Owen

On trial from 1 January 2024 - 8 January 2024. During this time please try to play your command character as much as you can in order to gather feedback for this application. Remember that you can advertise your application in OOC once per round.

Hi! Thank you for applying. Before moving forward with your application, could you rewrite this section? We would like to hear about your head of staff character that you plan on playing for the duration of your trial

Apologies for the delay. Accepted 🥳

In the original ahelp, one of the concerns brought up was that they believed CL was attempting to slip one of the vaurca with a bar of soap. They mentioned that they were not 100% sure what CL's intent was there, but did state that they saw him drop soap and pick it up while right next to raiders. I planned on asking Fluffy about it after I finished talking to him about why CL was up there in the first place. With how chaotic and quickly everything was happening, it completely slipped my mind until I had already closed the ticket and issued the warning. I decided not to open another ticket since I had no real way of confirming it at that point and it would've just been a he said she said argument without me seeing it happen in the first place. I realize I probably could've checked CL to see if they were carrying soap at all at that point, but I unfortunately didn't think of to at the time.

Alright, just to provide my perspective of events here. I completely disagree that it would have been metagaming for you to have avoided the area where this was all occurring with your character. I also do not appreciate that you implied that I was suggesting you metagame, by using knowledge of your previous character, to know what was going on. Regardless of the situation, you had thrust yourself into the action--although you were not fighting--it is relatively simple from context clues. Now, I do not have the logs from the round on hand at the moment, but I know for a fact that it was continually mentioned over and over again on the radio that the Horizon was boarded by hostile intruders. Despite the lack of direct aggression toward your character by the raiders, they were still armed intruders (something which should have been readily apparent as they fired on the captain, and were engaged in a firefight with the crew right in front of you). Your character, being within close proximity to the conflict, continued to engage verbally with the raiders involved without prioritizing self-removal from the danger. Additionally, your actions of engaging in conversation and requesting that the raiders continually ID themself during and following the firefight were, in my view, outside the reasonable scope of your character’s self-preservation. It makes very little sense to me why your character would have continued to stay there, speaking with the antags. While you mentioned not receiving IC information about the identity of the raiders, or what the situation was, and your character’s lack of direct involvement in the initial altercation, the warning addressed the actions that you were taking afterward. Which, considering the ongoing fighting, were inconsistent in my view with the expected believable behavior of characters. I still strongly believe that this was beyond what is believable for a character to be doing, and stand by my decision to issue your warning. That is all I have to say on it for now, but will gladly clarify things if the staff member who takes this has any further questions.

On-trial from 22 December 2023 - 29 December 2023. During this time, please try to get as much play time as you feasibly can in the command role and try to gather feedback on the application. Remember, you can advertise your application in OOC once per round. As this is likely a busy time for people with holidays and such, if we're getting close to the end of the trial and you'd like it extended, just reach out to me on discord @owen2139

Ah, nevermind. My mistake. As @Spungus has already been banned as a result of this complaint, we will be locking and archiving this.

@Roostercat and I will be taking this complaint. We'll have a response once we look over everything.

Alrighty. After reviewing Quiet Cowboy’s history here, we believe that it is apparent that a majority of the reported issues relate directly to your behavior while playing in antagonist roles. After last night’s vampire round, Quiet Cowboy was given another antagonist ban with specific instructions on what to do in order to improve the quality of his characters/roleplay in-game. Consequently, we have not found it necessary to implement any additional punishments at this time. However, we are fully aware of these concerns surrounding Quiet Cowboy’s non-antagonist conduct. It is imperative to note that while an antag ban has been placed, your behavior outside of these roles requires a great deal of work. You have been playing on this server for a good majority of the year at this point, and it is expected that you should be well aware of our expectations for players. Interactions such as the ones outlined here are absolutely not enough to even qualify as the "bare minimum." In the aftermath of this antag ban, we strongly urge that you take time to work on fleshing out and developing your characters. While it might not be an easy task, simply playing rounds as a non-antag and actively working to establish yourself within the setting, will help you develop a stronger sense of RP as a result. To reiterate, @QuietCowboy. While we are not imposing any additional punishments at this time, we really need to see some actual efforts to improve your conduct here. If you are not already on the Discords, you should consider joining them and asking whatever questions you have as they come up. Likewise, if you are in-game, shooting us an ahelp is always a good idea as well. We are more than willing to give advice as best we can.

@CampinKiller and I will be taking this complaint. We will be crafting a full response soon.

Hey there! Thank you for your application, unfortunately, we will be denying this application at this time. As you are newly returning to the server, we would like to see more play time as you reestablish your characters before granting you the Command WL trial. We also have concerns with the character background of William von Trust. Although it is not explicitly referenced in the application, it has come to our attention that you have been portraying him as a high-level investor within the SCC which is too out of the realm of realism for a command application. While you can certainly play a character that is a high-society Lunan, it is not reasonable to have a character who has close friends on the SCC Board of Directors. Ultimately, this did not factor into our decision for denial, but please rework this backstory before applying again. Best of luck in the future!

Hey there! Thank you for your application, but unfortunately, we will be rejecting this application for now. I will be reaching out on Discord shortly with more details. Feel free to apply again in at least a month (14 January 2024).

Accepted

I would really, really like this and think it could be justified potentially now that the Solarian Civil War has ended. Along with the other reasons Goolies said. They've been gone for a long time, and Sol lore has developed so much in those years.

Hi, I will be taking this complaint. I had to wait a few hours to confirm this with Human Lore first. It is true though. Ennobled Secondaries cannot take the High Morozi accent and should have the Vulgar Morozi instead. I understand you have a suggestion up looking to change that now, @Spungus, but until a time that it is implemented or rejected, please switch Eloise's accent to Vulgar Morozi. I will be locking and archiving this shortly.

@ReadThisNamePlz and I have taken this complaint. We apologize for letting this sit so long, finals have fried our brains and we thought we already posted. Looking over this, we found it to be fine and not a violation of the rules. We're sorry that it made you uncomfortable, but there's nothing more to be done here. We'll be locking and archiving this in 24 hours.

Trial extended until 13/12/2023. Try to get as many command rounds in as you can and try to get some more feedback.

Just wanted to check up on this and see how things were going. Your trial will be over soon. Have you had much time to play as your command character? It would be very helpful to get some feedback from other players on your command playstyle, make sure you are advertising your application in OOC once per round.

Okay nevermind totally in support of keeping them unlocked now. Big things are coming...

I really like the idea of having two consular slots. Having two corporate representatives is fine if it can work, but I do not particularly care either way if it does or not. Though with the two consulars, is there something already implemented or in the works that would assign them to a specific office/restrict access to the other office? The only thing I have to say about the remap right now is maybe consider making the tables in the XO and Captain's offices wooden. Otherwise, I think it looks pretty good!

On-trial from 29 November 2023 - 6 December 2023. During this time, please try to get as much play time as you feasibly can in the command role and try to gather feedback on the application. Remember, you can advertise your application in OOC once per round.

I apologize for letting this sit for so long. We will be denying this application. We would like to see some more playtime in the future before applying again, along with more detailed answers to the questions on the application. The standard is a paragraph minimum. Feel free to apply again in the future when you are ready. Reach out to me on Discord if you have any other questions (Discord: owen2139).

As others have said, I agree with the sentiment that the fear of "event captains" and command overall is overblown and hardly an actual issue. I'd be completely opposed to having staff handpick specific characters for roles for their events. Much better to leave it to the luck of the draw in my opinion.

Hey there, thanks for applying! Please review this post and update your application accordingly. For Head of Staff WLs, you should be applying as an actual head of staff role (not Consular/Corporate Representative) to play for the duration of your trial. Also--please expand on the rest of your answers. If you need an idea of how long these answers should be, refer back to the previous head of staff applications in the archive. Also, look to gather feedback on your application over the next few days from other players. Good luck!

Bumping this because I still think it’s a good idea