April Fools Event 2020

Overview
The Riot of April Fools 2020 was a community reaction to a miscommunication and the subsequent actions within the staff team. The riot included giant text screen spam, lamp and light abuse, OOC spam, broadcast misuse, mic-spam and an unauthorised nexus raid.

History
Impulse had been without any updates for approximately 2 months and the community were, at this point, desperate for anything. For example ThePersonWhoPlaysGames made the mistake of sending "/event there is a possibility of a restart due to an update" to announce a small update that didnt effect the game server. This made everybody who was online at the time react with incredible excitement because they thought that the medical update was being released. At 17:21 BST on April 1st 2020 vin sent "7:30 :eyes:" in the impulse discord general text channel. This immediately led to speculation and theories among the community and the server filled up fast in preparation for 7:30. Around 20 people were gathered in the CWU labs underground at which point a staff member appeared in the laser room. He played music through his microphone while dancing and another mod joined him, also dancing. This continued through 7:30 until the initial dancing mod left the server. People waited until 7:45 when a staff member said something in OOC about it being an April Fools Prank. Things escalated quickly from there.

The Riot
The riot began with a Sentinel letting the 20 or so people from the CWU labs into the nexus and up to the CA office. People were complaining in OOC and clearly angry that they had been supposedly decieved as a cheap joke. These people flooded the broadcast system with calls to the whole playerbase to unite against the staff team and repeated begs for Industrial 17. These people were eventually killed by OTA and CPS but everybody who was involved moved to District 1 just outside of spawn. This was widely considered to be the worst part of the riot.

People began spamming large text screens with messages like "FUCK STAFF" and "NO EVENT NO PEACE". There was also mic-spam, light abuse and massive prop spam of rubble. ThePersonWhoPlaysGames and Blizzard tried to calm the situation down in OOC but to no avail as the riot continued. Eventually the riot swelled and so the online staff began removing the rule-breaking stuff. People tried to spawn back in their text screens but instead moved to the nexus courtyard where the riot continued using the same methods. This ended when the present combine killed every citizen and vortigaunt present. At this point vin apologised in the discord and things calmed down general chat.

The Aftermath
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