The Stolen Lands have long been the domain of bandits and monsters, but no longer! Your party has been granted a charter to explore these wilds, defeat its dangers, and build a brand new nation. Yet not everyone will welcome you as new neighbors, and powerful supernatural forces have their own plans for the region. Can you defeat your kingdom’s enemies and become one of the greatest new nations in the world?Soon to be coming to the Redsun.tf discord is the third clash of the europeans and americans on the field of tabletop roleplaying games to see who can clear their campaign better.In episode one, we took to the lands of The Sword Coast in the Dungeons & Dragons 5e campaign: Tyranny of Dragons.In this setting, both teams were faced with the threat of a cult who aimed to bring forth the evil five headed dragon goddess Tiamat from her prison in the Nine Hells. They also had to deal with some politics to get help from a council of old fucks in defeating this cult, whom had way more money than any cult should reasonably have. While both teams completed their quest and were successful in defeating Tiamat, victory ultimately landed in the hands of the US team due to their better handling on the political side of the story. Yes, politics was the deciding factor.In episode two, we took to the planet Golarion's city of Absalom in Pathfinder 2e's adventure path: Agents of Edgewatch.This setting took our community members through the ropes of being a police officer in medieval times. What kind of police officer? The unpaid kind. Unfortunately, things ended very badly for the EU team. After suffering 12 character deaths, two players leaving the party, and hitting a roadblock in the campaign itself (it was that bad), the EU team ultimately disbanded. There hasn't been a winner declared for this episode yet as US team is still going, and I wanna see how far they can go before I declare a winner.So that brings us here, the incoming TBA episode three: Kingmaker.Now what is this gonna be about? Well as the name suggests, it's about claiming and ruling over a kingdom. That's right, our redsun players will be taking the roles of kings and/or queens of a land they're stealing back from bandits. This will probably be the most interesting to see our players go through since they'll have more freedom to do whatever the hell they want. Will they build a nation run with honor and pride? Probably not. This is redsun we're talking about.Anyways, I will be using these here forums to chronicle these events as they happen, so you'll have something funny to read whenever you browse this place. WHEN this will happen is unknown to me since the module is quite expensive ($100 USD), but rest assured a way will be found.

While I understand that I explained myself as relaxed/laid back, I still enforce rules in moderating positions.My method of approach is likely more of what should be explained as relaxed. So let's use an example to show more accurately what I mean in order to avoid further confusion.Let's use the rule you mentioned for the example. Let's say I have calmly told a user (as I would do) "Okay that's enough of that now, don't take it any further" and they have chosen to continue.MY response in enforcing action would end up being a "I've already asked for you to stop, this is your one and only warning, continue again and I will have to take action".In the example, you see that I would given the lighter nature would make it clear to stop, but then give a formal warning, if the user in question did continue past the formal warning, I would proceed with a temporary gameplay/chat ban depending on of course the reasoning for the warning.TL:DR, my approach because of my demeaning is relaxed, however I do still take action, the only difference may be I am more likely to issue a formal warning with less-serious offenses. If the offense however was serious with evidence, I would be more inclined to discuss with the user in question before issuing the ban/mute/kick to ensure the user in question is aware of what rule was broken.

Whereabouts in the world are you from? (Please include the timezone, too!)Netherlands, CET/CEST (currently CEST)What position are you applying for?Developer.Hi, fellow European.I'll be mostly asking questions on the dev side of your application, since I'm by no means an artist.Why do you feel you are suited for this position?I am able contribute to events, projects and upcoming new development/technical ventures relating to Red Sun while keeping the formula in mind as to what makes Red Sun exactly Red Sun ever since its founding (aka, not suggest/develop stupid stuff). While my past has been rocky as a founder, I have gone out of my way to improve as a person and as a developer by trade after all these years.I joined redsun way too late to see you part of staff, so I have a few questions for you if you don't mind.What do you think is stupid stuff you shouldn't try to make? Isn't "stupid"/ridiculous stuff the reason most of us are here (The Flowey map event, @Mikusch workshop events with wonky maps, gamemodes you'll never find somewhere else, …)?Could you explain to me really quickly why you've left the staff, especially as a founder? Again, I don't think there is a Redsun history book yet, and I think this could have an impact on the older devs that do know of what happened.Following this, what is motivating you to make your application now? Is it that a lot of time passed, or is there something more specific.Do you have any particular projects you'd like to tackle if accepted as a dev?How would you handle being "just" a dev and not a proper Redsun admin ™?How much time do you spend on Red Sun over Paradise?Currently not really touching Team Fortress 2, but that's just an install button away. Other than that I am on the Discord and use Discord a lot in general.Not joining servers for months seems to be a requirement for being staff here, so I don't mind.How much time can you spend on Red Sun over Paradise, if accepted?Development-wise, I would say minimum of 2 hours a week with a maximum of 16-24 hours.Discord-wise in regards to Staff communications… as much as I do now for my general use of Discord, which is basically 16 hours, 7 days a week.Would that be more for website dev, plugin dev, maintenance work, or a mix of it all?Do you have any relevant experience in this field? If so, please tell us where, and for how long.Where: Anti Cheat Gamers (generic server developer), SLAG Gaming (developer & "YTMND", as Jonas said once :^]), redsun.tf (founder 2014-2017) and DFS.tf (developer)How long: way too longNice :)What could you bring to our team?Healthy discussions and active participation in the ins-and-outs of Red Sun and its communityWeb DevelopmentSysOpsDevOps3D modelling (Blender)MappingVideo Editing (Sony Vegas)Okay-ish music / sound production (FL Studio)Above average Photoshop/paint.net skillsWhen you say web development, can you share specifics ? I know the old website was a PHP mess, but the new one is written in Django, bootstrap and a touch of custom JS on the front. Would that be okay for you ?About the servers, did you make any sourcepawn stuff? Any vscript?Since you left redsun, have you by any chance made some non-spaghetti websites with a proper, relational database and schema (Foreign Keys, relations, constraints, denormalization, …). I remember the mess of import scripts I had to write and just need to know if you need a crash course on that or if you'll be fine.There are a few things I'd love to see on the website such as a map explorer, decompiler, model renderer, … Would that be something you could do?Without going into any specific details, please tell us about yourself.I am a 27 year old Dutch person who is very outgoing and pretty unfiltered (not on the slur department!) while being able to retain any professional standards set upon me depending on the where, when and what. Also I really, really, really like the gym :)Is there anything out with these questions you wish to add?noSince you seem to be aiming to at least help with the website; and since you have previous experience as a redsun admin, how would you handle being given website admin permissions (which are substantial : database access, moderation panel, …)? If applying for developer, send in some of your previous work as an example. Anything works, including map files, source code, models, and so forth.redsun.tf website before Canardé rewrote it"Gamemodes Contributed" and "Maps Created" on my redsun.tf profiledfs.tf websiteold web/sourcepawn spaghetti code you might be able to find internally from Red SunThanks for the examples!Would you mind sharing some more recent things you did ? Feel free to send them in a DM if you don't want that to be public (I totally understand). I just want a feel for what you can do years later ! 😁Thanks a lot for reading all of that and for answering my questions !

Whereabouts in the world are you from? (Please include the timezone, too!)In that beautiful country named 🇫🇷 La France 🇫🇷 (Europe/Paris) What position are you applying for?This is a mod application, however, if you, dear forum historian, stumble upon it in the years to come, note that most of what I say here works as a developer application, that I never actually made. Enjoy this window into my life. Why do you feel you are suited for this position?I do have some experience with Redsun in general, be it the mod tools on the website (I made those !), the warden menu… I feel like, by now, I know most of the community regulars, the rules, and that I can be a fair/laid back mod. You are able to approach certain situations with the required respect, responsibility, seriousness and control I think most of the people here can agree that I tend to be quite the happy person, but that I can also intervene, often in private messages, to sort out some drama and defuse situations where someone with an external point of view is welcome. You will not hold or express bias over any member(s) This is probably where most of the staff reading will be worried. Yes, @Zétix and the other French speaking ducks are certainly people I get with pretty good. However, this doesn't mean I can't intervene to calm them down if needed, ideally before it gets to the point where a moderator action is warranted. You can actively maintain a presence in the community This goes without saying. I do read most of the forum posts and the messages sent on the discord, and quite often gives my opinion on changes or in discussion. I just don't understand everything when #off-topic becomes #ferrari-talk or something. Also, do NOT go into the depths of #fast-chat. Here only lies madness, @Zati and @Mr-Fluf How much time do you spend on Red Sun over Paradise?I have a demanding day job, so it's not as much as I would sometimes like. However, even if I'm not there on the servers, I'm quite often reading and chatting with people. How much time can you spend on Red Sun over Paradise, if accepted?It wouldn't change much. I did have enough time to redo the whole website, so I don't really think time is an issue. Do you have any relevant experience in this field? If so, please tell us where, and for how long.I made a game in 2016 (!) that's used by millions on Discord. This comes with insane moderation challenges, mostly 24/7 support and more. I do still help moderate the game and the support server, but I'm mostly leaving that to the expert mods by now. Before that, I did run some TF2 servers and minecraft servers averaging 70 players a day, but except for a few YouTube videos, nothing remains of them. Even if mostly automated, our server ban log (with actual ban reasons) is public here, and you can search for actions made by me if you want a more complete picture. This doesn't include bot bans and other funnies, since that's mostly in the internal database. The ban log and the associated discord bot is something I made internally for us at first at a time when global scams were on the rise on discord and moderation tools pretty much sucked. I decided to open source the whole thing and host it for whoever needed an efficient solution to stupid raids and spambots, but also wanted transparency and automatic actions. Nowadays, discord mod tools really improved (except that you still can't unban someone that's IP banned, but that's a whole other story), so the bot in itself is much more useless and thus is on life support. What could you bring to our team?I did the moderation panel based on a few screenshots from @sasch old website. I'm pretty sure there are some annoyances I could fix easily, stuff that I could improve, but for that I need a peek into the workings of the mod team. Without going into any specific details, please tell us about yourself.Hi! I'm Canardé, I love it when people send me duck gifs on Discord and I really like the Redsun servers and the community, and I do want to help it to the best of my ability. Is there anything outwith these questions you wish to add?I know the situation is a bit specific, and historically, mod apps from staff weren't actually the easily accepted ones, but if you have any questions, or just want to talk, feel free to hit me up in game or on Discord. The last few weeks were quite insane in terms of workload, but it should be over soon, and I'll try to answer quickly. Also, this is something I like to say to new mods on the DuckHunt server, but in my opinion, mod actions (Warns, Kicks, Bans, Mutes, …) are to be used only in last resort situations. There are so many things you can fix by just listening to what each other has to say, and promises to improve are quite often kept. Using kicks on the other hand might just bring an atmosphere of fear, that isn't fun or good for open discussion. This is something that I know is happening/happened here, and I'll do my best to limit that. With all of that said, I'll just leave you with this beautiful duck picture. 516With that 0 quid salary, I'll never be able to afford a decent mic. Justice for mods!

This was actually the plan due to both modes using the same custom maps.Very much possible. It doesn't really matter what a gamemode is written in, we just need some way to hook into it, be it through game events, plugin forwards, or in this case, script functions.It's also not too big of a deal that different maps can have different versions of the script. Heck, sometimes you want that to be the case.I am talking more about the rule rather than the exception - the exceptions tend to be very obvious if changes need to be made. It's confusing when the core mechanics and values are different across maps eg. weapons doing different damage or different health values because of that lack of standard change control.

I'd call this a good partial solution but it doesn't iron out some of the finer details eg. map cross-compatibility across modes (due to baked in scripts) - ideally I'd like to do things like offer a map in both solo and squad modes but this is probably not a priority at the moment.I'd prefer it if we could merge the two versions into one mode with multiple options (similar to how Stop That Tank has a payload race variant) rather than having two totally different but similar modes. FR is open source so that does help, but ultimately it is Mikusch's mode so having him onside would be beneficial rather than having an endless, pointless screech fight. I say this because long term the two modes may go different directions leading to vastly different experiences, and that can be confusing when they're both purporting to be a similar thing (a battle royale mode). If I had to describe this in an easier fashion it would be like mechanical differences across game entires in a series where you're advertised a similar product but it plays different to what you're expecting.This isn't a bad thing necessarily, it can just be confusing.Another (for now) thing is the lack of easy integration into Loadout - especially for things like GP bans where I'm currently pushing for more stringent punishments to be integrated in. Pure vscript-based content doesn't really allow us right now to hook into the Loadout for our own use cases where required, but again if someone like @42 wants to correct me on this I would appreciate it.I often come across as negative towards vscript but generally I do enjoy it if it's unique enough and suitable for what it is. This discussion should at least help people understand why I approach these things the way I do.script being baked in the map most of the times, it's not really an issue most of the time because we aren't taking the 90 vscript vsh maps out there on the workshop into one category, we just use the official maps made by the creator, and in this case it's alex's gamemode, and alex won't just abandon one map and update just a few. In most cases the creator tends to update their maps. hell, you can even have a vscript gamemode serverside rather than baked on the map, but you need to make sure there's no script running on the map itself, so while it's possible, it's not ideal.

I'd prefer it if we could merge the two versions into one mode with multiple optionsThis was actually the plan due to both modes using the same custom maps.Pure vscript-based content doesn't really allow us right now to hook into the Loadout for our own use cases where required, but again if someone like @42 wants to correct me on this I would appreciate it.Very much possible. It doesn't really matter what a gamemode is written in, we just need some way to hook into it, be it through game events, plugin forwards, or in this case, script functions.It's also not too big of a deal that different maps can have different versions of the script. Heck, sometimes you want that to be the case.

Pure vscript-based content doesn't really allow us right now to hook into the Loadout for our own use cases where required, but again if someone like @42 wants to correct me on this I would appreciate it.My VScript plugin very much allows us to let vscript use redsun features, It's just that vscript should also take into account when a map is played outside of redsun servers, which is also possible to do.

vscript br and fortress royale play quite differently, and vscript was just means to an end, not the whole feature of the gamemode.both are battle royales sure, but one is squad based and the other is a solo experience, not to mention that weapons are very different between the 2 versions. i see no harm in having 1 "battle royale" category and having either solo fortress royale or squads "squad showdown(vscript br's name)"I'd call this a good partial solution but it doesn't iron out some of the finer details eg. map cross-compatibility across modes (due to baked in scripts) - ideally I'd like to do things like offer a map in both solo and squad modes but this is probably not a priority at the moment.I'd prefer it if we could merge the two versions into one mode with multiple options (similar to how Stop That Tank has a payload race variant) rather than having two totally different but similar modes. FR is open source so that does help, but ultimately it is Mikusch's mode so having him onside would be beneficial rather than having an endless, pointless screech fight. I say this because long term the two modes may go different directions leading to vastly different experiences, and that can be confusing when they're both purporting to be a similar thing (a battle royale mode). If I had to describe this in an easier fashion it would be like mechanical differences across game entires in a series where you're advertised a similar product but it plays different to what you're expecting.This isn't a bad thing necessarily, it can just be confusing.Another (for now) thing is the lack of easy integration into Loadout - especially for things like GP bans where I'm currently pushing for more stringent punishments to be integrated in. Pure vscript-based content doesn't really allow us right now to hook into the Loadout for our own use cases where required, but again if someone like @42 wants to correct me on this I would appreciate it.I often come across as negative towards vscript but generally I do enjoy it if it's unique enough and suitable for what it is. This discussion should at least help people understand why I approach these things the way I do.

It would depend on a common definition of what would be vscript content rather than just vscript-enhanced. An indepth discussion of that would probably give a common ground to agree on what could be considered "vscript" and I am very much open to that.With vscript BR specifcally it is very much "reinventing thr wheel" for me since you already did this in sp with fortress royale, which is why I'm weary towards a lot of these "x but vscript" or reinventions of modes we have/had(?) - that in and of itself is a "Why do this? Why do we need two of the same thing?" type of deal to me - I find myself along why is this not done as an overhaul or as an enhancement to existing content where possible, because it very much communicates itself (to me at least) as pinning the primary merit on "made in vscript" rather than the actual meat and bones of the content. I see this elsewhere outside of here and it's usually done to get eyes to the content because it's "the cool thing" and it's disheartening.The other half of this is an inherent problem primary where the vscript is being packed into the map and that is lack of change control and standard play experience - you see this with the VSH vscript where there's custom versions in some maps which leads to a non uniform play experience, compared to the sp plugin which we build from which ensures all maps have the same settings where needed.If we're loading externally though and pulling via buildbot though, that pretty much negates my entire point here so feel free to correct me if that's the case.I am probably going to get a fair bit of flak for this but that is how I approach these sorts of things, mainly because I don't think we necessarily need to reinvent the wheel. Call it "arbitrary high ground" or whatever you want, but that is how I'm approaching this. I hope I've at least explained why I have given my answer as I have.vscript br and fortress royale play quite differently, and vscript was just means to an end, not the whole feature of the gamemode.both are battle royales sure, but one is squad based and the other is a solo experience, not to mention that weapons are very different between the 2 versions. i see no harm in having 1 "battle royale" category and having either solo fortress royale or squads "squad showdown(vscript br's name)"