Looking for an interesting project to get into

Hey Trace! I came across your post and it really caught my attention, both because of your experience and the way you approach projects.

I thought I'd tell you a little about my idea and my background. I've had a dream of creating my own Garry's Mod roleplay server since I was around 14 years old. GMod has always fascinated me because of how much freedom it gives you to create pretty much anything you can imagine. You can build completely unique experiences, and that's something I've always loved about the game. Now, I've finally decided to try and make that dream a reality.

I've actually just come from running a milsim community on Arma Reforger. We had everything set up really well and averaged around 40 players. It was a project I was genuinely proud of, and I learned a lot from running the community. In the end, I decided to step away from it because, although I enjoyed it, Garry's Mod has always been something I've wanted to pursue properly. It's been sitting in the back of my mind for years, and I feel like now is the time to give it a shot.

One thing that genuinely surprises me is how little of GMod's potential seems to be explored in Spain. From what I've seen, there aren't many active Spanish GMod servers offering something truly unique and well-developed, which I think is a real shame. This game has an incredible amount of potential, especially with all the custom maps, addons, modelling possibilities and freedom it offers. I honestly believe there's room to build something really special here.

My idea is to create a Spanish Prison Roleplay server, but not just another generic DarkRP server where everyone runs around buying weapons and shooting each other. I want to create something different, where the gameplay encourages actual roleplay, cooperation, negotiation and meaningful interactions between players.

The main concept revolves around three prisoner factions, each with its own economy, resources and identity. Each faction would depend on the others for certain materials and items, meaning players would have to trade, negotiate, form alliances and manage conflicts to get what they need. I'd also like to include a levelling and XP system, faction-specific uniforms and lockers, guards who are manually whitelisted, and a GEO tactical unit that can only be deployed during major incidents.

The goal is to make the server feel alive and give it its own identity. I don't want it to be just another prison map with DarkRP jobs. I want players to have actual reasons to interact, create their own stories and feel like their actions matter. Something that people remember and genuinely enjoy playing.

On my side, I'm really motivated to make this happen. Having previously run an Arma Reforger community, I understand what it takes to build a player base, keep people engaged and get a community off the ground. I believe I could bring a good number of people to the server once it's ready, and I'd put real effort into promoting it, growing the community and making sure that the work we put into the project actually gets enjoyed by players.

At the moment, I'm still learning the technical side of setting up a GMod server, and my budget is fairly limited. I'm not expecting you to work for free or commit to anything you're not comfortable with. Your post simply caught my eye because you seem to be looking for a creative project that you can genuinely enjoy working on, rather than just another job.

I think your experience with mapping and Blender modelling could bring a huge amount to this project. I'd love to give the server its own visual identity and, if you were interested in getting involved, let you focus on the creative side without having to take responsibility for running the entire community. I'd be happy to handle the community management, player base and the general organisation of the server myself.

For me, this would mean making a dream come true that I've had since I was a teenager. I'd love to find someone who shares the enthusiasm for creating something different, someone I could work alongside to build the project gradually and eventually see a community enjoying something we've created together from the ground up.

I'm not going to promise that the server will automatically become huge or pretend that success is guaranteed. What I can offer is an idea I'm genuinely passionate about, previous experience running a community, the motivation to put the work in, and a willingness to build things step by step.

If the idea sounds even remotely interesting to you, I'd love to have a chat on Discord, tell you more about the concept and hear your thoughts and ideas as well. I'm sure there are plenty of creative possibilities we haven't even considered yet, and maybe together we could build something that brings a bit of life back to the Spanish GMod roleplay scene.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, mate. Hopefully we can have a chat sometime! 😄

I'll leave you my Discord here in case you're interested in discussing the project further: riddler2882.

Just so you know, my English isn't particularly good, so I might struggle a little when it comes to communicating sometimes, haha. 😅 But I'm sure we'll manage just fine!

Hope to hear from you, mate! 🤝

Its good to see passionate people trying bring back gamemodes that they love to garrysmod. Cool to see people come from arma instead of leaving arma. After reading through this im not sure its something I want to get involved in but I respect the time and effort it took to post this.

I wish you the best of luck on your dream server. From my years of hosting my best advice is dont let player count dictate your fun, genuinely make it fun for you and your friends and if its fun for them it should be fun for others.

Dream projects can be awesome, hogwartsRP was one of mine and I managed to be pretty fulfilled from running it despite the many ups and downs I experience.

Hope everything works out and if you need technical support or help understanding map stuff feel free to reach out. I always enjoy giving advice/ showing people how to fix map / model stuff.

Wow, thank you so much for the advice. I’ll gladly take it to heart. I can say that I actually played HogwartsRP, and the RP experience I had on one of the servers was absolutely insane. My cousin and I had so much fun, like little kids, and honestly, my idea comes from that amazing experience we had back then.