CrimsonCharcoal - Timed Ban Appeal
What’s your BYOND key?
CrimsonCharcoal
Character Name?
David “Joker” Anderson, EXX
Type of Ban?
Timed Ban
What is your Bancode?
Admin who banned you?
smellyhippie
Total Ban Duration
30 days
Remaining Duration
26 days
What other servers do you play on?
Regularly:
StoneKeep, HalfLife13, CM PvE, IS12, Warmongers
Rarely:
Roguetown2, Monkeystation/Vanderlin, TGMC
Are you now or have you been banned on any servers? Which ones?
Only ones are on CM main
Do you play using a Virtual Machine?
No
is your copy of Windows legitimate?
Yes
Reason for Ban:
Paraphrasing
Rule 6 - metagaming: as drone, was killed - observed the one who killed them as ghost - rejoined as lesser to go directly to their destination
Links to previous appeals:
-Non relating to this-
Your appeal:
As a lesser I have come to follow a train of logic - What does the hivemind know/actively see and usually wait for another player to acknowledge the threat; scouts hivediving, OT mines exist near FOB, area unweeded/missing doors to patch near hive.
(Image key: Red arrowed line = EXX drone + Red-X = Drone death, Green arrowed line = the 2 Marines hunted + Green-X = one marine death, Pink highlight = EXX weeded zone, Purple circles = tunnels, Yellow circles = Tcoms, Yellow+Red clash = Frontline)
There are those who say I talk too much in hivemind, but it is for scenarios like this. In this case I, as drone EXX, informed the hive that backline was being weeded(later being pinkhighlight), sat next to the tunnel in security(purple circle) requesting backliners to that area (Queen off ovi at frontline). Hivemind knows backline is toughly weeded
When I found contacts I requested “Help, rally up” and clarified that I wanted to take the northern pylon (Yellow circle north of security) looped back threw my weeds to make sure anyone coming my way would be forced to fight on them and buy time for anyone to show up(Red and green lines begin). Hivemind knows I’m near security and, frontline is Dam, starting to fall back towards FOB - South West
As EXX Drone I see one marine dragging a crit ally who I kill.(Green X marine death) A hugger comes to aid me and we both perish (Red X drone death). Hivemind knows that there is a wounded marine fleeing to FOB backline towards weeded area from north east of Security + eveyone gets notified of Xeno deaths = I died there so there’s a threat/marine alive
OOC I’m spamming lesser drone waiting out the 1 minute timer while watching them make their escape hoping to see a backliner jump out from the darkness after having put in the time and effort to weed+inform hivemind, but noone came. Voiced my dissatisfaction in OOC about a lack of backliners.
After spawning as lesser, using the hiveminds collective knowledge and this rounds continued want to keep backline weeded I tunnel to the nearest tunnel to the Drone death, being SecBathroom (the same tunnel I used as EXX Drone). The first sign of marines I see after coming out of said tunnel is a trail of blood and broken weeds. Hivemind knows there should be weeds here from me as EXX Drone having just confirmed it being weeded before the fight I follow said blood towards FOB exactly. Bloodtrail = wounded marine which Hivemind knew about. INSTED of taking the optimal (metagame) route, being the closer tunnel and/or prepryed open doors with my old (still) fully weeded hallways, I stick strickly on the blood trail even climbing the same window they used and die as lesserdrone shortly after to QRF coming from the FOB.
OOC even stating “Follow blood, shrimple as”
I believe if the ghosts had been following me the entirety of my Drone backline play they would have a greater picture of what happened nor did I play outside of Hiveminds knowledge. If this is metagaming I would request a clarification as to where I was in the wrong so it does not occur again. I see no mention of this in Rules or RulesClearification looking for lesserdrones and the extent of NLR Hivemind knowledge on the CMmain WIKI.
*correction to smellyhippies name