LynuahSororitas - Commander Application

[LynuahSororitas]

Apreciate the vote of confidence, wont dissapoint your expectations and will improve as I improved from the last time.

[Axyinious]

I have reviewed this application and I have awaited more community input to it before responding. Now I have decided to vote.

Your answers are correct and make sense to me. You also provided us examples to your application's answers so more context is put into it and we know how you will deal with these situations ingame.

Besides ensuring the operation is working well and keeping the order in the Almayer, the role/job of Commanding Officer holds multiple purposes, from tactical, support, information and RP. And first of all, make the round a good experience for the marine side.

You are the one which majority of the Platoon looks after, you have the power to boost your marines morale in the field, pulling out flanks and helping with JTAC, healing marines with your medical skills and even help with Intel.

From the CIC and Almayer, you can relay information and enemy positions, load the OB, man Req, help with hauling objects and bodies out of the dropships, and, roleplaying.

As a CO, most of times, you are the main tool Event Mantainers and Staff members have to make events, as you are the leader of the marine force. Having the role of Captain doesnt only mean you have to be effective in combat and support but also be able to go along with events, crisis and roleplay situations that will happen from time to time.

Aye, good answer. Just remember that from an OOC view, you will have the additional job to ensure that the marines have a good round. Winning included, but the most important part about being a CO is that you can influence marines with your words and actions. You will have a much bigger responsibility for the marines than as a XO. A CO's OOC work is to provide a fun experience for all the marines and the crew too.

Since last time I applied, I focused on improving myself and my behaviour as Command roles, managing to improve and overcome past mistakes I have commited, that way being able to provide good rounds to the community. I do believe I learned everything I could in my countless hours playing as XO.

You have grinded A LOT of XO last month and this month. I have no doubts about your command experience. I have seen you countless times as a XO under you and you did a great work. I have also personally had you as my XO. Just remember to calm down if things do not go your way.

You have mounted up a good application, you asked around on how to improve since last time and has successfully done so. I have no problems with you too.

Your answers to other COs and naut's questions are extremely well done.

My only concerns are your recent slip ups and notes. From what I have seen, you are not a bad player and I 100% know you can improve as I have roleplayed and talked with you a lot of times so it does not worries me as much at it would if I haven't interacted with you once.
I believe that you will improve your behavior during this application process. Do not get more notes and you are fine.

Edit 1: During this application process, some have brought up good points about your note history. I have personally looked at these notes after my vote and I have seen repeated offenses that the Council should discuss. I will be withdrawing my vote and awaiting more feedback on you. I believe it is too early to decide this.

[LynuahSororitas]

Appreciate the heads up, may we have more space to roleplay between stomping xenos and running around CIC in a hurry.

[Memesky]

I already voted but as the application kept getting answers and I saw you more I started doubting my choice. I keep complaining about CO WL standards when I +1 you when you have an Improper Escalation note. I don't think you are bad at commanding, you are excellent at it and you played CMP when I asked you to do so. Thing is that one CMP round you played you got a Implant that was triggered by the word "fart", you also broke most of medbay windows around roundend.

Additionally, the concerns brought up by others are very valid, I have some that weren't mentioned as well. I think you're very lacking in marine law, you tried to get me arrested when I was CL today for prevarication when I asked for MPs to arrest you for attacking me. You also asked me if manslaughter was a crime.

Finally, you appear to have some issues with roleplay, and as was said temper issues, which is proven by the IE note. You have put effort into the application but I am not personally sure if you can be trusted with the privileges a CO has yet.

I believe you can get this whitelist if you go a month without notes and work on roleplay and marine law. Do not see this as a bad thing, even with this vote change you will probably get accepted given that a councillor supported this despite a note, which is a surprise to me.

Regardless, I wish you best of luck. Whatever the council decides will be fine. These are just my personal opinions on you and on how you can improve.

-1

[Fortelian]

I'm maintaining my +1 because I believe you can do the job, and you really want it. If you mess up, then you get in trouble, so I think it's fair to give you the benefit of the doubt here. But, don't mess up OK?

[Somenerd]

As you played XO a lot during the times I was also trying to XO, I've had a decent amount of experience watching your command style grow and change


I firmly believe you will make a good CO, as I've witnessed you progress. I can absolutely see where you have been falling lately (namely, LRP) but I have equally seen you on the other end of that scale and see that as an easily fixable issue.
You are absolutely determined to try out new strategies and are interested in the overall progression of a round and are absolutely willing to take flak from marines for decisions that they disagree with but that you believe are the best options, and you are able to explain pretty justified reasons for your choices when questioned (Namely, referring to LZ2 on Sorokyne where the entire marine force was bitching you out, but when I asked you gave a professional answer which made a lot of sense).


I do believe there are some potential behavioural problems which have cropped up recently but there is absolutely no reason to believe these aren't something that are easily passed, as I've seen you so much of the time.

+1 pls give me my XO rolls back

[smov]

I have to go on a negative vote here. I just witnessed one of your rounds as XO. You had some bald ass POs but you could have ordered people around way better and your way to deal with the pressure when things were not going your way was rather lackluster.

As a CO you will have moments where you simply have to trust your gut, since you have to addapt and improve to the current situation and I simply do not feel you have that in you yet, therefore I am not comfortable in giving you my support right now.

Good luck !


-1

[Snezhinka]

I have spent abit of time with you as CO and some time with you as a PFC

When I was CO, you always gave off bad vibes. Probably because you're so uptight. But that's just my personal opinion that's quite irrelevant. You have however shown me that you know how to handle CIC in general, so that's good.

Your reputation amongst the marines however seems to be questionable. People I trust seem to dislike you and have called you a number of names. Some of them think you're a liability and a waste of important roles outside of CIC.

Because of this feedback, I do worry how you would handle the marines with the Marine Law because I can tell that you're about to piss off quite a number of people in the future if you're to be Captain. Thus, kindly answer my questions related to Marine Law;

(Assuming you're promoted to Captain already)
1) During briefing, an infamous marine tosses a smoke grenade under your feet out of spite as you're about to give your orders. How would you handle this situation with no MPs or SOs?
2) Marines have deployed and Delta has completely ignored your orders. Things are starting to look bad and they are about to turn the blame to you. Delta/Command Comms are getting heated. How will you handle this?
3) A specialist marine is being arrested for Disorderly Conduct before first drop for fighting in the RO line. The marine's squad deem the arrest was unjust and they want the specialist to be dropped. Thus, they've begun to interfere with the arrest. What will you do?

These are things that happen quite often.

[LynuahSororitas]

I have to go on a negative vote here. I just witnessed one of your rounds as XO. You had some bald ass POs but you could have ordered people around way better and your way to deal with the pressure when things were not going your way was rather lackluster

Thanks for the feedback, anyway if a scenario like that one happened again, how do you think I could handle it in a better way?

[LynuahSororitas]

I thought I had no problems with you but alright, if you could say where I acted wrong in your point of view, it would help a lot, either here or on Discord.

Now proceeding to your questions:
1) During briefing, an infamous marine tosses a smoke grenade under your feet out of spite as you're about to give your orders. How would you handle this situation with no MPs or SOs?

I will use example of a low pop scenario where we usually don’t have CIC crew or MPs most of times, if a marine tried to disrupt briefing with a smoke grenade once, I would choose to warn the marine one time and proceed with briefing as stoping there just to give a NJP for Hooliganism to someone would only disrupt the briefing even more and delay the operation. But if he refused to comply and kept throwing grenades non stop to the point I couldn’t continue with briefing, I would have to arrest him for Disordely Conduct due excessive briefing disruption that not only prejudiced the operation but his fellow squad mates that wish to deploy.

2)Marines have deployed and Delta has completely ignored your orders. Things are starting to look bad and they are about to turn the blame to you. Delta/Command Comms are getting heated. How will you handle this?

I would try to settle things down either talking with the marines or the SL through Command comms for an easier response in what led to this, after listening to them and their reasons, I would adapt a new course of action or plan with their input to fit the current situation using strategies that work and that they wish to follow, that way looking the squad to be part of our plan that had their opinion on it and not part of THE plan.

3) A specialist marine is being arrested for Disorderly Conduct before first drop for fighting in the RO line. The marine's squad deem the arrest was unjust and they want the specialist to be dropped. Thus, they've begun to interfere with the arrest. What will you do?

First of all, if I am right, interfering with an arrest is an OOC issue since some time ago and marines are forbidden to do it, so it could be ahelped.

After the Specialist is arrested and his charges stated, he haves the right to request an appeal, I would go to the Brig to listen to his side of the story and the evidences provided against him, analyse the reasons and motives he had were reasonable and the appeal up to standards, after that I would decide on pardoning him or not and inform him about the result, if pardoned I would inform his squad the situation was dealt with and the Specialist was now free, if the appeal was denied, I would inform the squad the same way, with all the details and the reason he was found guilty and had his appeal refused.

Anyway, independent of the result, thanks for the good feedback and chance to answers questions before giving your final decision.