I'll ask again, what exactly can you relate to more as a soldier in 2021 than a soldier in 1995, apart from making quips at current affairs? Do you mean it's easier to make a self-insert? I'm not being antagonistic, I really don't understand. If the server were to go forward with a modern lore, the majority of things you'd be able to 'relate' to will be retconned anyway, so the only real change is reskins.
you're sent on a patrol in the hillsides of turkey
i completely agree
i personally enjoy having chose a soviet character back in stasiland because in applying for it i ended up reading about a lot of history id otherwise never had known about. it pays off knowing you've invested a decent amount of time into researching how you should be conducting yourself as the character
character research in general is something i look forward to with every new char
neither is it with the modern lore, you're expecting 150 different reasons why the modern setting is good but your arguments against it consist of hypothetical problems that could apply to anything regardless of setting.
the only thing modern lore offers is the ability to play a character as a self insert(or 'relate') easier with no creative thought process and to offer reskins of some weapons and vehicles, the latter of which is not worth the effort of overhauling already existent(and developed) lore and server content
I can understand its easier from a development perspective but I still think the benefits outweigh the costs. idk what the idea is that the only quality a modern setting has is to be relatable like it isn't just one of the most popular video games settings of all time. you're going to have people making cliché, stereotyped, low effort and self insert characters regardless. I don't see the massive difference in creative process between creating a nato/soviet soldier character instead of a glob/coal character
im not criticizing stasiland for that, roleplay standards are much higher than they used to be so I don't think it'd be any different in a modern setting. We should just try it first before leaning on ideas in our heads about what it might be like
again... what benefits are we talking about then? the only thing that's been mentioned at face value is 'relating' to modern lore, not mentioning the underlying motives which are pretty obvious. there is a stark contrast in creative difference between a soviet soldier and a cin soldier, you can research the soviet armed forces and how both their infantry and officer corps conducted themselves from a political and personal perspective, whereas with a cin soldier you have absolutely nothing to work off. it literally just enables if not encourages people to make low effort self inserts because theres nobody from faction management to say "thats not how you should be behaving", and if there was then it's the opposite of what you describe as you have to verse yourself in a wholly fictional lore. the idea of 'relating' to the world is just moot.
there was a very enjoyable contrast between gruff and politically alienated enlistedmen and commissar-style officers like tukhachevsky who had to intervene when they stepped out of line, like the rocky iv saf v nva in the garage. it really was a great experience
idk if u mean coding or lore script but either way worth the effort imo
I can sort of get that but it would seem like a problem of just having a low quality generic lore which admittedly classic ww3rp was kind of guilty of, but it doesn't necessarily mean that any modern lore has to be like that, I'm sure we could create something with a lot more depth. I doesn't even really need to be a modern setting, as long as it's something different from what we've just had. But that being said, ww3rp was built upon modern warfare, it's the soul and spirit of the gamemode and it's what people think of when you say WW3RP, so it's perfectly reasonable want to return to it when we are promoting this as the return to classic ww3rp.
