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Whether this goes through or not, huge props for putting this much effort into this. Good shit. 💪🔥

It's like a case of, Want what the APD have? Play as a Cop. Want what the Rebels have? Play as a Rebel. APD doesn't have everything. Not even close. In contrast to Rebels - we don't have access to certain vehicles, certain weapons, Cartels, Housing, money making methods (besides bounties pretty much), RPGs, Grenades, etc etc etc. We're pretty damn barren as a faction in regards to what we have and can do. It's not a luxurious life being APD. It's really an acquired taste to have fun on cop, and especially climb the ranks. We've just got cheaper gear basically kinda lol.

Not hate or anything, but can you just fathom the sheer chaos that this would cause? LMAO I'm just picturing it. Cops have to respond to a bank. 5 Rebels with 7.62 downing (defensive positions) vs 8 Constables/Corporals with 5.56 downing (pushing in papermade cars) and all the cops get downed within minutes and kept down by rebels for the rest of the ^10 minutes. Bro 💀

Good work ❤️

It's a police force. We've gotta have at least a few things that the civilian population can't have. You know... "Government issued equipment that's heavily regulated."

This would be sick. I remember this. Would love to see it back 🙏🏼

It affects cops, therefore they have a say. Similar to when cops want the smallest thing and "people who only play rebel" pitch in. More pardons would be horrific tbh 💀

The 9mm Defeater Keep it up, GGs 💪

Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Looks like a solid update!

Best of luck brother! I promise if you keep it up and keep trying to optimize tags, content, etc - you’ll start getting views. You got this! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

say less

Wearing Asylum merch. Genius.

LOL we know who to call for that

That’s why your mom named you bread. ❤️ The game being dead holds little weight to viewership and traction on a social media platform. Why’s the game dead? Because it has no traction right now. Why’s asylum low on player count? Because it’s just really been the same people coming back and playing with nothing really “fresh” or new. With tiktok, the algorithm doesn’t care if you’re posting about a dead game. All that matters is that the content is entertaining to some degree. This was my original point. We still have entertaining moments all the time on this game, otherwise, why play lol. So if the staff can figure out how to make this clip submission idea work, it will work long term. Even on a small scale. Some promotion and marketing is better than no promotion and marketing. Long story short, it’s way more worth trying the idea out than not trying it. The pros outweigh the cons 10:1. Focus on the bigger picture.

Well again, this post is an idea based on what the already established community can contribute via clips. The purpose is to showcase entertaining clips from the asylum community (any kind really) and that brings in normal players, not streamers or content creators. If creators come along, it is what it is. Mitch can prepare for things like that to some degree I’m sure, but his target audience isn’t content creators, it’s normal people who he can hopefully create an attachment to the community with and keep around. Content creators will help bring in views, but if he can do that *ON HIS OWN*, that’s even more beneficial to the community tbh. Organic growth, instead of purchased advertising. He’ll have more control But in a similar case, sure… those normal people will see the toxic shit and not like it. But that’s how it is. Especially on ARMA 3. You’ll get that really in any community you got to now. But if Mitch and the staff can optimize for as many normal players to join the server as possible, we’re in a good position. At least 20-30% of those people that come by, will likely stick around for a while (hopefully haha).

I somewhat agree, but in relation to my OP, this wouldn't have any bearing thankfully. Asylum Staff would be able to sift through submitted clips (I'm sure it wouldn't be A LOT or anything depending on the reward system, etc) and be able to choose what clips they'd like to use. Then editing would help censor things more if needed. "content"

you'd think, but we'd be in control of everything that gets posted. Censors, bleeps, cuts, final checks, etc. On a serious note though, that actually wouldn't be an issue in post production. Also I'm sure people wouldn't submit cancel-worthy clips.

I've gotten like 50+ million views total on my shit. I could help them out with tactics and stuff if they choose to do this. It's not toooooo hard to gain some traction.

good talk 😂

Putting this here because I've mentioned it a few times in some different places. Seems like people kind of like the idea. Just not sure how staff would go about doing it, who would handle it, etc. I'm sure others have some ideas, but at the end of the day as long as an idea doesn't really have a majority % negative impact, no harm in trying it out! -------------------------------------------------- Asylum Tiktok Account (Could also make a Youtube account and repost the shorts on there for more traction)-> Asylum Staff creates an Asylum Tiktok Account-> Puts the forums (or link to server IP) in bio on tiktok-> Create a reward system where players are encouraged to submit clips that are meme'y/funny/epic (to maybe like a google forms which gets formatted inside of an attached google sheets for organizational purposes) -> Create clause in the submission where any clips submitted, Asylum has right to use for monetary/advertising/copyright purposes-> Take clips and use basic editing to compile them into multiple shorts that can be posted a couple times weekly or bi-weekly (Not as much effort as it sounds)-> The best performing clips each month get rewards in game/creates/titles/etc (for incentive to have more clips submitted)-> Asylum technically gets free marketing as long as they put a little effort into running a tiktok (and other similar accounts) account -> Asylum could also turn these weekly clips into monthly long form videos on a youtube channel for even MORE promotion/gain Even with Arma 3 being "dead" an entertaining clip is still an entertaining clip at the end of the day, and knowing tiktok - shit can blow up. Even on Youtube as well with its Shorts program. I genuinely feel this is a foolproof idea that would take extra time of course, but would likely lead to a slightly (or if lucky a big) increase in traffic to the community if done right with enough dedication. At the end of the day, you can have an amazing idea/product, but with virtually no promotion for said idea/product, no one will ever come to know of its existence. ez game plan. 💪

Asylum Tiktok Account -> Asylum Staff creates an Asylum Tiktok Account -> Puts the forums (or link to server IP) in bio on tiktok -> Create a reward system where players are encouraged to submit clips that are meme'y/funny/epic -> Take clips and use basic editing skills to compile them into multiple shorts that can be posted 1-2 times weekly or bi-weekly -> The best performing clips each month get rewards in game/creates/titles/etc (for incentive) -> Asylum technically gets free marketing as long as they put a little effort into running a tiktok account Even with Arma 3 being "dead" a entertaining clip is still and entertaining clip at the end of the day, and knowing tiktok, shit can blow up. Foolproof idea that would take extra time of course, but would likely lead to a slightly (or if lucky a big) increase in traffic to the community. ez game plan.

We might as well be doing this at the start of a wipe anyway since we all start with Day 1 Cadet gear and that lasts a while depending on how lucky we get or how much we grind day 1. Could last a handful of days depending on the person. So pretty much a shortened Cadet period. It's like that for every rank off the bat too, so pretty much. Good 'ol slash bandoliers, protector, no flashes, no defibs, etc 🤣

Building on this. Possibly only give SGT+ talents to a certain degree? One of the benefits of the Cadet week is that Cadets can roll with Constable+ that already have decent money in the bank and talents (vest, gun, flashes, etc). Maybe just allow SGT+ to default have their set rank items (vehicles/weapons)? So if all ranks are set at the bottom basically given what Cadets are, the pick up time to get back to a functioning hierarchy would take a while. No idea. Just throwing it out there.

Could possibly consider (if there's another test wipe like this) let certain cop ranks keep certain talents? Etc. I've seen majority of cops getting shafted mainly because talents that are having to go against massive fed events semi-constantly with protectors no vests, etc. Not KEEP all talents, but at least cop faction start with a couple? Not sure. 🤔

Grind time