GrumbleyWumbley
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Hello and welcome. So you’re new to Taco and Banana? Well, just read this guide and try your best! If you have any questions or concerns just ask an admin, a fellow user, or you can post below. And remember, it's alright to make mistakes, just try your hardest and have fun RPing!
I'll be adding pictures soon, just have to upload them to Imgur.
: Commands and Button Shortcuts.
: OOC, LOOC, and IC.
: F3 Menu.
: Correct RP Situation Reactions.
: Generalized Lore.
: Rules.
: Lingo.
Before you start to make your character come up with a little backstory if you want, it makes RP really fun and gives them a personality.
-Your characters name: Your character needs a name. Try and make a name that you’d find in the ‘real world’ and not something like “Fishy” or “Big bone daddy,” if you can’t think of a name for your character you can always use the in-game name generator found below the name slot when you first join.
-Description: This is how your character looks, walks, talks, and acts. Tell people what hair color you have, eye color, any scares, blemishes, or tattoos, tell people about your clothes, any rips, dirt, or things like that. Think how you’d explain to someone over the phone the kind of pants you wanted, but this is down on text and is a full body description.
-Stats: I suggest putting stats to how you see your character; an example is a 70 year old person would not be as strong as a 25 year old person.
Speed, allows you to run faster. Strength, determines how much damage with fists you can deal out, also you can knock down a door by pressing R while facing the door, if you have enough strength. Toughness, this is how much pain you can take before you go down. Perception, how far away you can hear people chat and see names. Agility, how high you can jump. Aim, how well you shoot with a gun.
-Traits: Read over each trait and pick whichever you like the most.
-Model: Click the button next to the words “Model” and select whichever you like. The skin section allows further choices.
-Finishing: Click the “Ok” button at the bottom right of the tab.
-OOC: See the OOC, LOOC, and IC section for more information.
-LOOC: See the OOC, LOOC, and IC section for more information.
-IC: See the OOC, LOOC, and IC section for more information.
-Advertising: To advert an IC message like “Hey! Are you hungry? Than come on down to big Jacks bar and grill for the finest cuts of headcrab” simply do /advert (message). Remember that this is counted as IC no matter what you put into the chat box, so if you do “/advert Fuck the combine,” your behind will be hunted down by the CCA for Anti-citizen actions.
-Combine Request:The Combine request or CR command can only be used if you have a CR in your inventory. To use the CR simply type “/cr (Name, CID, location, issue)” and Civil protection may, given how busy they are, respond to your call. Keep in mind that any OOC information in the CR call will be VOIDed by the units.
-/me: /mes are used for actions that your character would perform, such as “/me jumps ten times, the individual breath out a long sigh of relief after finishing them.”
-/it: /its are used for world events, such as “/it The sun sets on a fine day, the wind blows in the individuals hair as (he/she) sits on the edge of the cliff.” Or for a city setting “/it The hums of the mechanical scanners can be heard throughout the city. Sudden rain falls onto the heads of unsuspecting citizens, rebels, and units alike.”
For more information on commands, in-game hit f1 and click the “commands” tab.
Button shortcuts-
-F1: This is a tab full of helpful information.
-F2: Brings up the character creation menu. Limit is 5, to delete a character click the “delete” button and then click on the name of the character you wish to delete. Remember to click the button again as to not delete anymore characters.
-F3: Opens up the F3 menu, this menu is full of different tabs. I’ll go more into detail about each one in the F3 Menu section.
-C: This has a lot of useful stuff, go in-game and read over it, all the commands are self-explanatory in what they do.
-OOC: OOC or Out-of-Character is when you are not RPing. To talk in OOC simply type “//” right after you hit your talk shortcut, then follow that with a space, and lastly your message.
-LOOC: LOOC or Local-Out-of-Character is the same as OOC but you’re going to add a period before the “//”. Like “.//”.
-IC: IC or In-character is things you say while your RPing. When your IC you are playing that character in a world controlled by the Combine.
Please! Keep in mind to keep OOC matters OUT of IC. Do not tell people ICly your eating a taco OOCly, or whatever.
-Metagame: This is when you take OOC matters, such as a dislike for a person who’s playing a certain character and place your OOC dislike onto them ICly. Don’t blame the character for what the player does, this also applies vice versa. Treat the player and their characters as two different entities and you’ll have way more fun, and so will everyone else.
-Inventory: This is all the items you pick up around the server. For more options in what to do with this stuff, click on the little item Icon. Below is a list of those commands.
*Stashing: Stashing will hide your items, used for Illegal items. If you stash something before a unit searches you it will be counted equivalent to you just show it to them and an admin will delete said object from your inventory or other actions will be taken to take the item from you. To un-stash items simply change characters and then switch back to the other character. Keep in mind that if you have just joined the server and your stuff is ICly stashed, feel free to stash items ASAP, and don’t do it after you walk around for a while unless you ICly stash the items.
*Drop: Simply, it drops the item.
*Destroy: Again, simple, it destroys the item.
*Channel: Radios only, this is used to switch between channels when you have a radio.
*Use: Simply will use the item you’ve clicked.
To pick back up an item that you cant use E to take, like a microwave, workbench, etc, simply hold C and click on the item, an option that says “pickup” will appear.
-Loans: You can take out a loan of 1-500 credits. You can only have one loan out on one character at a time. During the time you have an active loan, of any amount, you cannot delete any characters. At the bottom of the tab there is some text, I suggest reading it.
-Business: This is a way for you to buy stuff to sell. Keep in mind you don’t need this to make a business, you can RP a cleaning service or anything that comes to mind, go wild, but keep within the limits of the server rules. Below is, in general, what each tab sells.
*Misc: Allows you to sells an assortment of goods such as, clothes, zip-ties, and other objects.
*Electronics: Allows you to sell things that have to do with mechanical stuff.
*Alcohol: Allows you to sell Beer and Vodka, but you could RP selling other liquors.
*Food: Allows you to sell different kinds of food.
-Stats: Shows you your current level in each stat. Max stats are 100, you cannot pass this limit, even with drugs.
-Combine: Only accessible by CCA authorized members of the community, on the authorized character.
-Settings: A number of options to change your game. Give it a good read through.
**Unit X walks over to the crowd of citizens, the unit un-clips their baton and points it at the citizens. "Disperse, citizens" the units says in an unfriendly manner, uncaring manner.
**Several citizens start to make their way away from the pack of citizens, but for some reason you decide to stay.
Unit X: I said disperse citizen.
**Citizen punches the unit in its face tacking its baton.
**Citizen attempts to punch the unit in its face, then while the unit is distracted the citizen extends their arm towards the baton.
**The Unit tries to take a step back to avoid the citizens fist.
**The citizens fist makes contact knocking the unit out.
**The citizen misses the units face, but grabs the baton in the units hand.
**The unit starts to wrestle with the citizen for the baton, keeping his holstered Glock out of reach of the citizen.
**The citizen takes the baton and hits the unit knocking him out.
**The citizen tries to bring his leg and pull the units leg in an attempt to bring him down.
I think you get the idea, yes? This is a system where you've got to give and take to make it fun.
I'll be adding more later, need to think of more scenarios. If you've got an idea, feel free to post below!
Will add more later.
Gman- An unknown man who wears a suit. It is unknown who exactly he is, or whose side he's on.
Breen- One of the main antagonist, he's the head administrator of C-17.
Suppression Field- Something implemented to stop the reproduction cycle of humans.
Seven Hour War- A war that took place sometime in 2010, it lasted seven hours. During thistime Synthetics were the only fighting force, the CCA came later, after a few years.
http://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/21-forum-rules/
http://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/23081-guidelines-for-muggings/?hl=rules
http://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/23057-notice-to-all-fear-rp/?hl=rules#entry373552
This is subject to change; things may be incorrect. If you find something that is incorrect, please quote it and post the information. Thank you!
I'll be adding pictures soon, just have to upload them to Imgur.
Index
: Making Your Character.: Commands and Button Shortcuts.
: OOC, LOOC, and IC.
: F3 Menu.
: Correct RP Situation Reactions.
: Generalized Lore.
: Rules.
: Lingo.
Making Your Character
Hello and welcome to the making your character portion of this guide.Before you start to make your character come up with a little backstory if you want, it makes RP really fun and gives them a personality.
-Your characters name: Your character needs a name. Try and make a name that you’d find in the ‘real world’ and not something like “Fishy” or “Big bone daddy,” if you can’t think of a name for your character you can always use the in-game name generator found below the name slot when you first join.
-Description: This is how your character looks, walks, talks, and acts. Tell people what hair color you have, eye color, any scares, blemishes, or tattoos, tell people about your clothes, any rips, dirt, or things like that. Think how you’d explain to someone over the phone the kind of pants you wanted, but this is down on text and is a full body description.
-Stats: I suggest putting stats to how you see your character; an example is a 70 year old person would not be as strong as a 25 year old person.
Speed, allows you to run faster. Strength, determines how much damage with fists you can deal out, also you can knock down a door by pressing R while facing the door, if you have enough strength. Toughness, this is how much pain you can take before you go down. Perception, how far away you can hear people chat and see names. Agility, how high you can jump. Aim, how well you shoot with a gun.
-Traits: Read over each trait and pick whichever you like the most.
-Model: Click the button next to the words “Model” and select whichever you like. The skin section allows further choices.
-Finishing: Click the “Ok” button at the bottom right of the tab.
Commands and Button Shortcuts
Commands--OOC: See the OOC, LOOC, and IC section for more information.
-LOOC: See the OOC, LOOC, and IC section for more information.
-IC: See the OOC, LOOC, and IC section for more information.
-Advertising: To advert an IC message like “Hey! Are you hungry? Than come on down to big Jacks bar and grill for the finest cuts of headcrab” simply do /advert (message). Remember that this is counted as IC no matter what you put into the chat box, so if you do “/advert Fuck the combine,” your behind will be hunted down by the CCA for Anti-citizen actions.
-Combine Request:The Combine request or CR command can only be used if you have a CR in your inventory. To use the CR simply type “/cr (Name, CID, location, issue)” and Civil protection may, given how busy they are, respond to your call. Keep in mind that any OOC information in the CR call will be VOIDed by the units.
-/me: /mes are used for actions that your character would perform, such as “/me jumps ten times, the individual breath out a long sigh of relief after finishing them.”
-/it: /its are used for world events, such as “/it The sun sets on a fine day, the wind blows in the individuals hair as (he/she) sits on the edge of the cliff.” Or for a city setting “/it The hums of the mechanical scanners can be heard throughout the city. Sudden rain falls onto the heads of unsuspecting citizens, rebels, and units alike.”
For more information on commands, in-game hit f1 and click the “commands” tab.
Button shortcuts-
-F1: This is a tab full of helpful information.
-F2: Brings up the character creation menu. Limit is 5, to delete a character click the “delete” button and then click on the name of the character you wish to delete. Remember to click the button again as to not delete anymore characters.
-F3: Opens up the F3 menu, this menu is full of different tabs. I’ll go more into detail about each one in the F3 Menu section.
-C: This has a lot of useful stuff, go in-game and read over it, all the commands are self-explanatory in what they do.
OOC, LOOC, and IC
What is OOC, LOOC, and IC you might be asking yourself, well I’m going to tell you in this section.-OOC: OOC or Out-of-Character is when you are not RPing. To talk in OOC simply type “//” right after you hit your talk shortcut, then follow that with a space, and lastly your message.
-LOOC: LOOC or Local-Out-of-Character is the same as OOC but you’re going to add a period before the “//”. Like “.//”.
-IC: IC or In-character is things you say while your RPing. When your IC you are playing that character in a world controlled by the Combine.
Please! Keep in mind to keep OOC matters OUT of IC. Do not tell people ICly your eating a taco OOCly, or whatever.
-Metagame: This is when you take OOC matters, such as a dislike for a person who’s playing a certain character and place your OOC dislike onto them ICly. Don’t blame the character for what the player does, this also applies vice versa. Treat the player and their characters as two different entities and you’ll have way more fun, and so will everyone else.
F3 Menu
-Biography: This tab is where you can change your name and description; also you can view your traits. In the bottom right hand corner there is a button labeled “Notes” where you can jot things down and only you may view them. To edit your name or description simply click the edit buttons found in the upper right hand side under the Settings tab at the top. The top edit button will edit your name, bottom will edit your description.-Inventory: This is all the items you pick up around the server. For more options in what to do with this stuff, click on the little item Icon. Below is a list of those commands.
*Stashing: Stashing will hide your items, used for Illegal items. If you stash something before a unit searches you it will be counted equivalent to you just show it to them and an admin will delete said object from your inventory or other actions will be taken to take the item from you. To un-stash items simply change characters and then switch back to the other character. Keep in mind that if you have just joined the server and your stuff is ICly stashed, feel free to stash items ASAP, and don’t do it after you walk around for a while unless you ICly stash the items.
*Drop: Simply, it drops the item.
*Destroy: Again, simple, it destroys the item.
*Channel: Radios only, this is used to switch between channels when you have a radio.
*Use: Simply will use the item you’ve clicked.
To pick back up an item that you cant use E to take, like a microwave, workbench, etc, simply hold C and click on the item, an option that says “pickup” will appear.
-Loans: You can take out a loan of 1-500 credits. You can only have one loan out on one character at a time. During the time you have an active loan, of any amount, you cannot delete any characters. At the bottom of the tab there is some text, I suggest reading it.
-Business: This is a way for you to buy stuff to sell. Keep in mind you don’t need this to make a business, you can RP a cleaning service or anything that comes to mind, go wild, but keep within the limits of the server rules. Below is, in general, what each tab sells.
*Misc: Allows you to sells an assortment of goods such as, clothes, zip-ties, and other objects.
*Electronics: Allows you to sell things that have to do with mechanical stuff.
*Alcohol: Allows you to sell Beer and Vodka, but you could RP selling other liquors.
*Food: Allows you to sell different kinds of food.
-Stats: Shows you your current level in each stat. Max stats are 100, you cannot pass this limit, even with drugs.
-Combine: Only accessible by CCA authorized members of the community, on the authorized character.
-Settings: A number of options to change your game. Give it a good read through.
Correct RP Situation Reactions
Scenario One:
You find yourself being searched by a unit; the green scenario is the correct way to respond, red is the wrong way to respond, keep in mind it's up to you as to how you respond, but try to react in a way that your character would react in real life.**Unit X walks over to the crowd of citizens, the unit un-clips their baton and points it at the citizens. "Disperse, citizens" the units says in an unfriendly manner, uncaring manner.
**Several citizens start to make their way away from the pack of citizens, but for some reason you decide to stay.
Unit X: I said disperse citizen.
**Citizen punches the unit in its face tacking its baton.
**Citizen attempts to punch the unit in its face, then while the unit is distracted the citizen extends their arm towards the baton.
**The Unit tries to take a step back to avoid the citizens fist.
**The citizens fist makes contact knocking the unit out.
**The citizen misses the units face, but grabs the baton in the units hand.
**The unit starts to wrestle with the citizen for the baton, keeping his holstered Glock out of reach of the citizen.
**The citizen takes the baton and hits the unit knocking him out.
**The citizen tries to bring his leg and pull the units leg in an attempt to bring him down.
I think you get the idea, yes? This is a system where you've got to give and take to make it fun.
I'll be adding more later, need to think of more scenarios. If you've got an idea, feel free to post below!
Will add more later.
Generalized Lore
Gordian Freeman- He's the main protagonist in the game series.Gman- An unknown man who wears a suit. It is unknown who exactly he is, or whose side he's on.
Breen- One of the main antagonist, he's the head administrator of C-17.
Suppression Field- Something implemented to stop the reproduction cycle of humans.
Seven Hour War- A war that took place sometime in 2010, it lasted seven hours. During thistime Synthetics were the only fighting force, the CCA came later, after a few years.
I'll add more later.
Rules
http://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/2142-general-community-and-server-rules/http://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/21-forum-rules/
Some extra things I think you should read:
http://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/23082-guidelines-for-stashing/?hl=ruleshttp://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/23081-guidelines-for-muggings/?hl=rules
http://taconbanana.com/index.php/topic/23057-notice-to-all-fear-rp/?hl=rules#entry373552
Lingo
This is subject to change; things may be incorrect. If you find something that is incorrect, please quote it and post the information. Thank you!
