Next Letter. 495 has become a master artist with a ballpoint pen. And doesn't know how to write.

What would you rather play on, the city or the outlands, and why?
The city, but by very little either way.

What do you do for fun on city?
RP on my unit, explore and participate with whatever may be going on at that time.

Is City_45 too hardware reliant for your current system? (too laggy)
Only in the Plaza a bit.

What would you like to see more of on city?
Some originality, more players of course and the desire to actually get on and play.

What do you want to do on city?
Develop 495, play with other people and watch the city have some sense of progress as a whole.

What is about city that makes you not want to join or play it?
Almost everything about it at this point. The player base, the stale environment, people's lack of originality and lack of desire to be original and the map. I'm sick of city 45; I hate to say it and I know Ozjackal has put tons of effort and time into it but I just don't enjoy the map/environment anymore.

What can be done to help you enjoy the city?
Create some sort of CG canon that goes in depth, filling in nooks that we usually have to guess on, add new weapons  (handguns, a few rifles or shotguns maybe, blades & blunt weapons), vehicles (very few, like APCs and forklifts for CWU), items, etc and create new dangers. Other things I think of are an NPC/Machine that you can recycle shit at. IE: Drink a can of water or finish your suppliments, sell them for a handful of tokens or maybe find a car battery or some rags in the sewers via a timed drop maybe.

Extra comments.
I enjoy HL2RP in general. But right now, Catalyst Gaming's has absolutely nothing special about it. It just needs something to make it stand out because I look through the server list of City servers and see a few with a 20-30 player base on average per day at any reasonable time in the day. I miss that.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTSRlCP-HM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTSRlCP-HM</a>

In my opinion Bridget and Jane are the only reasonably good sounding ones. But Bridget is something new, there's no need to be like every other HL2RP City map with that voice.

495's letters

I'll keep doing these if anyone reads them or I just get bored. Basically 495 is afraid that someone will watch or get a hold of video logs, so he writes them down on stationery. Grammatical errors are IC.

I like the whole new weapons thing. When I was more active on the outlands and was part of the major faction that occupied the intact bunker, I had a shotgun. And the thing was I usually had less than a box or no ammo whatsoever but the major thing was it was I could intimidate others regardless. So that being said, I really think the older Russian rifles and other related weapons would work well. And you can actually say there's an abundance of weapons, maybe not of ammo or perhaps of lesser quality ammnition; A system like in Metro 2033 meaning company/military made ammunition compared to recently made post-war bullets. My suggestion for a weapon is the SVT-40 which utilizes the same cartridge a Mosin–Nagant. There's a good one here: http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=132873

I have to agree with what you've all said for the most part. I took part in this raid/sweep/whatever it turned into on my OTA. It was by far the sloppiest thing I have seen in terms of OTA roleplay, if you can even call it that. All together I probably got in 3 /mes in and a few radio messages. I had to stand outside the bunker for over a half an hour because of this poorly coordinated OTA event. And because of that and how it played out, I can understand the feelings that people who play on the outlands feel when a bunch of beeping assholes come in and cause frustration like that.
All I can really say is I wish it didn't happen like that and in the few instances where I was involved with the grenade issue I tried my best to be fair to everyone. OTA operations just need to be more coordinated than 3 soldiers running towards the bunker with no objective. And the fact that there was no realistic objective is why you shouldn't have been kept alive. We're not supposed to do that.