Here's my side of the story.
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The bombing was supposed to happen 2 hours earlier, just after the vortigaunts and the rest have cleared the Xen Trees from the area. Qhunnata, my Vortigaunt, was reluctant to have two Hyper Rockets detonate onto the signal tower. OOC second guessing popped out in LOOC chat, concerned if the staff have authed us to bomb the place. I PMed Freespy about it, and told me to hold off from the action until Walrus comes back online, and later Ovxy did the same thing. The party to detonate the rockets quickly moved to other places when all of us decided to wait. 1 or more hours later, Walrus came up online. He gave the me go-ahead and that the radio tower is practically free for everybody.
My Vortigaunt was already carrying one of the rockets with him. As they tried to gather people into the Shanty Town to resume the destruction procees, we were ICly stopped by people living there inside the entrance, chilling about. The 1st platoon and the others were actually fine with sacrificing Shanty Town. but the newly formed residents protested, arguing for alternative methods despite what was agreed upon a day back (Like targeting the nodes, cutting the cords, messing with the controls, etc). But entirely, the reason why 7 residents wanted to get Shanty Town to be the rebels' main base, because the Bunker will die from suffocation if a smoke disaster happens again.
Qhunnata tried to reason with the crowd, explaining full details as of why those alternative routes will not work, only leaving the highly explosive rockets the only valuable option. My character also explained that the few rebels' choice of home is not smart, considering it houses a Combine Signal Tower (which they are after for), and that the residents will die if the Combine happens to go seek out the tower's terminal, and valuable resources with it. The CPs swiftly came in and raided the place, my Vortigaunt swiftly tried to get to the signal tower's terminal to have the rocket planted, but they were halfway stopped when a CP shot them down. My character later tried to get back to the rocket in the NLR (before the 15-minute rule was taking effect), but they were pinned down by both turrets and snipers, and later slaughtered by the CPs, along with two fellow fighters.
We were delayed OOCly for Walrus's response, then later ICly by the mob of independent resistance fighters who wanted to pack shop to Shanty Down despite several warnings and discussed concluded plannings. It was a shitshow.
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Here's my conclusion. Realistically, without the futile waiting by two the staff members and the players for Walrus's response, we would have already nuked the signal tower before the Combine got there. I personally don't think the staff are biased to the Combine or are purposefully delaying the rebels from bombing Shanty Town (or at least from my observations).
I'm gonna be staying neutral for the time being so I could collect my thoughts on the matter. I hope this info helps for all of you.
