Player Report
Your Byond ID? DEADmetal03
Your Character Name? Travis Pointdexter
Accused Byond Key(if known): Decker100
Accused Character Name Queen
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) Around 5 AM, 05 24 2019
What rule(s) were broken: Rules 3 and 4.
Description of the incident: When playing as an Ancient Lurker, I was given an order to evolve to Ravager without there being any tactical need for it. I refused the order. I was deevolved subsequently and received a 24 hour ban.
I think that the general picture of how the Queen acted and how things evolved is important for consideration, so I'll start from the beginning.
I came across a Spitter having problems with a survivor, who had a shotgun. I've rushed to help and we barely tackled that survivor without getting shot, after a lengthy period of time of maneuvering around and spamming disarm. I've asked for slashing to be enabled for it's hard to capture armed survivors with no slashing, but the queen replied with the get gud statement, as you can see in my first screenshot.
After quickly reading through all the chat, I've noticed that the queen is generally quite bossy and doesn't care about interests of individual Xenomorphs. That's when I posted my negative comments about the Queen and about players who act like that in discord CM general channel (I didn't provide any ingame info) (2nd screenshot).
When marines landed, the Queen recalled everyone to the hive. I've ignored that order, as I didn't think that they also meant Lurkers. I've stalked the territory for lone marines to attack - just what the Lurker should do. I've attacked my first prey and managed to break their foot before their help came. (3rd screenshot).
The Queen never recalled me personally or asked why I'm hunting alone, and suddenly I got a message from admin about this order that I'm ignoring. The fact that Queen was so displeased with my tactics seemed even stranger considering the fact that they were making a large effort for the hives location to remain unknown to the marines. They even told the Xenomorphs to suicide if they have to, for a cost of not disclosing hives location. Also, earlier they have issued a no pullback order and encouraged to just die while defending. (4th and 5th screenshots)
I went to the hive just after being warned by the admin. I then decided to stalk at the entrance to the hive, in the caves (which was near the hive). Attacked my second prey near that location and managed to break three bones before their help came. (6th screenshot)
Then shortly after, I've received this ridiculous order to evolve into Ravager. I've argued against it. I've said that I'm an effective Ancient Lurker and that I've broken several bones. The Queen said that if I'm not going to evolve to Ravager, they are going to deevolve me. (7th screenshot)
Just as this dictatorial conversation was ending, I've managed to attack my third prey but only landed one slash before their partner started shooting at me, due to a missed opportunity, because of trying to get my point to the Queen. (8th screenshot)
Shortly after, I was deevolved. I've found a safe location and ghosted, as I wasn't willing to play under these purposefully dictatorial and abusive terms. Then another admin messaged me about ignoring another of the Queens orders. I've tried to explain it all to the admin, but they didn't seem to care. They issued a 3 hour ban. I said 'I have some hope that the moderator base isn't as ignorant as it seems.' and 'I'm going to go further with it.' Then the admin increased the ban period to 24 hours and accused me of being a dick in ahelp.
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What I think happened is the Queen was notified about and probably read my discord comments, and from that moment, they turned abusive on me. Additionally, I've later found out that Decker100 is a known player, so I think that the reason why admins completely ignored Queens abusiveness was that Decker100 is friends with some of them.
I've played with various queens - good and cool ones, not experienced ones, etc., and I've been deevolved once before, but at least it was a somewhat reasonable call, and I was fine with it. This queen however, was evidently abusive and it was my worst experience playing the game.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc):
How you would punish the accused: Considering the fact that I've been banned for a day for it, I'd ban this player for two or three days. It's needless to say that Queen is a very important role and must be played without any biases or abusive intents what so ever. I would also warn an admin who banned me.
Such queen players can really discourage people from playing Xeno, and that is especially true for new players.
Originally Posted by sargash
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