I really do hope if you plan to recreate this whole thing, try not to ruin it with too many admins. This wasn’t much of a problem most of the time since most people were well behaved. The only problem with Aerolite was there was only around 2-3 active admins on at once. A lot of great role players were excellent at this in Aerolite. The things that made this gamemode fun was the idea of the characters creating the atmosphere. I would be very interested in this and I would love to see Black Mesa come back. The best parts were some guy jumping in the tram killing everyone. The Resonance Cascade events, tram crashing, alien invasions, etc. I loved it so much and I was quite sad when it was abandoned by the server owner who I knew a lot. I played over 400+ hours on the Aerolite server. For example, the administrator should be able to call a cascade on Saturdays with a command, and for there to be no staff present. I’m also trying to shy away from the fact that staff needs to be on for bigger events, such as a cascade. Things like a Visitor getting a gun and raiding the place should require some form of staff, but will be allowed sometimes. The only thing about this, is for it to at least be reasonable. If he wants to build a teleporter, he can. If a player wants to capture a Vortigaunt and have him as an assistant, he should be allowed too (If the other player wants too). I feel that BMRP is fun because it allows the freedom that no other RP can provide, and that no other Role Play can provide that. In other terms, there will be no “This didn’t happen in HL1, its FailRP”. I plan to base the gamemode to mainly based around the player, and what they want to do. Maybe I’m just sick of Gmod, and things then were just the same as now, but either way I’d be delighted to see what comes of your efforts! Imagine, a server with minimal downloads, the classic simple UI (none of that ugly ass shit that takes up 25%+ of your screen, just the old box on the bottom left and ammo counter on the bottom right), a different map (if it must be Downtown, go back to the old V2 for variety), basic jobs, and a simplistic rule-set. On a semi-related note, It’d be great to see a throwback DarkRP server. For example, if a visitor lands their hands on a gun and is parading about restricted areas, don’t have an admin fly in, physgun them away and say “nonono, you can’t do that” rather, let the security force deal with it through IC means (so long as the player isn’t doing anything shitty like gunning everyone down for no apparent reason). Really, just keep it simple stupid and let IC be IC and OOC be OOC as much as possible. What held back the recent wave of BMRP servers was a collection of annoying, arbitrary rules, and I hope that you do different. If there is anything you do differently, make it the rules. I had fun playing on the recent “wave” of BMRP servers the past months or so, but they just didn’t have the same charm. That being said, I have many fond memories of playing on Aerolite BMRP around 2010-2011 or so. Now, the perception of DarkRP is generally just a boring, shitty game-mode with the same old copy and paste servers, and this perception certainly exists with good reason. That, and other maps were actually used (granted, most were RP_downtown, but at least variations of the map). Along with the vanilla “city” DarkRP you had Black Mesa RP, 1942RP (which granted still does exist, but it just doesn’t “do” it for me anymore), HL2 based DarkRP, and all matter of other modifications. Maybe it’s just rose tinted goggles, but I can recall years back the great variety in DarkRP based servers. I don’t want to end up spending 35 dollars and coding a whole entire gamemode for nothing. I was wondering if I should spend my time/money into coding and creating a BMRP server, and if anyone would be interested into playing. I plan to re-code the gamemode from scratch, while also implementing the old features and new ones into the gamemode. Most known BMRP servers have died, and barely anyone has a copy of the original gamemode (Its mostly broken due to updates, anyways). What happens in the gamemode is entirely up to what is happening in character, the gamemode is designed to be dynamic to the servers story that is created by the players themselves. For those who don’t, here is a quick summary of it:īlack Mesa Roleplay is a roleplay gamemode based on Half Life 1, but before the whole Resonance Cascade. Hello! For those who’ve heard of Aerolite and played their Black Mesa RolePlay (or BMRP for short) will most likely know what I’m talking about.