Alakaya - Staff Report: Behavior involving Misconduct - silencer_pl
What’s your BYOND key:
Alakaya
Round ID:
17020
Your character name:
Amanda Apone
Their BYOND key:
silencer_pl
What are you reporting?:
Behavior involving Misconduct
Description of the incident:
During a round, I observed what seemed to be the same hugger going to the same vents over and over repeatedly, using the fact that there was a medic treating people in order to hug as many people as possible. When I made an Ahelp, I was told that this isn’t metagaming, yet it has been said that if a xeno uses information from a previous life in order to give them an advantage, it constitutes metagaming.
Evidence:
Admin PM from-Silencer_pl: Hey there. Can you explain exactly what ahppened?
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PM to-Admins: There was a hugger that kept going to the same few vents, crawling out, and hugging people becaue there was a medic there healing people. I saw them do it at least three times.
– Administrator private message –
Admin PM from-Silencer_pl: If they kenw that people were being treated there and they didnt move or take additional precautions after encounteirng them for the first time, we typically do not consider that sanctionable.
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PM to-Admins: For metagaming xenos cannot use information from a previous life if they die, or hug a host. TheeBiggest - Player Report: Fledgling Facehugger (570), Rule 6. No Metagaming - #7 by thesoldier - Resolved Player Reports - CM-SS13 This PR supports that.
– Administrator private message –
Admin PM from-Silencer_pl: Its not on the players that play the hugger to secure a permimiter after a sucesful hug on someone. This is not metagaming in my opinion.
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PM to-Admins: It is. Opinions do not matter. The rules state that using information as a xeno from a previous life count as metagaming.
– Administrator private message –
Admin PM from-Silencer_pl: I am telling you right now that rule exists to prevent xenos from feeding IC information to each other based on previous life, NOT use hugger mechanics in the way they are intended. My call on this sitauation is that it is unreasonable to expect a player NOT to use a gap in Marine defenses, especially if they let them use it more than one. We would not sacntion a runner for going back to the same gap it found, we do not sanction huggers for exploiting the same hole. The metagaming rule exists to prevent ooc coordination between players, not players exploitng a gap in the other sides defenses.
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PM to-Admins: It still constitutes metagaming. I’m not going to argue about it here.