thread cuz bored

It is completely true that Aefrogdog did not meet every single requirement. However, staff should be promoted based on if they would benefit Brawl in the long run. Aefrogdog was contributing to HG more than you could imagine - how many people in the community do you know were helping admins configure plugins for upcoming gamemodes? Aefrogdog was doing just that. His promotion to JMod was heavily pushed by me, as his promotion enabled him to contribute even more to HG, as we can now share staff-only information with Aefrogdog.

He was given CTF JMod as HG had no players and is temporarily shut down. CTF was the next best gamemode he was suited for, so he will be taking his trial stage on that gamemode. This is only an exception we will make with applicants who would be very beneficial to Brawl and would have no major problems holding them back.

The coming months are arguably HG's most important months ever, and the decisions we make now will completely change the future of a gamemode played by around 10 million unique players. I am absolutely interested in getting as many knowledgeable people promoted to HG staff as possible so they can help out with HG, which is why I got Viva added back to the HG staff chat before he was promoted to JMod recently. I have also pushed for 2 other players to be added to the staff chat, and only one of whom was a former staff member, though unfortunately it does not seem as if this will be happening.

HG is a hugely influential game which, in my opinion, kickstarted the huge trend that is Battle Royale games. I have absolutely no qualms with bending the rules here, as I'll be doing anything it takes to revive HG. Aefrogdog will hugely benefit the future of HG, and it seems ludicrous to suggest that he should not be promoted simply because he could be posting more on the forums (especially considering there have been about 10 threads in the HG forums since the start of 2018 - most of which were made after Aefrogdog applied).

Let me reiterate this point: I could not care less what the requirements are, if promoting someone to staff member will benefit Brawl as a whole, they should be promoted to staff member. It is possible to be a great staff member without meeting all the requirements and the requirements aren't perfect. We should not hold staff applicants to the requirements as if it were god's word: if they will benefit Brawl, they should be promoted to staff regardless of how many requirements they meet.

Though, I do agree better transparency around the situation would have been hugely beneficial. Announcements in both the Brawl community Discord and the CTF Reps Discord simply said that Aefrogdog would be CTF JMod - they did not at all say that he was going to be HG JMod but would be completing his trial stage on CTF. That is something which should have been improved on and should a promotion such as Aefrogdog's happen again, I will ensure it is made more clear why they were promoted.

All these suggestions aren't really substantial changes that will increase playercounts at all in the long run. KitPvP is one of the least popular gamemodes on Brawl and it needs a larger update in order to get it up to par with our standards. It does not make sense in my opinion to deter dev time from our current projects to add these features into KitPvP, no matter how little dev time that may be.

Events are always in the work - what kind of events would you want to see?

Badlion Client is much better than Cheatbreaker. Cheatbreaker has several bypasses which do not work against Badlion Client; though, it has not been tested thoroughly yet. Worth mentioning that Badlion Client also has bypasses, though they are much more obscure and do not appear in any public or paid clients that I am aware of.

Either way, to my knowledge we can get neither anticheats on Brawl. Badlion Client requires us to partner with Badlion, and we cannot do so due to monetary purposes (though, I am in contact with a Badlion Client dev who will inform me if anything changes about the Badlion Client partnering). Unsure about Cheatbreaker, though itsjhalt is nothing short of living scum, so I would much rather not support what he's doing unless it would largely benefit Brawl.

The wiki has some looming problems which I hope to address, but as I have some very time consuming jobs on Brawl (having to watch a crap ton of ghost client videos, sort out complicated appeals, do the news and a hack test every month and managing 2 upcoming projects) it is low on my priority at the moment, especially as I am already juggling between these tasks and will be for a month or 2 until I get more free time.

I am encouraging other staff to work on it though. I feel as if the wiki could be a useful source of information for new players who have decided to look to become more experienced and knowledgeable about the finer details of gamemodes such as War gun stats or Wild West processing times, though it needs to undergo some drastic changes. I will attempt to oversee said changes but I don't have the time to rewrite the entire wiki.

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I only saw the community split in half when KitPvP had a larger playerbase. Now that the playerbase is smaller it's either everyone on Vanilla FFA or everyone on Gun FFA.

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Forward any staff complaints to Roke

Bigger changes are more likely to be implemented that little ones. Once the projects we're working on are finished we'll be moving on to other projects - this could be a KitPvP one if the ideas are there.