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    Just L - Commander Application

    Commander Whitelist Application
    Byond ID?
    Just L

    Player Name You Use Most?
    Orlando 'Florida' Blackburn

    Make a list of links to all of your applications and (job)ban appeals, including whitelist and staff apps, within the last year. Also, provide "Ban reason; Verdict" beside each (job)ban link
    //showthrea...-(Discord-Ban) | Permanent discord ban (Denied)

    //showthrea...-(Discord-Ban) | Permanent discord ban (Denied)

    //showthrea...-(Discord-Ban) | Permanent discord ban (Approved)

    //showthrea...er-Application | CO app (Denied)

    Have you received any ban within the last month? How long was it and what for?
    3 hour ban for EORG (It was when an admin or dev was resetting the round due to mapdaemon breaking, so I fired my SADAR at someone and gibbed them)
    3 hour ban for shooting a dead PO that I thought suicided
    Permanent Discord Ban - Recently lifted

    Do you understand that any player - even donors or staff members - can have their whitelist status revoked should they break our Server Rules or Roleplay Guidelines?
    Yes

    How do you view the tool of Battlefield Execution to be used? What circumstances do you think it would be necessary to BE a member of the crew? Where do you think the Battlefield Execution Mechanic Differs from regular Execution and why?
    Battlefield Executions (BEs) are specifically for removing a player from the round that is actively ruining the round, such as someone that is going around attacking people violently and then hiding in lockers or in maintenance. Using a BE on someone who is just doing a bad job is NOT what it is for, such as a RO that is slow at ordering ammo or supplies.
    It is different than a regular execution in that a CO can do it whenever they feel it is absolutely necessary, rather than having to decide if the accused has done a capital crime worthy of an execution, as it is sort of a grey area outside of the Marine Law rules.

    How will your Commanding Officer run his/her ship? Provide a detailed explanation on how he would handle situations that might commonly occur such as, a insubordinate Req, Engineering, MP, or Command Staff
    Blackburn will take a more hands-off approach to running the ship, usually leaving things in the hands of the departments, their heads, the XO, and CIC staff. He is more of a frontline commander, but not in the memey way that some COs are described as “PFC++++”. He will manage the fight from the front lines or just behind the front lines, and take the fight to the front when absolutely necessary.

    When it comes to insubordinate crew on the ship, he would deal with it on a case-by-case basis, asking the crew under him why they are acting the way they are instead of taking heavy-handed actions, such as sending the MPs to arrest them immediately. Talking with the crew members first about why they are not doing their jobs will lead to a better understanding between the CO and them, and will hopefully lead to a positive resolution instead of having to send them to time-out in the brig.

    However, when it comes to insubordinate military police, this is something that generally would be ahelped/spoken to high command about if it was too out of hand (Such as a MP stealing things, breaking marine/server law, and so on), as to be frank Marine Law is a complete and total mess and the less involvement people have with it IC, the better.

    What do you think is the job of a Commander?
    The job of a Commander in CM is different than the job of a Commander IRL. It still has the same general purpose, but overall I think the job of the Commander is to do his best to make the round more fun for everyone on both sides of the fight. This means taking actions to keep the round moving along, unless it would be completely stupid to do so (Such as telling the entire marine force to push a 2x2 chokepoint with 2 boilers watching it.)

    The Commander is supposed to also make sure that everything is going fine shipside when possible, filling in for missing crew or making sure that someone else is assigned to fill the job of the missing crew—the RO can also fix the engines, for example, and the synth can handle medbay. The CO also is supposed to work with the staff when there is an event going on to try and make the event run smoothly. I personally will prefer OOC talk about what I should try to have happen IC during an event, since unclear instructions in events tend to make them go poorly.

    As a player what do you think could be added for Commanding Officer to benefit the role?
    More choices for equipment for the commanding officer. A special CO shotgun, one of the specialist kits or just the option to take any of the standard kits like JTAC, HPR, MOU53 field test kit, and so on. More choices for what to spend DEFCON points on would also be a good addition, since the current ones are more or less set in stone. (Defcon 5 – Req Points, 4 – Req points and sometimes pilot points, 3 – Cryo marine reinforcements, 2 – LTB-TOW tank, 1 - Nuke)

    Special loadouts for each squad would also make planning out strategy more fun as well, and introduce new ways to play the game. Stuff like 'Enhanced Engineer Training' that would allow every member of a squad to do what squad engineers do, while also buffing the squad engineers (Make them use less metal/plasteel, build faster, etc) or unlocking special armaments for the squads, such as nonstandard weapons that are usually only found in black market crates from req.

    What do you think you could contribute by being whitelisted?
    What I personally can bring to the game as CO is my experience in roleplaying, as I have been playing tabletop RPGs for over a decade and I have been a game master for about 8 years, so I know how to encourage roleplay and make it fun for everyone involved. I also will strive to try out different tactics during rounds instead of the same standard meta-strategies for each map (IE Hydro-Nexus FOB on LV-624, Megafob LZ1 on Big Red, Megafob LZ1 on Ice colony and so on) while also being competent at leading the marines themselves and making it fun for them and the xenos. The average marine player really just wants to fight xenos and act like the marines from the Aliens film, albeit somewhat more memey, and I will try my best to foster fun roleplay and gameplay for everyone involved in the game.

    When it comes to something such as roleplay on the ship with the CL, since he is really the only role that exists 100% for roleplay, I will try my best to make it fun for the CL as well, though from what I have seen there is very little for the CL to do besides hassle the command staff and try to get them to sign contracts. Maybe in the future CL and the CO could have more to do together, but until then there’s very little to be done.

    From what I understand, a decent chunk of the playerbase likes having me as their squad leader or overwatch, and I enjoy playing the leadership roles in CM. I find XO to be fun only when there is no CO, since the XO generally has nothing important to do if there is a CO and ends up either working CIC like a Staff Officer or deploying to the front line and just calling in fire support.

    Your story (potential topics listed below)
    Not one to advertise the unpleasant parts of his past much, Orlando Blackburn instead tries to put out an aura of warmth and comfortable respect. His normally-stoic expression belies the attempts at humor he so often makes, preferring to earn the respect of his men by treating them as well as he treats himself—and by endearing them to himself via his good-natured approach to interacting with them.


    Blackburn was born on Luna, in the poorer parts of the Olympia colony. His parents did not plan to have a child, but there he was anyway. As a result, his parents did not even give him a proper name, instead naming him after the only piece of entertainment they had in their possession – The old Earth movie “Black Hawk Down”, specifically the actor Orlando Bloom in the film. This was hilarious to them, and completely failed to register with him as a joke.

    Eventually, Blackburn was left to fend for himself in his teenage years, his parents having wholly left in the middle of the night one day. He wandered around Olympia for some time, receiving handouts and charity from a few people, until he eventually found himself at a Jewish Synagogue called “Temple Olympis Kahal”. The rabbi and congregation offered him a place to stay. This particular temple happened to be both for religious purposes… and for martial ones. The head rabbi at the temple taught Blackburn the ancient arts of Krav Maga, which set the young man on his path towards the military then and there. He was enamored with combat at this point, craving the visceral feeling it gave him compared to the daily suffering and scavenging of his life beforehand, able to give something his all for once. This synagogue is also where Blackburn learned to laugh again, as they hosted weekly movie nights for the populace on Olympia, specifically with decades or even centuries-old films from Earth. Comedy films were his favorite, though he did take a keen interest in action and kung-fu films as well.

    Speaking with the rabbi once he reached the age of enlistment, Orlando received his blessings to join the USCM, giving him some funds and wishing him well in his future. Blackburn boldly went forth to the nearest USCM Recruitment Office, joining up with the marines and partially bypassing boot camp due to his impressive physique and religious status. This earned him the ire of many fellow squadmates, but the respect of others who looked at him as ‘finding a way to skip past those fucking drill sergeants’ as one marine put it. Blackburn already had some issues with authority, but this only made it more pronounced.

    Despite the oddities in his past, Blackburn was an impressive soldier. Not a legendary one, but a skilled and confident one nonetheless. He performed well on most of his deployments, killing a number of dirty space commies and CLF. Blackburn is wholly convinced that the CLF are simply a rebel faction created entirely by the UPP to wage a war against the USCM on a different front than the UPP, and he is incredibly distrustful of any Eastern Europeans, if not outright hostile to them.

    Over the years, Blackburn earned a name for himself, both by leading men and brave actions—such as defeating three CLF disguised as USCM in hand to hand combat before they could assassinate a Lieutenant, charging an enemy position while wielding two MOU53 shotguns and firing all six barrels with near-perfect accuracy into the opposing forces, and managing to use an entire box of HEFA grenades to kill a single xenomorph drone, quite possibly the most impressive act of his entire military career. His squadmates, most of them finding his bizarre past a point of interest rather than something to berate him over, and eventually he was christened (or jewished) with the nickname ‘Florida’ due to the legends of the Florida Man from Earth, renowned for taking truly ridiculous actions that seemingly made no sense, but always worked out in the end.

    Blackburn eventually went for a commission, his past actions earning him an easy spot in the officer training school, and he worked his way up to CO over the course of a number of deployments, becoming known for his use of unexpected and strange tactics, yet still finding success on many of his operations. Perhaps this is why he was assigned to the USS Almayer, in command of the Falling Falcons—an unconventional group of conscripts and soldiers for a very much unconventional commander.

    Do you understand that you cannot advertise your application on any public platform for votes. Do you also understand you may not edit this application 1 hour after it has been posted?
    Yes

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    I've, uh, run your app and your previous app through a difference checker and found that your application now is basically exactly the same as your previous one (//showthrea...er-Application). The only actual difference is in your BE answer which, in part, doesn't have much of a difference to it either besides the deletion of a paragraph.

    To quote multiple statements made by moderators on the Discord:

    If your app is denied, you will be required to wait 30 days before you can post a new application, regardless of how fast you can make a new one. In addition, do not simply repost your old app with minor updates as it will be considered a low effort application.
    (Quote source: https://discordapp.com/channels/1503...83850646782001)

    My advice would be, like, to rewrite your application from the ground up, so that you can have some fresh ground to look over and not have people see the same lines again; otherwise it'd be a low effort app.

    I will say though that you've done a great job as an SL and occasionally XO, as well as having a big amount of support from the community that you've done great. I would've +1'd you from this under different circumstances...

    ...but I'll have to give this a -1 because of your app being a repost. I don't think your app is bad; I just think it could be, y'know, fresher. The app is, after all, a major part of applying for a CO and I'm sure the folks would like to see some new content laid out for them to see.

    Might not be the end of the world for you, though! If other people upvote your app regardless of this blunder then it'd still be good to see you in the captain's chair anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by naut View Post
    I've, uh, run your app and your previous app through a difference checker and found that your application now is basically exactly the same as your previous one (//showthrea...er-Application). The only actual difference is in your BE answer which, in part, doesn't have much of a difference to it either besides the deletion of a paragraph.

    To quote multiple statements made by moderators on the Discord:

    (Quote source: https://discordapp.com/channels/1503...83850646782001)

    My advice would be, like, to rewrite your application from the ground up, so that you can have some fresh ground to look over and not have people see the same lines again; otherwise it'd be a low effort app.

    I will say though that you've done a great job as an SL and occasionally XO, as well as having a big amount of support from the community that you've done great. I would've +1'd you from this under different circumstances...

    ...but I'll have to give this a -1 because of your app being a repost. I don't think your app is bad; I just think it could be, y'know, fresher. The app is, after all, a major part of applying for a CO and I'm sure the folks would like to see some new content laid out for them to see.

    Might not be the end of the world for you, though! If other people upvote your app regardless of this blunder then it'd still be good to see you in the captain's chair anyway.
    Yeah, I didn't make many updates to the app because the app itself was not the reason it was denied, it was denied due to a discord ban.

    But, if the whitelist council wants me to rewrite it and reapply it, I will. I just saw no reason to do so when there was no issue with the actual content of the application, it felt superfluous to do so.

    edit: spoke with some guys on Discord about it, they said it's not a big deal that I am using more or less the same app.
    Last edited by Just L; 03-31-2020 at 04:40 PM.

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    I know people that reposted their app and got accepted because they were denied for something else, no problems for that.

    Still +1

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    I WILL have to be remaining NEUTRAL on this application for the time being due to the fact that I do not see Orlando Blackburn as an XO very often. I will observe how you do as a ghost and SO and then make my decision.

    I do, however, want to let it be known that when Orlando Blackburn was Delta SL and I was his OW officer, the XO, he was very capable of leading his squad, and in all honesty may have been one of the reasons we won when things were looking glum. He clearly knows how to SL and I appreciate that. Play more XO and I will definitely hand you a +1.
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    I have never seen you as a XO or any other command role. However, I have seen you play quite a lot of SL and my experience with you were great. You can lead one squad effectively however leading 4 squads is very difficult and I want to see how do you do on these stressfull situations.
    I will remain neutral until I see you play XO and SO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fortelian View Post
    I WILL have to be remaining NEUTRAL on this application for the time being due to the fact that I do not see Orlando Blackburn as an XO very often. I will observe how you do as a ghost and SO and then make my decision.

    I do, however, want to let it be known that when Orlando Blackburn was Delta SL and I was his OW officer, the XO, he was very capable of leading his squad, and in all honesty may have been one of the reasons we won when things were looking glum. He clearly knows how to SL and I appreciate that. Play more XO and I will definitely hand you a +1.
    Quote Originally Posted by Victor Kleiner View Post
    I have never seen you as a XO or any other command role. However, I have seen you play quite a lot of SL and my experience with you were great. You can lead one squad effectively however leading 4 squads is very difficult and I want to see how do you do on these stressfull situations.
    I will remain neutral until I see you play XO and SO.
    Thanks for the advice, though I do want to try and convince you otherwise.

    Over the past couple of months, I have mostly been playing SL due to wanting to get more experience in leading from the front. If you guys have any questions you want to ask me about playing XO, I can answer them.

    I do play SO fairly often though, and I am usually selected by COs or XOs to be the one to either overwatch multiple squads, go down to the front line, or take over command of the operation when needed. Also, for what it's worth, I do have a few medals for playing SO/XO, if you want evidence of my skill as those roles. Most of the medals I have are for as squad leader, I believe I have about a dozen of them to the 3 or so for CIC roles.

    One of my first rounds as XO after I came back from taking a year or two long break was an LZ2 deployment on Ice Colony, with Aestel Wellick as the CO. As you know, Aestel is a fairly aggressive CO and often deploys to the front. I had to manage CIC mostly alone for the round, including multiple overwatch duty, supplies, and organization of the squads. A few times the CO went down, though I did make sure they were retrieved and revived consistently. The marine side did so well that round that we actually routed the xenos from the underground area on Ice and turned it into a bug hunt on the surface, which was actually pretty fun for an Ice round.

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    Still a +1 from me! Very good at coordinating attacks on tough positions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Just L View Post
    Yeah, I didn't make many updates to the app because the app itself was not the reason it was denied, it was denied due to a discord ban.

    But, if the whitelist council wants me to rewrite it and reapply it, I will. I just saw no reason to do so when there was no issue with the actual content of the application, it felt superfluous to do so.

    edit: spoke with some guys on Discord about it, they said it's not a big deal that I am using more or less the same app.
    Aight, if it ain’t a big deal then that was my only problem I had with ya. I did say I’d +1 you under different circumstances so I’ll change my vote to a +1 since you’ve proven yourself a capable SL and, as I mentioned earlier, good community support on your last app.

    Shame ya didn’t make it last time due to that discord hiccup! Hope you do get in now, though. Good luck!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by naut View Post
    Aight, if it ain’t a big deal then that was my only problem I had with ya. I did say I’d +1 you under different circumstances so I’ll change my vote to a +1 since you’ve proven yourself a capable SL and, as I mentioned earlier, good community support on your last app.

    Shame ya didn’t make it last time due to that discord hiccup! Hope you do get in now, though. Good luck!!
    Appreciate it. I spoke to smov and a few other guys on discord about it, you can check the channel there if you want to see.

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