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//showthrea…ja-Application | First predator application - WITHDRAWN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johnravioli - Moderator Application - 2nd mod app, I have withdrawn it as of right now due to obvious reasons.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.
- 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.
- No pardon
If the person is guilty of a capital crime or anything severely major, I wouldn’t pardon them based off that fact.
- 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.
- 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.