CyberCide

I agree and disagree with this statement. While I understand that Staff may not want to reveal too much information on how a particular case is handled, I don't see how a brief clarification would negatively affect the community, specially considering that the player who ahelped, went through the trouble of calling out to the Staff about bad behaviour and should at least deserve a minimal answer. However, I strongly agree with this opinion when it comes to tickets that would result in a warning/ban, while Staff may investigate what happened during the round, it may not fully encapsulate what truly happened or what the player thought when doing something that the admins seemed unruly. And I completely agree with this statement, because there is nothing worse than Staff disregarding your responses, coming up with their own conclusions and banning you without taking into consideration your appeals to clarify the situation. Specially since after that point, the player is unable to defend himself in said ticket.

I would like to clear up some information, I wasn't or intended to be "confrontational" in the ticket, I never lied, and I attempted to answer everything that was asked me. I could have answered more should I had not been banned abruptly, all I was doing as being defensive and trying to reason, I may have been confrontational but only as I tried to explain what actually happened to clear up the situation. The only thing I edited out was a duplicated image, this one: as it is noted on the post. I'm going to repeat, I didn't bring up what they said that they were capable of to attack them, it was only to make a point on how they acted and how they publicly described themselves in their moderator application.

Firstly, I responded "no, it got vented while I was in there" because I wasn't hacking into a vented area, or at least that wasn't my intention, but I did admit to hack in the following messages I didn't mind the long pauses in the communication, I do however mind that you banned me without priorly announcing so and without allowing me to defend myself. I apologize for offending you after bringing up your degrees, but I mentioned those because during the ticket you didn't act the way you said you would, barely accepting any input and flat out ignoring some of my questions. Regarding the "spread of the breach", I had no idea of how it occurred or had any intentions to spread it, disregarding the fact, that this "spread of the breach" consisted in a drop of 3 kpa in the maintenance tunnels, which, had it been intentional, would be greatly larger. Lastly I would like to say that I didn't go around maintenance because it's easier to break into than the bridge, I used the term "secure department areas / secure areas" to convey that breaking into the bridge is severely more punishable than breaking into the tunnels. Can you elaborate more on what's my general attitude in ahelps? I was never rude or toxic while talking to members of the staff team, so I would appreciate if you could explain this better.

BYOND Key: CyberCide Staff BYOND Key: ryverstyx Game ID: ccQ-cxrb Reason for complaint: Banned unfairly Evidence/logs/etc: After joining a low pop round (3 total) I decided to do a little maintenance diving as usual, I looked through the sector behind the science department and then through the bar maintenance, as I approached the airlock room behind the old theatre, while I was hacking the wires, the emergency shutters closed, which prompted me to verify the pressure in the area. After noticing that it did in fact dropped, I called out in the commons that: "Meteors struck the station," after moving to a secure location (the bar) and fixing the airlock's wiring. I made my way back to science maintenance to contact the Engineering Cyborg (which was playing chess with the librarian) to report that there was a breach. Not soon after, ryverstyx approached me in a ticket, asking me if I was hacking my way into a vented area, to which I responded "no" and adding "it got vented while I was in there". ryverstyx proceeded to present an image of me hacking into a door prior to the area losing atmospheric pressure, I acknowledged that I was in fact "maintenance diving" and received the response that "As a roboticist you should not be trying to hack any doors" (even though I had all of the roleplay reasons to be able to, not excluding IC punishments for doing so) and remarking that I already had been warned in the past for hacking doors (even though said "doors" were leading to secure department areas, not maintenance tunnels, and those events happened years ago when I first started playing in Aurora) while accusing me of lying about me denying I was never warned about it. I asked if I had ever received a warning regarding me hacking into maintenance tunnels, which prompted no response aside "In general you are not allowed to hack into any location you do not have access to as a non-antag" which I do not disagree with, but seems like an overreaction where the only trespassed areas are filled with literal garbage and miscellaneous items of interest to prompt exploration. After explaining that I was merely looking for trash and receiving the response that I couldn't, I indirectly asked why with "just because of the non-antag thing?" to which he responded with: You lied about what you did. (which I didn't) You caused a breach. (which I didn't) You have been warned for hacking into areas before (which were highly secured areas, not maintenance tunnels) I denied all the accusations fore-mentioned and opened the possibility for him to show evidence on how I was incorrect, instead he chose to correct himself from "caused a breach" to "spread it" (3kpa pressure drop in maintenance tunnels), reiterating that when he asked if I was hacking doors I said "no", and said that "Breaking into departments is the same as breaking into maintenace in terms of access." which I will to disagree with for a multitude of reasons, but mainly because there are no points of interest such as highly valuable equipment (i.e. Captain's spare, the SM, the armory …). Insisting on my forced entry into a vented area with the following image: Which shows Adam exiting and repairing the wiring of the airlock (Note that the footprints are leading outside with an added de-tour in order not to extend them outside of the tunnel) I corrected him with the following text, explaining what was truly depicted on the image: And while waiting for a response, I get banned without further discussion. I believe I was wrongly accused and having in consideration that he was a trial moderator that self advertised having clinical training in Psychology and Sociology and "prioritizing communication" in his moderator application. I don't demand any particular punishment, but I hope the situation is dealt with accordingly. Additional remarks: I am aware that the ban was temporary, but I find it unfair that I'm being flagged for something undeservingly and as such I'm addressing this issue.

Byond key: CyberCide Discord key: CyberCide Character Name: Adam Andersen Item name: Red Goggles. Item function(s): Common eyewear for metal workers that offers protection against flashes and sparks directed towards the eyes. Item description: A pair of worn black goggles with red tinted lenses, both the Kevlar strap and polycarbonate lenses have some scuffs and scratches but they still hold up nicely. There appears to be a Zavodskoi Interstellar insignia on the strap. Why is your character bringing this item to work?: Besides being standard PPE, these custom goggles are Adam's favourites. How did your character obtain this item: Adam got tired of wearing regular non-branded approved safety goggles, so he took it upon himself to give them a bit of a "Zavod touch", making them git more into the colour scheme of black and red as well as attaching the logo to them. What value does this item have to your character, and what story does it tell?: Every mad scientist needs their pair of goggles, as such, Adam also has his very own red tinted goggles, making them match the Zavodskoi beret and sleeve patch that he always wears. Sprites:Sprites.rar Additional comments: I'm not great writing voluminous texts, I hope this was enough to satisfy any readers.

I somewhat agree with the OP, I've seen some sprite changes but the first one that I was unhappy with were the new exosuit parts sprites. The old versions looked distinct, you could tell them apart easily, even without much knowledge of robotics. The new ones are a lot more similar, which is good for custom mechs, you can mix and match the parts without making it too disproportionate, but you lose the complexity of every part. Aside from the sensors, all the components are nearly identical, I would believe it may be due to a repeating pattern of "Square with dot/dash in the middle" which is present in just about every part: I believe Cre77 said it best, not all new sprites look bad, I like the medical voidsuit a lot, the smooth and clean texture fits the theme of the suit perfectly, however, that same style may not be the best for a supposedly heavily armoured space-proof suit as the OP implied. I don't mean to talk down the sprite work, but in some cases it does look sub-optimal and could use some improvement. I don't think reverting SOME sprites would be completely objectionable, perhaps creating a poll to determine what sprites people are unhappy with would be a good idea?