BYOND Key: Higanbana
Total Ban Length: Permanent
Banning staff member's Key: roostercat12
Reason of Ban: As Xenobio, let a lot of slimes loose, spammed monkeys to get them to multiply, then left. Inessence, griefing.. [sic]
Reason for Appeal:
This ban was frustratingly incorrect, and simply untrue.
To begin, I was playing Xenobiology across multiple rounds, trying to collect all the cores before the round timer ended. So far, I had not been successful! Always a reset before finish. I had been interacting with other people playing science, and I figured Xenobio was a good way to start playing while being a bit isolated from the rest of the game and playing an old, familiar system. I had to go when around when the crew transfer was called for. With a freezer full of many cores, I proceeded to bolt down Xenobio after the other, fun skrell scientist-intern (Kono, thank you for helping out!!) had left. I did keep the blast doors open, and monkeys around, explicitly to avoid either losing them OR an accident where they went feral. They'd eat a monkey I touched, if they got out.
To summarize, I was simply playing Xenobiology, went AFK after taking precautions, and got banned because xenobiology looks like hell when it's run correctly. While a mess, probably, it meant actively that nobody was in danger while I was AFK, nor that I would lose my work so far if I got back in time to continue.
I come back with my logs still there, and a permanent ban. I notice that while what I expected occurred, no, no slimes were out of Xenobiology (nor could they have), and nobody was harmed except monkeys. Certainly not me, strapped to a chair and probably surrounded by a few that could be culled pretty swiftly because they would be placated.
As you may be able see in the logs, I actually had quite a lot of cores. If I was at all interested in griefing in the past 4 rounds I had played, cores would be quite easy to activate, yes. That was not what I was doing.
I know xenobiology is an underutilized system as it's played out and recorded, but it has also been in the game for the past 11 years. What I am describing is the actual mechanics of Xenobiology if you want to 'complete' it in under a round's end. I noticed as well that prior to this permanent being given, I had no admin PMs in my log. I will attach it for easy reference.
Thank you for your time! Have a wonderful day.
LogFileAuroraBan.txt