Oh I know, I just want to chime in and give people some ideas maybe. Given the fact that this iteration has been sort if in the works for years, it means that there is *likely* a story and maybe what I just typed isn't too far off from the planned direction they want to take this. Maybe the ideas I pitched in are completely out of touch and not in tune with S.T.A.L.K.E.R at all, or maybe this server won't have a grand narrative and instead relies on the players being apart of factions creating their *own* storylines together.
But-
I swear I for one would love for a "S.T.A.L.K.E.R: New World" type server instead of just retelling the story of the games which everyone at this point knows unless it's dynamic and different things can happen. Maybe the storyline for this server doesn't even involve the actions of Strelok or anything have anything to do with Clear Sky, Shadow of Chernobyl, and Call of Pripyat, but it would be a *really* good reason to play this server to explore a completely new idea within S.T.A.L.K.E.R, just like what Metro: 2033 did.
HL:NA did something like this, they did something *different* yet it felt familiar and fresh. The writing behind the server was so fucking solid. It was everything we knew about Half-Life, but in a setting which made things feel so different and new. The threat posed by the Fungus and Xenians, the way each and every player contribited icly to the function of the city, and the moral dilema that occurs when Resistance want to throw that all away for freedom. It was pretty good. The only complaint I had was the main character syndrome present in characters like Auclair, but for the progression of the plot since people were kind of letting bigger names do all the work and only showing up for the shooty shooty bang bang, it was necessary for admins to help drive it in the right direction. I am certainly guilty of this a little bit, I was too scared of getting pk'ed because I mained a day 1 character.
I have no experience in writing at all, but if I *had* experience I'd fucking love to come up with ideas for a server like this. I see so much potential with this setting.
If I'm rambling, I apologize, I'm just excited to see where this server might go because it *is* my first time ever experiencing S.T.A.L.K.E.R RP in general, not just on TRP. It's just like the excitement I had originally when discovering TRP, and HL:NA. All of those servers were firsts for me, and I'd love to see something that I just couldn't get anywhere else like the way HL:NA stood out from Willard's HL2 server.
Seriously though fuck Willard I got pk'ed because I fell 5 feet after some minge kept punching me. ffs.
