Garnascus

Did you ahelp this at all?

I suppose its good to be consistent though. I am fine with this change.

You have already figured out that phylacterys give reasearch levels. I am worried you will become too powerful if vox brains can be utilized for your nefarious purposes.

PSSST Mate, i said you are permitted to use the name ned ed. Theres no hard feelings anywhere. Sometimes we make mistakes.

An issue has been brought up to me by other staff. your internet situation might compromise your ability to moderate. What are your thoughts on this?

The rule in question does not forbid a name such as "ned ed". The name is neither a reference or a famous name. It is also not a joke name as that classification is invoked for things like "mike hunt" and "semoure butts". You are permitted to use the the name "ned ed" as it is not against our rules. I am the first one to say the rules are more like "guidelines" than a law that must be followed to the letter. That being said there needs to be a rock solid defence when something is shot down that isn't against the rules. "its silly" i am afraid is not a convincing argument, I have spoken with them as well as many other staff members on discord and we are in agreement here. I will leave this post up for about 24 hours and then will consider the matter resolved. That is unless the OP has anything further?

Hi rusty Im sure an unban would not be out of the question should you choose to write one.

Application re-opened on request of the OP.

Yeah i dunno man, your post just came off like you're trying to decry aurora's degrading standards. Your suggestions in of themselves arent really unreasonable and if you where actually twisting my arm i would banish you to vorestation for a week.

Do you understand that different communities have different ways of doing things? we have a particular idea in mind of what role play means. Myself, abosh and the rest of our staff team get to decide the terms. Our definition is not necessarily better or worse than another communities definition but i do think its reasonable to say we are doing a lot of things correctly based on our player count. I do not want to enforce character records or things of that nature because i think we have spent a long time creating a place thats easy to understand but also with a very deep rabbit hole you can venture down should you so desire. The lore is a prime example of this. Almost everyone knows the basics "ok Nanotrasen, spooky megacorp headed by miranda trasen....tau ceti...biesal, cats and lizards got it!" if you care enough to read articles and various wiki pages to create a more real character thats something YOU can decide and not something we want to force on you. "woah miranda is a changeling? president dorn likes to dab and the sol alliance tried to take over tau ceti!?" I am of course open minded but if you are going to present us with a "better" way to do things you will have to overturn what i see as quite a lot of success. Unless you think aurora is a gigantic failure on life support. in which case the point it probably moot!

Moving on request of OP.

I wish we would change the server message to just say "roleplay server". Too many people try to argue over what they personally think heavy roleplay is and why the server is living up to this. Forcing character records or particular ways to play is just bad juju i do not think is healthy for the server. Only when players get egregious with testing these boundaries do i take issue. You can certainly argue we are too lax on that. Maybe we are but im not one to reach for a shotgun instead of a scalpel.

This is how i have always seen it done. Command members usually require prospective robots to get evaluated anyway. Chaplain should be able to give some spiritual guidance if a psych isnt present.

Some things came up we had to deal with. Sorry for forgetting about this but you're not getting unbanned. Sorry my dude, looks too bad for you and i just dont believe you.

you have four separate attempts at dodging the ban on the 17th. Of your 40 mirrored bans they are mostly made up of different ckeys and IP adresses. i dont believe you when you say you joined only to check the duration of your ban.

locking and archiving as this has been resolved

your original ban is from last year dude. The reason being "Attacked an SSD, killing them. Proceeded to randomly attack other players as well. Disconnected when contacted by staff. If you intend to make an appeal, please read our rules." You then have 40 attempts at dodging this ban up until a few weeks ago. This basically looks like you tried for a long time to consistently evade our evasion detection and then gave up and tried to appeal. Im not really leaning towards an outcome in your favor here.

as im trackin this it seems to me hive has a reasonable explanation for his actions? Its a touchy subject sometimes when you talk about security breaking regulations. I dont expect security to be 100% pristine but at the same time you're not a thug off the street.

Yeah the screenshot was pretty impromptu. sorry about that. Ill check this over when i get to work tonight and we can go from there.

Yeah to be honest i think you make a good point. I am not sure if how i feel about not letting you vent arrivals if the merc ship decides to dock there. Seems kinda unfair to me. I managed to save a screenshot at the end of round of the damage. Keep in mind this was after it was mostly repaired but just check where atmos airlocks are and you can tell where the damage was. Did you guys detonate a whole bunch of bombs around the ship? Here is the note i see on your record regarding the incident. I will get shame to post his reasoning. I dont really have a strong feeling yet. Just a gut feeling this might be a little strange.

I will consider this resolved. If nobody has anything else to post i will lock and archive this in 24 hours.

Im fairly certain i bwoinked the warden here for being really silly. I do not know the specifics of the first situation but as far as this second situation is concerned if the person killed his friend i could understand the reaction. It seems he made an effort to roleplay it.

This has gone on a lot without much substance. We cannot take action against a player based on hearsay. I am not saying you guys are lying. I think theirs definitely merit to bringing up issues you have with how someone plays. The situation described in the OP was noted on the players record. In fact its the ONLY note on this players record about security play. Job banning them would be extremely inappropriate.

Yeah you're blowing this situation way out of proportion and i think you're being incredibly unreasonable. I have made my case. Itzal can weigh in.

I dont know if turning every APC on the station into a shock trap is a good idea... Shoving IPC into APCs could work only if people cannot throw them into cyborg rechargers.