Owen

We'd like to hear a bit more about your character(s) that you are applying to use as command characters. Just general info about them, any recent events in the Spur that were relevant to them. How these events have impacted them, in any way. And we would like to hear about how your character made it to the Horizon. How did they come about their command position here? Just general information. We mainly want to see that you put at least some thought into fleshing out your character a bit.

On trial until 15 November 2024. During this time, please try to play your command character(s) as much as you can to gather some feedback. If you are going to add any other characters during your trial, just make note of it here. Remember, you are allowed (and recommended) to link your application in OOC once per round. If you have any questions, please reach out over Discord. Good luck!

Hi. I do not have a whole lot to add here beyond reiterating that this has been a persistent issue with your play in recent weeks. I do not have the power to unilaterally strip your Synthetic WL, that is something which is left to the decision of the Synthetic WL Team. I will just explain the series of events from my point-of-view. The reason you were only given a 7-day ban, and say, not a permanent ban was due to the fact that I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt here and follow a reasonable path of escalation. You were spoken to no less than five times in recent weeks about your behavior as Oro, who I will note, is a Burzsiean IPC and inherently comes with greater expectations. Less than one full day before I gave you this ban, you were spoken to by staff and given an official lore warning against your Synthetic WL. This warning was focused on your lack of self-preservation and general believability concerns with your play. In the ticket leading up to your ban, I was not provided with really any explanation or justification for your actions. You were being directed elsewhere by the Executive Officer which you claim you did not hear. Assuming this is accurate, and that you did not hear the XO evacuating people, this is still a wholly unreasonable response from you as the player. What occurs is fairly simple. You proceed into the fighting with your integrated mining drill and begin attacking mercenaries who were already engaged in an extremely violent firefight with security and other crew who were caught in the crossfire. Not only did you involve yourself in the fighting, which you readily admitted--you also claimed that you were simply passing through the dining hall to escape into the hallway. Reviewing the logs after the fact, this simply is being misrepresented on your part. I will leave it to the other staff members who handle this complaint to provide the specific logs should they so desire, but they very clearly demonstrate that you entered the dining room. You began attacking the mercenaries. You received damage. You then pulled back from the dining room and healed yourself at least seven times with Nanopaste. You re-enter the dining room. You continue to fight with the mercenaries. Now, I was not aware of these specifics at the time that I placed your 7-day ban. With this new information, I not only think that the week ban is entirely justified, but would have likely escalated this to a permanent ban if I were aware you were misrepresenting what occurred at the time. I will now address your final claim: You have come and gone from the server over the years, this is not a mark against you. Players come and go all the time, returning after long periods of absence. This is true, yet, our expectations toward players have not fundamentally changed in between your bouts of activity here. You are a whitelisted player, you have applied and have been accepted to play a specific species and with that comes a greater degree of responsibility and of scrutiny. I can accept that you initially misremembered the degree to which we hold our players accountable for their actions, but I do not find any value in that excuse at this point. As I initially stated, this is not the first time you were spoken to about self-preservation and getting yourself involved in fighting you otherwise should not have. This is not the second, or even the third time. No, you have been approached by a staff member regarding this same issue no less than five times before I placed this ban. There is a point where we must draw the line between general unfamiliarity and willful ignorance. Ideally, one of the many times you were spoken to before this escalation would have set you on the path to correct this behavior, but unfortunately, it has not happened so far. I am glad to see that you are taking this seriously, and hope to see positive changes upon your return when the ban expires. That will be all for my responses here unless the handling staff members have any further questions.

Oh... I missed one when going through the manifest... SAD

Accepted

We have reviewed this complaint and the logs from the ticket. This is a completely clear-cut case of fail RP. There is little else to say in this case. I will address where you have gone wrong in a few ways here. Mortaphenyl, while it may give you messages such as “You wish this feeling could last forever” is not even an addictive medication. Several drugs in the game are mechanically addictive, but Mortaphenyl is not one of those. If it were truly that addictive, that after 2-3 pills, your character loses all sense of self-preservation and becomes a deeply addicted individual, there is zero chance it would be permitted on-ship as freely as it is. Even if your character were addicted, the way that you played this out is in an extremely… gimmicky sort of way. Just as Noble Row stated in his response, this is aggressively LRP. This sort of behavior you should certainly know better than to engage in, especially after how long you’ve been playing on this server. There are expectations set which apply to everyone, you are not exempt from them. Going from 0-100 in less than an hour is utterly without sense. Lastly, the way you have reacted in your ticket with Noble Row is extremely inappropriate and that alone would have seen you banned in many cases. When you are told to tone something back, you need to tone something back. All in all, we see that Noble has done nothing wrong here–you did not receive a warning, you did not receive a ban, you were merely spoken to regarding your poor behavior and were told to correct it. We uphold Noble’s ruling here and just wish to say that you should consider yourself lucky that he was the one who took your ticket, as you would have undeniably been banned by anyone else. There is nothing else that needs to be said here. We will be locking and archiving this now.

I will also note that you made this complaint while the round in question was still ongoing. Do not do this again, it is against the rules that are listed at the top of the complaint forum.

@Lmwevil and I will be handling this complaint.

On trial until 13 September 2024. Remember, during this time you are allowed to (and recommended) to advertise your application once per round in OOC to gather feedback. Good luck!

Accepted!

Bump. I would like to see that this isn't forgotten. I am still stuck in the psionic cuck cage

Apologies for the delay. On trial until 5 September 2024. Good luck, and remember you are allowed to advertise your application in OOC once per round!

I understand where you're coming from with that, but it is also super inconsistently applied. As it currently stands, Skrell with mind shields can enter the Srom both voluntarily and involuntarily, and that is where all the secrets would be leaked anyway. So in that case, you would just see that Captain and HoS Skrell would maybe have to sleep in insulated rooms so no one can invade their thoughts. That still brings the question of passing out involuntarily, which idk a real solution for that. The only time that really happens is during surgery, which... if we really wanted to, we could just say that room is shielded or something idfk. Ultimately, my biggest gripe with it is that it is a weird disconnect where it is literally just receiving psionic communication that is blocked, you can send out whatever psionic actions you want to send out so I could be telepathically telling all my skrell buddies about the nuke disk or whatever. They just cannot respond.

I am deeply saddened by being relegated to the psionic cuck cage whenever I play as a Skrell Captain or Head of Security. I would really appreciate it if there was an option for Skrell who have mindshield implants to receive telepathic messages. Or if, perhaps, you could voluntarily even opt-in to a different implant. It is very sad to not be able to telepathically communicate outside of sending messages as a Skrell Captain. I would like to hear if others have the same thoughts. And to give some more serious detail--I imagine it would be extremely traumatic for a Skrell to be cut off from receiving telepathic communication from other Skrell since they are so reliant on the Nlom/Srom for their social and emotional well-being. I think if there was a way to subvert this, Skrell would ICly definitely appreciate it and be more willing to engage in some upward mobility into positions where they would otherwise be force to cut themselves off from telepathy.

Accepted!

Very sorry for the delay! On trial until 12AUG2024.

No worries. Going to close this one for now. Feel free to reopen it in a new thread when you think you can find some time to get back into the game

Accepted

Accepted

Trial extended for one week until 29JUL2024. During this time, try to play your command characters as much as reasonably possible. Remember, you can advertise this application in OOC once per round to gather feedback.

Do not undermine me...

On trial until 26JUL2024

On trial until 22JUL2024

On trial until 22JUL2024

Accepted