accepted notagonk's union busting adventure | Command Whitelist Application

[beepbopbeepbop]

BYOND key: not-a-gonk

Discord Username: anthony.albanese

Character names:
Marielle Caladius - Priestess
Sinawo Malema - Engineer
Ananya Saikumar - Surgeon
Elisa Leung - First Responder
Eino Kiiskinen - Shaft Miner
Doreen Cullen - Atmospheric Technician
Margrethe Gratzik - Investigator
Marcelo Sampaio - Pharmacist

How long have you been playing on Aurora?
First started playing on and off in 2021, started playing super consistently start of September 2023

Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they?
Received 3-4 warnings throughout entire playtime.
 

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, in game?
The purpose of a Head of Staff is to balance delegation, guidance and teaching for their own department, and even the entire ship. These three concepts of Command mean any Head of Staff must be able to delegate tasks to their staff, guide them to ensure communication and organisation, and teach members of their department on how to better do their job, or play on the server as a whole. When a Command member is not present, inter-departmental communication is very often limited, and this can be a severe hindrance to the crew. The presence of a Head of Staff also greatly affects antagonist rounds, and the Head of Staff must carefully balance the interests of the crew and the antagonists so the round progresses in a way that everyone enjoys. This can be done by encouraging interaction with the antagonists directly, as Command staff act in a similar capacity by deciding the pacing of a round, and giving things for the crew to do.
 

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?
A Head of Staff has a great deal of responsibility in the events of a round, and how enjoyable that round is. They are responsible for ensuring that the round remains as enjoyable as possible, and are therefore held to a higher standard than the rest of the crew. While a Command member should also have good general knowledge on their department, especially dependant on whatever their job background is, their most important skill should be leadership and team communication.
 

Explain how the recent events in the Spur changed your character and how they came to be employed on the SCCV Horizon.
Born in 2425 as the second eldest child to a wealthy (and definitely corrupt) local government official in the city of Nhom Hy Vong, Nguyễn Kim Hong had a privileged upbringing which affected her view on the wider Spur, and continues to influence her to this day. A competent engineer in her own right, combined with using her familial connections, Hong secured a scholarship at the Atmospheric Learning Institute of Kho Nang. By the age of 23, Hong completed her internship and was hired as a lower level factory supervisor, and she would continue to advance the corporate ladder with uneventful ease, until the arrival of a day that would be forever remembered in New Hai Phongese history.

On the 19th of October, 2460, New Hai Phong was hit with military-grade explosives planted by the Tajaran Revolutionary Army in the largest terrorist attack in NHP's history. These events cemented a xenophobic view of Tajara in Hong's mind, which has calmed to a mild distrust at worst in recent years. During this time, she also managed to secure the position of Chief of Engineering for one of the Hephaestus' many Orbital Superfactories in New Hai Phong's orbit. In the year 2465, Hong was offered an opportunity as the Chief Engineer of the SCCV Horizon for her decades of service. Viewing this as a 'vacation posting', she readily accepted the position, figuring such a public station could offer further networking opportunities to come.
 

What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted?
I mainly want to play Chief Engineer, Executive Officer, and Consul/CorpRep

Have you familiarized yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles?
Yes..

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking:
Nguyễn Kim Hong (Hong Nguyen) - Hephaestus Chief Engineer
Marielle Caladius - Dominian Consulate (possibly)
Heledd Gwynfor - Coalition (Galatean) Consulate
Sinawo Malema - Zavodskoi Corporate Representative

Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action?
Yes..

Have you linked your BYOND account to the Forums?
Yes..

Extra notes:
Recently my internet has been cutting out very occasionally, but hopefully won't affect the trial.

Edited January 25 by beepbopbeepbop
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[restricted]

If Mr Albanese has proven anything from his tenure as the Prime Minister of the fine nation of Australia it is that he is absolutely capable of commanding the SCVV Horizon.

 

+1

[goolie]

Tony is a decent fella OOCly and is always great to chat to, think he'd be able to handle the stress of command shit easily too. Doesn't take anything too seriously and is always able to laugh off anything that goes wrong! 🙂

[La Villa Strangiato]

if nobody got me i know notagonk got me +1

Also, please be advised you cannot do a command trial with consulates or corporate representatives! The rest of your application is fine.

[Farofafeijao]

Gonk, Anthony, or even Mr Albania, is a very solid RPer with a very good knowledge of the game and what constitutes a good enviroment for HRP, and fun overall.

I gotchu brother. +1 from me.
 

[Misiek1001]

Absolutely. Interacting with Anthony's always a joy. They're a decent RPer and I'm sure they'll be able to do much more with the whitelist, especially with the Consular/Representative roles once they pass their trial.

+1 from me.

[RustingWithYou]

Anthony Notagonk is a Good Roleplay guy. +1

[Owen]

Trial started on 28JAN2024 and will end on 07FEB2024. 

[Tadpolesrcold]

I interacted with Hong Nguyen as an engineer under their supervision and was very uncomfortable around them. Very confrontational and seemed to get aggressive very quickly when I asked them any questions. My biggest complaint was their lack of interest in teaching. I'd been gone from the aurora for a very long time and I'm currently relearning a lot of the new mechanics and since there were only the two of us as engineer and chief I asked for guidance on thrusters and was simply told that this was the dominion of Atmostechs and they refused to go any further. I brought it up in character that command staff are supposed to help teach players mechanics and they called me out for my tone. Made me very uncomfortable and seemed very elitist, I can tell they are a really smart player but teaching mechanics to new players is the most important thing command staff should see too in my opinion. It was what I believed in when I signed up for command myself. I really hope to see more cooperative play from you in the future but I will leave a -1 for now and I will hopefully change it before your trial is over. Good luck!

Edit

Upon feedback from the player they have shown that they do understand the big points of command so I will be changing this to a +1

 

Edited January 30 by Tadpolesrcold

[Fluffy]

58 minutes ago, Tadpolesrcold said:

since there were only the two of us as engineer and chief I asked for guidance on thrusters and was simply told that this was the dominion of Atmostechs and they refused to go any further

Hello there!

Just as a quick info, as I do not play Engineering myself, but this is to the best of my knowledge:

Setting up the thrusters, besides a pure loop (aka just "opening the valvle"), is to my understanding the domain of the atmos techs only; if you were to do it besides flipping on the valvle/pump/whatever as an (apprentice?) Engineer and my understanding is correct, you'd have possibly be bwoinked and got an administrative action; it's possible it was communicated to you in LOOC, be sure to check if you have LOOC disabled as I'd expect for it to; of course those who play Engineering or the moderation team is free to correct me if I'm wrong

Welcome back and have fun!

[Tadpolesrcold]

3 minutes ago, Fluffy said:

Hello there!

Just as a quick info, as I do not play Engineering myself, but this is to the best of my knowledge:

Setting up the thrusters, besides a pure loop (aka just "opening the valvle"), is to my understanding the domain of the atmos techs only; if you were to do it besides flipping on the valvle/pump/whatever as an (apprentice?) Engineer and my understanding is correct, you'd have possibly be bwoinked and got an administrative action; it's possible it was communicated to you in LOOC, be sure to check if you have LOOC disabled as I'd expect for it to; of course those who play Engineering or the moderation team is free to correct me if I'm wrong

Welcome back and have fun!

My Looc was on, we had communicated through it at the beginning of the round commenting on my lack of drip due to loadout issues. Back on the Aurora It was perfectly fine teaching players about Atmosia or the Tesla whether they were engineers or technican knowing its ooc knowledge and should be used as such. I tried to communicate this with "How else will I learn to be a CE like you one day?" But it was utterly shot down. If this more open approach to teaching players mechanics is no longer welcome then I'm not sure how to comment on this aspect. I feel old.

[beepbopbeepbop]

2 hours ago, Tadpolesrcold said:

I interacted with Hong Nguyen as an engineer under their supervision and was very uncomfortable around them. Very confrontational and seemed to get aggressive very quickly when I asked them any questions. My biggest complaint was their lack of interest in teaching. I'd been gone from the aurora for a very long time and I'm currently relearning a lot of the new mechanics and since there were only the two of us as engineer and chief I asked for guidance on thrusters and was simply told that this was the dominion of Atmostechs and they refused to go any further. I brought it up in character that command staff are supposed to help teach players mechanics and they called me out for my tone. Made me very uncomfortable and seemed very elitist, I can tell they are a really smart player but teaching mechanics to new players is the most important thing command staff should see too in my opinion. It was what I believed in when I signed up for command myself. I really hope to see more cooperative play from you in the future but I will leave a -1 for now and I will hopefully change it before your trial is over. Good luck!

To respond to the complaint as a whole, I wasn't entirely aware you were new because you chose the Engineer role (instead of that of an apprentice) and seemed confident in your ability to set up power. Due to how low staffed the department was, I was occupied in making sure Atmospherics was being set up, and I add that an Engineering cyborg arrived while I was doing atmos (that wouldn't have been relevant to your job as an engineer), so I offered that they could show you how to do the INDRA setup since you asked, though you denied (which is understandable, as you said you have explained you weren't enjoying the round in your complaint). On the topic of in-character attitude, I believe your character's suggestions on my character's teaching would have been better suited to OOC, where you could have explained that you hadn't played for ages, but saying this in-character came off as someone trying to tell their superior on how to do their job, which would be completely fine and appreciated feedback if you said it in an OOC setting, but it isn't an excuse for myself. As someone with a trial Command WL, I should have approached you myself and asked if you were new/need help in LOOC, instead of responding entirely as my character would.

As a HOS, I generally like to be hands off with my non-intern staff, though I definitely could have engaged with your engineering questions better, and should hopefully get better at recognising a new player. Three consecutive rounds as a Head could have contributed to my poorer attitude, and I didn't really receive any negative feedback for my previous gameplay, though it isn't an excuse either for me to have made someone's round less enjoyable. Given this was my first day on trial, I will use the rest of it to take this as a lesson and improve upon my Commandery. I would be happy to see you in many more rounds (maybe as an apprentice), so I can help you learn more about the best department on the server. To wrap my response up, I want to apologise for making your time on the server less enjoyable, and I hope that you will see me as a better HOS in future.

(As an aside I realised after writing this, I take responsibility for not telling you the tighter restrictions on inter-departmental knowledge, my bad)

[Tadpolesrcold]

7 hours ago, beepbopbeepbop said:

To respond to the complaint as a whole, I wasn't entirely aware you were new because you chose the Engineer role (instead of that of an apprentice) and seemed confident in your ability to set up power. Due to how low staffed the department was, I was occupied in making sure Atmospherics was being set up, and I add that an Engineering cyborg arrived while I was doing atmos (that wouldn't have been relevant to your job as an engineer), so I offered that they could show you how to do the INDRA setup since you asked, though you denied (which is understandable, as you said you have explained you weren't enjoying the round in your complaint). On the topic of in-character attitude, I believe your character's suggestions on my character's teaching would have been better suited to OOC, where you could have explained that you hadn't played for ages, but saying this in-character came off as someone trying to tell their superior on how to do their job, which would be completely fine and appreciated feedback if you said it in an OOC setting, but it isn't an excuse for myself. As someone with a trial Command WL, I should have approached you myself and asked if you were new/need help in LOOC, instead of responding entirely as my character would.

As a HOS, I generally like to be hands off with my non-intern staff, though I definitely could have engaged with your engineering questions better, and should hopefully get better at recognising a new player. Three consecutive rounds as a Head could have contributed to my poorer attitude, and I didn't really receive any negative feedback for my previous gameplay, though it isn't an excuse either for me to have made someone's round less enjoyable. Given this was my first day on trial, I will use the rest of it to take this as a lesson and improve upon my Commandery. I would be happy to see you in many more rounds (maybe as an apprentice), so I can help you learn more about the best department on the server. To wrap my response up, I want to apologise for making your time on the server less enjoyable, and I hope that you will see me as a better HOS in future.

(As an aside I realised after writing this, I take responsibility for not telling you the tighter restrictions on inter-departmental knowledge, my bad)

I’m satisfied with this response and am excited too see more from you.

[hollyhock]

+1 hong nguyen is a good chief engineer.....

[La Villa Strangiato]

Generally I haven't seen anything egregious from Hong Nguyen and I think the character is well-played. From what I've seen they tend to stay in contact mostly on the command channel and less so the engineering channel, but I might need to play engineering more to find out.

Overall, seems pretty solid. +1

[Owen]

Accepted