• Added "Dismantle Whitelist" this allows items that match the keywords you input to ALWAYS be dismantled no matter what your other settings are (unless auto dismantle is disabled entirely, or if you have auto dismantle catalysts disabled, this wont apply to catas).
• Added option for "Auto Dismantle Accessories" for each craft tier (can not apply to godlikes), doesn't dismantle untradeable ones. (Provided you have the global perk unlocked)
• Crafting Tiers 1-4 are now 'soft unlocked' for all players, auto dismantle for these tiers is now a freely accessible setting that you don't have to unlock. You can get all mats/catalysts from these without unlocking the tier as well, however, not having the tier 'full potential' ('Next Tier' perk for the tier below) unlocked grants you lower mats/proc rates from those tiers.
• All players now receive an untradeable 50 slot Large Backpack upon first join to help manage all the loot (You can obtain yours by rejoining).
  

I would like to lock the slot in the inventory. This would help so when i click the re organize button things i have in certain perma slots that i keep there for reasons wont get moved around. An example is when im opening 1000 Christmas crates and i wanna reorganize so that purple catas are above all the teal ones. If i re organize all of a sudden all my scrap and other things i have in certain spots go somewhere else and i have to spend time moving it back to the top to make my inv look neat and pretty. First world problems im hoping to get fixed

Steam Name(Current): Minichezburger

Age: 20

Current Rank: Member

Have you ever been banned and why: No

Why would you like to be promoted?: I would like to be promoted to help keep FRG fun. Right now no one expects anything from +Members and from my own experience I understand why, I have been RDM multiple time and have tried to make reports to get the problem fixed but I have never had a +member do a report before the person RDMing either mass RDMs or leaves and it has ruined the fun experience I hope for when playing on FRG. I hope the if given +Member I can break the thought the +Members never do reports as well as keep the fun atmosphere that FRG has when playing.

Why do you think we should promote you?: I think I should be promoted because of the "Why would you like to be promoted" section and what I said. Secondly I am and try to be active on the server as I enjoy playing on the server.

Do you have any administrative experience: Yes. I was a Moderator on NTG before it shutdown ;-;

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: Thanks for reading.

Workshop Link
Possible other model

Mutable Sniper Model:
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Savery rifle (possible other model)
If it isn't a large chunk of work it'd be cool to remove the eye glow on the base rifle and include the eye glow when stopping power rounds are in the chamber

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Possible Names:

Best Name (imo)
- "WhiteDeath" [The nickname of the Finnish man with the highest number of confirmed sniper kills in the world (with this name you could lock the second inherent trait behind getting 505 rightful kills to lean into the name and the man's final number of kills)]
Flavor text: A tool honed by Simo Häyhä that is said to have power imbued in it granted to those that surpass his recorded kills.

Ok names
- "Astraea's Awareness" [Astraea - greek goddess of precision.]
Flavor text: Before leaving mankind to do their own bidding, Astaea left behind this weapon focused with her precision.

- "Astraea and Theia" [Goddess of precision and Goddess of Sight (would play on sniping and the first inherent trait)]
Flavor text: When Astraea and Theia were tasked with judging people's innocence they used this tool to channel both of their abilities.

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Inherent Trait:
Definite inherent trait: While ads'd if a user is aiming at you there is an on-screen notification to their general location. If shot by the player, the player's soul is outlined and your first shot ignores limb modifiers and deals 20% extra damage to body and limbs. If you headshot kill the outlined player a stopping power round is added to the top of your mag (the rest of the mag doesn't receive the boost)

Second inherent trait:
Stopping power rounds: After collecting 3 headshots in a round press alt+e to reload a half-sized mag (if mag size is larger than X then it's capped at X) of double damage rounds (damage capped at 85-95% of the target's max health) with greatly increased recoil. Possible variation to this would be the removal of limb modifiers and/or sizeable knockback to the person that's shot

*Headshoting a player with a stopping power round gibs the player (gory without applying aoe bleed)





Obviously, this won't be the new event destroyer so it won't garner that portion of playerbase's support though it would be a fun addition and would be a nice change of pace from mutable's reputation of being required to be sweat gun suitcases.

Steam Name (Current):Empresscobalt ☭⚧Ⓐ

Steam Name (During incident):Cobaltgeo

Steam ID:STEAM_0:1:56558580

Steam Profile Link:https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073382889

Name of staff you were banned by:Brassx himself or unpoke idk...

Length of the ban: Permanent...

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?: God I could wait another year I can wait 2 more years I can wait 3 fucking years just please lessen the ban or unban me

Reason for ban:Toxicity. Flaming. Racism. A more recent addition would be using an alt. Honestly I could go on and on everyone here knows why I was banned everyone here knows my legacy

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?: yes I did every single thing  that I ever got banned for and it was deserved I was unhinged and a problem for the community

What really happened?: the ultimate thing that led to my ban was me was I continued to push my transness on people a fact that does not matter being one of those new trans people who constantly push their pronouns on people etc etc etc. A gaming server is not the fucking place for this obviously. This came to a climatic conclusion when Jerome (a member of the community) or everyone I don't remember sorry if it seems like I'm singling people out, got tired of the shit, I reacted in the most immature way possible calling Jerome the n word sending pictures of specifically black people being lynched this was unhinged and irresponsible of me and there are no words or anything I can say to apologize for this. then in the 7th month i don't remember the name of months anymore idk maybe i'm developing short term memory loss. thats not a joke and I'm not going into the reasons of why i'm developing that, this is a ban appeal not my sob story. anyways I made an alt and things were actually going well umm I decided to speak on this alt which i guess was stupid of me but what was stupid of me was making the alt in the first place and buying garry's mod a second time I rightfully got banned on this alt no matter if I was showing good behavior that i changed this did not matter, I was still breaking the rules of course me being me I reacted wrongly and lashed out by going in the shoutbox about 10 times or 7 idk numbers don't matter what i did matter I threatened to ddos brassx which was horrible of me to do and also stupid I'm lucky brassx did not come at me with legal pursuit, thank you. I also called Terran a nazi which I don't care about anymore I've given up caring what people think about me or what people do in their lives its their lives its not my place to judge. this all lead to a culmination where I threatened to kill myself which uhh isn't the best look at all.

Additional details: Honestly I don't know why I'm even making this ban appeal my chances are slim and even if i get unbanned i'm due to be faced with relentless hate for my past and if I do get unbanned please don't I just want to game. I feel regret and loss with what could've been with this server and I was even planning to make another alt (this account) to play on frg I would've been caught eventually not due to my IP i've changed location and I now live in wisconsin and no longer florida but probably due to my stupidity I also realized this would be a bad look and decrease my chances as if I ever had any. to zero and dig myself a deeper hole I'll be honest I've tried all of the inventory servers they're all great but nothing beats this server its amazing the community is amazing the time I spent on my alt playing the server was the only fun I've had in gmod since the 2 years ago (almost typed 3 haha it feels that long) i would like to address something before it comes up in this thread which is inevitable I'm sure everyone has heard it. I have sent death threats to Ozzy if no one knows who this is he is british and played on another inventory server which I'm not naming because I'm not advertising servers this is a ban appeal. This was another one of my lashing outs and it was recent this was a terrible thing to do and probably the worst thing I've ever done its a fucking miracle and a half I'm not even banned from that server thankfully I've gotten back on my meds again and I'm starting to stabilize I take lexapro and abilify for my bipolar 2. this helps keep me in check I feel weathered by recent events which have matured me Again not my sob story this is a ban appeal I feel lost and depressed and I don't have the motivation to sink another 3000 more hours into gmod if its not even on the server I want to spend the rest of my time on gmod for.m thank you for taking the time to read this thank you if you +1 it thank you if you -1 it thank you if you +0 it or -0 it I guess Also if I don't get unbanned I would like brassx to ip ban me using my new ip acquired from me signing into the forums this is a show of trust that I won't make a alt to play gmod and that i wouldn't be able to anyways. on a unrelated sidenote have a picture of my cat her name is peel (like orange peel ) and she makes me so happy as you can see in the pic she likes to climb up my leg (she has these sharp fucking claws owww :CCCC ) and sit on my shoulder https://imgur.com/a/Ee1bgWc (I would've put an attachment but the pic is too big :C) also I forgot to mention this but I wouldn't mind being perma gagged and muted if needed....... i wouldn't like it but if needed. On top of everything else I've started to vape nicotine which calms me down a lot

I originally made this as a google doc, so I will paste the link here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ew-YA7unv_ycBnTOQT7sVhker9MTMOVlWepQQn7iLAg/edit?usp=sharing


(This text mob below is the suggestion from the Docs file, nothing different between the two, the link is just for ease of access):

AOE/Crowd (Event Oriented) Buff Items: Bagpipes and Electric Guitar (w/ Amp)


I was thinking of an AOE buff item, possibly as bagpipes, or an electric guitar with a placeable amp or speaker. In the case of a bagpipe, you could toggle which "pipe" to focus the majority of your effort into playing, and each pipe would correlate with a different buff, whether it be reload speed, fire-rate, jump height, mobility, etc. You could also play up to 3 pipes simultaneously for a unique buff (just gotta figure out the combos like with Ocarina), although playing an individual pipe will trigger a single buff, and playing 2 can trigger 2 buffs, albeit far weaker than if 1 of those buffs were playing by itself. 1 and 2 pipes playing would trigger 1 and 2 buffs respectively, with the 3 pipe combo triggering unique or special buffs, or maybe even more than 1 :wink: . On the hand with an electric guitar and placeable amp, I was figuring that you can place the amp for AOE buffs in a radius around the amp, kinda like how warbanner's AOE is now, and a mix of Caliburns, albeit weaker than both since they'd be combined with how the amp functions. The amp would function as an aoe you would step in to get offensive buffs with a timer, such as reload speed, mobility, possibly even ads speed and swap speed, reload speed, maybe even have a synergy buff with other amps placed down (kinda like how Anubis ult ability worked). The way the guitar would function would extend to the amp itself. For the songs you play, their buffs would be cast inside of the amp's aoe. I also thought that it could have locked chords or buffed, that are unlocked corresponding with the more you discover and unlock. (There could be an "X songs discovered out of X amount of total songs" counter on the bottom of the item tab for it. For unlocking the songs themselves, it would just be like Ocarina, and figuring it out for yourself (This would be the same with bagpipes, as well as it also having X songs discovered counter too). The sounds that you discover would be "unlocked" for that specific giutar or bagpipe, and you could also "teach" another player with that item a song that they don't have discovered, but only song can be "taught" per guitar or bagpipe, meaning that if you had 7/13 songs discovered or unlocked, you would have to find the other 6 songs by going to 6 other people and being "taught" by them. This could be done in TTT or events, you both would just have to have the item equipped and have to double "E" to cast "Teach Song" ability for that specific person. Each guitar or bagpipe would have a irl cooldown (i.e. 4 hours irl), or a limit (like 7 songs can be taught to others with this item). Once all songs are taught, the instrument would begin to glow (this would be an unlocked cosmetic effect akin to exotic items glow) and you would also get a SLIGHT (very slight) increased synergy buff when you are casting buffs to your amp or to others if you are using a bagpipe if you are either within the aoe of another persons amp or bagpipe aoe.



SUMMARIZED VERSION (Or at least easier to read):

2 New AOE/Crowd buff items: Bagpipes and Electric Guitar with an amp.

BAGPIPES:

You can play 1 to 3 pipes simultaneously. You can toggle through 6 different pipes, each one individually playing a specific buff song that you will have to figure out yourself. You can play up to 2 pipes simultaneously, and get 2 different buffs, albeit weaker than if they were playing individually. You can play 3 random pipes in any order (it may vary based on order later on) to play a special or unique buff, or even a buff combo. These buffs would be cast in an aoe around the bagpipe player (maybe there will be a song to play in a large radius at the cost of buff duration or strength)


ELECTRIC GUITAR (WITH AMP):

The Electric Guitar has a placeable amp which will cast all buffs from songs you play on the guitar within its AOE. The amp can be moved about as you please, but there will be a short cooldown between placement changes. You can play certain cords to trigger buffs within the amplifier AOE.



AFFECTS OF BOTH ITEMS (Shared affects of either item):

Both items will have a "teach" option, where you can teach up to X amount of songs (around ¼ or ⅓ of all songs of either given item, and once you expend that limit, your instrument begins to glow, and gains a prefix called Mastered. This prefix would give a permanent buff where you gain SLIGHT synergy bonuses when you are casting buffs in another player's instrument AOE, and this would result in buff duration increases, or buff strength increases, though they will be very slight, like 5% of the current buff (not exact percent, just an estimate). Also, for how I said the buffs would work like Warbanner and Caliburn, the buffs that are on the more offensive side, such as reload speed, fire-rate limb dmg, (etc.), would be times buffs, such as how warbanner works. Defensive buffs on the other hand, such as reduced body or limb dmg taken, 1 hp regen per 5-10 seconds (just so wand and other healing items are not phased out) reduced damage taken from dots, reduced dot duration, regen 15% of weapon's default reserve ammo over 10 seconds (etc.), would be affecting you as long as you remain inside of the AOE. I may add more to this later on. But this is all I can think of currently. Shout me out if you guys have any suggestions for how it should be changed or whatnot. And I'll put them below all this mess.

The basic idea of the system is to allowed players in a small group who wish to share an inventory a means of doing so more easily than which currently exists. My idea for this is by adding a guild-like system where players form a shared inventory by forming a group (of which you could only be a part of one) and this is handled by use of a new lobby NPC. This NPC would act as the caretaker of a guild chest per-say. To limit the concerns of people with the issues of duping, etc I feel like this NPC should only be able to be accessed by 1 person of said group at a time. Now the chest would not be an entire merge of an inventory, the purpose of this chest would act like a backpack or small storage that multiple people could use and drop in or remove items from. This chest should only be able to be accessed from said lobby NPC.

As far as security goes, I feel like you should have to use this chest caretaker NPC to join a shared inventory with someone. As to not risk a random person joining an inventory with someone they don't know this should be done at the NPC when all shared inventory members are in lobby together to approve said person joining. I feel like groups of 4 at most should be allowed but this measure would also prevent someone joining that someone else in said shared inventory didn't know about. Now the other aspect of this, I feel that those who choose to use this system should do so accepting the risks that come with this and ONLY form a shared inventory with someone they trust. I'm sure that Brass if he would even consider this idea doesn't want to handle people with stolen item reports because of this.  

I'm open to whatever thoughts and or criticisms people may have on this because I feel like it could be a cool system unique to FRG.

Steam Name(Current): Lucky Ducky

Age: 15

Current Rank: Member

Have you ever been banned and why: Not on FRG, no.

Why would you like to be promoted?: I would like to be able to help the community out a little more. Ive been back and playing frg. So I would like to keep everything more enjoyable along with being a bigger voice for the community.

Why do you think we should promote you?: I think I should be promoted because I am very active and nice. I know how the rules work as I have been apart of the TTT Genre for over 4k hours now and I know what to expect.

Do you have any administrative experience: Yes. (ULX and Sam).

Do you agree to FRG's policy on applications(yes or no): Yes I do.
(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: Thanks for reading.

Thanks to Loquacious and Heisenburger for the clean runs of each section.

Chest 1: Crusher Maze
1a) Path to Crusher Maze: