First off, I wanna clear 2 things up. The reason why I'm not making this an immediate suggestion is because I want to get community feedback first, then tweak my idea to suit the feedback, then I will post an actual suggestion. If community management reads this and instantly denies it coz 'Police can't be whitelisted' hear me out first, as this is separate to Police.
So what is the idea?
You know how in events, and special circumstances the National Guard are present? My suggestion is to make the National Guard a joinable force in extreme circumstances. The National Guard are meant to be the elite of the elite, hence why they are white-listed, and soldiers deployed have to meet certain conditions. The thing that makes NG unique to SWAT is that they are Federal Department, not a State one, therefore therefore equipment purchased will come out of their own wallet (The lore of this is that their budget doesn't come from the Mayor, as they work for the President, instead of the Mayor). Furthermore, NG will have a different uniform and vehicles (e.g. a humvee). They will also have extra medkits when they purchase it from the armoury, and they have the option to buy an actual ammo box for their inventory, so they have a surplus of ammo. National Guard also will be the negotiators in hostage situations
Surely this is just a whitelisted version of Police?
In Monoford's statement about Police whitelist, they stated that Police will not be whitelisted because police should be accessible to all. However, this is meant to be for the elite of the elite of officers, and it is designed for cop mains. Players will still be able to play police without any problems, and this will probably encourage people to become more active and stay on the server for longer in order to work up and become a National Guard Soldier.
Why do we need it?
Often, the Police cannot combat hostage takers, as they often have inferior equipment, and they have no training whatsoever for high risk situations. I was in a raid yesterday, and 4 SWAT guys and a bunch of cops with pistols just got wallbanged and all died within a matter of seconds. Some SWAT officers even had pistols because the budget was being burned so fast due to the high demand of rifles. Police are powerless when facing well armed and experience players, the bad guys use effective communication whereas the SWAT commander who sounds about 11 starts screaming and arguing over the radio. Imagine if a unit of 5 men, armed to the teeth, used proper formations and tactics, e.g. designating specfic people for certian roles, e.g. a breacher, and grenadier and a point-man. This extremely professional and tactical style of assault will change the dynmaic of the game, and make it more true to real life.
We have SWAT. Won't this just be a more overpowered version of SWAT?
I understand that point of view. However, NG has extremely strict circumstances as when they can be deployed, to prevent them from just responding to situtions that SWAT can handle. This are the criteria that have to be met:
How will it work?
I'm going to model this off a server that had something similar in darkrp, and it was called civilgamers special forces. The way that worked and was successful is you make an application on the forum, other members of the community can comment about your application, and how effective and professional you are as law enforcement (e.g. they will let you know if you scream down your radio and talk over each other constantly, but they will also give good feedback as they might write that you are active, or use good radio discipline and that you use standard police codes). The application format may look something like this
How old are you? (Minumum age of 15 to prevent squeakers from joining)
What police level are you (Level of 200 required to demonstrate that you have sufficient experience)
Why do you want to join the Monoford National Guard and why should we choose you?
In a raid you are expected to preform your duties in a tactical and efficient manner. How would you do this?
Can you provide any videos or evidence demonstrating how you are like on duty as a Police officer in tactical situations?
How active are you on the server?
What is your biggest weakness?
Have you received any bans before?
Like I said, people will give feedback on their application, and then the Generals will then decide whether they want you as Natl Guard, based on players comments and their application. Initially, the Generals will consist of staff members, who play as a cop often, such as @MUDJUG and @Michael and maybe me, as I am the one who initially came up with this, and I have a bunch of experience as a cop. You guys may say that staff are too busy to deal with this, but I am willing to spearhead this and process applications, and If we see National Guardsmen with leadership potential, we will recruit them as well
Final Comments
If you guys are worried about us not having enough infrastructure to do this, dw, as I have extremely similar things work out on other servers, and they had roughly the same player population and they actually had less staff than we do. Please write your comments about this in the comments section, whether it is positive or negative, as this helps us in the final draft to mould the suggestion so that there are no downsides. If Management are thinking about locking this because they think it's police whitelisting, it is completely not, and please listen to the community feedback before you do so, as this took me several hours to think about and write up. Also, there could be a separate subsection on the forums for national guard applications
So what is the idea?
You know how in events, and special circumstances the National Guard are present? My suggestion is to make the National Guard a joinable force in extreme circumstances. The National Guard are meant to be the elite of the elite, hence why they are white-listed, and soldiers deployed have to meet certain conditions. The thing that makes NG unique to SWAT is that they are Federal Department, not a State one, therefore therefore equipment purchased will come out of their own wallet (The lore of this is that their budget doesn't come from the Mayor, as they work for the President, instead of the Mayor). Furthermore, NG will have a different uniform and vehicles (e.g. a humvee). They will also have extra medkits when they purchase it from the armoury, and they have the option to buy an actual ammo box for their inventory, so they have a surplus of ammo. National Guard also will be the negotiators in hostage situations
Surely this is just a whitelisted version of Police?
In Monoford's statement about Police whitelist, they stated that Police will not be whitelisted because police should be accessible to all. However, this is meant to be for the elite of the elite of officers, and it is designed for cop mains. Players will still be able to play police without any problems, and this will probably encourage people to become more active and stay on the server for longer in order to work up and become a National Guard Soldier.
Why do we need it?
Often, the Police cannot combat hostage takers, as they often have inferior equipment, and they have no training whatsoever for high risk situations. I was in a raid yesterday, and 4 SWAT guys and a bunch of cops with pistols just got wallbanged and all died within a matter of seconds. Some SWAT officers even had pistols because the budget was being burned so fast due to the high demand of rifles. Police are powerless when facing well armed and experience players, the bad guys use effective communication whereas the SWAT commander who sounds about 11 starts screaming and arguing over the radio. Imagine if a unit of 5 men, armed to the teeth, used proper formations and tactics, e.g. designating specfic people for certian roles, e.g. a breacher, and grenadier and a point-man. This extremely professional and tactical style of assault will change the dynmaic of the game, and make it more true to real life.
We have SWAT. Won't this just be a more overpowered version of SWAT?
I understand that point of view. However, NG has extremely strict circumstances as when they can be deployed, to prevent them from just responding to situtions that SWAT can handle. This are the criteria that have to be met:
- Emergency state must be on
- A total of 4 officers or civilians would have had to die, and SWAT will have to be unable to combat the attackers
- Staff approval must be given
How will it work?
I'm going to model this off a server that had something similar in darkrp, and it was called civilgamers special forces. The way that worked and was successful is you make an application on the forum, other members of the community can comment about your application, and how effective and professional you are as law enforcement (e.g. they will let you know if you scream down your radio and talk over each other constantly, but they will also give good feedback as they might write that you are active, or use good radio discipline and that you use standard police codes). The application format may look something like this
How old are you? (Minumum age of 15 to prevent squeakers from joining)
What police level are you (Level of 200 required to demonstrate that you have sufficient experience)
Why do you want to join the Monoford National Guard and why should we choose you?
In a raid you are expected to preform your duties in a tactical and efficient manner. How would you do this?
Can you provide any videos or evidence demonstrating how you are like on duty as a Police officer in tactical situations?
How active are you on the server?
What is your biggest weakness?
Have you received any bans before?
Like I said, people will give feedback on their application, and then the Generals will then decide whether they want you as Natl Guard, based on players comments and their application. Initially, the Generals will consist of staff members, who play as a cop often, such as @MUDJUG and @Michael and maybe me, as I am the one who initially came up with this, and I have a bunch of experience as a cop. You guys may say that staff are too busy to deal with this, but I am willing to spearhead this and process applications, and If we see National Guardsmen with leadership potential, we will recruit them as well
Final Comments
If you guys are worried about us not having enough infrastructure to do this, dw, as I have extremely similar things work out on other servers, and they had roughly the same player population and they actually had less staff than we do. Please write your comments about this in the comments section, whether it is positive or negative, as this helps us in the final draft to mould the suggestion so that there are no downsides. If Management are thinking about locking this because they think it's police whitelisting, it is completely not, and please listen to the community feedback before you do so, as this took me several hours to think about and write up. Also, there could be a separate subsection on the forums for national guard applications
