Colonial Marines Character: Julio 'Ay-Caramba' Borras, Christoph 'Panzer' Hund, Sometimes I play Xeno as well
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Timezone: EST GMT -5:00
On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate?
- At least 20, more or less depending on my work schedule and if I'm working my side gig as hospital security which gives me access to play
- I was an admin on an Altis Life server for over a year for ArmA 3 called Reborn Roleplay. It was considered a RP server and my job was to moderate in-game, and handle stuff on the forums such as player reports, unban appeals, compensation requests
- Over 10+ years ago I ran a small private SS13 server using the default game mode, and this was hosted with the Something Awful community.
- No
- Mostly Goonstation, sometimes Aurora, and sometimes WW2/WW13
- https://cm-ss13.com/viewtopic.php?f=142&t=17692 - Commander Application (Accepted)
- I made a private mentor application about a month or two ago that was sent to Jerkface
- No
- No
- No
- Yes my old ArmA 3 community used it before moving to discord
Write a description of what you would do in each of the following situations. Do not write on the same line as the situation - use the space below it or make space as needed. Failure to do this proves your inability to follow instructions and your application will be automatically denied.
1. A player randomly shoots someone at round start and MPs have detained him.
- Investigate the situation and send the player a message, find out the reason for the shooting. Check logs, and determine if this was an accident or intentional. If it was an accident, let the MP's handle it with roleplay, and just remind the player how to turn the gun safety on to prevent future accidents.
- If it was intentional investigate if there was any roleplay behind it, and the reasoning for the shooting. If there was proper roleplay, continue to let the MPs handle it as a violation of marine law. If there was no or improper roleplay then I would determine a punishment for breaking Rule 16 regarding lethal force. Check notes and issue a warning or a ban following staff procedures depending on note history
2. The ship has a breach to space and a bunch of players have died or are dying as a result.
- Seeing as this is not supposed to happen now from past research, repair the hull breech first and foremost. Not sure if moderators have the ability to do so, but attempt the heal the players who have died/dying or request an admin if they're in game to do it. Investigate and determine how the breech happened. If it was intentional by a player, I would check notes and apply an appropriate punishment for violating Rule 2 regarding not to be a dick. If it was an accident and this happened because of a bug or glitch, I would take the extra step further to talk to the player and find out what he/she did so the details can be made into a bug report for the development team.
- Send them a friendly message asking if they new and need help. If so, contact a mentor online to assist them. If no mentors are online, I will assist them the best I can by linking them the wiki, forums, rules, etc... and answering any questions they may have.
- Verbal Judo, depending on the situation I will explain to the person I'm trying to help or investigate a situation and get their side. I will explain that I am the one assisting them or speaking to them while not being a jerk about it. Explain to the player that although they may be angry about the situation, if they feel I'm doing anything wrong they can contact a higher up after the situation is over or file a report on the forums. If they're being a real jerk and start cursing at me and telling me to "fuck off" I would issue a 3 hour ban as a cooling off period, and make a note about it and why i did it.
- Explain to the player although they may have been using it, that it's a violation of the rules. I would send that player a link to the rules, and give a quick explanation about how intellectual property works if they're using a character name from the Lore (EX: Ellen Ripley). Check the players note history, and see if they have been warned before. If not, make a note that I requested they change the name.
- In-character issue as it's a violation of Marine Law. If I encounter the player while playing normally, I would keep things in character and say "Hey dude, what's with the guns, we're at code green. Is there a hostile on board or something?" "You better be careful of the MP's guy, they will arrest you for violating marine law with guns at code green."
- Inform the player this is a violation of Rule 4 and Rule 19 for power gaming/acting like your role. Remind them that the combat medics job is to stabilize the causality for transport to the medbay on the ship for further diagnosis/surgery/treatment. Check notes and if the player has no history, issue them a warning and note it. If there is a extensive history of not acting the role, I would issue an appropriate punishment following standard escalation procedures or a job ban from combat medic.
- I would send a message to the queen and explain to her that now is the time to avenge her fallen daughters, and use her song to get the bird to fly down. I would encourage her to invade the hosts hive and rebuild her family.
- I would send a high command fax or use the ability to tell the commander in their head "Now is the time to regroup and attack them. High Command and The Company will not tolerate failure or cowardice."
9. The round ends, a MARINE starts shooting a hostile CLF member and the CLF member Adminhelps complaining he was killed after the round ended.
- Politely tell the CLF that it is not against the rules as they are both hostile factions, and EORG does not apply in this situation.
- Investigate the situation and determine if there is any roleplay behind it. If there is no roleplay than explain to the player what they're doing is a violation of Rule 3 and they are griefing. Check notes and determine an appropriate punishment following escalation policies. If the note history is clear, issue a warning, if there are previous violations, issue a ban following banning policies.
- After investigating the situation explain to the player what they did was a violation of rule 16 for lethal force. Explain how escalation works, and that a fist fight does not mean they can shoot someone. Ask an admin to heal the player who was the victim if possible. Check notes and determine an appropriate punishment following escalation policies. If the note history is clear, issue a warning, if there are previous violations, issue a ban following banning policies.
- Check if an admin is in game and ask for their assistance on msay. If no admins are in game, contact one on Slack and explain the situation to them.
- Explain to the player that sometimes minor offensive stuff can happen in-character and that the player can say something back in-character such as "Hey guys to far, knock off that crap!" Monitor what's being said and only step in if something crosses the line.
- Investigate and request assistance with healing killed players in msay. Check the players notes and issue a 7 day ban, if there is a previous note for similar behavior, apply for a permanent ban on the forums
- Investigate and speak with the xeno player. Explain to the player that xenos are a medium RP role, and that a larva should not be doing something silly such as charging a frontline and dying as they are valuable to the hive and cannot attack. Check note history and issue a warning if there are no previous notes. If there is a history of bad behavior as a xeno player, I would go with a job ban
16. You see a xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat.
- Investigate and explain to the player that xenos are a medium RP role, and that they need to act like the role. Explain xeno chat should be kept in character, and to refrain from that chat in the future and issue a warning.
- Explain to the complainant that xeno chat is supposed to be considered a translation of the xeno language, and that using the term "dropship" is considered within roleplay guidelines and standards.
- Investigate and ask the player how they came by this information. If it was determined that this was information they should not have, explain to the player that they are violating rule 5 by metagaming as unless an admin says so all they know is what the planet is down below, and that they are responding to a unknown distress signal. Check notes and pick an appropriate punishment based on note history and escalation policies.
- Investigate the situation and determine if there was proper roleplay and escalation behind the killing. Did the player straight up execute the other marine, or did he beat the marine to death in order to save himself the last spot on the evac pods. If there was proper roleplay behind it, explain to the dead player that unfortunately due to the chaos he was killed legitimately. If the roleplay was not proper and lethal force was used with improper escalation, I would check notes and pick an appropriate punishment based on note history and escalation policies.
- Send the fellow staff member a friendly private message letting them know about it. We're human, we make mistakes, and it's in the end everyones goal should be to help each other as a staff team.
- Send a PM asking for clarification, maybe an admin told them to do something that I'm not aware of. Otherwise if the staff is abusing their powers collect the evidence and forward it up to a higher member of staff with a report
- Banter is banter, and it's OOC shitposting anyway, who cares. I'm pretty thick skinned
Just for clarification, I recently was able to recover my CKEY: ThesoldierLLJK which was created in '06 and got my CO whitelist switched to that with help from the staff. I was playing normally on my CKEY of Thesoldier702 if you wish to check for notes/activity, but I will not be using that CKEY anymore, and will be using ThesoldierLLJK. My job allows me lots of downtime or when I work my security side gig, so I do sometimes like to just observe rounds if I can't play to make the shift go by quicker. I say average of 20 hours is what avaliable, but it could be more or less depending on whats going on at work/the hospital.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
