The Boot Camp [Event Idea]

[Kesserline]

Instead of doing a private server, or a full round dedicated to boot camp thingies..

What about :
- Having 1 to 5 volunteers - admin spawned as Drill Instructors (if several Drills, having specialities : like medicine, combat, tactics, engineering and general knowledge).
- Gather all volunteers bald-randomfuckfaces and get them to several workshops.
- Create a "fifth" squad that'll be gathered at the Conference room, then, dispatched across the ship for the different workshops (fighting, sparring, medbay, engineering, and so on).

Then, allow, thanks to admemes, the heavy use of LOOC to explain things :
- The diffrent intents (from Help to Harm)
- The placement
- Some CQC tips
- Encourage the use of forums and the access to wiki/guides
- Medical tips
- General knowledge about the ship, about the round
- Some explaintations about tactics, how to fight the different castes of Xenos

I think the whole boot camp session can last between 30 to 45 minutes at max for a full course. People can drop off after seeing one specialized course if needed (like, only medical tips for example).

If this event works, it'll be kinda easy to duplicate.

[DefinitelyAlone0309]

I wouldn't mind if those Drill Instructors are either mentors or people that are somewhat known in their field.

Also, in general, I love the whole idea. I've always loved a way to slowly "move up the ladder" per say, in terms of personal skill and knowledge without having to trial and error it with an actual job slot that you would be taking from someone else that could be better than you.

[spookydonut]

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[adrenalinetooth]

Hell yeah I am all for an event like this to happen once and a while on a scheduled time. I have been thinking about this for a while but never bothered because of how infamously easy suggestions like these are turned down.

It would be even cooler if we could get a custom map for this where the marines are at a boot camp base, with drills and areas for special combat scenarios and training.

[Karmac]

We already tried this and it devolved very quickly into "MPs slaughtering unarmed marines as they try to rush SD and kill the CO who is trying to detonate the ship so the ungas can't grow stronger"

[Renomaki]

We already tried this and it devolved very quickly into "MPs slaughtering unarmed marines as they try to rush SD and kill the CO who is trying to detonate the ship so the ungas can't grow stronger"

That was the one we did with GOON, right?

It was awful... I spent most of the round hiding from the carnage as it quickly devolved into people rioting left and right because they could.

I swear the staff didn't so much plan on it as they were trying to salvage a ruined event by making it come off as the CO trying to murder everyone on purpose, when in reality it was just the marines being marines.

I'll never forgot when the staff told the marines to rise up and fight the power... And all they did was keep fighting each other until the staff had to yell at them to stop.

[Karmac]

God it was funny, and yeah it was an attempt to salvage it but marines were determined to just fucking slaughter each other

[adrenalinetooth]

We already tried this and it devolved very quickly into "MPs slaughtering unarmed marines as they try to rush SD and kill the CO who is trying to detonate the ship so the ungas can't grow stronger"

Put in special rules for the event where people aren't allowed to harm each other and MUST follow the instructors directions or get warned/banned. That will solve the childish behaviour quickly. Also make the instructors members of staff