Hello all, my name is Foolie. I play under a variety of names. I am fairly new to this community, but a long time player of RP servers (GMOD, Rust, Arma 2) For the most part, most players I have encountered under hostile circumstances have not been total dicks. I have complied, as well as been on both ends of a robbery encounter. I don't know how serious this server takes RP or RDM, or their stance on groups of players ruining the experience of other players just because certain rules allow them to do so. So maybe this post will just be brushed aside, but I feel the need to voice my concern on this topic either way.
There have been a few people I have encountered who I feel abuse the robberies to just RDM other players. I will not name names, as I do not have evidence to support this, nor am I sure of the forums stance on witch hunting.
RP wise, a random robbery is done by the lowest of criminals to acquire the money on a players person, or a thought out robbery to target a rich player or farmer who has just sold their gathered products at their respected markets. A robber has a gun, tell's the player to put their hands up, gives them time to do so while the player can attempt to reason with said robber, then the victim will either be robbed or try to get out of the situation. Leaving the robber to flee or kill his victim. 9.99/10 the robber kills his victim. Which is not a robber's end goal at all, they want money not to kill someone.
But I have witnessed as well as been a victim of players attempting to rob a player, giving them the hands up command, and if the player doesn't instantly put their hands up or moves slightly, they are gunned down. It seems to me, either these players are just attempting to rob as many players as fast as possible to get as much money as they can without wasting their time, or they are just trying to kill people with the excuse of a robbery. Either way I don't consider that "good" RP, if anything it is just legal RDM. These people seem to mainly do this at non peak hours, when there are few admins and police online, at least in my experience.
Here is a scenario which I just experienced an hour or so ago on server 4. I was about to sell my diamonds but ran into some players who I know abuse robberies, so I drove away, waited, parked my vehicle a few streets down, and ran my diamonds back and forth, selling and depositing the money as I did so. 15 minutes later, I was going to log off, so I went to the gas station where I saw those players again robbing and killing people. I quickly parked my car ran in and stored my car, they then followed me, said hands up and shot me within seconds. I then spawned in the same city, they called me by name, knew I just spawned, and "robbed" me anyway killing me in seconds for not complying. This happened another couple times before they drove off. They knew I didn't have money, but they still wanted the opportunity for me to not comply and kill me, or to comply and be subject to their abuse which I could only imagine what that would entail.
This is not good RP in my eyes. I recognize it was not good RP on my part for not complying, but I was getting off arma and also knew these players were dicks and didn't want to deal with them. I am very interested in hearing from other players regarding this issue, so please leave a comment. It would be very informative for me. Am I just over reacting? Or do other players feel the same?
I know it was a long post but I thank those who took the time to read it, and those who comment.
