The future of TRP

Linux said:

i know we're all pre-programmed to expect that there is some serious behind-the-scenes drama when things like this occur

But there literally isn't this time.

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Yeah pretty much. Just the way things turned out, so if we could all just relax and go back to our things that'd be great. Looking forward to Matrix RP though.

god damn. I dont have anything useful to say other than that good luck everyone

TankNut said:

HaloRP

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Fuxx said:

Yeah pretty much. Just the way things turned out, so if we could all just relax and go back to our things that'd be great. Looking forward to Matrix RP though.

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Holy shit "Matrix RP", ngl that sounds pretty bad ass. I can't wait to hear more info regarding that project.

Edit: Oh this was most likely an April fools joke lol

Garry has assured me that there is in fact room for an additional server on gmod without effecting capacity and added a follow up note that you can even connect to it if you want without it preventing you from playing another server.

Either way, things can change over time without it being a problem. Shit changes, stuff evolves. Maybe TnB will do something new knowing that long time players have another avenue for TRP that doesn't depend on them.

MrMoonPie87 said:

Edit: Oh this was most likely an April fools joke lol

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i really wish it wasnt though

Linux said:

i know we're all pre-programmed to expect that there is some serious behind-the-scenes drama when things like this occur

But there literally isn't this time.

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Yeah. This.

There isn’t any big crash out or anything like that.

TRP has never been the main focus of TnB, but to the TRP team it was the ONLY focus. TRP has taken on its own identity now. Not as a haha funny shoot bot server like it once was, but as a serious setting with many roleplay possibilities that now has a team solely dedicated to it. To us it was never something temporary to take pressure off of the community or give HL2 some room to breathe (although those were pluses)

When we originally started this project two years ago we were a group of begrudged trp3 admins who, frankly, didn’t appreciate the way trp3 was managed, and the abrupt end it had. That’s not to blame anyone, HL2 is TnBs main focus, and when the time came to sacrifice TRP for other projects, it was taken. That’s perfectly fine.

It was important to us that TRP wouldn’t be put in another trp3 situation, and could be given a lot of time, dedication, and love to help it realize its full potential. So we entered into our original agreement with TnB under the stipulation that TRP would be apart of TnB but completely autonomous, independently managed with only general oversight from the management.

TnB never overstepped those boundaries, and were very grateful for that. But as the project evolved we realized that we’re no longer trying to cater to just one community, but to all of Gmod serious RP. And to do that we needed to be approachable as a place between the competing HL2 communities.

At the day, this was the direction we all, mutually, chose to take. And I’d like to thank the Community Managers for their maturity and willingness to send off TRP to blossom on its own, and allow it its own identity and community.

I hope this leaves TNB open to explore new settings, to create and innovate rather than flip flopping between HL2 and TRP as it has been for some years now.

And as always, I am looking forward to collaborations between our communities, to help foster great roleplay experiences for all of our players

Stay frosty TNB, see you soon

i also want to put my two cents in and say that i think it's a little unfair to everybody involved on projects currently under way (including HL2, CC2 and the related halo testbed roleplay) to suggest that tnb will die without one singular example of many possible tentpole projects holding it down. people are already hard at work behind the scenes to make cool shit for us to do and actively have been so for months now from all directions (tank and imp's dev updates make that clear as day).

additionally, i think it's also unfair to lambda (+ his folks) to have had the crazy pressure on him of singlehandedly keeping the community alive through his vision for trp. as long as people care about tnb, tnb will live. and right now that is very, very readily the case

Now I can finally become staff in a TnB-adjacent community and abuse the players. The apprentice becomes the master.

TRP was good, but it would require a fundamental game change in the engine, design, physics and graphics. I can do something like that but not right now, I’d rather focus on helping Half-Life: 2 Roleplay come back again and with getting Arnold Schwarzenegger to help us with TRP later.

Sorry.