Staff Report
Your BYOND Key Crimson Imperator
Date of Incident July 14, 2021
Your Character Name? Nicholas "Locust" Pershing
Their BYOND Key Clairion
Approximate time and date of the incident 11:00 - 1:30 roughly
Which Staff Protocols (//showthrea...-and-Protocols) were broken I believe that Clairion broke the 3rd rule in the staff code of conduct: Preserve the RP and enjoyment of the server.
Description of the incident I have been working for a number of days on building a chute automation network which can toss items in a constant loop, in a 1 wide corridor. in a fashion which could block off an area or be used for roller coasters. There are also a number of applications for this, but clairion assumed wrongly that its only purpose was for making defense networks. It COULD be a defense network, but just as easily could be a cool roller coaster for the marines to ride on. I ahelped to ask clairion if it would be ok if I used a pipe schematic to fight xenos using a defense network setup. They assumed the prototype I was working on was me building a WORKING version to fight the xenos. I stated multiple times that it was only being built to test the pipe tetris, and was not a working final version. They gave me a note for “metagaming” because I was TESTING the tetris, trying to see if it was even possible. They also told me to “go test it on your own server”, in case you didn’t know, pipes are incredibly broken. Like designs I have made on live server do not work on test server and vice versa. The previous version I made I HAD made on a private server, it worked on the private server, and failed on the live one because pipes taking corners too fast randomly explode in random vectors. Another time I built a machine and it did not work because the trunks did not actually connect properly. They also strangely enough asked me to remove it, even though it was not even a working prototype. I was curious about if any other stairwells might work but I could not test them for fear of getting a ban, for building pipe tetris. I spent the rest of the round drinking because I could not do any of the stuff I wanted to do, under threat of ban. All I wanted to do was to build another version of the tetris to do prototyping, instead I got to sit there doing nothing because clairion said pipe automation was “metagaming”.
Evidence Check the logs, but I have some pictures of the machines if you want to see what I have been making, just message me at Red Imperator #1507 on discord.
How you would punish the accused If I were making a ruling on what should have been done, I would have just labelled it an IC issue. No one was being harmed and people were having a great time, such as Khalif ‘Mike’ Jordan, who was helping me construct it. By outlawing pipe automation I feel a significant part of the creativity of CM is effectively erased, not for the better either.