Thread: Few suggestions toward improving the server a bit

First, let's talk a bit about cops : when they stick someone, they stay down for 30/15 seconds, but when they get up, they're able to run as if nothing happened. I suggest adding a 30 seconds delay before you are able to run when you've been knocked out (this includes tranqed, chloro, and stun).
I mean, it's just plainly stupid to see someone you stunned get away very easily right after getting up, which usually leads to a gun pulled out, but if the one running away gets killed, he'll just say cop broke rule 2, when the person actually broke the essence of roleplaying.

Now, I'd like to suggest class based weapons. Let's face it, it's plainly stupid to say "citizens can use weapons to defend themselves", when they're gonna pull out a shotgun or an ak47. So i suggest making it so only underground class and cops (due to next update) can use powerful weapons such as the shotgun or sniper rifle; citizens should only be allowed to use small firearms such as glock or five seven.

Now another problem is stunning car drivers. let's face it, there's a 75% chance they'll die when stunned. so instead of stunning, i suggest making the car inoperable when hit once. if hit with the right click when the car has been rendered inoperable, the driver should be forced out (but not stunned) and frozen in place for about 2 seconds so the cop can eventually stun him if needed.

also, enforcing PHX download could be an additional good thing, as many people complain seeing ERRORS and such.

as suggested a lot before, i'd also suggest a whitelist for cops, since they have weapons at spawn.

There's the problem of car dming as well. when you get car dmed, you don't know who did it, and so admin can't always know who does it on purpose. so i'd suggest the following : either make it so logs tell who's the owner of the car and who's driving the entity, or maybe broadcast a message like when you're typekilled.

Now onto the mayor. The mayor has a 30 seconds spawn protection. It should be increased to 7 mins at least, since there's a shitloads of morons actually rdming him.

and as i suggested before, the rules should be rewritten so you can pinpoint a needed rule quickly, to prove your point agaisn't a griefer. browsing the rules as they are now is just time consuming for nothing.

now for the problem of sdoor. it's not a rare thing to see a stool door made in front of a regular door, which hides a stool door again.
Now the problem is that anyone who donated can make these. but they don't even require a keypad to be opened and even with a keypad, let's face it, finding who owns it is worse than finding who owns a regular door.
What I suggest is putting the owner's name on the door or make it so you can not open the door by pressing a key on your keyboard.

Also, cops are meant to have a kevlar, and a helmet to protect themselves. yet a knife in their face, which has a protection made to be able to withstand a bullet , and they're dead? come on, that's stupid.

the new update will fix car rdming and i think cops wont spwn with weaps but that stuff is a great idea i also hate how some how u hit a guy 5 times wit the stun stick and he dsotn go down and some times his rag doll hits you and he dies... or a noob runs up and 1) tramples him 2) kill him with a gun or 3) runs him and mabey you over and the mayor sould spwn with a glock or a weak pistol to defend him self i personaly hate being defenceless as a mayor.

Running-delay: Yeah. Would be nice to see. MAYBE even something like a pain-meter? Like on kudo's?

Class based weapons: Read this: http://ventmob.com/index.php/topic,2044.0.html
Sounds like they don't want that

Stunning cars: Stopping them when hit would be great.

Enforcing PHX: Yes, why not. But I wouldn't be sad if they get rid of the whole PHX-thing... at least for the serious server. Bases made with these props look... stupid, most likely.

Whitelist: Yeah, almost every cop-suggestion involves this... I think it'll be a must have on the srs server.

Car DM: Logs: Yes. Admins always able to see: Nah.

7 min spawn protection: Hell yeah. If he sucks, you can always /mutiny Kurata

Rules: Maybe. I don't have much problems with that.

Doors: Removing the ability of opening them with a key would be awesome. It'll force ppl to use buttons & keypads and they will have to use them as well, so a skilled thief could just watch them type in the code.

Knife in the face: Erm... well this is almost everytime used to RDM someone. you stand in front of him, say 'Hi!', pull out your knife and stab him in the face. MAYBE remove it.

Quote from: deathstar on August 10, 2009, 06:39:45 AM

Class based weapons: Read this: http://ventmob.com/index.php/topic,2044.0.html
Sounds like they don't want that

Your idea was to not allow citizens any weapons, Kurata's idea is that they can only have pistols.

EPIC update if everything came that you wrote!!!
then ill play ventmob every day!!

Ive been wondering why no one has started a topic/thread about this before. Now I can put in my two cents.


1) Lets add some more vehicles people, I personally think a motorcycle would be kind of cool, but without a shadow of a doubt, we need an armored car. An armored car would be helpful for everyone, mayors, raiders, cops, w.e... it would be quite expensive but that gives roleplayers something to work for and save for. I myself already have the most expensive car, a silver corvette, and think it would be nice if I had something else to save for.

2) This could be a crazy ass idea but what about being able to buy a house? I dont see a problem with it, all over garrysmod.org are houses and forts, bases that you can set up. They could be for sale, just like a car but more expensive. Spawn your house and there you go... Maybe a little laggy but the server could handle it.

3) There is already a discussoin about a second role play server, but I wanna say I think its a great idea. VM is easily the best server around, and one of the most popular and active. A second role play server, on a different map ( city ) would be great. Say evocity 2, or something. Then there would be two citys in Vent Mob community, evo city and evocity 2. They would run on the same database and stuff so its all synchronized.

4) Maybe a banking system? Anything that can make VM more like real life, role playing. Somehow, you should not be able to just carry everything in some inventory, it should be stored somewhere.

5) At first I loved how the money printers put te money directly into your pocket ( and drug labs ) but then I thought, it would be more fun for raiders, and criminals, to raid for a purpose. They could rob you... plain and simple. You got to protect your printers not from being destroyed but from the cash being stolen.


IDK.. some of this shit could be a bad idea or good idea, whatever... see what you guys think.

Quote from: ceasar on August 10, 2009, 11:14:49 AM

1) Lets add some more vehicles people, I personally think a motorcycle would be kind of cool, but without a shadow of a doubt, we need an armored car. An armored car would be helpful for everyone, mayors, raiders, cops, w.e... it would be quite expensive but that gives roleplayers something to work for and save for. I myself already have the most expensive car, a silver corvette, and think it would be nice if I had something else to save for.

Huge downloads times = less people.

Quote from: ceasar on August 10, 2009, 11:14:49 AM

2) This could be a crazy ass idea but what about being able to buy a house? I dont see a problem with it, all over garrysmod.org are houses and forts, bases that you can set up. They could be for sale, just like a car but more expensive. Spawn your house and there you go... Maybe a little laggy but the server could handle it.

What? you suggest that you can spawn a house? The car was already weird.

Quote from: ceasar on August 10, 2009, 11:14:49 AM

3) There is already a discussoin about a second role play server, but I wanna say I think its a great idea. VM is easily the best server around, and one of the most popular and active. A second role play server, on a different map ( city ) would be great. Say evocity 2, or something. Then there would be two citys in Vent Mob community, evo city and evocity 2. They would run on the same database and stuff so its all synchronized.

Read the front page news before you question that again.

Quote from: ceasar on August 10, 2009, 11:14:49 AM

4) Maybe a banking system? Anything that can make VM more like real life, role playing. Somehow, you should not be able to just carry everything in some inventory, it should be stored somewhere.

Already suggested. Also there will be storage devices you can break, like a closet.

Quote from: ceasar on August 10, 2009, 11:14:49 AM

5) At first I loved how the money printers put te money directly into your pocket ( and drug labs ) but then I thought, it would be more fun for raiders, and criminals, to raid for a purpose. They could rob you... plain and simple. You got to protect your printers not from being destroyed but from the cash being stolen.

Already is going to be implented, it's the same as a storage device like a closet, press E on it and get the cash out of it.

You really need to try the Beta Server.

1) Like the idea of a motorbike, not so keen on an armoured car.

2) The server is laggy enough.

3) EvoCity 2 is too large a file (In total about 500MB), pushes the Source engine too much and requires HL2:EP2, which not everyone has.

4) Lexi is working on a 'cabinet' idea, where you can store your items in a 'cabinet'.

Ey hot head thorium, chill out they are just ideas

Quote from: ceasar on August 11, 2009, 01:28:10 PM

Ey hot head thorium, chill out they are just ideas

1)Don't call me "Hot head", makes me think you're a ***.

2)Why? i just saying that most of them all are already suggested or going to be implented. Since not everyone is up-to-date i see.