Suggestions (Megathread)

[finiteblood]

I think that with the current content that LFG has, it needs something to spice it up with preexisting addons, and some new ones that might change gameplay. For SBox 1.


Merydian's LFS Collection: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1704030334
An absolutely amazing pack of LFS planes and helicopters that would both serve to freshen up air-to-air combat and such both visually, and gameplay wise.
Features:

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A set of attack helicopters, fighter jets, and CAS (Close Air Support) jets.
The different subsections of jets all function relatively the same, so there's no difference between the A-10 and the Fantan besides visuals. The major difference between the subsections though is:
Fighter Jets (Superhornet, Flanker-E): Fast turnspeed and powerful air-to-air cannons, these are mainly for engaging other aircraft, with four air-to-air missiles included with each jet that can lock onto other aircraft, but have minimal air-to-ground effectiveness.
Attack Jets (A-10, etc): Slower overall turnspeed and speed in general, these are equipped with moderately fast-firing explosive cannons as their main armament and 28 air-to-ground missiles with a larger blast radius, but less effectiveness against other aircraft, and slower in general.
Attack Helicopters (Viper, etc): Slower speed helicopters with two seats in them. The main seat is the pilot, and has the ability to control both 28 air-to-ground missiles and 4 air-to-air surface missiles. The secondary gunner has access to a 30mm general purpose machine gun which he can independently aim from the pilot's/helicopters positioning in about 180 degrees from the front.
AH-6: Just a separate helicopter with far better maneuverability, two miniguns, and 14 rockets. Functions very similarly to the current Prototype aircraft, but with less armor and less total volume of fire.
ALTHOUGH, don't add the Osprey and the Hind/Mi-T8 Hip aircraft, as the Osprey doesn't spawn in correctly, and the Hind/Mi-T8 have extremely fast firing rockets with large stores.

Remove Prototype LFS (if Merydian goes through): Self explanitory, but the AH-6 would take the place of the Prototype helicopters, so why keep the Prototype LFS?

J.I. Defense Solutions: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f...=295680095
The absolute perfect way to defend a base, with plenty of versatility. It can be used to set up traps for any invaders, anti-vehicle, and isn't extremely overpowered to the point where it's broken to use it. 
Restrictions:

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Member/Donator+: Kevlar Resin Helmet, Kevlar SAPI Vest, Riot Helmet, Missile/Machinegun/Shotgun sentries, Medium armor panel, E.O.D. Suit (high overall damage resistance, but makes a person significantly slower), M2 SLAM, Medium/Small Landmines, Naval Mine, Aid Communicator, Bounding Mine, M18 Claymore, Tesla Sentry, Sentry Terminal, War Mine, Flame Fougasse Kit.

Admin+: Rocket turret (One shot per tube, hard to direct, takes a while to fire), large armor panel, sniper sentry, polyethylene helmet, large landmine.

None: Anti-Material/Grenade Turrets, cluster minelayer.

H0L-D4: Holographic Heads Up Display: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f...1705992410
To put it simply, the current HUD is outdated, and just overall imperfect and ugly. I think this HUD would work as the perfect replacement for the current HUD, as it's not only extremely customizatable, but has a wide array of features including framerate, numbers of players online, speed in vehicles, and ping. It's just overall better, and these elements can also just be straight up hidden.

Allow admins to permaban: Throughout my experience on the server, I have found myself having to ban people for the maximum (1 week) limit several times (not per person, separate cases from each other), and then those same excessive rulebreakers to come back with a week or something, including scripters/cheaters. Removing the middleman directly is probably the best way to properly and permanently punish these rulebreakers, although I can see how it can be abused. What should happen in the case of a permaban is that the admin carrying out the permaban, or someone else, should have to provide visual proof (videos) IF/After the person was permabanned, especially if they give a ban appeal. Therefore, the admin should always have proof on hand of why they banned, otherwise it might be seen as abuse/false if absolutely no evidence is given.

Removing the Orb Launcher: No one uses the orb launcher and it isn't very effective in general, even with the variety of orb types it can shoot, it's just not useful enough to keep in the server.

Shambles Day: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=191110821
We have the night version, so why not the day version as well? A lot easier to see, but still functions the same as the other map.

Goldencity Day: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f...1443096823
Same reason as to add in Shambles day.

GM_excess island night: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f...=156992404
Read above.

Ragdoll Fight: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=974263626
Fun addon, alternative to normal fighting, could be used to host events or something. It's just Mortal Kombat in Gmod.

Remove WAC altogether: LFS is pretty clearly putting WAC to pasture, and very few players use it period. It seems to be taking up server space just sitting there, so why not remove it?

[M-E-T-A]

Hell no to the admins permabanning. I support one other person who can pban other than saint and thats UHC. You, Eclipsis, and some of the people who just applied definitely dont deserve pbanning abilities. You banned me and said your evidence was that you saw it. Thats the most retarded thing ever. Now you want to be able to pban?

[Demonik1]

Allow admins to permaban: Throughout my experience on the server

No, you will never ever need this ability.

Why is everyone trying to remove WAC?  It was removed before and it was added back not too long after.  It's the smoothest and most realistic flight addon on sandbox.

[finiteblood]

You banned me and said your evidence was that you saw it.

Yes, which was bad evidence, but I still stand by that your ban was justified, hence why I said it was absolutely necessary to get video evidence of why someone was banned.

Why is everyone trying to remove WAC?  It was removed before and it was added back not too long after.  It's the smoothest and most realistic flight addon on sandbox.

I think me and quite a few other people just don't see it as useful or even that fun anymore? It gets absolutely curbstomped by almost any of the LFS, and it's really far from being a smooth flying experience.

[westernspy]

well, LFS halo will be added and it has a lot of aircraft in it
hopefully wac used enough memory to add both lfs halo and merydian's LFS

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oh and, I made a thread about removing WAC so I can add LFS halo

[UHC]

For admins pbanning, no. I don't think any admins right now would abuse it, but we've had certain admins who just abuse their powers on everyone (like Vladimir lemon), before they leave.

For J.I defense solutions, I really doubt it'll actually make a difference since LFG is pretty fast paced and many people have lfs rockets on their hands.

For merydians lfs collection: theyre cool but don't remove prototype LFS.

Removing orb launcher: I like it for being a fun high jump tool, but I don't see people using it now

Removing all of WAC: I'm for removing the combat WAC, but not the regular air vehicles WAC. While LFS is outperforming WAC, LFS has only two non-combat aircraft while certain WAC communities have at least 5.

New HUD: yes, this HUD is slick and looks awesome. This current one isn't bad, but sometimes the fps counter randomly stops working and looks outdated.

Maps: the only one people might actively go to is shambles day since many people complain that the original is too dark.

[finiteblood]

well,  LFS halo will be added and it has a lot of aircraft in it

Too bad LFS Halo has bad handling and it's only difference really is just visually, without anything too unique.

For J.I defense solutions, I really doubt it'll actually make a difference since LFG is pretty fast paced and many people have lfs rockets on their hands.

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Removing orb launcher: I like it for being a fun high jump tool, but I don't see people using it now

For J.I.'s problem of LFS Launcher, it's probably likely that the LFS launcher could be restricted for only firing against aircraft as in its current usage, it's just a high-damage high-blast radius rocket launcher that's just a few times too many too good for taking out infantry. Seriously, it's insane.

The orb launcher although is just kinda... useless, unless you can actually stick the red orb onto people but you might as well not since people can still outheal themselves, and the only other use is just making chokepoints, which J.I. would do far better.