johnravioli - Commanding Officer Application

Commanding Officer Application - johnravioli

What is your BYOND key?

johnravioli

What is your Discord ID?

john.ravioli

What is your timezone in UTC?

UTC-05

Player Name You Use Most?

Harry Howard / Atuudh Bo’ytill

Ban Appeals, Whitelist and Staff Applications:

//showthrea…ja-Application | First predator application - WITHDRAWN

//showthrea…ja-Application | Second predator application - DENIED

//showthrea…ja-Application | Third predator application - DENIED

//showthrea…ja-Application | Fourth predator application - ACCEPTED

//showthrea…-(Discord-Ban) | Banned for not listening to staff after posting gifs that harassed other members (they did allow me to post them, but it still stands) - DENIED

//showthrea…-(Discord-Ban) | Second discord ban appeal, me and Silencer talked it out in DMs about a month before and it was accepted. - ACCEPTED

Accepted johnravioli - Commanding Officer Application - Previous CO application, Accepted

//showthrea…ht=johnravioli discord ban appeal Accepted

johnravioli - Moderator Application - 2nd mod app, I have withdrawn it as of right now due to obvious reasons.

Have you been banned in the last 3 months?

No

If so, why?

N/A

Command Knowledge:

How familiar are you with command positions?

I am very familiar with Command roles and their functions, as well as every other department and their head roles. I have played all of them.

Hours in XO:

66.1 hours of Executive Officer, 61.2 hours of Commanding Officer

Hours in SL:

45.2 hours as Squad Leader

Character Information:

Why did your character decide to become the CO of a ship?

My character, Harry Howard, decided to work his way up the ranks to become the CO of a ship because of his undying service and loyalty to his nation. He loves to serve, and gave all that he had to become a commissioned officer of the United Americas. When they came to him and allowed him to take command of a vessel, he did so with pride. He’s simply a man wanting to die for his country.

How did your character attain the position of CO?

When another day in the Corps turns into a full-scale naval operation, Captain Howard is ordered to redirect his vessel to the Pluto and Charon sectors, tasked with stopping a UPP battlecruiser carrying Weapons of Mass Destruction. His valor and success would allow him to be promoted after saving the lives and many colonies of the United Americas.

Provide a short story of your CO.

The Story of All Time

Command Actions:

When do you believe it’s appropriate to pardon a prisoner?

I only believe in pardoning people if it will effect the overall flow of the round or have a positive effect on the operation. With this being said, I wouldn’t pardon anyone if they had committed a severe crime, like a major crime OR a capital crime. Pardons should only be given out to people that didn’t truly have any bad intentions, and people that I am positive won’t be re-offenders. If I know someone would commit another crime RIGHT after I pardon them, I wouldn’t give them the time of day. I would much rather walk through an appeal process than have to pardon someone like that. That’s just what I believe in.

Overall, I just think it should be only be used on a case-by-case basis.

Give some examples of when you would or would not use pardon.

  1. Pardon

If the only doctor onboard the ship is arrested and detained in the brig for a minor crime, and there are several hugged marines waiting for surgery, I would happily pardon them as they are vital to the round at that point.

  1. No pardon

If the person is guilty of a capital crime or anything severely major, I wouldn’t pardon them based off that fact.

  1. Pardon

A new player is walking around the ship and accidentally shoots someone, and accidentally shoots out a few windows in the confused scuffle. If he is apologetic and understanding of what he did, I would happily pardon him and either teach him basic game mechanics, or direct him to a SEA, who’s job IS to teach new people the game.

  1. No pardon

A marine is arrested for disobeying orders, along with disrespecting his officers for seemingly no reason, I wouldn’t pardon them at all.

When do you believe it’s appropriate to use a Battlefield Execution?

Personally, I believe that battlefield executions are inherently wrong, but should only be used on people if they are genuinely threatening your life or of your command. I would much rather roleplay it out with someone then whipping out The Big StickTM and shooting them once in the chest and then once in the head while they’re stunned on the ground and permanently taking them out of the game for that round. I have battlefield executed many a person in my tenure as a whitelisted CO in the past, but I would never willingly do it unless I really had to.

I wouldn’t battlefield execute someone for LRP, I would much rather have the MPs arrest them and send them off to the brig, or have a staff member deal with them OOCly.

Give some examples of when you would or would not use Battlefield Execution.

I would most definitely battlefield execute someone if they are actively trying to kill me, or if they’re leading a mutiny. They are attempting to depose of my command as the Major of the ship and risking the lives of others in doing so. I would definitely have to get rid of them.

Another example on when I would use the battlefield execution feature is if I am leading the operation from the front and a marine willingly sets up a M2C machine gun right behind where EVERYONE is charging in at, and start opening fire. If I wasn’t cut down in the ensuing gunfire, I would have to take them out of the game for that, after all, they just killed a lot of people, along with myself. They are actively trying to throw off the operation and is an active threat to the lives of others around them.

Another example of a BE would be if I deployed with my honor guard. Marines inherently do not like law and order, and because of that, harass this MP honor guard that is assigned to protecting me. After a ferocious battle with xenomorphs, my honor guard falls as I dispatch the xeno threat. I drag him back to the doctors and in which this marine takes my honor guard and drags him far away from the frontline medics trying to revive him. I watch this happen and I swiftly would execute him on the spot, as he is willingly trying to perma my own bodyguard, who is there to help me survive and not jeopardize my safety. (This is a real experience that has happened to me before.)

A scenario where I wouldn’t battlefield execute someone is the following…
I order a push after a successful OB on LV-624 across the river from Hydro. After a few moments, I hear on the radio that the Gunship pilot is commencing a gun run, and I watch on the cameras as several marines get mowed down by GAU fire and promptly exploded from a salvo of mini-rockets, directly on the push. People are actively trying to get the pilot lynched for this, and it comes up to me. I simply wouldn’t battlefield execute him at all and let the MPs arrest and charge him for manslaughter, and possibly create a good roleplay scenario shipside out of this, It could’ve been a simple mistake afterall.

Other than that, I personally wouldn’t use this ability of mine unless I really had to, there are so many other ways of dealing with something than blowing their head off.

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My hours as of today:


I am active and playing as much as I can. I have work and college Monday through Thursday from the hours of 7 AM to 9 PM, but Friday and the weekends are fair game for me.
I try to play every chance I get because I truly want this whitelist back and I will prove that I can do it once again. P.S. Soomis approved me to reapply.

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An easy +1 for Captain Howard. I’ve played with him quite a bit over the years and have never had cause not to trust him. He knows how to make rounds interesting and has a good grasp on commanding’s aspects.

He was also a CO prior, and has from my interactions with him learned from his mistakes back then.

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I +1 his old application I will do so for this one. Fantastic player.

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I’ve played about a billion rounds with Mr. Ravioli and I find they’re some of the only rounds where I’m not screaming to myself about how cruddy command is. He’s also just a very nice player :slight_smile: +1

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Consistent Disrespect, LRP and generally dickhead behaviors are occurring in Briefing.

What are you doing to solve that?

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Truth be told, Bancrose, I’d order my MPs to arrest them and book them for Disorderly Contact, and whatever other charges that apply to what is currently happening in this situation.
If this does get so out of hand, only then would I resort to BEing people for LRP and disrupting the brief. I just don’t think it would be necessary if I can just order the MPs to do their job.

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Acceptable by my standard. +1

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Guys kinda of a loser but I guess he’s aight at commanding

+1 just cause ur from the state that started the civil war

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The only round I ever played with this guy as my XO, I still remember. He was competent, and the RP was really fun to deal with while I was his CO. My entire Officer staff was utterly dedicated to the fruition of “The Plan” not even 30 minutes into the round.

+1

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Hey John.

As a returning CO you know how the WL operates and how there’s always an expectation that COs should prioritize leading over fighting personally. Now, in particular, since there was a big leadership shakeup recently and the new top people want to change the WL and it’s reputation for the better. And that reputation is still somewhat that old: “the average CO is just some some shmuck who deploys early, tries to frag with M46C, gets capped early and does not contribute to the round in any other way”.

With that in mind, how would your rounds be different from the above stereotype? Is there anything unique about your command style that you think would differentiate you from other COs?

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Hello Kacew,

Honestly, back a few years ago, you could probably fit me into that sterotype of “deploy and frag (this was back when the m46c was actually good), sometimes die and utterly ruin the operation.”
Well, I am not the best at the game of course, I rather sit back and relax and actually command the operation myself, sometimes deploy if I really had to. Sticking to one thing the whole time to me - is just not fun - why not spice it up sometimes?

Other than that, I honestly don’t really have a answer to your question. I don’t really analyze myself like that and try to fit in any stereotypes. My commanding style is my own of which I have developed over years of playing and having fun. Sorry I couldn’t answer it in the way you probably would have wanted, but I am just being honest. Thank you.

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You had CO in a time where the culture of the server and of the whitelist in general was significantly different than it is now, a time where a lot of actions and manners of playing that were once considered acceptable are now seen as LRP or incredibly low effort. There is not an insignificant amount of concern that, if you were to be re-accepted into the whitelist, you might return to the type of behavior that got you removed from the whitelist in the first place. I’m not afraid to say that I’m one of the people concerned about that.

What steps have you taken thus far to improve your behavior in game, or what steps are you planning to take to accomplish that goal? Are there any recent rounds that you participated in that you can point to as evidence that you’ve moved beyond the LRP or otherwise unacceptable behavior that characterized a lot of COs at the time you held the WL?

I do have some other questions for you as well, considering the bredth of time between when you last played CO and now:

  1. You’re in the briefing hall delivering your plan to the assembled marines, informing them of what they can expect when they inevitably land on the ground. Partway through your brief one of your SLs pulls out a spare megaphone and starts shouting about how they hate another SL, calling them an ugly motherfucker and criticizing their choice of equipment completely unprompted. You tell the SL to put down the megaphone and continue to deliver your brief, but it’s clear the marines are paying more attention to them than they are to you. What do you do?
  2. You’re on the ground leading the marines when a synth approaches you, informing you of a marine that has been consistently insulting them on comms and hindering their attempts to help other marines. You previously noticed this marine insulting the synth over comms and told them to knock it off, but it’s now become clear they have no intention of stopping. What do you do?
  3. You’re in your CIC planning for the coming operation with your command staff when an SL informs you that they’re going to shoot up requisitions unless you send an SO down to open the second line. Not believing what you heard you tell them to repeat themself, to which they say “You heard me.” What do you do?
  4. Prior to first drop a rifleman jokes with their squad, on squad comms, about overthrowing the MP department and replacing them with their own squad. Seeing this, your XO orders the rifleman arrested for sedition and your MPs swiftly take them to the brig, where they are tossed in perma. The rifleman quickly requests an appeal, arguing that they were simply joking and had no intention of actually couping the entire military police department. Your CMP and XO argue that the statement constitutes a call for mutiny, and therefore the charge is valid. What do you do?
  5. You’re partway through an operation when you see a rifleman screaming on comms about “heavily armored aliens with big fuck-off swords.” When you ask your SO what the rifleman is talking about, they agree with the story and confirms that there are aliens other than the xenomorphs on the ground. How do you inform the marines of this new development?
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Hello Harrysno,

While it may be true that I have a reputation for that stuff I’ve done years ago which led into my removal from every whitelist I had at that time (CO and Pred), I am adamant on correcting my mistakes and eventually getting them back. I already have the Yautja whitelist back and have for quite a while. I’m not the guy spouting LRP stuff over the announcements and just being LRP in general anymore, I know that the server’s atmosphere and RP standards are constantly changing for the better. Pretty much all of the rounds I’ve been apart of are more than enough evidence I can RP and do it good. If you go and ask any predator whitelistee that has played in the last few months, they can say the exact same thing. I am willing to conform to the rules of today and not what was in the past. Thank you, thank you very much.

Now onto the answers for your questions.

  1. If there are any military police nearby, I would order the arrest of the marine for disorderly conduct. On the off chance that there are no military police nearby, I would instead just give them another warning, and if they don’t stop after that, the barrel of my Mateba can end the conversation right then and there.

  2. I will simply ignore it after a few times, unless this marine is actively and directly stopping them from saving fallen marines. If they are doing that, I will just go up to them personally and order them to stop, and if it keeps happening, the barrel of my Mateba will have to force my hand. If it’s a troublemaker doing this over and over again and constantly hindering the Marine effort on the groundside, they must be dealt with accordingly.

  3. This can go three ways, as I see it.

The first scenario I can see myself in with this question, is believe that the marine is shit-talking. Every marine shit-talks a lot, so I would just think he’s exaggerating to an extreme.

The second scenario would be that I order his arrest for disorderly conduct for threatening the entirety of the req line just because the second one isn’t open.

The third scenario would simply be me saying ‘Try it.” over comms. If the squad leader truly has the intentions of gunning down the requisitions line, I would just come down there and blow his head off with my Mateba for doing it. If I weren’t to BE him, get him brigged for several counts of murder and unauthorized execution and have him brigged and or executed by firing squad.

  1. I would go and handle the appeal personally, and see if the Marine in question had any real intentions of causing a mutiny. If he was actually joking as he said he was, I would pardon him and give him a single, heavy warning to NOT do it again, and if he did, I would deal with him personally. If the marine really had the intention of sedition and mutiny, I would leave him in there for as long as the CMP wants it.

  2. With the knowledge that I had just been given by the Staff Officer, I would announce over my command tablet about the new alien contacts, and for the Marines to proceed with caution, as I - in character - have no other information on them. As I learn more and more about them in character, I will come up with something as the round progresses, but generally, I’ll be adamant on the Marines staying away from them. If these aliens were to attack Marines out right, then using evidence in game, I will order the Marines to shoot them on sight if they were to appear again, as they are a hostile alien force, secondary to the Xenomorphs.

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+1 hands down one of the easiest i have ever given. This guy RP as pred is one of the most fun and engaging things you can be apart of in this game, and he carries that energy extremely well into his marine roles. I’m of the mind outside game interactions matter a lot for WL applications as it really lets you know who they are as a person, instead of a character. So much to say Ravioli’s behavior outside the game on the discord has been nothing but superb. The WL has been spoilt for choice in recent applications and i really believe ravioli is one of the best for it.

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The council hasn’t seen enough of you to truly determine whether you have truly changed from your past actions, this is more heavily scruntized due to your previous De-WL. as such this application is being denied use this time to try and get some rounds in when possible as any role to showcase that you can abide by the new RP standards.

You are free to reapply in 30 days on the 4th of March.

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