SecurityGuy wrote on 19th June 2019, 11:04 PM:

Actually a long time ago you guys were making fun of Kayden and even kept a picture of people and talked about her behind her back and you also made rude/racist jokes to Khal with his religion and still I didn't kill you guys in hell somebody killed one of you in hell and Khal was defending himself and doing what he wanted on his land. I also allow my island rulers to do as they please. I was just annoyed at all of the harassments and insults you've been doing to people as well because you guys threatened me.

I don't recall making any jokes myself, but that doesn't really matter. Making jokes, being rude/racist, talking behind one's back and making fun of one's religion are not ipban-able offenses. The fact that you chose to ban us only when you felt annoyed/threatened by our presence and not right away because of your allegations proves the invalidity of your response.

Also, what do you mean "Khal was defending himself and doing what he wanted on his land."? Since when did owning a piece of land grant you the right to do anything you wanted on that land? Damen has never let abuse slide on OldCP, land owners were always punished for abusing their power and in many cases demoted from their positions. You have no way of justifying Khal's actions and the fact that you don't see them as abuse completely misses the point, you are forgetting that (i)OldCP is a game, it's supposed to be fun, if people dying and being banned for no real reason is your idea of fun, then you are not in any way suitable for your position.

Damen wrote on 6th June 2019, 06:52 PM:

We will re-start the crimezone

Damen wrote on 6th June 2019, 06:52 PM:

The seven Maiar will be selected by Accal

I ain't flipping sides like you did like that Flap (Sriram)
You ain't a real one
You hurt Loki's heart even after the second chance
Oh wait you never got a second chance
You delusional
I don't date no girls on here
Only girls in real
My girl she knows she a Mona Lisa
I got the flight
Watch me come to India?
I ain't gay don't get it twisted
You know you dumb for thinking that
The way you hanging with Damen that's gay
Frenchy, you played her like Cleopatra played Anthony
(Hook: She was twelve years old, yeah yeah
You was 16, you still did it anyways)
Then you call me the p word?
Yeah you looking at a boss
Don't get it twisted
I don't go after girls unless they're my age
No no one, serious
No no one, serious
You call someone your brother they backstab you when you aren't looking (yeah)
Shout my bro Tent he a real homie
You ain't Emperor no more
(You can't even stay away from Loki, no)
First class that's what I take my Queen B on
She knows I don't need to do art, she my Mona Lisa that's my masterpiece
I don't ever have a problem
When you can talk without deleting your messages then we can talk
Yeah otherwise I'LL be dammed
(I'll be dammed)

CoolLloyd wrote on 26th April 2019, 06:37 PM:

GenAsq5 wrote on 26th April 2019, 04:30 PM:
CoolLloyd wrote on 26th April 2019, 02:45 PM:
Excellent job Jack, you're an outstanding programmer. Have you ever thought about converting the game to HTML5 instead of preserving it on Flash (I believe that's possible).
Hey Lloyd! The thought has crossed my mind, but since that was a very intensive task, I decided that if I wanted to put that much effort into something, it'd better have a big chance of success as a personal project, so I ended up doing that for Club Penguin instead. I was able to make some solid progress:
I have lost interest though, I wasn't very happy with the method I used to achieve that result because it didn't grant me complete freedom over how everything was converted. Making HTML5 games is fairly simple but the problem is converting SWF assets to png/spritesheets. I have previously attempted to create an ActionScript converter but wasn't able to make any solid progress (and didn't really have much motivation to)
If you're interested, the method I used to achieve the result in the screenshot is a framework called OpenFL. You can find it here: https://openfl.org
tennis wrote on 26th April 2019, 04:27 PM:
This is pretty nifty. Always told the old man this was- as they say- the one that got away. Do this day, remains my favorite. Do some of the OGs remember the pre-released iOS app called 'Snails Drop'?
Did you plan on trying to make this game a legitimate thing or more of a small project for the memories?
I planned on making it a legitimate thing for a period of time but then I just gave up because the community was completely dead and I couldn't build one from scratch for a game that was already dead. I remember Snail Drop, I could never play it on iOS because I didn't have an iOS device lmao
Impressive work, Jack. It's such a pity that SnailDom's community died... I wish things were different, because you're right, it's literally Damen's best creation so far. However, I myself can't do much to help you, I'm just a humble web designer with no ambitions.

It all starts with design, that's the easiest branch of development. I don't doubt for one second that you could learn so much if only you tried.

CoolLloyd wrote on 26th April 2019, 02:45 PM:

Excellent job Jack, you're an outstanding programmer. Have you ever thought about converting the game to HTML5 instead of preserving it on Flash (I believe that's possible).

Hey Lloyd! The thought has crossed my mind, but since that was a very intensive task, I decided that if I wanted to put that much effort into something, it'd better have a big chance of success as a personal project, so I ended up doing that for Club Penguin instead. I was able to make some solid progress:

I have lost interest though, I wasn't very happy with the method I used to achieve that result because it didn't grant me complete freedom over how everything was converted. Making HTML5 games is fairly simple but the problem is converting SWF assets to png/spritesheets. I have previously attempted to create an ActionScript converter but wasn't able to make any solid progress (and didn't really have much motivation to)
If you're interested, the method I used to achieve the result in the screenshot is a framework called OpenFL. You can find it here: https://openfl.org

tennis wrote on 26th April 2019, 04:27 PM:

This is pretty nifty. Always told the old man this was- as they say- the one that got away. Do this day, remains my favorite. Do some of the OGs remember the pre-released iOS app called 'Snails Drop'?
Did you plan on trying to make this game a legitimate thing or more of a small project for the memories?

I planned on making it a legitimate thing for a period of time but then I just gave up because the community was completely dead and I couldn't build one from scratch for a game that was already dead. I remember Snail Drop, I could never play it on iOS because I didn't have an iOS device lmao

Snaildom is (in my opinion) Damen's best game and the one with the most potential. Snaildom was somewhat ahead of its time but regardless a game in a dying genre. The already small community had chosen OldCP over Snaildom which eventually resulted into Snaildom dying out and eventually being sold to a new owner who didn't really care about it.

In 2017, I was able to find the Snaildom files still up despite the domain being sold to a completely unrelated Chinese company. I dumped a good amount of the files, enough to make the game functioning again. Now, I am not allowed to publish this as a personal project per Damen's request and I have no interest to considering the declining community of Adobe Flash in 2019 which will be completely deprecated in around 8 months. Regardless, I have spent countless nights getting the game to work in 2017 and once again in the beginning of 2019 (out of boredom), I've contacted Damen about the possibility of bringing it back, but to my knowledge, he hasn't really been interested. (I've spoken to him about this at least 2-3 months ago)

So, I've decided to release everything I have which is at least 95% of the game fully functioning with extra stuff for anyone who could be more interested. Now, I'm aware barely any people here know programming and only a small few are even interested in it, that's why I've made it the easiest I could to set this up. If you're interested in learning programming, this could be useful to you.


Preview:
Disclaimer: @Damen Although you don't own the game anymore, it's still your work and I respect that. Feel free to request takedown and I'll comply (though, I don't see why you would)

Download:
Server: https://github.com/pyrodash/snaildom
Game: https://github.com/pyrodash/snaildom-web


Feel free to contact me on Discord for help setting it up (please don't)
You can find my Discord on my profile. Enjoy

We couldn’t thank you enough for what you’ve done for each and every one of us. You’ve shown us what a good leader is really like and I really don’t know what this community did to deserve you. I’m glad you’re finally putting your health first, it’s not selfish at all and I know everyone respects your decision.

Not only have you been a great administrator and leader, you’ve also been a great friend, and I’m proud to know someone like you. I would like to personally thank you for making my life better, and my days a little brighter, I hope I can do the same for you. Please stick around on Discord, there’s nothing I enjoy more than talking to you.

Godspeed to you

While your ideas are very good, every CPPS including CPR is likely to die by the end of the year when Flash is gone for good. In my opinion, there's just no point anymore.

Hey,

I expected this to happen sooner or later, but not so soon. I need a very long break from this community. I’m going to be in 11th grade in a few months from now, it’s crazy to think that I was only in 4th grade when I first joined OldCP.

It has been a wild ride for me, I’m surprised I didn’t put an end to it much sooner than now. I don’t think I have been too honest about myself, it’s sad to me that even though I have been here for 6-7 years, nobody still knows what I’m really like. Most of my friends will probably remember me helping them at one point or another, the truth is that I have tried my best to give support to everyone and left none for myself.

I’m broken, merely a shell of a human being, helping others to have a better life was my distraction from my own life that I could not change. But now I know, I have reached my limits, I’m overflowing with the problems of myself and others. This community is no longer a distraction for me, now all I can see is what my life could’ve been like if I were a better person and things I want that I know could never be.

I’m stressed out by merely just existing, I have social anxiety and I’m introverted. While I might not show it, almost everything people say or do to me hurts me, even if it’s a joke. I’m very fragile, I’ve had multiple mental breakdowns over very small reasons. Although, I think I deserve this, I have probably hurt people as much as I have been hurt by them. I’m not like Gamer, I’m not perfect, sometimes I wish I were.

I have never truly spoken to anyone about how I felt up until now, but I can no longer hold myself together. Nobody in real life really knows what I’m like either, that is because I have no friends in real life.

If I have hurt you before, I’m sorry that I’m a terrible person and that you had to deal with me. Thank you for tolerating me and goodbye for now.

P.S. Happy early birthday Swirlie

Please don't create useless discussions that serve no purpose whatsoever.

Locked.

About the House:

House Cortana was created by Jack Cortana and Pencil Crimesolvers in May 2017. It was created to officially back the Crime Office with raw military power. At the time, both founders were Sergeant and Inspector of the office respectively. Cortana is built on many beliefs and ideas, our main goal is to do what we think is right. We are bound by an unbreakable oath, sworn to protect our cause to death. Those who dare attempt to seize it, will be pacified by steel.


Allies:

• House Crimesolvers
• House Wolf
• House Imperials
• House Forrester
• House Kraken

House Guards

We are looking for new members and guards to uphold our values and help us on our path to achieve world peace.

Requirements

• Clear record of treason for the past month.
• The ability to execute orders without question.
• Complete loyalty to the leadership.
• Must be able to clock in at least 12 hours a month.
• Must be able to attend at least two training sessions a month.

Chain of Command

Commander
This is the highest rank in the chain of command after the Lord/Lady, it gets all the benefits available to other Cortana HG ranks and the ability to lead the HGs with the Lord/Lady.

Officer
Officers are trusted warriors, they will carry east axes and ebony bows.

Recruit
When you become a Cortana HG, you will be a recruit. Recruits are the lowest rank, they will receive poleaxes and ebony bows.


But for the most important question of all: how do you join?
If you would like to become a Cortana House Guard, please reply to this post with how you meet the requirements and your past experiences (if any).

NOTE: If you are not in House Cortana or our allied houses, you are ineligible to have any of the following weapons: CLSEASTAXE, eastdagger, ebonybow, poleaxe.

What are House Guards?
House Guards are basically Knights for every house that are led by the house lord/lady (or someone assigned by the lord/lady).
The Lord/Lady of their house are responsible for their actions and training, they must also fund them with weapons, etc.

My suggestion is to completely disband all militaries (except the generic military) and reintroduce House Guards instead. Damen has had this idea before on a livestream where he said he wanted people to create different 'factions', and so house packages were born. But did they work? Sadly not, people found more pros in getting a military than in purchasing a house package, and also, you could buy a military straight from create so it was much easier to get a military. It's also worth noting that the packages were kinda overpriced.

Initially, militaries were supposed to represent powerful houses that required their militaries in wars, such as: DRAKEHALL and HYDRA. It is now clear that we have strayed far from this path, militaries are now merely just alts for when your main dies.

I think OldCP should be strongly house-focused rather than everyone being sheep following the Empire with no goal other than a boring rank pyramid. If OldCP was house-focused, the leaders of every house would strongly participate in making the game fun once more, they (or a representative) would have to train their own House Guards and they would essentially have their own ranking system (this does not mean they will have any unique titles on OldCP, they would just be higher in the chain of command & get perks from their house leader [i.e. better weapons] ).

In March 2018, Pencil, Bakon and I created the War Council which remains to this day the planning room for OldCP wars. I shall remind you of our most important event of last year, the Dorval War. While it might not appear clearly to outsiders, more effort than you can imagine went into the planning of the Dorval War. It was truly a community-driven event, the commanders of the War Council created multiple platoons/squads and organized them into different formations, rooms, etc. I think it's safe to say that the Dorval War was probably the peak of OldCP in 2018:
The reason I'm reminding you of this is to make my next point, the community loves what is made and run by the community. It has always been successful and everyone was always cooperative. House Guards would technically be like platoons, and it's undeniable how successful they were, they gave birth to exceptional leaders.

You might agree with bringing back House Guards but not disbanding all militaries, here's why I think we should do that:

• They are not needed anymore, you shouldn't have to hide behind an agent account unless you explicitly needed to (i.e. administrators)
  
• To build onto the point above, you could argue that militaries are used when most fighters are dead, here's my response: That's the point of War Knights, they're supposed to be the backup force aside from the main force (i.e. Imperial Knights). The Empire has survived countless years without the existence of militaries and it will do just fine without them.
  
• House Guards would have to use their main accounts, so there'd be less Knights and more people loyal to community-made factions (houses). Also, its much better to be able to know who's armed and ranked when they're not hiding behind an agent account, it ensures that everyone who does commit a crime can be punished in the appropriate way.

Here are the issues with my suggestions:

• Disbanding militaries would certainly be a tough decision to make. There are plenty of create militaries that would have to be refunded, and refunding non-create militaries would most certainly break the economy again (or perhaps giving them them their gold / 10 would work) or just not refunding create militaries at all which would cause some anger among military owners. Personally I'd go with the latter, not because I love making people angry but because it's the safest option for the economy, it's a sacrifice that has to be made, perhaps they could receive a small boost for their House Guards as compensation but that's it.
  
• The prices to fund House Guards must be reasonable unlike the house packages.

Feel free to argue with any of my points below. Sorry if this wasn't the right category, wasn't sure if debates would fit more.

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