Wer6 Posted May 3, 2017 Posted May 3, 2017 (edited) Gonna have to post-phone re-rewriting this due to the fact that I took to long re-writing it and the entire application I wrote were lost. BYOND key:Wer6 Character names:Kerr'Quil Decart, Xui'Gal Syun-Chun, Dih'Xerc Yell'Teh'Meh, Mek'Heb Zoul, Hanira Yishu, Stella Gellar. Skakseeki Ssresh How long have you been playing on Aurora?: 3-4 Years Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: Because I would personally enjoy myself more in a position of perceived power. Why did you come to Aurora?: Because the previous server I visited died. Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Yes. Please provide well-articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each. Give a definition of what you think roleplay is and should be about: Roleplay is the situation of multiple people pretending to be their chosen roles in a setting. I think it should be a bit "dramatic" where not everyone is a perfect person, and there should be leniency towards situations like someone setting up the engine in a dead hour despite not being an engineer. Roleplay should always be for the entertainment and to give everyone a fair chance fo having fun in the roles they chose. What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, in game?: They are the ones that are the leaders, bosses and sometimes the tyrants of the role play environment. they are more important than the non-antagonist are staff and for that reason, they should be upheld to a different standard than other players. Players should have the vast majority fo their head of staff be the "ideal", competent and the type of person that meshes well with MOST people. there should also be some head of staff that DON'T mesh well with most people and only got to the position for either their unmatched skill or their connections. What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?: Be the leader, be the person that upholds the what their character should be, as often times they are the only ones between disaster, or they are the ones that CAUSE the disaster with their reactions. They should act as the "beacons of stability", with characters that are always the same person, that are either always competent and inspiring, "hated" and disliked, or the type of person whose orders are laughed at. Most Heads of staff should be competent and inspiring, but some can be less than the ideal, but not too many. If too many "bad" head of staff come aboard, then it is horrifically ironic to have what should be the most competent people on the station be the ones that cause the most strife. When I say bad, I don't mean the type of people that just sit there and either do nothing or act like fools the entire time they are there, I mean the type of people that go about doing their jobs, in such a manner that causes strife with other people. It doesn't have to be much, maybe the way they do things irks another person or they litter, tiny and insignificant things as well as hard and stubborn personalities that grind against others. outright hostility, utter incompetence or otherwise behavior that would easily cause someone to be arrested or fired on the spot is an obvious no-no. Ultimately what I am saying is that Heads of staff should be notable, "stable" in their personality and not terrible enough that it would make no sense for them to be in the position they are at. Please pick one of your characters for this section, and provide well-articulated responses to the following questions. Character name:Kerr'Quil Decart Character age: 108 Please provide a short biography of this character (approx 2 paragraphs): Born on a space station in Skrellian space, Kerr'QUil Decart was deprived of the surface of a planet, and only knows the void between the stars as her home. She has been deprived of large bodies of water, and due to her defective genes, she is actually inferior to most other Skrell in the sense of her swimming ability. This does not affect her much, but her skill in the life of a spacer has been a boon many times. the station she lived on the majority of her life was poorly maintained and alway's on the brink of failure. When she was fourteen, a beloved friend died in her arms after a damaged equipment failed catastrophically, and she vowed that she would never be in the same situation again. By the time she was eighteen, she had enrolled at a very prestigious university, and she learned Skrellian Physiology as her major and Xeno physiology along with Martial arts as her minors. She worked for around ten to fifteen years before growing for the lack of a better term bored of Skrellian space and signed onto a Nanotrasen Program that if she succeeded in, would fast track her as a head of staff aboard their vast and glorious stations. In the two-month tenure, she had stayed aboard the Odin and the Exodus, she had shown excellent skill in the line of duty and in several situations she had saved lives. However she is not perfect, Decart has shown outright disgust towards Vaurca, and a superiority attitude towards tajarans and certain Unathi. She still keeps her professional attitude most of the time in her occupation, but it causes friction among others. She has recently put in papers to officially finish the fast track program for better or worse towards the board who decides heads of staff. if they accept, she becomes eligible to work as a Chief Medical Officer. if they don't, she will still work as a Medical Doctor on the Exodus. What do you like about this character?: I found out I am very, very good at being a Medical doctor. Much better than being a paper jockey. Of course, I also have my own plans for the Medical b ay once I become a Head of Staff with Authority. What do you dislike about this character?: Two problems, the first of which is the fact that I sometimes get carried away with the xenophobia and it shows, just like how Hanira is with being lazy. the Second of which is that if I am on too long and too late into the evening I either get disinterested or start playing mindlessly. What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?: A hundred years of life with decades worth of dedication towards the saving of lives, be they Skrellian or alien combined with their credentials has resulted in a very superior Head of staff candidate. Please provide well-articulated answers to the following questions. How would you rate your own roleplaying?: I'll be honest, my Roleplay has gotten a little sub-par over the last few months, but I think if I put more effort into it I'll get better at it eventually. Extra notes: I may bring back Hanira Yishu.(But better this time I swear) My favorite flavor of HotPocket™ is the Used Medical Bees and Syringes™ Fultra™ blast Flavor™. Original application in the spoiler below. BYOND key:Wer6 Character names:Kerr'Quil Decart, Xui'Gal Syun-Chun, Dih'Xerc Yell'Teh'Meh, Mek'Heb Zoul, Hanira Yishu, Stella Gellar. Skakseeki Ssresh ((Guess which one is the stripper.) How long have you been playing on Aurora?: 3-4 Years Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: Mainly two reasons, both of which tie together in a happy-fuzzy-feely sort of way. The first of which by far is obviously my own personal enjoyment. I like to have a position of power just because I can put what I expect is the proper way of operating the department. The second is that I want people to actually learn how to do the job they picked, my recent foray into Medical made me realize how utterly stupid the people who run the medical bay and the lack of procedure there is. Why did you come to Aurora?: Because I like the lobotomization, they are free. Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Yes. Please provide well-articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each. Give a definition of what you think roleplay is and should be about: No ERP. No one who can do everything, unless it means that we have to suffer in the dark. I don't care if the nurse should "ICly" not know how to dot the supermatter but they are the only person who knows how to set it up without causing a monstrous explosion OOCly. But in most situations, everyone should at least make an attempt at playing their "role", and make the game at least interesting if not Fun for everyone involved. Antagonists should shoot people and Medics should run away like cowards. What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, in game?: Make sure the lower staff don't break things and touch things they shouldn't. Make sure they actually know what they're doing. Don't act like a snobby bastard OOC, but in IC, it is probably fine. Probably. What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?: Actually be there. Don't be the one guy who sits in their office all day sleeping like those ATLAS Posters depict all the time. go out there and be a man squish and make sure people do their damn paperwork and get dragged across the floors like a proper doctor. Please pick one of your characters for this section, and provide well-articulated responses to the following questions. Character name:Kerr'Quil Decart Character age: 108 Please provide a short biography of this character (approx 2 paragraphs): Kerr'QUil squished his first Squish on the homeworld of the Skrellian people, Nrallac, in the Nral'Malic System. They lived a pretty 'average" Skrellian life, except they were very stars-damned dedicated to becoming the "best Medical Doctor there is". After a childhood tragedy, they decided that no one should suffer as much as he did after a malpractice by a senile gray Skrell in a foot operation had rendered him temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. By the time he was Eighteen he successfully applied and got accepted to the gilut... The Grand University. After twenty-three long years of getting beat to death by books containing the legendary knawledge, Kerr'Quil was proficient in Skrellian anatomy, physiology, Along with the wide realm of Bio and inorganic Chemistry. They also minored in the sacred art "painting" (they preferred drawing scorpions.) and Martial arts (The shitty Skrellian kind that is mostly breathing exercises and running away.) after a brief period of time measured in the years, they decided that they were bored of Skrellian space, for a lack of a better term. They preferred being the type of doctor that would save lives, not pioneer medical procedures, except for that one time they accidentally made high-grade Phoron explosives from some tea and a brick, he doesn't talk about that because otherwise, the Hypercorp hit teams would get him. He decided that he would head to human space, and open up his own clinic. after exactly three days, this dream was crushed by the fact that he arrived in Biesel instead of Earth, and when he tried to create a clinic in Biesel, he promptly got shut down by the brutal cut-throat competition of importing Nurses. Exhausted of all this, he noted a shitty piece of paper denoting a convenient high paying job of being a Medical Doctor on the NSS Exodus. "Sign me the stars up!" he said. And the people around him looked at him because he was talking to himself like a stupid person. After a period of time from being hired and recently, he was noticed by Sen- the higher ups of some place and he was subtly nudged with subliminal messages and a megaphone to becoming a Head of Staff, and he is a true hero because of it. What do you like about this character?: He actually has a purpose in life, and I think I'll do great things as a Medical Staffing hippie doctor leading communist. What do you dislike about this character?: I can't play this character too often because It's highly demanding and I'll get stuffed and AFK. What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?: Because unlike the rest of the medical bay I know how to do the job without fucking it up. Please provide well-articulated answers to the following questions. How would you rate your own roleplaying?: I'm a Grade A+/- Roleplayer, I know this. Extra notes: My favorite flavor of HotPocket™ is the Used Medical Bees and Syringes™ Fultra™ blast Flavor™. Edited May 17, 2017 by Guest
Scheveningen Posted May 3, 2017 Posted May 3, 2017 This is not a good application. I cannot tell which part of it is actually serious or satirical. It is indistinguishable and it hardly matters either way because none of the right things that need to be said for comprehension's sake were actually mentioned for this to be an at least passable application. Major issues: You would constantly go AFK as a head of staff. In one specific instance I saw your ckey both logged onto Aurora and onto Colonial Marines at the same time. You would often shirk your duties as a head of staff to partake in less important social calls or you would completely disregard your own safety and the necessity of your own survival in order to get yourself into a situation to be kidnapped by an antagonist. You would be as good as dead at this point because your departments would be without heads of staff. You have cryoed consistently as a head of staff for rounds you have not completely afked through but have stored yourself with gear pertaining to your department in cryo. You have a long history of bug abuse and chucklefucking, the latter of which got extreme enough where you got your whitelist stripped. Point-by-point in response to the app's contents: Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?:Mainly two reasons, both of which tie together in a happy-fuzzy-feely sort of way. The first of which by far is obviously my own personal enjoyment. I like to have a position of power just because I can put what I expect is the proper way of operating the department. The second is that I want people to actually learn how to do the job they picked, my recent foray into Medical made me release how utterly stupid the people who run the medical bay and the lack of procedure there is. Meh up until the last sentence. Utilizing ad hominem to identify issues in how other people command medical does not win you any points, and considering your own past, it seems like empty words. Give a definition of what you think roleplay is and should be about:No ERP. No one who can do everything, unless it means that we have to suffer in the dark. I don't care if the nurse should "ICly" not know how to dot the super matte but they are the hte only person who knows how to set it up without causing a monstrous explosion OOCly. But in most situations, everyone should at least make an attempt at playing their "role", and make the game at least interesting if not Fun for everyone involved. Antagonists should shoot people and Medics should run away like cowards. It is a requirement in our rules to disallow characters to suddenly gain knowledge in how to do something in a pinch. Deus Ex Machina moments go against the spirit of roleplay and by extension break the rules on character knowledge limitation. If a situation demands a specialist to deal with something and there is no specialist who can deal with the issue, then anyone involved is supposed to suffer the consequences. Everyone needs to roleplay being competent at their job to reasonable degrees, either down or up, within the middle without being ridiculous or going too above and beyond. Antagonists may do as they wish according to the rules. They are not required however to be violent in order to provide an interesting experience to other players. Medics/engineers or whomever are not required to be forced to be cowards nor forced to be brave. We require characters to be reasonable and have a decent explanation for why they did something before they even try to do it, so that they can defend themselves in saying their decision was accounted for. What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, in game?:Make sure the lower staff don't break things and touch things they shouldn't. Make sure they actually know what they're doing. Don't act like a snobby bastard OOC, but in IC, it is probably fine. Probably. Swing, swing, swing, miss, miss, miss. These are not the only things whitelisted players are supposed to be doing for the community. What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?:Actually be there. Don't be the one guy who sits in their office all day sleeping like those ATLAS Posters depict all the time. go out there and be a man squish and make sure people do their damn paperwork and get dragged across the floors like a proper doctor. I'm not certain if you can be trusted to not afk mid-round as a head of staff again as you say. There are a lot of things you did to diminish the factor of being able to trust you as a head of staff to do the right things, to make the right decisions while also being present in your lane in the right moments to support not just your department but the command team and other auxiliary functions. Skipping the character background because it is mostly fluff and entirely satirical-sounding nonsense that probably isn't suited for an app. What do you like about this character?:He actually has a purpose in life, and I think I'll do great things as a Medical Staffing hippie doctor leading communist. What do you dislike about this character?: I can't play this character too often because It's highly demanding and I'll get stuffed and AFK. It's hard to say much else at this point Why do you deserve another chance to be a head of staff, what can you say to excuse you from having been such an awful head of staff in the past? You've done a fair deal of things that give head of staff whitelistees a less than stellar reputation due to consistent displayed incompetency and neglect of your duties.
Fire and Glory Posted May 3, 2017 Posted May 3, 2017 I skimmed this app moments before and Delta is touching on a lot of things I had similar thoughts about regarding the application itself. I will try to avoid repeating most of what Delta said but do keep in mind that I also second his own take on things for this. You don't really seem to be taking any of it particularly seriously. Of course we're not required to conduct ourselves as robots when applying but saturating the entire thread with such an attitude doesn't really appeal that much. The second is that I want people to actually learn how to do the job they picked, my recent foray into Medical made me realize how utterly stupid the people who run the medical bay and the lack of procedure there is. What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?:Because unlike the rest of the medical bay I know how to do the job without fucking it up. Repeatedly insulting those in the department you want to Head doesn't endear you to me that much. There are probably better attitudes to be had when planning on correcting behavior. The backstory feels like you didn't bother with it. "This dumb doctor ended up temporarily paralyzing him from the waist in a foot operation", I'm no surgeon or doctor but I am pretty damn sure it doesn't work like that. except for that one time they accidentally made high-grade Phoron explosives from some tea and a brick, he doesn't talk about that because otherwise, the Hypercorp hit teams would get him. Not to mention this entire sentence. after exactly three days, this dream was crushed by the fact that he arrived in Biesel instead of Earth, and when he tried to create a clinic in Biesel, he promptly got shut down by the brutal cut-throat competition of importing Nurses. And then there's this, the entire backstory reads a lot like "The wacky misadventures of x" instead of an accounting of actual events. He doesn't particularly strike me as someone fit to be a head of staff. Certainly the mentality you put across in the backstory doesn't seem to me as the sort of person who would be elevated to a leadership role. And I do believe being able to be a medical doctor "without fucking it up" is not a real qualification to be a head.
Wer6 Posted May 3, 2017 Author Posted May 3, 2017 I really should of put more effort into the backstory of my perhaps-to-be CMO to be completely honest. re-reading it through, the slightly satirical vibe I was attempting to create was very overdone, and I'm actually cringing just a little right now. I'll begin rewriting a little more sensible and serious responses to the questions after I finish this reply, but to respond to both Scheveningen andFire and glory's points, I can conveniently place them in this post. Yes, I AFKed, Cryo'd, or otherwise shirked by duties Way too much. the entire root cause of it was, in my mind: I logged way too many hours in the game. I can easily guarantee that I spent at least 10 hours minimum on the server, every week.I have noticed that when I play Space station thirteen in a roleplay environment, I get a little bored and "anxious", and when that happens I make mistakes unless I only play it sparsely. Now with the fact that I am treating SS13 less like the only time I use my free time on and more as a hobby, I'm actually interested in the game. I actually think what my character would reasonably do instead of thinking about what I could do for maximum "hilarity". Since I had my whitelist stripped, I started playing in the medical staff roles, and I am honestly frustrated with the current player base of the Medical staff. Maybe it's just that I have high standards, maybe I need to grow a thicker skin, but half the time the lower Medical staff don't know what they're doing or forget the standard duties. That is alright, that is okay. People make mistakes and they should learn from it. When I posted the application on May 2nd I was stupified by the fact that despite having a half-full medical roster there were people dying in the lobby while the medical staff was straight up gone. I was frustrated at the time and it bled into my writing. Like I said earlier in my post I am going to rewrite it so it isn't terrible but they are not without flaws. In my personal nitpicky experience of the medical staff, I have just one main problem with the function of medical staff, with a small number two. Noone communicates to eachother I've had three notable occasions where I would report that I am heading to a medical emergency, and not three minutes later half the medical staff shows up and run around hitting people with analyzers and found out that everything that could have been done was already done. It has become such a problem that I basically can't actually trust anyone to do anything because no one reports what they're doing. I do the rescues by myself so that I know that the people there are okay. I bring them to the medical bay, scan them, do the full surgery and then release them, and with that in mind I believe that medical needs a Chief Medical Officer, someone who plays semi-regularly that makes sure that everyone is on the same page and actually speaking to each other instead of being lone medics in the field. however, I still appreciate other medical staff members, mainly because I'm not without flaw myself. I am actually not that great at Chemistry. I used to be pretty good at it, but that was a long, long time ago that I can barely remember the basic anti-toxin inaprovaline recipes. I actually prefer other players who don't know a single iota of what they're doing in chemistry since I think it's a mind numbing button pushing job, and I am grateful for the types of players that can handle it. Writing up the more "profesionnal" application right now, I'll probably dump the original application in a spoiler for clarities sake.
Scheveningen Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 Single-word answers are not a reason for opposing or supporting someone's application.
Wer6 Posted May 17, 2017 Author Posted May 17, 2017 Just gonna clarify some points that were brought up that came up previously. I have updated the application with far more Major issues: You would constantly go AFK as a head of staff. In one specific instance, I saw your ckey both logged onto Aurora and onto Colonial Marines at the same time. You would often shirk your duties as a head of staff to partake in less important social calls or you would completely disregard your own safety and the necessity of your own survival in order to get yourself into a situation to be kidnapped by an antagonist. You would be as good as dead at this point because your departments would be without heads of staff. You have cryoed consistently as a head of staff for rounds you have not completely afked through but have stored yourself with gear pertaining to your department in cryo. You have a long history of bug abuse and chucklefucking, the latter of which got extreme enough where you got your whitelist stripped. I will admit that yes, I went to Cryo way too often, I would play for around six-hour binges and by the third or second game I would finish and go to cryo. However, I did make a point to dump every single bit of equipment I had on me back where it belonged or at the very least a pile on the floor in the office. Granted, the equipment may have been something like a flash would have been hidden in a container, but every time I went through the process of going to cryo I dumped all my equipment before I headed off. the two main problems I had playing a head of staff was being AFK practically all the time I played and acting less than expected of a head of staff when I was active. At the time I treated the game less like an actual immersive "situation" and more like a chatroom where I had to lodge into somewhere good to have any fun. Now that I had some time off the roster I am actually enjoying myself playing as a regular Medical Doctor, Engineer, and the occasional Cargo tech. as a side effect, I am not treating it as a chat box that I alt-tab off of to be active somewhere else. Although that means I am on less often, I am paradoxically active more often. As for the bug abusing and chuckelfucking, I could say I won't do it anymore, but I don't think anyone would believe me, so instead I am only going to be playing important roles when I can put the effort in and non-critical roles where I can slink off and meme when I can't.
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