Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Just L
Date of Incident March 6, 2020
Your Character Name? Orlando Blackburn
Their BYOND Key ChainsawMullet
Approximate time and date of the incident 11:00PM EST
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken Preserve the RP and enjoyment of the server
- If a player breaks a rule, but increases the enjoyment of the server in general, (through roleplay or other such things) it can be overlooked. If no one admin helps (ahelp) a complaint, or seems to be complaining or taking issue with it, it may be best to let it go.
I was attempting to roleplay and increase the enjoyment of the round by doing what so many of the other marines were angry about, shooting the PO.
- We're a server focused on the enjoyment of the players. As long as the players are having a blast and not every single rule is being broken, it's okay to let some things slide here and there.
I was having fun retreating in a losing battle and trying to keep as many people alive as possible, once I knew the round was effectively over due to 40ish xenos and barely any marines lft.
- We are not a government repressing their citizens. Don't hassle players for literally everything.
It was during a test round where there were bound to be bugs, banning someone for not knowing what these bugs are is excessive.
Description of the incident The round was a MOBA xenos test. The round itself was fairly unremarkable, just marines getting shit stomped because the command staff and squad engineers were either AFK or dead.
Marines got pushed all the way back to a barely-complete LZ1 FOB on Big Red, and evac was almost immediately called (By like 13:10 I think)
This round had both pilots being either extremely new, suffering from a lot of bugs, or extremely bad (or outright griefing). Several times it seemed that the pilots and command staff were just outright ignoring the players, including locking the doors to the Alamo during the round start and firing directly on lazes when they were near marines.
Having a mostly-silent command team and pilots that were doing less than nothing was annoying at the very least.
My character feels a great sense of camaraderie for his squad, and as a result is easily set off by command staff that do not value the lives of their soldiers. He tries to get as many marines back as possible, despite often being the delta squad leader. I often put myself in harms way of the squad not because it's the most effective thing to do, but because that is what the character would do.
According to ChainsawMullet, a bug with the MOBA xenos apparently caused them to be able to hit the PO in the normally-secure and invulnerable cockpit. In the rush to try and get on the dropship and evacuate the planet, the PO was not responsive after multiple attempts to get him to launch the ship. As a squad leader, I can go into the cockpit, so I do so. I see that this is the same PO that has been fucking with people since the start of the round, and obviously get more annoyed. I shoot a single flechette shell into the presumably-suicided PO at point blank, and then an LT launches the dropship. Most of the marines are dead at this point, even more of them dying due to the PO and command staff being distracted with a lurker or something.
I get off the dropship and leave the PO there, assuming he killed himself and then went AFK or ghosted, as that was what made sense when I considered the other options. Then, I get banned after being told that what I did was 'LRP' and 'griefing'.
Evidence Banning someone because of buggy code creating an unclear situation does not seem like something reasonable to do, especially after dealing with all the other nonsense that round. How was anyone, including myself, supposed to know that boiler gas is now able to pierce through the cockpit on the dropships, which were previously completely invulnerable and impassable by everything.
When I have seen people either accidentally or purposefully interact with a bug, I would expect to be given some leeway on what occurs with it, instead of being treated as 'oh you should have known better' when there was literally no way for me to know that it was a bug, and not someone griefing, that caused the situation I was put in.
You can ask any of the other marines that were on the dropship that round, they thought that the PO was ignoring everyone, as POs often do during evacuations.
How you would punish the accused Removal of the ban and note recording it.