Community Update - HLNA & Beyond

After a long period of down time and allowing things to settle for both players and admins we've recently had our first official meeting since the infamously termed 'lull' (With a well deserved break for our admins). HLNA has had a great start, with a lot of new ideas introduced and different avenues to explore, for months players have kept it populated as it held their interest. Unfortunately trying to maintain the server and its different factions whilst also trying to touch on lore points such as the NAEZ has been very difficult whilst running the server under the current platform of traditional city roleplay. With that said, we'll be shifting focus on how we present and portray HLNA going forward and moving out of city roleplay specifically in order to explore the broader lore of HLNA that we wouldn't be able to if we kept all the current groups in play.

What does this mean for now?

Basically, we're going into a 'soft reset' mode while we go back to planning on the road map we decided on. What's important is that we have a direction going forward and it's one we think you'll enjoy, it just needs to be filled out more and for the details to be penciled in. All the current HLNA servers will be shut down while we do this so there's absolutely no expectation of players or admins to try and stir population as this happens. When the team ultimately finishes planning the road map ahead it will be ideal to do as much as a fresh relaunch as can be done.

At the same time, we recognize that there's a desire to still play and roleplay under TnB and we want to foster that as much as possible. While we work on making HLNA something for you guys to enjoy we're working on a few different RR's currently. TRP Siberia is next weekend as everyone knows which will undoubtedly be a banger, but we're also working on a Halo RR, an alternative history RR you may or may not have heard of before under Bloo and there may or may not be a horror RR in the works.

Basically the goal here is to show you that we're committed to still providing roleplay even under Garrysmod's waning light and that we're not just going to expect players to mindlessly rejoin to the same styled city RP if there's no changes no matter how different HLNA is considered to be compared to previous iterations etc, we do want you guys to enjoy your time here after all.

We have a very devoted playerbase and we're determined to keep providing the kind of experiences you guys want, but obviously as time goes on and garrysmod enters its dotage age it's getting harder and there's hit and misses. TnB is no stranger to downtime at this point so hopefully you guys recognize that we will come back and we'll come back strong.
 
I arise from the dead, my google chrome has given me a notification as it always does whenever the word TF2 is posted on the internet.

This time, it's not just a blog post about TF2 not having any updates. It's from Taco N Banana. The sun rises on a beautiful morning, I take a sip of coffee. The world is finally normal again.
 
S1 better not be gone for good. I just watched Blade Runner for the first time and never in my life have a had a craving for some passive city RP more than I do now. That and this one of the first times I've really done a deep dive into a city based character and enjoyed it as much as I did. I do think the decentralization of giving players more ability to do their own events is a good thing. Good for the staff that they're not entirely bogged down all the time and good for the newer players so they aren't sitting around just waiting for stuff to happen. Most importantly I'm just happy to be back.
 
Really looking forward to what the event will be to bring city-players to s2/s3. Will the city be overrun, and require both CCP and Rebels to work together to save refugees?

Imagine... for just a brief moment that humanity works together to save the masses.
 

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