Caplo - Staff Report: Enforcement Action Taken - Caplo
What’s your BYOND key:
Caplo
Round ID:
29234
Your character name:
Todd Allen
Their BYOND key:
Vending Machine
What are you reporting?:
Enforcement Action Taken
Description of the incident:
So I was mentally out of it and to be honest I likely should have not been playing and taking a break and not been playing such a role like GP. Anyway I was warned verbally a few rounds ago for takeing the dropship off before. I was not griefing intentionally I was super out of it. I will admit I was wrong for saying can we hurry this up. I feel it was taken as I dont care what you have to say and if I was dismissive of staff then why even try to talk to me and why not just ban me outright. But that not what I ment by it what I meant was this is vary stressful for me can we resolve this conflict quickly. In light of that I feel the perma ban should be removed however the two warnings shoud stay. As i shoud have taken personly acountabilty and not played such high foucs roles when I was in such a mentel state if this ban is removed I will try to be more mindful of both how my words are interperected by staff and what roles i take and whare I am at mentely when I play thoes roles and if I can truely handle them at any given time. I hope what i had to say will be taken into account and the staff action be reversed as I feel it was based on a missunderstanding and is unfair. Thank you for takeing the time to read my report and I hope to avoid things like this moveing forward I will try and think more about how staff interprets what I say and try to be more clear to avoid misunderstands like this happening again.
I made a mistake on thare Ckey staff member was Vending Machine. Also Marriens whare marking targets behind the lines and a few times I didnt check the camera befire fireing I want to say i have ASD so the way I see things. And the way my brain works is difrent
Not commenting on merit of the ban; did want to add that yes marines were lazing their backline, mostly for req coords but that was passed through req channel and I don’t remember if GP has that. It happened often enough that a few people in dchat watching questioned what they were doing and said they were going to get CAS to bomb them.
Hi I was the MP who arrested Caplo on his “non griefing” SO incident from the round before. I’m unsure if he even had auth to deploy as he had zero CIC combat gear on, and looked like he just came out of cryo. (Not even a sidearm) During the FOB siege he launched with zero orders to do so, sounded the alarm for 2 seconds, then locked everyone out. He then launched a second later. There was zero breach risk as marines were holding strong. He refused to open the doors even with me, and multiple marines screaming at him to do. I arrested him and his execution was speed ran approved by the XO (without me even suggesting it). This entire time he was insulting me and showing zero remorse for killing every marine groundside. Hijack happened so the execution was stopped. I would later end up throwing him to the xenomorphs during hijack while he was in cuffs. I strongly believe this was grief on the SOs part.
I was the individual that ahelped in the round this discipline occurred in. If I recall, I was the CMP and was supporting the CiC in managing the op as the XO was a bit rusty and they had a single staff officer.
While observing marines, I watched two separate occurrences of CAS doing direct fire on top of marines, without significant if any xeno presence in the blast radius. I am pretty sure this also resulted in one marine being permanently killed.
After watching this happen a second time, I realized something must be up because CAS failing this poorly is uncommon. I checked the manifest and saw Todd Allen as GP and immediately went “uhg”, and ahelped. My reaction was because for three rounds in a row, Todd Allen had now joined as relatively important/impactful roles, and sabotaged the operation in some way whether maliciously or negligently.
He:
Joined as Quartermaster, and deployed without authorization with an empty req tent to the FOB on first or second drop, leaving a brand new PVT Cargo Tech alone in Req. The result was NO supplies were sent until the FOB was overrun.
Joined as SO. Was sent to the Alamo to stay FOB-side by the XO for evacuation purposes. Locked the doors down before a majority of the marines could get on, against the directions of command and MPs, and took off without orders to do so, damning our entire fighting force to capture.
Was now blowing up my marines with direct hits.
I ahelped because the reoccurrence of such round-impacting misconduct was in such close proximity time wise (pretty sure it happened one round after the other, tbh, otherwise it was all in one night), that I was certain it was intentional grief.
EDIT: I want to clarify I am not speaking for or against this staff report, and merely providing the context from the perspective as someone that was in the round and ahelped.
hello, i wont comment on the qm round or so round because i didnt handle those, but your excuse for bombing the front twice was a misclick. after i told you that you did it twice, you said you must’ve double clicked, which still should’ve only fired one, since theres a delay between cas shots. im pretty sure this was intentional.
It wasn’t truely and not all wepons have a delay why is everyone assumeing the wost if I truely truely was here to grif would I put in all this effet to say staff made a mistake. If I was here to troll I would have already been gone and moved on to a new victom after geting a reactcen I was out of it and kept makeing dumb mistakes. Truely and its deeply wouding that you all refuse to consir that I am being honnest and was just a dumbass makeing dumb mistakes over and over. I may just give up and accsept a higher power hates me for some reson and makes life so hard to the point its hard to keep track of things and it cases me to fuck up in dumb ways and no one belives its intented. What happens if you repeal the ban and i am lieing I fuck up again and make this start up all over again. I cant deal with all this. I truely truely feel gilty about my mistake may a higher power come and remove my abily to move for the rest of my life if I am lieing
Hi, I was the XO on the round where you launched the Alamo without authorization as an SO.
I want to be clear, every pilot has fucked up an evac, shit absolutely happens, and sometimes you need to make judgment calls, and sometimes those judgment calls get people killed. However, in this particular round, when I sent you down, I specifically ordered you not to evac. I then spent the next 15 or so minutes announcing every 30 seconds to both you, and the marines, that we were NOT evacuating and that they needed to dig in and hold. I am not exaggerating when I say that EVERY announcement reinforced this. FOB was breached, but we had several marines paradropping down to reinforce, we had godstims being dropped by req, and we had enough intel for foxtrot and a spec. We had also just gotten a bioscan, and there were only 20ish bugs, which is absolutely manageable.
In a minute or two after you launched, we would have almost certainly been able to push the bugs out of FOB and rebuild, and then assault the hive. Right as we had finally held out long enough for stims and our paradrop, you launched, not only without permission from ANYONE, but without even getting marines onboard the Alamo. YOU LOCKED THE DOORS and you took just enough marines away from the main fighting force that the remaining 60-70% got completely wiped. We then got obliterated on hijack.
I have no idea what would possess you to make that kind of decision when literally every piece of information that you were given was to do the opposite, but it’s a fucking shitty feeling to work really hard to accomplish a difficult goal, and then have that robbed from you because a greytider wants to fuck around. Also, not really my place to say this, but all these roles have hefty hours requirements. I don’t buy that you can play this game that long and not understand that killing your teammates is a bad thing.
Very strange situation, as I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this player for quite a long time around in the discord and never had the impression they were any sort of griefer/bad actor. I was a rav on the ground at the time of the bizarre decision to leave on the drop ship, and it was certainly a head scratcher as the line, while certainly heated, was holding.
I talked to them a tiny bit as they explained themselves in the discord, and while the grammar was not great and it was definitely heated, it doesn’t particularly come off as intentional trolling to me. If it is, it’s definitely a weird grief approach I haven’t seen before. Most people who maliciously troll are not upset about getting banned, say a bit more to troll in discord, and leave.
I have little context but I will say due diligence should be taken to find out if this was just baldness/poor play of epic proportions, or actual intentional grief. It certainly seems worthy of several job bans to say the least, whether it should be a perma would probably depend on what you find out about the whole context.
I have reviewed the report and found that the staff member that handled you did nothing wrong, as they saw a person who bombed the frontline twice in succession and pulled the trigger. A quick reaction is sometimes necessary to prevent completely ruining the round if it is an actual griefer.
Your ban will be removed, although I heavily suggest contacting me on Discord when you read this message. My discord tag is stalkerino
TL;DR admin did not do anything wrong and just reacted quickly to a escalating situation, ban will be removed