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BYOND Key: Naelynn Total Ban Length: Permanent, applied on 26/10/2020 [dd/mm/yyyy] Banning staff member's Key: @MattAtlas Reason of Ban: Reason for Appeal: Please: - When the ban was applied, it was done so because it was justified. There was a clear and established pattern of behavior that pushed the boundaries. - I did a lot of powergaming, and was bwoinked for it probably way-more-than-average. In retrospect I believe this to be the case and I didn't want to waste anyone's time by pretending it wasn't. I've spent large chunk of the almost-two-years since this went down trying out a few other servers, but I never quite managed to find that something special that I was looking for. So I ended up quitting ss13 for close to a year. I've had time to focus on my life and grow as a person - that's allowed me to get a new perspective on things - especially myself. I do believe that the current me would have handled the situation differently - at the time I was in the mindset 'I have to know the rules so I know how far I can push without being punished'. Nowadays, I prefer to think like 'The point is for everyone to have fun. If only one person has fun, that means 50 other people had a bad time.' I'd like to formally request reconsideration of my banned status. Thank you for your time

Please close this topic. No longer relevant as I have just been permanently banned from the server.

@KingOfThePing I can post this app to the taj lore community and ask for their feedback. If they like it, I wouldn't mind spriting a less jank recolorable version of this for public taj use. Should I?

Byond key: Naelynn Discord key: Naelynn#4585 Character Name: Narra M'rah Item name: Snow hunter's cloak Item function(s): Cosmetic Accessory (Mechanically identical to Poncho) Item description: Large fluffy cloak meant to conceal it's wearer in Adhomai's snowy plains. There are two holes in it's hood for tajaran ears. Why is your character bringing this item to work?: Narra is uncomfortable not wearing a cloak - she always looks for a way to hide her body and this cloak would help her do just that. How did your character obtain this item: She has saved enough money to purchase a high-quality cloak to be imported from Adhomai. What value does this item have to your character, and what story does it tell?: Narra has been bringing 'gruff cloak' loadout item since day one, I always liked the idea of her having a cape to remind her of the cold plains she came from. After the Tajaran Cold War arc where Narra cannonically suffered the effects of Venenum, I decided to rp her as 'less comfortable in her own body' - a side effect of the drug that she was exposed to. She's been seeking to stay more concealed ever since. This has been achieved via stacking two loadout items - Green Poncho and Gruff cloak, but that is extremely janky, barely achieves the desired result, and the colors on the items do not match properly. Sprites: In game version Additional Comments: Apologies if I missed something, first time applying for an item ^^;. If it would be possible to make the item hide eyewear when equipped, it would be perfect. Code used when testing item:

Got it Looking forward to what you come up with @Zundy! If I can help in any way, hit me up

BYOND Key: Naelynn Game ID: b9t-dvtD / heist Player Byond Key/Character name: Summer Snow Reason for complaint: Unrealistic Character behavior, valid hunting Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation? It was ahelped as soon as it happened ~~5 mins before round ended, but no staff took it Approximate Date/Time: ~20 mins before this thread was posted Heist round, gimmick goes badly and crew isn't into it. We resort into a mediocre /ah fuck it, let's just bomb something where no one gets hurt and then have a little scuffle with sec and then bail/ after the gimmick fails to engage anyone. My team gets gunned down [which is fine, we were the bad guys] and I escape, wounded. Then I find out that one of my team survived, so I demand they be returned and in return I will leave without causing trouble. TCFL shows up in force and agrees with sec that they won't give the hostage. Some good RP comes out of it where my antag is shrieking about how command doesn't care about their personnel and would rather kill them over handing over a terrorist. A doctor more or less willingly surrenders to me and I decide to go for something risky since the round is ending. I head the main elevator to surface, Summer Snow following behind me. The elevator happens to have 3 other medical personnel inside AND a wounded patient. At this point, Summer Snow boards the elevator with me, and TCFL blocks the elevator. Thinking they are just being a bit too pushy and need a reminder to be realistic, I shout in character for them to leave the elevator and remind them of the fact that I have highly explosive grenades and combat with me will most likely lead to a lot of civilian causalities. And Medical staff who's in the elevator with me agrees, because DUH. When suddenly I see this shit. Snow decided that getting the valid is more important than any realistic rp. I do not think this is okay, and since the ticket was not taken in round, I am going straight here. Pastebin of the log as far as my chat will allow me to copy it: https://pastebin.com/kEv5hTF2

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I've played under @Soultheif96's command in the past, primarily under Sterben. There is absolutely no reason to question his in game knowledge. If there is any point upon which he could be contested on, it would be his attitude, which I believe has always been alright. Better yet, @Soultheif96 is showing a lot of effort when it comes to handling crisis's with A.D.A.M. - a vital skill for any command member. A.D.A.M. furthermore has excellent in game attitude. His characters also have a lot of personality - for example Hemostat preparing funerals for everyone who has gone on an expedition. I think Soul could do a lot of good as a command member, and should be given a chance to prove it. +1

1) Shields. Make them worthwhile. When was the last time you actually saw security or antags using them without me being involved? 2) Security voidsuits are laughably bad for supposedly 'armored' suits. To the point that the skrellian voidsuits under them work better as combat voidsuits 3) Mercenary rigsuit has 0.1 siemens mod. a.k.a: It's almost insulated. Just why. Let the thing be insulated, this is just an annoying value. 4) many items in the traitor PDA have questionably costs for their purpose. I can have a cane sword for [I think?] 6 tc. That I have to pretty much always have in my hand that does mediocre damage, or I can buy an esword for 8, deal waaay more damage and be able to just slap it in my pocket. 5) Shotguns need to be looked at. They are underused by pretty much everyone, I didn't use them enough to be able to conclusively say why, but I suspect it's the values on their ammo. 6) Why do wirecutters randomly do 1 more damage than every other tool in the tool belt, ONTOP of having a chance to cause bleed procs [including internal bleeding] [Excluding active welding tool, which is 15.] 7) As far as I can tell, experimental welding fuel regens fuel faster than it consumes it, if it is active but not being used for any purpose 8 ) Merchant life is hell because the crew does not have enough income to actually purchase from the merchant. The merchant code was balanced around LRP where people just dump all the cash they have to the merchant regardless of if they would be able to afford breakfast tommorow. Merchant prices need to be cut in half [cannot double crew income because news articles reference credits and etc.] 9) Why can the vault spawn with a /practice/ laser rifle. 10) Vault loot in general is hot trash and should be adjusted. 11) EVA Rigsuit can randomly slot a toolbox into it's suit slot, making it the single most powerful voidsuit short of antag-exclusive rigsuits. (It has no slowdown, has a 'ghetto backpack' in the toolbox, is insulated, can slot utility mods like RCD, Drills, jetpack...) 12) Duct tape is strictly superior to handcuffs is every aspect except role playing due to it's versatility. Make duct tape cuffs easier to escape from. 13) Surgical Drill randomly does the same amount of damage as surgical saw, even though one of them is a hard to use tiny precision drill, and the other a huge saw made to cut bones

Type (e.g. Planet, Faction, System): Faction, Diona cluster Describe this proposal in a single sentence (12 word maximum): New Diona cluster, aimed at players not attracted to current lore. How will this be reflected on-station? Hopefully more Diona players. A new news article and maybe a tie in somewhere down the line. Does this faction/etc do anything not achieved by what already exists? Yes. Speaking strictly for myself, the current Diona clusters do not appeal to me and I find it extremely difficult to find enthusiasm to write a treeman character that I'd like to play. This faction will probably be the Diona equivalent of Zavod, which is one of the most popular human factions. Why should this be given to lore developers rather than remain player created lore? Recommendations from @Yonnimer and @Zundy who both contributed to developing this cluster. Do you understand that if this is submitted, you are signing it away to the lore team, and that it's possible that it will change over time in ways that you may not foresee? Yes, that's fine. Long Description:

Whenever I've ran into Djikstra in the past, she's always been competent at her job and pleasant to deal with. Never had an issue with the player, so... ya, that's a +1 in my book. :)

I played Narra with @KesterShadowHair's CE Hano. In the round, my character went through a traumatic Experience and the situation was handled by him in a professional manner. It was maybe a bit rough around the edges, but it's what I would expect from an actual work place boss to do for a real life employee. I believe he will be a good addition to the command staff players, and support this app. +1

The.. .prisoner that someone dragged in there.... the prisoner that was used as a body shield.... The prisoner that shouldn't be there if you actually wanted to keep the prisoner safe.... that specific prisoner, right? Here's the deal. Antags have to make concessions to facilitate rp. They /COULD/ just take guns and go shooty bang bang, but that's shitty rp. So antags SHOULD try to talk first, and try to get some rp to happen. Problem with that situation? Security didn't bother RP-ing. The IPC was asking for their crew and granted you your officer, without further harm, as a good will gesture. Sec then runs away with the other prisoner and doesn't give a fuck. What happens? The IPC chases with their giant ass exo suit that you guys arn't equipped to handle and almost kills all of you. The antags WERE NOT GIVEN A CHOICE IN THE MATTER DUE TO LACK OF INTERACTION ON SECURITY'S PART. What mechanically happened is irrelevant. We are an RP server, so RP.

This topic has came up before here: Just like back then, I will keep lobbying for the nerf of apparition spam, and I still believe my proposed solution to it back then was an elegant one: Make apparitions not cultists + impossible to convert. - They can't use cult swords, - They can't help with runes, encouraging actual conversion of in game players. - If the cult wants to go the murder-aparrition spam route they can, they just need to find weapons elsewhere, and each dead apparition will bleed out their stock of tools [meaning no infinite armies]

Hey @Lemei thanks for the feedback! I'd just like to comment on few of your points. -------------------------------------- Facts: - "Ran around with the rest of cult, stealth converting people via gunpoint." In that entire round I believe I had one conversion, which was a Janitor who wanted to keep his shotgun, so I had offered to let him keep it if he accepts a 'NanoTrasen bluespace gun license'. I had not even sought him out, he ran up to me and asked if he can keep the shotty, so I rolled with it. Hardly can be considered 'stealth converting' - After summoning, spent the round breaking into the back of the nuke centre to kill the two survivors whom you had previously force walled inside. Yes, because when Nar'Sie is summoned the round is essentially over and I did not want the two who were trapped there to have to wait until round end to be able to ghost. Furthermore, I spent well over 20 minutes speaking with the captain [and later HoS who came into the office], trying to give them some good rp and give them a chance to be converted instead of slaughtered. After that time, the cult mob bursted into the office and instead of allowing the mob to murderize people with little reason, I had walled them in and gave them a little more time. -------------------------------------- Personal opinions, comments and additions: - Crushered large parts of the armory despite already having a majority of security. At round start we had entirety of cargo AND security as cult. Later on some other officers joined but they were almost instantly converted. So what you are saying is that I took weapons that only my side had access to [because they are in secure lockers] and destroyed them? And somehow that is... powergaming? - Raided the accounts and bought tac armor + a bullup. I had pm'd the cult cargo tech that they can buy w/e they want with the money, but they didn't seem to care. Felt like a waste to not use it since I put some effort into getting it. /shrug. - Spam created nanopaste despite the fact there were zero credible threats. I do not remember exactly if this is the case, but I'm willing to believe it. Neither do I remember if there was anyone in robotics. Either way, would you accuse an organic character of power gaming if they carry bandages + ointment on them in case they get shot? Short of broken bones, there is no difference between having bandages+ointment for organic and nanopaste for an ipc. [Nanopaste cannot repair internal ipc damage without a roboticist to perform the equivalent of surgery] - "especially when this kind of thing is round after round, to the point where it's something of a meme" Interesting, because in another recent cult as Narra round I spent most of the round in a closed room trying to do a non-violent see-ghosts gimmick. In yet another recent round as an antagonist. In another recent round, this time as Ninja Nomad I had coordinated with traitors and enabled their gimmicks by coordinating rp with them and acting as inciting incident to what caused them to go bonkers. Round ended with me attacking people 0 times [Though I did use some leg actuator leaps to knock some people down for rp]. In this round I had even delayed my gimmick to try and save an officer who got screwed by the other ninja going mega-aggro and was bleeding out in a completely different part of station due to it being early into the round - it would be really shitty for him to die so early and miss most of the round. Later on in the round when medical was overwhelmed due to a disease, I wanted to have a person healed of their wounds, but medical simply didn't have time to even rp. Instead of making life even more hellish for the players, I just went and did the surgery myself. Sure, you could probably interpret this as power gaming if you wish, but I'd argue that my core reason is not to 'feel like a bad ass' [a.k.a power gaming] but rather 'Oh damn, the doctors are having a hard time, let's give them some space so they can enjoy the game a bit more'. [a.k.a focusing on making sure others enjoy the round more] In ANOTHER recent round, this time as Rev. Leader Azski, we had screwed up the game mode balance in favor of fellows a bit too much, so I had came up with a plan to correct it - the bioweapon story. [Instead of going mega-commando with 50tc and doing exactly what you accuse me of] The admins even seem to have liked it and started posting server wide messages about how it was starting to affect people! : D - Likewise during your previous trial, near every interaction I had with you as a moderator was poor. It always felt like you came into ahelps firmly on one side of the other, were somewhat rude, and generally lacked people's skills. Ouch. I'm sorry I'm not sure what to do about what you said here except accept your criticism and keep trying to be cordial and professional? Though, I'm a little confused as to how you got this impression in the first place, can you please post some logs where I was rude? I'd like to know how I managed to put that impression across. : ( As far as I remember, when I took an ahelp I was generally fairly slow in resolving it because I always went in and dug up logs for where relevant, or even went code digging on github to explain things that I didn't understand properly.