Blazer Macintosh - CO Application

[Blazer]

Byond ID: Kavaj

Player name you use the most: Blazer Macintosh

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 None

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

Do you understand how the Battlefield Execution functions? Yes. Battlefield Execution is the Final Method of discipline. it's to be used only if the person is considered a threat to the operation. Before conducting an Execution you have to make an Announcement giving the reason of said Execution. No matter what you mustn't Execute an MP-CMP for any reason. the CO mustn't get his hands Dirty by executing anyone as he is only allowed to Observe. you can't Execute anyone who is detained or are under the Protection of the Military Police. basically don't be Stalin.

Do you understand you are not above Marine law, or allowed to enforce it yourself? Yes.

What do you think is the job of a Commander? You are the leader of a USCM battalion. specifically Commander of the of the 7th Falling Falcons. Your job is to Ensure the Operational success and to make sure that all departments are properly working. another aspect of the commander is to keep the game fun.

If a member of your staff is disobeying orders, how would you handle it? if he doesn't break RP or kill anyone I would ask why he is disobeying and if need be yell, if he then still doesn't do the task I ordered I would call an MP as a single person disobeying could put the whole Operation at risk.

Why should you be whitelisted? i am quite competent in position of command, I have been playing games like SS13 for years. if anyone remembers the Arma 2 Rise RP server i spent 5 of my 7 years Playing in command positions for the OPFOR faction. and I like to think I make the game more fun and fair for everyone involved. I have also played
my way up the chain of command, I know what's fun and what to do.

[DefinitelyAlone0309]

The choice of color makes your app a hassle to read through, but I have seen you play as SO before (He edited the color from purple text to white) Haven't seen you play as XO yet, though that could be due to time zone difference.

I'll stay with a neutral for now, but you still have decent answers. Can you tell me any plan you have to at least diversify LV's FOB ?

[z a n e b o t]

Yeah, color of the app is very hard to read. Haven't really noticed you ingame in command roles.

Staying neutral until I see you more.

[DriedMilk]

Saw you make an attempt at a half-assed mutiny over the CO accepting 'bribes' rather than consulting the proper autorithies such as the CMP. The mutiny had very little RP going on and just ended up in a firefight between the CO, you and a SO (alongside the CMP firing his taser like a madman).


-1

[Jakkkk]

From the poor grammar, to the forum account only being made just so he can make a CO application (five posts say a lot), this is a definite -1 for me.

[forest2001]

I would like to state that there was no mutiny. It was the CO framing him to hide taking bribes. Gunfire was defence from attempted murder/BE, that’s full OOC truth. The commander faked the mutiny. For reference I was the SO the CO executed (while I was unconscious)

[Blazer]

From the poor grammar to the forum account only being made just so he can make a CO application (five posts say a lot), this is a definite -1 for me.

My education hasn't been the best so please excuse any mistakes in my Grammar :> I made this account around 15 days ago and I never had the plans on playing anything higher than SL, but seeing as I never liked the command staff I wanted to try XO and see if I could have a better RP and gameplay Experience and I did. I hope you really aren't judging me based off of the fact I haven't made many posts as I just feel I don't have anything to contribute to most posts.

[Blazer]

Saw you make an attempt at a half-assed mutiny over the CO accepting 'bribes' rather than consulting the proper autorithies such as the CMP. The mutiny had very little RP going on and just ended up in a firefight between the CO, you and a SO (alongside the CMP firing his taser like a madman).


-1

We had 3 SO's watch what happened. you don't have to believe me but here's my side of the story. a spec came in with diamonds, our CO gave her a nuclear code floppy disk and a medal. I asked him what they were doing, he said to stay out of it. I asked him if he was bribing the Spec or vice-versa. he then pulled his gun out. I tried telling the MP's and the CO attacked me he then called the MP's to arrest me for mutiny. I got onto Comms and I made a single announcement stating that the CO is bribing or being bribed and was trying to get me arrested for catching him. after a bit of talking and waiting for the MP's an SO came over and watched our little debacle a few minutes later the MP's show up and we all talk for about 10 minutes. then I tried getting back on comms to order the marines around. he then pushed me out and tried to shoot me. we got into a firefight then the MP got involved they tried killing me and tazing me. the SO joined in the fight at some point to try and break up the fight. in the end, the SO was murdered by the CO and I was tazed and branded a criminal. it wasn't my best RP moment but I still at the end RP'ed the entire time even if it wasn't top quality. But thanks for reminding me of this round as I was quite proud of my Marines as they did a fucking fantastic job.

[Sneakyr]

Okey dokey. I wasn't going to comment on this shambles since I was the CO in that shit stew of that round where you went ballistic with your gun, at least until you started telling outright lies and decided that this had to be an issue past the round it was in. I figured it was water under the bridge, until now.

Here's what happened, really.
Before any of the CIC gunfighting, I join late as CO about 46-56 ish minutes in. The whole time I'm present I can feel you bristling under my authority and you don't even acknowledge me for the first half of my time until I remind you of my existence and ensure that you know that I'm in charge. Since I don't want to rain on your parade since you've been in command so long (and since I thought I wouldn't have known the situation as well) I mostly handle things shipside, such as talking with prisoners and writing a fax to HC to fix a dropship bug and give you space to run things.

Here's where you went apeshit.
Nadia Luna comes in to the CIC with alien blood, a nuclear authentication disk, and diamonds from the colony. I ask her if she's delivered some of these things to research already, she says yes. She also mentions as I try to usher her out (the MP let her in to give me these things) that she killed three xenos. To make her round special and because she obviously wanted one so bad, I decide to give her the most minor medal since her actions (mostly killing the xenos) would warrant such a thing. I print the medal with the reasons, set it aside, and all of a sudden, in near perfect sync, Alpha SO comes down from his workstation and the XO turns to me and says something along the lines of "Are you bribing marines commander?" which I think you meant to say (judging by your actions and how you properly said it later) "Are you accepting bribes for medals commander?". I get suspicious a bit and decide that you need to be reminded once again who's in charge. I say to you "No, I'm not taking bribes, XO. Even if I was, it's none of your business. Sit down." At this point, the LT jumps in with some asinine comments supporting you (I believe it was "everyone in the CIC saw it) which I didn't take too much stock in since I knew you were bristling under me the entire time and were causing problems.
You reply with something along the lines of (only the first half or so is word for word) "On the contrary, if you are accepting bribes it is my business/that's illegal (one of those two). I immediately jump to this being some ploy to remove me from power since two guys very suddenly siding with each other out of nowhere is either that or metabuddying/comming (which I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on).
Realizing that this is going to go south very fast and I don't want to BE you and the SO even though you're both so obviously retarded, I call the MPs. You start going apeshit in the comms trying to incite everyone to rebel against me by saying shit like "CO ACCEPTING BRIBES FOR MEDALS" over radio and even make a goddamn announcement about it. As soon as the CMP arrives, I can sense that you're preparing to bolt for the door so I close the CIC shutters and push you out of the glass container. I stand next to the button, draw my mateba, say "Don't touch this console" and then re-holster it as a clear sign that I will BE you if and only if you touch the buttons to escape.
After more bitching and more announcements while I have to simultaneously order the WO to cuff you over and over and over again before you bolt or pull a gun and telling the crew that the situation is being handled, I finally get through to the WO that he needs to cuff both you and the SO and then we can speak about what the fuck kind of stunt you were pulling. I even explicitly state that we will talk about this rationally as soon as you are both restrained.
As SOON as this happens, you make a break for the CIC shutter button. Since I know you're going to escape and then probably hide while shitting up the radio with mutinous lies, I decide that what has to be done has to be done and fire a mateba round at you. While I was perfectly fine with it missing (as did all my shots since I forgot that you have to two hand handguns now) and leaving you alive as long as you stayed away from the button and was about to say so, you drew your gun and started shooting at me back. At this point it devolves into an all out gunfight with the WO having taken too long to restrain both of you and you shooting at him, me, and even an LT who was just walking past trying to get us to break it up. The SO that was randomly on your side also pops in and started shooting at the WO and I despite having no threats made towards him except arrest or even really being addressed specifically. I continue to miss because I'm too retarded to two hand my gun and the WO eventually tases the SO (who is then admin slept and I execute while on the ground, since I both didn't know that he was slept nor was he cuffed) and you who I leave alive since you're obviously about to be cuffed and we can do a proper trial.
The round ends at about this point and I am healed by medical staff and also talking in admin PMs. While I'm talking in admin PMs, either you or the crony decide to go into OOC to spread blatant lies that only supported your point of view with one of the few things I get to say between the end and the beginning of next round are "what the fuck happened with the XO".

Even the shitty, one sentence apps have not received such a vitriolic response from me. Seeing you whitelisted as commander would be a literal travesty of justice after the shit you pulled today. I'm not the one who makes the decisions on these, clearly, and while I'd be willing to think about tossing in support for a second app many moons from now after you've shaped the fuck up, this app being accepted would be one of the worst whitelist decisions ever made in CM history.

[forest2001]

The reason it escalated is because you ordered the MPs to CIC with claims of mutiny which didn’t happen. Had you fully explained the situation it’s likely nothing like that would have happened, surely you would see the collection of diamonds and other contraband from the planet and then the receival is a medal is not exactly something you see every day and warrants a certain amount of suspicion. Overall I cannot completely say who is at fault, only that mistakes were made and you drastically escalated it by claiming mutiny. The line “I’m not taking bribes, even if I was it’s none of your business” does not, or did not, help your case.

As for my coming down to interact, I could hear the xo comments but not yours so I moved to see what was going on.

[Sneakyr]

The reason it escalated is because you ordered the MPs to CIC with claims of mutiny which didn’t happen. Had you fully explained the situation it’s likely nothing like that would have happened, surely you would see the collection of diamonds and other contraband from the planet and then the receival is a medal is not exactly something you see every day and warrants a certain amount of suspicion. Overall I cannot completely say who is at fault, only that mistakes were made and you drastically escalated it by claiming mutiny. The line “I’m not taking bribes, even if I was it’s none of your business” does not, or did not, help your case.

As for my coming down to interact, I could hear the xo comments but not yours so I moved to see what was going on.

This is just false. The XO said that the MPs would hear about it and I called them immediately after he said that. You two only received mutiny accusatioms after yiu started on the radio, blatantly ignored any defense or reasoning I gave, and the XO loitering around the shutters button.
The only thing that I will apologize for is the salty tone of the of the above post. It was childish and unnecessary.

[Blazer]

Okey dokey. I wasn't going to comment on this shambles since I was the CO in that shit stew of that round where you went ballistic with your gun, at least until you started telling outright lies and decided that this had to be an issue past the round it was in. I figured it was water under the bridge, until now.

Here's what happened, really.
Before any of the CIC gunfighting, I join late as CO about 46-56 ish minutes in. The whole time I'm present I can feel you bristling under my authority and you don't even acknowledge me for the first half of my time until I remind you of my existence and ensure that you know that I'm in charge. Since I don't want to rain on your parade since you've been in command so long (and since I thought I wouldn't have known the situation as well) I mostly handle things shipside, such as talking with prisoners and writing a fax to HC to fix a dropship bug and give you space to run things.

Here's where you went apeshit.
Nadia Luna comes in to the CIC with alien blood, a nuclear authentication disk, and diamonds from the colony. I ask her if she's delivered some of these things to research already, she says yes. She also mentions as I try to usher her out (the MP let her in to give me these things) that she killed three xenos. To make her round special and because she obviously wanted one so bad, I decide to give her the most minor medal since her actions (mostly killing the xenos) would warrant such a thing. I print the medal with the reasons, set it aside, and all of a sudden, in near perfect sync, Alpha SO comes down from his workstation and the XO turns to me and says something along the lines of "Are you bribing marines commander?" which I think you meant to say (judging by your actions and how you properly said it later) "Are you accepting bribes for medals commander?". I get suspicious a bit and decide that you need to be reminded once again who's in charge. I say to you "No, I'm not taking bribes, XO. Even if I was, it's none of your business. Sit down." At this point, the LT jumps in with some asinine comments supporting you (I believe it was "everyone in the CIC saw it) which I didn't take too much stock in since I knew you were bristling under me the entire time and were causing problems.
You reply with something along the lines of (only the first half or so is word for word) "On the contrary, if you are accepting bribes it is my business/that's illegal (one of those two). I immediately jump to this being some ploy to remove me from power since two guys very suddenly siding with each other out of nowhere is either that or metabuddying/comming (which I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on).
Realizing that this is going to go south very fast and I don't want to BE you and the SO even though you're both so obviously retarded, I call the MPs. You start going apeshit in the comms trying to incite everyone to rebel against me by saying shit like "CO ACCEPTING BRIBES FOR MEDALS" over radio and even make a goddamn announcement about it. As soon as the CMP arrives, I can sense that you're preparing to bolt for the door so I close the CIC shutters and push you out of the glass container. I stand next to the button, draw my mateba, say "Don't touch this console" and then re-holster it as a clear sign that I will BE you if and only if you touch the buttons to escape.
After more bitching and more announcements while I have to simultaneously order the WO to cuff you over and over and over again before you bolt or pull a gun and telling the crew that the situation is being handled, I finally get through to the WO that he needs to cuff both you and the SO and then we can speak about what the fuck kind of stunt you were pulling. I even explicitly state that we will talk about this rationally as soon as you are both restrained.
As SOON as this happens, you make a break for the CIC shutter button. Since I know you're going to escape and then probably hide while shitting up the radio with mutinous lies, I decide that what has to be done has to be done and fire a mateba round at you. While I was perfectly fine with it missing (as did all my shots since I forgot that you have to two hand handguns now) and leaving you alive as long as you stayed away from the button and was about to say so, you drew your gun and started shooting at me back. At this point it devolves into an all out gunfight with the WO having taken too long to restrain both of you and you shooting at him, me, and even an LT who was just walking past trying to get us to break it up. The SO that was randomly on your side also pops in and started shooting at the WO and I despite having no threats made towards him except arrest or even really being addressed specifically. I continue to miss because I'm too retarded to two hand my gun and the WO eventually tases the SO (who is then admin slept and I execute while on the ground, since I both didn't know that he was slept nor was he cuffed) and you who I leave alive since you're obviously about to be cuffed and we can do a proper trial.
The round ends at about this point and I am healed by medical staff and also talking in admin PMs. While I'm talking in admin PMs, either you or the crony decide to go into OOC to spread blatant lies that only supported your point of view with one of the few things I get to say between the end and the beginning of next round are "what the fuck happened with the XO".

Even the shitty, one sentence apps have not received such a vitriolic response from me. Seeing you whitelisted as commander would be a literal travesty of justice after the shit you pulled today. I'm not the one who makes the decisions on these, clearly, and while I'd be willing to think about tossing in support for a second app many moons from now after you've shaped the fuck up, this app being accepted would be one of the worst whitelist decisions ever made in CM history.

"This response might be a tad jumbled as I just woke up" Every action I took was within roleplay and reason, there was No Mutiny and there was No attempt to overthrow you for personal or other reasons. Now all of this happened with around 15 minutes left in the game as we had wiped out the main hive and the Xenos only had a few smaller aliens left. Not sure why you would think I would attempt to start a COUP with such little reason and time to do so. as for the OOC bit, I was venting about the round and talking about the operation and what happened to you and my self. I didn't lie or stretch the truth in any way as this is my word against yours there is no proving 100% of what happened but we did have 3 SO's in the CIC at the time Forest being one of them Now total transparency he is a friend of mine. is what he's saying biased? No, he couldn't give a fuck if I were to have my application denied. Now if I could touch on the overall radio bits what I did and said was within roleplay at the moment it seemed you were trying to have me killed for watching you take bribes - give bribes so I did what I thought was the best for Roleplay and Gameplay at that time Now would i have done the same thing today? No, because after looking at what happened from both sides it's quite clear the entire debacle was a huge waste of time for both of us and everyone involved. as for opening the CIC shutters were purely for more people to enter and watch what was happening, once again the game was over at this point so there wasn't a reason to hide and attempt to start a COUP. look your response is quite clearly a biased attempt to keep your CO position as you are attempting to make you're self-look fantastic, and that's fine but attempting to slander my name over what I now see as a misunderstanding is childish. we both clearly misunderstood what each other's plans were and this whole debacle shouldn't have happened. I won't defend my self anymore in this post as there is No real reason to and I think it's fair to say something like this isn't going to happen again as we both should have learned from this how to better handle a situation like this. I am sure I could have written out my points better but my mind is everywhere as a major life event just happened so please take some of my first points with a grain of salt :>

[Sneakyr]

I've said my piece here and made my one apology. I only came to this thread because of the utter lies and the attempts of you and your crony to paint me as the villain.
I could say how this:

look your response is quite clearly a biased attempt to keep your CO position as you are attempting to make you're self-look fantastic, and that's fine but attempting to slander my name over what I now see as a misunderstanding is childish.

and then later your attempt to end this line of discussion is either just bait or defensive ramblings, but I won't go into detail. Personally, I'm surprised you aren't banned as you admitted that the guy who spontaneously jumped to your defense was your OOC friend and your improper escalation by shooting the CMP and your friend's improper escalation by shooting at all.
Unless you re-engage wild stories and personal attacks mode, I'm out of here.

[edda]

Your responses to criticism are poor. You need to play more command roles to be better recognized. -1 for now.

[Blazer]

Your responses to criticism are poor. You need to play more command roles to be better recognized. -1 for now.

I have been playing command staff at least 3 games a day for the past 5 days. granted, I am mostly playing in the early morning when we only have around 80/100 people

[CSolaris]

A lot of the COs currently have been playing command staff for well over 3 games a day, for 5 days. Compared to them, you're still fresh meat.

[Park]

My issue with voting in favor of you comes in two points: the Application itself and Applicant Experience. Compared to most CO applications the length of this one does not inspire confidence in your capability of being able handle the role. Overall, the application seems rushed, incomplete, and poorly written; in other words it displays traits that I know personally I do not look forward seeing in the highest ranking officer on the Almayer. Coupled with my qualms with this application I have an issue with the amount of Command experience you are presenting. It is nice to see that you have been playing XO, '3 games a day for 5 days' however compared to other applicants vying to be whitelisted as CO this is 'chump change'. I appreciate the tenacity in making this application; however, if this was submitted after a longer period of game play to allow the community to get a better understanding of both your skills in command and to get to know you as an individual I am sure there would have been less hesitation to approve you to being whitelisted.

Do not give up in trying to become CO, we always need new blood in command. I wish to see more of you in the role but for now it'll be a
-1.

[Clutch]

Youve only been here for a small amount of time and it seems you aren't that well experienced, i've only seen you one round which was the mutiny round.

Your replies here weren't that great and it seems you have a problem with taking critiscm -1 from me.

Try to play SO more and then decide if you have what it takes to play XO and then think about making another CO application with more experience under your belt.

[Blazer]

I will take everything said into account. The next time I make an Application I will make sure I have the proper skills and time. I request this Application to be denied as clearly, I have faults that need to be worked on.

[Bancrose]

I'm going to blunt with you, there is not alot of effort in this application. While I understand english isn't your first language I'd reccomend at the very least to beef the sentences up with more information.

Now I have been your CO a few times now and while things have not been bad, you haven't had that much time in the command roles it would seem. Not many posts and you don't seem all that well known yet. I'm staying neutral and leaning towards the -1 for now. I'd suggest logging some more time in the Command roles and I am a bit more inclined to believe Frankie, I think you should clean up your act a little bit if that is how you want to earn this whitelist.

[SaltyMouthful]

I have seen Blazer quite a few times in the seat as an XO. Honestly, they make a good effort, but they still seem naive to the role. Im sure with more effort and practice they can meet the standard, but as of now I must stick with a:

-1 leaning to a neutral.

[NescauComToddy]

To start, it is notable that there was not much effort in making your application. Of course, especially for this specific whitelisted role, your application does not need to be 'highly' detailed, but it's not comparable to the others accepted, unfortunately. I recommend that you read some of the accepted applications to understand which typesetting is favored in an app.

As some others have said, it is advised that you play as XO, SO during high-pop, more precisely at night. For now, you appear not to be so well recognized, so this will improve this issue. Lately, I have not had the chance to observe you playing because of this, so I will not give an impression of your ability to lead.

Now, as much as this is something I have not witnessed, the experience that Sneaky brought to the surface got my attention: an executive officer, loyal to the command structure of a military institution, would not point fingers at the commander as swiftly as in the way you did. The situation was conducive to an explanation, but from what I understood, you did not give him a chance to explain how futile your judgment was and why of such.

To you, soon after to continue quoting that the CO was accepting bribes without evidence or investigation, with the intention to provoke chaos, shows that you are not prepared for this role still.

In making accusations and firing at your commander, and having and minding your attitude before and after what has occurred, this act is clearly a sign of a mutiny.

You need to be more active during high-pop, and this recent event between you and a commander is not very convenient to your app.

-1

Good luck.

[MattAtlas]

I've seen your XO play and it's... not really good. Your responses to the app are not good, and you don't respond to criticism well.

CO/XO are high stress roles and you're expected to either take criticism or ignore bullshit criticism that only serves to rile you up. You fail at doing both.

I'm gonna have to go with a -1.

[NGGJamie]

Denied

Excessive opposition.