Seeing as a lot of old people have been coming back to the thread to share their thoughts and opinions, I've been kind of urged to do the same. So here it goes. Before anything to add, I must say, I haven't played on the server since I last left it so I'll try to refrain from talking about certain people's behaviour and whatnot, if I do bring it up, please take it with a grain of salt. I'll try to keep it in general to try and give my two cents on how to fix certain problems and how we (Wulfeh and I) tried it in the past.
The general unseriousness in factions is easily managed, in my opinion. It just requires a form of leadership that promotes being serious rather than anything else. As a NCO / CO you are a rolemodel to anyone below you. As the leader of the faction you serve as a rolemodel for EVERY SINGLE subordinate under you. If you are seen being unserious often on the server, even if it's once, people will mimic it. Though, of course, being unserious from time to time isn't all that bad and can show people that you do have a sense of humor, but it should remain limited. Though, the lead isn't the only person prone to being a rolemodel. As I said, every NCO / CO is a rolemodel. If your First Sergeant is running about not /me'ing anything he does, being a general meme without being reprimanded in any way, be sure that every rank below him and maybe even above him will try that out himself to test the boundaries.
The reason why it worked so well with
@Wulfeh was because he choose people that were mostly focused on RP. You had like 90% who were kind of shit at leading teams but were decent at RP'ing and then the 10% to try and make up for the 90% else so we didn't get constantly fucked on the S2K element. But those S2K'ers were mostly down in the lower ranks as the higher ranks should be reserved for those who promote RP.
So a TL;DR on that part, promote the right mindset, be the kind of person you want people to be if you are a NCO / CO and it should start taking shape relatively fast.
Oh and be consistent. Being a faction lead often means you're going to be putting yourself up in a conflict with a friend, he might want a high rank but you don't think he's suitable. Well, shape up and take the blame. The reason why a lot of people hated Wulfeh was because he did what he thought was best for the faction, not what was best for his friendships. I don't think anyone ever got promoted for just being a friend with Wulfeh.
The stabilization kit is honestly something that made me worried when I read about it but it does pose some solutions to points that
@Roosebud did bring up. Stalling used to be a frustrating problem and it's not all that easy to judge at times. In my opinion, S2K and RP don't cope well, S2K is fast-paced because people don't give a fuck about their characters so they just run straight in and either wipe an entire platoon or they die themselves and come back after 30 minutes (10 now?) to do exactly the same. You are NEVER going to be able to provide decent RP on the field as long as people are still rushing head first with a death sentence to just get as many kills as they can get to boost their gametracker. You could make S2K slow-paced by actually adding disadvantages to dying and thus make more chance for RP to be present but that would need be regulated and cleared up a lot.
But I do understand the points
@Oxy[Morons] brings up and I agree with that aswell, with the stabilization kit you kind of remove RP from the field entirely and kind of give the notion that RP is optional once you exit the gate. Many situations, however, have shown that RP on the field is often met with a SEVERE disadvantage and puts you in a situation you don't want yourself to be in so people avoid it.
Basically, the mentality of the majority of the people needs a drastic change if you want it to become serious again (judging from how a lot of people are complaining about how unserious it is) and that is not something easily done. You can't change the way how some people think but you can regulate their behaviour by doing what I said in my first point. You just need to show that this is a RP server rather than a S2K server and you have to make sure that nobody is exempt from the rules. It's easy to keep an eye closed for a friend and everyone does it, either conciously or unconciously, though by letting your one friend consistently do retarded /me's, someone else will start doing it and if he gets banned for it then you create an inconsistent way of upholding the rules with the typical "double standards" shit.
You, my friend, are part of the wrong mindset that a lot of people have here. Here's an example:
You can remove S2K from the server and replace it with S2M / S2RP and the name WW3RP would remain the same. If you remove RP and keep S2K, the name WW3RP is prone to be changed as you would be advertising the wrong thing.
You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion and what you find fun. But, as a lot of people have already mentioned, this is a RP server, if you don't want to RP then why even join? To just dink some nerds and to hear them cry? I'm doing that in CSGO and it runs much better than WW3RP with its glorious 20 tick rate.
Please forgive me but I just couldn't resist myself...
