Commanding Officer Code of Conduct

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The following is a list of rulings applied in effect by the CO Council to all whitelisted Commanding Officers. These rulings must be followed and not broken when playing as the CO of the ship. Violation of listed rulings can result in punishment from the Council.

This page will be updated semi-regularly when new rulings are made.

Compiled by Naut and Frans_Feiffer of the CO Council. Updated 10/19/2020.

Punishments Clarification

Warning

A player will receive a basic WARNING for a breach in guidelines as a CO. Basic warnings will have a duration of THREE months, at which point they cease to become relevant.

Heavy Warning

A player will receive a HEAVY WARNING for a breach in guidelines as a CO if they already have an active warning OR if the incident justifies a heavy warning with no previous actions. Heavy warnings will have a duration of SIX months. After three months, a heavy warning will de-escalate into a regular warning, which will be active for the remaining three months.

Suspension

A player will receive a SUSPENSION if they already have an active warning/heavy warning OR if the incident is so egregious as to justify a suspension with no prior incidents (extremely unlikely). Suspension times may vary depending on severity, but will always be a week, 2 weeks, or a month. After suspension time is served, it will be treated as a heavy warning for the purposes of punishment escalation.

Removal

A player will have their whitelist REVOKED if, while still serving time from a suspension (in the form of a heavy warning), they’re responsible for a breach in the whitelist guidelines OR if they escalate to a suspension again after already receiving one in the past. Players may appeal their Whitelist removal after 3 months via PMing one of the current Council members with the filled out form found on the forums (Link). If a player has their whitelist removed twice, it will be permanent and the player will be barred from ever receiving the whitelist again.

Departments

Heads of Staff

• Department heads are not allowed to deploy to the AO, with the exception of the CMP and CE. Department heads risk trouble with staff should they deploy; don’t order them to deploy.
  • The CE is allowed to deploy to the FOB if there’s an XO onboard, and they require permission from the CO/aCO. They may deploy with the purpose of building the FOB, securing Tcomms, etc. however they are not to leave the FOB. Once the FOB is under siege, they must return to the ship.
  • The CMP is allowed to deploy to defend the Nuke to ensure it’s detonation, however there still must be at least one MP onboard the ship.

Marine Law and SOP

Pardons

• In order to pardon someone, you must know the crimes committed and roughly when they were committed.
  • Similar to BEs, after pardoning someone you must announce it and state the name of the marine, as well as why you’re pardoning said marine.

Uniforms

• Commissioned officers must wear their designated or otherwise appropriate uniforms. Non-standard clothing such as pajamas, shorts, maid outfits, or clown outfits are not allowed, and SOP cannot be modified to allow such.

SOP Modifications

• Military Police must be informed of any changes made to the SOP before it is implemented.
• Uniform regulations that disregard basic logic and sense, such as allowing marines to deploy without uniform or armor, are not allowed.
• The SOP may not be modified to the extent of griefing or physically burdening marines. Modifications such as “marines must walk only” are prohibited, as is modifying SOP to imprison a marine for a custom offense with malicious intent.
• Standard-issued equipment to Marines that can be found in their squad preparations and requisitions (such as the standard primary and secondary arms and attachments) cannot be restricted or prohibited in any way. Marines reserve the right to freely carry and use the equipment they are provided with.
• If helmet wearing is enforced, it should only be explicitly made mandatory to Squad Leaders, Specialists, or other vital and specialty roles. It should not be enforced on standard Marines.

Area of Operations

LZ and Telecomms

• Your extraction point (LZ) and Telecomms should at the very least have minimal PROPER defenses. You may build a FOB at any area other than the LZ, or you may additionally skip the construction of a well-defended FOB at the LZ; just make sure that the LZ has at least some form of proper protection.
• Do not attempt to circumvent this by building flimsy wooden barricades or other rudimentary defenses and calling it ‘protection’. LZ defense must be able to at least momentarily hold off an enemy assault.

Armory

• Special equipment found in armories such as Mk221 shotguns are not allowed to be handed out to non-officers without a clear, understandable, and urgent reason behind doing so. The M46c currently stored in the armory is not to be handed out or used by anyone other than the CO.
  • You may not send items stored in the Armory as part of a supply drop, give them away as rewards/prizes, or form a squad that uses such equipment as standard.
  • You may hand them out to deploying CIC staff as part of their standard equipment.
  • Armory equipment may be handed out to all personnel during boarding or a Code Red or Delta scenario. Officers should be prioritized before enlisted.

Briefing

• Briefing must be done physically and not via announcements. Briefings may be held anywhere within the Almayer, so long as it isn't within either of the dropships, or impedes on a department's ability to function.
  • Briefings may be conducted in the hangar.
• The briefing can be given to SLs/SOs only within the CIC or elsewhere, so long as all active SLs/SOs are present for the orders.

Commanding Officer - specific

Medals

• Meme medals for actions that do not in actuality warrant any sort of medal at all are not allowed. Medals can be given for acts of true accomplishment in combat or in support, such as killing the Queen but can’t be awarded for trivial or meme things such as cooking dinner or being of a different race.
• The Commanding Officer may not award themselves with medals - only superiors (RADM+) may award them for distinguishable actions.

Deployment

Deployment is restricted to the following conditions:

• The Marine push has stagnated significantly beyond the time of 12:45, requiring the CO to take the field to speed up the round and encourage marines to take the chance to claim victory.
• The Marines have reached DEFCON 1 and you have ordered the nuke.
• A mutiny has overtaken the vessel and the CO has escaped capture and death to run to the surface.
• A BE of a specific individual groundside is required or if an event is in place calling for the CO’s presence on the ground. After this is conducted they should return to the Almayer.
• There are less then 8 xenos on a bioscan and they are delaying the round. You may head down to lead the marines to finish them off.
• If the VCs voluntarily choose the Command APC, you can deploy and stay inside it. You can get out, but you must always be near/with the APC.

When deploying, you are encouraged to avoid staying at the absolute frontlines and focus on command rather than damage dealing. Avoid being a 'PFC+', a.k.a. a Squad Marine with additional privileges and enhanced weaponry and utilities.

Equipment

• Your M46C rifle and your personal armor can be given out to deploying XOs/SOs at your discretion. Your Mateba should not be given out under any circumstances.
• Your tablet should not be given out to non-command staff. Preferably only either you, the XO or acting Commander should be in possession of the tablet.

Announcements

• Announcements are to be informative to some extent, or in some way benefit marines. They are not for LRP remarks, or OOC information.
• Announcements should only link to known image capture sites such as Gyazo or imgur. Only still pictures of the tactical map are allowed -- no GIFs and/or pictures of content other than the tactical map.

Battlefield Executions

For further reading on Battlefield Execution (BE) guidelines, see the Marine Law section on BEs here.

• BEs may not be performed if the suspect is currently restrained or in custody. A marine is considered in custody the moment the cuffs are on.
  • An exception to this is during boarding, Code Red/Delta, or if standard containment or execution procedures are otherwise impossible.
• You may not order a BE by proxy - you cannot ask any marines or other staff to kill someone on your behalf. You must do it yourself.
  • You may not perform BEs via orbital bombardments (OBs).