Player Report
Your Byond ID? FrogZeke
Date of Incident April 3, 2022
Your Character Name? Day
Accused Byond Key(if known): SolidFury7
Accused Character Name MP-347-Z
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) 4-3-2022 12:45pm
What rule(s) were broken: Rule 2, 3, 6
Description of the incident: Nathan, the synthvivor, was not near any human survivors, acting as a neutral party by repairing the southern water filtration plant. This opens the map to both the marines and xenos, and even prevents larva from suicide in the contaminated water due to lag or other issues. Even though the queen realized this, and told the hive, 'Feel free to swim'. MPZ took that as the opportunity to encourage the hive to not only attack a neutral synthetic, but pushed for the synth to be dragged off to an unknown location to prevent them from being found and otherwise repaired.
To quote the wiki:
Rule 2: Roleplay, Freedom: Aliens have no free will. They are a hivemind, and their purpose is to enforce the will of the Queen and expand the Hive. MPZ acted beyond the queen's view that this was a neutral act, and encouraged the hive to attack a neutral agent.
Rule 3: Community Expectations, Don't be a dick. This is a game to have fun, while respecting other players. Dragging a synthetic to parts unknown for the sake of permanently killing them borders on metatargeting. The serious issue is that the player has had conversations in synthetic chat to encourage synthvivors to be neutral for the sake of RP. I applaud this idea. But when IC actions are the complete opposite of this, this amounts to baiting other players into a false sense of security for the sake of doing the exact opposite. Lying to players in OOC for the sake of an IC advantage is a serious problem. I will post screenshots from #synthetic-units in evidence.
Rule 6: No Metagaming. MPZ is a whitelisted synthetic, and knows exactly what he was doing by encouraging this action. The player understands what it means to be dragged to an unknown location to be destroyed. It is the likely permanent end to the synthvivor's round. It is one thing to do those actions to a synthvivor that is acting in support of survivors or marines, but this is the circumstance of a neutral party. The player makes it a point to gib synthvivors as queen, but without that ability as hivelord, he calls for similar behavior. There was no IC reason for that, and combined with the OCC communications on discord, this amounts to metatargeting.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc):
What resolution are you seeking? If there is any merit to this report, I expect a warning and a note on the player, and anything else that staff deems appropriate. This is not okay behavior for any player, let alone a member of staff and a synth whitelisted player as they should be held to higher standards.
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