Content Meeting Discussion [Content Team Thread] Community Ideas and Feedback - G.O.C

[Tay]

G.O.C Feedback & Suggestions Thread

Enhancements to the Global Occult Coalition​

Hey everyone,

We’re putting this thread together to gather your thoughts on the Global Occult Coalition (G.O.C). What it currently offers, where it falls short, and how we can improve it to make it a more exciting and involved faction on the server.

Whether you’re part of the G.O.C., have interacted with them in roleplay, or just have ideas you think could help expand them as a whole, we want to hear it.

What We're Aiming For:

We want the G.O.C. to feel like:

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  - A strong, standout presence on the surface
  - A faction with clear, unique goals and personality
  - A fun and interesting experience for both members and outsiders
  - A meaningful part of the wider server roleplay
  - A faction to balance out the Foundation's and the Chaos Insurgency's eternal war while still pursuing its own goals

Some Things to Think About:

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  - What kind of activities or missions should the G.O.C. be doing?
  - How can they have more impact on surface or cross-faction roleplay?
  - Are there new tools, gear, or roles they could have?
  - What makes the G.O.C. feel different from other factions?
  - What's currently missing from the experience?
  - What does your ideal G.O.C. look like?
  - How should diplomacy and military actions be conducted by the G.O.C.?

If you’ve got feedback, ideas, or even flat-out concepts. Please post them below! Just try to be detailed so we can fully understand what you’re suggesting. We’re open to all kinds of input, whether it’s a small tweak or a major shift.

Please know, while we will be reviewing all feedback, this does not mean everything said will be accepted by default. Ideas and feedback will be tallied up in a suggestion thread for Content Team and Senior Server Leadership+ to review.

Keep the thread on topic, we will be forced to reply-ban people and delete messages if they don't contribute to the thread as a whole.

Thanks for helping us shape the future of the G.O.C.

– The Content Team

 

[Kito]

Response Levels that act similar to SCP Codes. RL0 through 6. Check the GOC wikidot out for more info on their specifics. Use that to give GOC more unique gear, like ammo types, the White and Grey suit, or some other fun stuff. GOC has so much lore around it, implementing more of it onto the server would be super cool, the only problem is if the GOC isn't following it's fivefold, they're just CI.

Make some kind of overhead fivefold enforcement for them, like making a GM position dedicated to GOC acting as the 108 or something, that way if they break the fivefold IC they can get in trouble. With how much tech the GOC has, GMs could easily say that they caught them doing XYZ with VERITAS, or drones, and if a player goes through the effort and talks with the GM about it, they could get away with breaking the fivefold in an RP-conducive way.

GOC requires an extreme amount of creativity and drive to RP correctly, so having a substantial part of it be so unregulated means you'll get people inexperienced in what the GOC actually is and just sees it as another evil CI clone that hates the Foundation and loves killing everything. Revert back to applications, that way the public forum can be used to gather feedback from everyone regardless of their faction. As it stands now, people who get kicked from MTFs usually go to GOC because nobody there will know what they did, and since its one quiz to get in, applications would be just about the same thing but easier to manage for GOC's leadership.

It's also just a lot of small issues that have stacked up over the years, like GOC wasn't able to(and might still not be able) file their own documents into their computer system, and needed to ask staff for help. GOC wasn't able to liquidate contained anomalies without requesting staff, which if you're being chased, or metagamed, or whatever, it can be really difficult and annoying to make a ticket, and wait in a CC for 3 to 5 minutes, sometimes longer, just to do what your job is supposed to. I think it got changed at some point so GOC has to breach an SCP to liquidate it for some reason? Stuff like that really kills peoples drive and ruins any immersion or RP potential.

 

[Snow]

GOC never worked, not here, not on any other SCPRP server on gmod.

It was always "hur dur watch me equip op shit and slaughter everyone" and then apologize when half of the surface is decimated.

While this server yes, it almost fixed this issue with GOC having op shit, it still has the best guns and bombs, which is kinda meh in my opinion.

You can't make GOC work without conterpart anomalous GOI.

Surface has been dead for a long time, probably for the past 1 and a half fucking years. Yeah, it's been quite a long time since I played for real but nothing changed.

1. First, think about how you can revive the surface and how it could potentially create RP not only for GOC and surface jobs but also for foundation. This server treats surface as literal garbage like surface doesn't even deserve a tiny bit of RP.

2. Secondly, "random events" like Surface SCPS and missions haven't changed since they launched. Its the same two scps and the same faction missions, which got so boring nobody does them except CI for hacking and weapon upgrades because they can't go without them.

Yeah and lastly like the guy above me said LET GOC GOVERN THEMSELVES.

Like at the end of the day just remove GOC. GOC is literally the hardest GOI of all to implement correctly. This server failed GOC horrendously. Its CI v2 with better guns and bombs, with inactive people.