USAF's Demise (Come shoot at us!)

only 4 people wanted to be operators lol, that was the problem.

 

Well, there was that. Then there's the fact the entire USAF side was grouped by the exit rather than spread out through the base. The locking down of the Hammerpoint exit by the Operators was immediately overridden. A lone scientist carrying experimental weapons tech vaporized two Operatives (see: Half the invading force) despite injury and lack of training on the grounds that the grenades were one of the 2 or 3 things our armor couldn't protect us from, and there were just enough to get the job done. There were too few Operators to effectively split up into groups to maneuver (three two man teams would have been plenty). Etc. Etc. A lot of issues mostly due to poor planning/communication.

That said, there were a few other people willing to join as Operators, but they couldn't make it due to timing/being 5 minutes too late (sorry Jimbo. -sadface-)

Edit: They were also not permitted to on the grounds that 'four was plenty'. It was not. Especially when four became two.

 

I told youuuuuuuuuu.

 

I was going to let it slide, but I am a bit annoyed by this. Laonie was the Lab Tech that created and taught the soldiers how to use the grenades she used against the Operators, which were Ionized AT Grenades *Heavy Plasma Grenades*. The first Operator was warned he would more than likely die in the situation of covering the lab. After being heavily wounded, the lab tech escaped, barely... My planned scenario forced to be changed mid event, and thus caused me to kill two instead of one. Adrenaline is a harsh mistress... Infact, the lone scientist is going to be resting for days or weeks.

/rant

Sorry, no more from me, I'm done.

 

These are issues that could have been solved if more people had shown up for preparations for this event, but, of course, not everyone was available. We even ran drills to try to see how this would play out. The group of operators that showed up IC was larger than four. However, OOC, our numbers were not as great. That being said, while it may not have been completely obvious, it should have been known that, once an operator was dead, their player could have continued to play another operator, to show that the group was larger than just four. If we failed to explain this, it was simply because it was not planned for two of the operators to end up dead, or for their numbers to be so few. Events don't often go well, no matter how much planning was involved, there are too many variables to take into account to make sure everything goes smoothly. The event is over, some people got to attend, some didn't, it didn't go as well as we had hoped, but oh well, it's too late to change. There is little reason to discuss it further, unless there are any serious issues people might have.

 

Major issue was probably USIF placement. Some at bunks, or shooting range, could have made a completely different outcome. I forced myself what was mostly a very stupid plan to get caught like a moron to give CENTCOM an arrest.

 

Chaos.

 

She still didn't have ANY military experience, and I doubt she would had cool enough of a head from being shot by an ambush to not go into shock AND escape with multiple gunshot wounds. Those are debilitating, and the more of them, the worse the effect.

 

Thats how you deal with complaints/ criticisms. Tell people to basically Eff off.

 

Fixed.

I had actually hoped this event would create a more humble, realistic us-whatever team. Seems I was wrong.

 

You can have your leaders an inch from death recovering, everyone else in the med-lab of the only ship available, purely due to being off-planet due to unplanned circumstances. [Some floran attacked Felith putting him out of commission for a while]

You can have your faction lose its advanced weaponry, its fleet, its home, and almost everyone's ships.


But when you have to do some on-the-spot RP because people weren't around for planning or practice, and thus forced you to have to do so, you all get angry.

And you all wonder why the USAF usually did closed events? It's because of people like those before who jump in at the last second and run around without all the info breaking the established script.

What's that? You don't like events with a pre-determined final outcome? Well I would recommend never joining an event again, as that's what they are.

It's obvious that many of you will never be pleased as you are too focused on holding old grudges when the USAF gang spent almost a week of planning in trying to find a way all of this could go down without powergaming and godmodding.

Funnily enough, the time we did a practice-drill, where everyone actually knew what they were doing, everything went flawlessly.

Imagine that...

It's just painfully obvious you can't please everyone, even when you're trying as hard as you can to change for the better.

The assumptions being made about what characters know and what they can or can't do is also laughable.

 

It would be nice if only people that were actually there for the event, either participating or just watching, respond, instead of people that have no idea what exactly went on. Please and thank you.

 

I saw Guardians of the Galaxy while this event was going on. That was pretty good.

 

Please don't reply if it does not even remotely pertain to the thread.
Set examples and all that y'know?

 

Please refrain from posting things that are not directly related to the event. Please and thank you.

 

Goodness, just trying to add something upbeat to this thread. Either way, unless you intend to do a followup, this thread's purpose as roleplay planning has ending. My advise to you folks is to write up a nice little summary of what happened, and maybe make a few character blogs around it. That way even if the event didnt turn out as expected, people can take away something of value from what happen, or was suppose to.

 

Also, when you make a event, make it so people have options. When you have to do exactually what the planners want you to do, that isnt a event, its reading a book then acting out the book. Not fun, when events should at least give more than linear progression otherwise your dead. And, just because you had something occur that wasnt in the script doesnt mean " Lol, untrained scientist kills two seal team 6 type of guys for the sack of the character being alive. 1: Adrenaline is beautiful, but, it doesnt do THAT. 2: How you wouldnt go into shock, im clueless to. 3 Improv. Maybe your char could get captured, then another event is made to save her.

 

You seem to fail to realize what was at stake with this event. There were no options for -any- of us. We all had to sacrifice for this event, and we had this event for the sake of the community. It's already been said, we spent an incredible amount of time planning this event. Normally we would not be so restrictive, but in any event, it is likely the outcome is planned out and you won't be allowed to change it. The fact that you're getting so upset over this is ridiculous. If you had come to us before the event, or even bothered to figure out how it would end in the first place, we could have discussed it with you. But you did not, and we were not willing to change the plan in the middle of everything.

 

Im complaining about the event in general. 1: If you arent going to let people do things, why bother make a event, and just say it happened? 2: It doesnt matter weather you have MCOR's or pistols, just because you lose shit doesnt make you any better of a faction. Good RP =/= losing on purpose.