Disposable HL2 Roleplay for Disposable Humans

Grounds Above will function via a round system by which the server will be run semi-episodically in “rounds.” Heavily inspired by Space Station 13, this concept will include various “round types” just like in Space Station 13, with rounds on rare occasion encouraging even passive RP or featuring lore-bending (or even defying because who cares) occurrences in order to keep the roleplay fresh and unique. Rounds may be “canonized” to keep a consistent story flowing throughout the server’s lifespan, rounds may last up to a few hours to up to whenever I feel is an appropriate stopping point and a point by which the “round” will be restarted and the round will change to another type. At the beginning of every round, a random player who has applied to be Civil Protection Leadership role will be drawn to be the Sectorial and will have total control of The Combine in the local City, this player may rule the Combine as they see fit and may even draft or recruit players to be CPs at will, meaning that the Sectorial has total In-Character control over the City, this player will be the Sectorial for that round and will be put on a cooldown afterwards for until another round has transpired, he may also appoint a City-Administrator. But anyway, the reason for round types is not to discourage or to destroy pre-existing roleplay but for me to encourage an atmosphere of chaos and freedom by which players may express themselves with all the creative liberties they can have.

Grounds Above is a customized Half-Life 2 Roleplay that ACTUALLY aims to be fundamentally different from every other server of it's kind, a fundamental uniqueness of which lies in addressing an issue at the core of HL2RP, serious roleplay and Clockwork in general: Snowflake syndrome.
Snowflake syndrome is a term by which I use to describe an attitude held by many in various roleplaying communities stretching from across the Internet, the destructive and counterproductive egotistic attitude by which players and administrators alike will do anything to avoid total character death, and in rare cases will horde scripts and power at the expense of any joy a regular player could deviate from the server. Communities will often be plagued by these, sometimes communities will even be run by snowflakes who will burn up at the mention of "PK" and will enter an angry rampage of banning "evil mingebags" who dare to criticize or seek alternative fun on their server. This creates an atmosphere by which players will eventually grow to not care whether or not they can or should develop their character, and instead choose to grief on servers to derive fun at these snowflake's expense.

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