are on.

Do you have any administrative experience: two to three years ago I was a moderator on Beast TTT for 2-3 months.

Do you agree to FRG's policy on applications(yes or no): yes
(By agreeing above you are agreeing that you understand you are not entitled to said promotion, and that we have all rights to deny or approve the application
for any reason we see fit, you agree to not stir up any trouble if the application outcome is not your desired outcome.
Failing to abide by this can result in a full demote, or perma-denial.)

Additional Details: Come on +members help beebee out he tryin his best

The problem with Lyrus isn't just the boss, but the players. The whole fight is to get more 1s than everyone else, even if it means throwing out some of the eggs people use. This could easily be solved by making it so Lyrus can't take any damage when the orbs are up.

Another problem is being targeted. Being targeted means you literally die, basically no questions asked. You might get lucky and it might switch, but people will die and it's out of their control. Lyrus does just too much damage quickly when he does the three slams towards someone.

Having the godlike drop based on place is a bad idea for an event like this because of the two thing above. I know it's only to prevent it from dropping to a person who did no work (presumably because they died too quickly due to lyrus targeting).

While we're at it, kraken still can be shot at during the "all tentacles just went down" phase.

This idea came to me when I posted on Terran's thread about changing the way the mapvotes work.
My idea is to make opening crates more of an automatic process. Though my idea here will change a lot, hopefully the essence of it gets through.

In the attempt to balance the economy and keep people opening crates, there's too many crates.
People dont want to do minigames unless they get stuff from it, so loot gets buffed and eventually has to get buffed again, and you get the idea.
For instance, winning IoD gives you a surplus of 100 crates w/ a rune of looting, so you can see my point.

So unless Brassx intends to do a complete coin rework and crate rework to get stuff to how it used to be, the main issue I find is that it's way too strenuous to open all these crates.
My proof:
Big crate openings used to be a big thing because it took effort to save up a bunch of crates. Now it's as if if anyone decides its time to open their crates its like a whole event in of itself. Myself even, the only time I open crates is when I have a ton of homework late at night and I can manage to make keys every 5 or so minutes to clear inventory.
so, my proposal:

Have an automatic crate opening feature. There would be a side bar to the right of your inventory, and you could set all the crates you have in a que to open at the top. They would open and not link drops you get in chat unless they're prim+ or suffixed, and it would notify you once everything has opened.
You would have the ability to click an item, and retrieve it from the side menu to put in your inventory. You would be given a filter, so say you want everything right into your inventory, you could disable the filter; or say you're super rich $$ and only want what's prim+, you could set the filter to that; or say you're the common joe or a collector, you could say "Hey i only want Faithful UMPs as an uncommon from this crate". (this might be a bit to do, and if so just have rarity filters and suffix/trait filters, so if you get a double suffix uncommon it would keep it).

With the filter would come this largely requested idea: the portable key maker.
Now, this could be VIP only or w/e brassx wants to do, but the portable key maker would basically make crate opening super clean.
Everything that gets swept out by the filter would be que'd to the key maker, so as soon as you got 10 of a filtered out rarity you would have a key made. And so forth.

Now, this is only if Brassx is to continue the trend of just throwing up coins onto crates. He could make it so only some certain crates are que-able, or he could attach this system to banks to give more use to them, or w/e.
The point is just that opening crates is strenuous and tiresome. Whenever I do grims, if I get more than 5 item crates im selling them for 1 coin each on the market or deleting them because I can't bother to get 5 common weapons and delete them because I cant make them into a key on their lonesome, and I dont want to spend 5 more coins to get a T1 key.

First of all, we should have 6 voting options, not 4. Also, considering how fun, say, Hunter rounds are yet how rare they are, here's a proposed change

There's a chance for maps on the selection screen to "Preview" what might show up. I.E if someone on the server has it as a challenge, it'll have a little [C] symbol under it. Or, if the map has an [H], there's a higher chance for a Hunter round. [D] for Dragon, [S] for Spider, [M] for Minigame (orbital, bouncy, infection, e.t.c).

Because, like, I think hunter rounds are super cool, but I haven't seen one in a really long time. This would also help with getting those damned challenge maps.

Over the last week or so I have started taking fishing a lot more seriously. Some of the stats that I kept while leveling up to level 20.

Rusty Keys snagged: 1 (I got a rodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrodrod)

Fishing rods snagged: 3 prims and 1 legendary (incandescent, incandescent, immovable, and hyper)

Challenge Scrolls Snagged: 2 Mediums

Sharks Caught: 3 (3 prims)

Eels caught: 2 (both legendary)

Kraken Disturbed: 0

Fish Bucks Made: ~15,000

Most Used Rod: Soulcatcher (Thanks MicroBoss for letting me borrow it.)

Most Used Lure: Lure 01 (I used it once Lures are a waste of fish bucks IMO)

What I liked the most: Fishing is just slow enough to play other games.

What I disliked the most: Terranables feel so bad to snag because they do not give xp. Also, you gain Fish Bucks slowly but while there is really nothing to buy its okay.

Some of my hopes for the fishing update: Fishbuck crates won't be impossibly expensive. They either need to be very cheap or fishbucks need to be more obtainable. If they are 100 or more fish bucks it will be impossible to master the crate. Honestly, fishing is almost useless currently they only things of value are enraged eye (which you don't get directly from fishing) and rusty key ( Most of the time you get a Fishing rod that is almost useless and worth nothing). I hope in the future that fishing is somewhat worth it. I understand that it can't give a lot of loot because it is very easy (but time-consuming), but some loot or a way to get loot (maybe exclusive for the higher level so people have to go through the grind others did).

Anyways fishing was mostly awful, my index finger hurts, and I never want to do it again.


PS I used a Kraken lure and a half writing this and still no Kraken I'm cursed to never get one.

Goodnight FRG

Steam Name(Current): Kawaii Daddy Niles

Age: 16 (and a half)

Current Rank: Member

Have you ever been banned and why: I changed my name In game once.
Why would you like to be promoted?: Simply put, I feel like the mods let a lot of RDM cases slide, or are not on to TAKE reports in the first place

Why do you think we should promote you?: I play almost daily whenever I don't have play rehearsals or work, so about 7-8 hours 3-4 days a week.
Do you have any administrative experience: In GMod, no, but I have some experience irl with Student Council in Junior Year High School and running a relatively small fundraiser for the school choir

Do you agree to FRG's policy on applications(yes or no): Yes
(By agreeing above you are agreeing that you understand you are not entitled to said promotion, and that we have all rights to deny or approve the application
for any reason we see fit, you agree to not stir up any trouble if the application outcome is not your desired outcome.
Failing to abide by this can result in a full demote, or perma-denial.)

Additional Details: I still play any event, old or new, and personally never have abused any bugs or glitches unless a mod said it was okay (Examples being the rock exploit on Grims, Zombie training in asylum, etc)

Ok, so every time I'm on the server, I am constantly asked to do the following:

1) Fix my item because X broke it
2) Wipe our event cooldowns because X server broke
3) Can you fix this issue with X addon
4) Can you reimburse me due to X bug

And so on. Now, this needs to be made perfectly clear, I do not have authorization from Brassx to do any of the previous except fix addons if they were made specifically by me.

These addons include and may not be limited to:

• Challenge Scrolls
• Certain Crates(Hellfire, Crate of Misery I's/II's, Enhanceable Crate III)
• Certain Godlikes that were made specifically by me
• Server Hopper
• Coinflip to some extent(with the wheel visuals, not the internal code/refunds)
  

Goodnight FRG