(09-19-2021, 08:10 AM)Brassx Wrote:  I agree mousey can take his memes a little too far sometimes. But I truly believe he doesn't have any ill intentions, he's just trying to break the monotonous, brainless flow of ttt and goof off a bit. But I can fully understand why some people would be upset about some of those things, and as stated - know he can sometimes take the memes a little too far.

(09-19-2021, 01:58 PM)Unpoke Wrote:  Manager is a voluntary unpaid position on a game where the goal is to fuck around as much as possible - stupid mods, big booba jiggle physics, fucking with friends, all that is the premise of why gmod got big in the first place. Though I will say, I remember Brass asking Mousey to act more professional when he was first promoted - not mic spam, not act out, not come on drunk, and I think those have sailed out the window as time went on.
The only time I would say managers should act "professional" is if they were paid (brass im looking for a paid job please hello) or if the server exploded in such quantity where it became a business beyond garry's mod. But that's Brass' decision when to tighten up.

(09-19-2021, 04:48 PM)Unknown Wrote:  My last inputs on this matter,

(09-19-2021, 08:10 AM)Brassx Wrote:  I agree mousey can take his memes a little too far sometimes. But I truly believe he doesn't have any ill intentions, he's just trying to break the monotonous, brainless flow of ttt and goof off a bit. But I can fully understand why some people would be upset about some of those things, and as stated - know he can sometimes take the memes a little too far.

My issue with this is that it's a mod using powers in an unintended way to break the flow of TTT. There would be a better way to do that without requiring a mod to be online & wanting to goof around for this flow to be broken in a healthier way that doesn't directly affect rounds of TTT:
- minigame rounds
- Boss rounds
- Chance for 3-4 rounds of boss rush on map change
These are already things that can be used to help with breaking the brainless flow without having a situation where it can just look like a mod abusing powers. My only thought would be to make them uncommon and to increase the rewards for participating in these events/minigames so there isn't burnout from these and people feel rewarded for participating. If someone doesn't want to participate, they could instead just set themselves to AFK and use this period as a short break.

(09-19-2021, 01:58 PM)Unpoke Wrote:  Manager is a voluntary unpaid position on a game where the goal is to fuck around as much as possible - stupid mods, big booba jiggle physics, fucking with friends, all that is the premise of why gmod got big in the first place. Though I will say, I remember Brass asking Mousey to act more professional when he was first promoted - not mic spam, not act out, not come on drunk, and I think those have sailed out the window as time went on.
The only time I would say managers should act "professional" is if they were paid (brass im looking for a paid job please hello) or if the server exploded in such quantity where it became a business beyond garry's mod. But that's Brass' decision when to tighten up.

I've seen more professional managers on Overwatch teams that only had intentions of touching the enemy spawn door and get 0 benefits in return. Brass is the one that sets the expectations for staff, but seeing how much people are dropping for just ruby improb, I'd imagine that it should be taken more seriously instead of being seen just as a role with powers. Managers on FRG perform mostly back-end duties so it's hard to see their impact as a normal player. Because of this, players can just see a manager miss-using some of their powers when it looks like they aren't doing what other staff on the server are doing (handling reports, mutes, etc).

Lastly, I'm unsure of what commands Administrators have access to, but I don't even really ever see them miss-using their powers outside of their intended uses.

(09-19-2021, 01:58 PM)Unpoke Wrote:  There were a lot of different values I upheld as manager such as never karma resetting or blocking players but those were things that I chose to do because honestly I took the position maybe a lil too seriously for what it is.

Manager is a voluntary unpaid position on a game where the goal is to fuck around as much as possible - stupid mods, big booba jiggle physics, fucking with friends, all that is the premise of why gmod got big in the first place. Though I will say, I remember Brass asking Mousey to act more professional when he was first promoted - not mic spam, not act out, not come on drunk, and I think those have sailed out the window as time went on.
The only time I would say managers should act "professional" is if they were paid (brass im looking for a paid job please hello) or if the server exploded in such quantity where it became a business beyond garry's mod. But that's Brass' decision when to tighten up.

If Mousey was just fucking around with Default, and Default had absolutely no problem with it and they just had a good laugh about it, it's one TTT round, who cares?

Quote:Parade is a pretty good manager, I've heard no negative things about him nor see him abusing his power.

Quote:To be fair... Parade doesn't play TTT. Not nearly as much as mousey anyways.

Should be a simple thing to resolve without a demotion (if I demoted mousey no manager related things would get done, cause parade plays valorant and hunt 24/7 )