Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Ladwhy
Date of Incident September 3, 2020
Your Character Name? Dimitri Reznov
Their BYOND Key Mvp77
Approximate time and date of the incident 4:40 AM EST
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken 3. Determine the seriousness of the issue
5. Determine the punishment.
a. Determine the bare minimum punishment. There's no reason to jump straight to a ban, especially if the incident didn't cause a major disruption to the game.
Preserve the RP and enjoyment of the server
Description of the incident So I joined a round as XO with the name Dimitri Reznov, not being the first time with this name.
It was prison and, not to meta, I mentioned that we need to escort a high-threat prisoner from High-Sec, named Dragovich, a real Russian name. I gave him a codename, that being Kingfish(mil-sim RP, duh).
Everything was going fine and dandy, pushing the xenos back and whatever, until Mr. mvp77 PMs me telling that I am imitating Viktor Reznov from Black Ops.
I was given a note not even a week ago, when I joined with the name Viktor Reznov and I understood not to be a clone in CM. Now, in mvp's eyes, I was imitating Viktor, but I was not. I didn't join with the name Viktor Reznov, I didn't say his phrases from the game etc.
To note, also, I kept playing many rounds as the same character this week and I wasn't PMed up until this point. So he DMed me saying something along the lines that he thinks I imitate the COD character and me, respectfully, deny that. I was saying "Comrade (rank)", which is not a reference to the game.
I then proceed to ask him if he has a problem with people RPing or something like that, or am I going to end up like Windhealer and Juro. I am then met with a "you're getting banned for 3 hours" PM.
Now, why do I think the protocols were breached? Let's start with:
3. Determine the seriousness of the issue - I was doing no harm by playing a russian character that was saying "Comrade" and not going meta every round, like others do. A little bit of RP doesn't do any bad to the enjoyement of the round and no one complained at briefing, they rather enjoyed that they were given special tasks(for example, alpha had to establish a checkpoint at canteen so the prisoner couldn't escape)
5. Determine the punishment.
a. Determine the bare minimum punishment. There's no reason to jump straight to a ban, especially if the incident didn't cause a major disruption to the game. - Did I cause a major disruption to the game? No, not at all, we can argue that not even a minor disruption. The punishment was way over the line.
Preserve the RP and enjoyment of the server - Self explanatory, let people roleplay, we're a MRP server after all.
Evidence Logs will do.
How you would punish the accused Remove the note saying that I was banned for 3 hours and probably a talk with said mod about how there are people who want to RP in this server and not just meta every round they can.