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ROMP was a short lived and highly controversial group on Crazybob's Cops And Robbers server. Created in January 2008, it became one of the largest deathmatching groups in the history of Crazybobs Cops and Robbers, eventually leading to minor changes in the game script and nearly fifty players being banned. From its conception, the group was severely misunderstood, and disliked by many, but it wasn't until after a successful coup in late January of 2008 that the group turned to violence, and mass Deathmatch.

History
Created on January 10, 2008, ROMP was formed by a small group of long time Regular Players to combat a heavy wave of random killings that resulted from a mass increase in new players. The group wasted no time, and soon posted a thread on the Cops and Robbers forum with ten ways to stop the deathmatching with little scripting required, the thread was all but ignored. The group also observer that a portion of the problems were caused by arrogant regular players who felt an obligation to bully the new players. Groups such as DMH, which would harass new players, then hide behind their reputation, high scores, and long time status having played there for a year or more. The members of ROMP felt it first hand, rather than signing into their regular accounts with lots of money, points, and respect, they decided they would instead get on as guest players without registering. As soon as they were striped of their huge scores and loads of money, they felt the situation the new players were in, they could feel the constant harassment, even players they considered as friends on their regular accounts, were now attacking them for no reason, simply because they were now posing as new players and they were unaware.

Members of ROMP tried using their regular accounts to influence others not to deathmatch, and reported trouble makers to the admins which they found seldom helpful. Finally, after a string of completely random killings by MetalFace in late January, the group decided to address the issue on the Cops and Robbers forums. A thread was posted about MetalFace's constant abuse, and random killings, included were a series of photos proving that MetalFace did indeed break rules. Instead of a warm reception, friends of MetalFace quickly attacked back, completely over looking the point of the thread and the pictures provided, turning the situation around and making ROMP into a joke, insisting that ROMP is a bad group for calling out MetalFace on the forums. Anger began to form within the group as the two founders pulled the group in different directions. Half of the members insisted that the group keep it peaceful, while the other half believed in disobedience by attacking key trouble makers. In late January of 2008 the original founder, [ROMP]Phoenix, left the group stating that, "they ruined our name and deathmatching is worse than ever".

The coup
In late January of 2008, [ROMP]Phoenix left the game entirely due to growing differences between himself, the co-founder [ROMP]Horus and the majority of the group. [ROMP]Phoenix wanted to use the groups energy to collect evidence of players breaking the rules, then pressure admins into taking action with the evidence collected. The majority of the group however disagreed with him, "Admins only care about helping their reg friends, and maintaining the status quo...they will not ban a donating member...even if he is caught red handed", said [ROMP]Horus. [ROMP]Phoenix removed the group forum and the group website shortly there after. After [ROMP]Phoenix left, [ROMP]Horus took control, and in an effort to gain members, began recruiting. Three players, [ROMP]killerkane, [ROMP]scummy420, and [ROMP]KingCrunk offered to join and help get the group restarted, [ROMP]Horus accepted their offer and they created a new group website and community forum the same day. Once talks began about the group plans and future goals, it became clear that most of the new members, including [ROMP]killerkane, [ROMP]scummy420, and [ROMP]KingCrunk, wanted to use force against players they deemed to be the problem, where as the remaining original members insisted on a more peaceful approach and only few deathmatchings if necessary. [ROMP]killerkane locked the forum making it private, then banned the original members including [ROMP]Horus. [ROMP]killerkane then merged the group with his previous group, knocking the number of members up to a climax of forty-five, and turning the group into a deathmatching group.

The deathmatching
As soon as [ROMP]killerkane took control, he and the group began brainstorming for the most effective way to a kill large amount of people. After several mistakes, they came to the conclusion that helicopter blades were the fastest, cheapest, and easiest way to kill large amounts of people. They learned that the police station, cranes/docks, and the Regular Players Club were the most populated places, and focus on these areas. The members would hover near building entrances, waiting for players to attempt to enter or exit the building, then swoop down and kill the innocent players with the helicopter blades. They would often have one or two members at each of the three places, spamming the death list with nonstop helicopter kills. Often, one member could get between 10-50 kills in a single playing session. It was hard to ignore, which often causes individual players and other groups such as SAPD to join up to shoot down the ROMP members, causing a lot of chaos. Somewhere down the line, they figured out that if they leave a few armed members near the hospital spawn, or camp the spot with a helicopter if possible, that they can kill a player, then kill him over and over again at the spam point till all of his life insurance is gone and the player looses everything. This happened surprising often. The players often used rude or offensive names, and were very vocal about their opinions on the chat,

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Conclusion
Although the admins were slow to act, when they finally did, they eliminated nearly the entire group within two weeks, banning most of the main members the first day, the rest were taken care of one by one as the admins ran into them. Within days of the ban's the game script received a minor adjustment making helicopter kills unfair, and introducing an auto kick feature that kicks abusers of helicopter kills from the server. A number of range bans were also placed, including range bans on the original founders. Within a week, ROMPs numbers were cut in half, and their primary weapon was removed. The following week was spent by the group abusing the police skill where one member gains a high enough rank to report players, then the remaining members kill the yellow victim. In fact, they abused it so much that the script was changed yet again, making yellow kills unfair, removing the last remaining weapon of ROMP. The group died over night and has been nearly silent since. However, one of the ROMP's former active member, becomes admin of the server a month of after the ethnic cleansing of ROMP, making him a traitor of the group.

As of today, there are still signs that ROMP's former members, still active on the server with different nicknames, the damage they brought to the cops and robbers community is still unforgettable to those who had face them before.

Letter From [ROMP]Killerkane
This following letter was sent by [ROMP]Killerkane at September 10, 2008, 10:47pm to everyone who is registered on their forum, "ROMP is dead, but we have achieve the goal of the founders of ROMP, to provide a less abusive environment for players to enjoy. Although there are still some people got away for what they have done, but that's out of our control, because the admins are and to everyone who wants to join us on our next project, please add me on msn: tonyfelcon98@hotmail.com"

Legacy
Several small groups were created near the end of ROMPs existence, with FART being the most notable. After [ROMP]killerkane and the other main members of ROMP were banned, some of the newer members created GAS, members of GAS would get into a random players vehicle and using the '/fart' command in an attempt do blow the victim up. They found this to be a perfect mix of destruction, killing, yet legal within the server rules. Another short lived group created was ADMH, which was a small group of [ROMP]Horus's members that were convinced DMH was the cause of nearly all of the servers problems. It was very short lived as most members had been banned or left by now, but they were relatively successful and killed a number of DMH members before they disappeared with the rest of the ROMP members.

Allies
Here is a list of well known players who helped ROMP on their deathmatching business:
 * Mike_Hawk - helped one of the ROMP member with helicopter death matching, with direct evidence including screenshots of him getting on undercover nicks, a kill list by him, a conversation picture with him and ROMP member, and screenshot of evading ban