KaiserBlackwood - Commanding Officer Application

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Commanding Officer Application - KaiserBlackwood

What is your BYOND key?

KaiserBlackwood

What is your Discord ID?

kaiserblackwood

What is your timezone in UTC?

GMT+2 (UTC-02)

Player Name You Use Most?

Andreas Hellstrom

Ban Appeals, Whitelist and Staff Applications:

None.

Have you been banned in the last 3 months?

No.

If so, why?

I wasn’t banned.

Command Knowledge:

How familiar are you with command positions?

I am familiar with command roles ranging from QM to XO, excluding CMO. If left alone in CIC, I can run operation smoothly.

Hours in XO:

39.7

Hours in SL:

48.5

Character Information:

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

Ambitions, desire to use power to achieve personal gains while helping society in some way.
Hellstrom isn’t exactly a chivalrous and generous saint. He’s a man with a plan and he has chosen a path of military leadership for that. But he knows and understands value of keeping a good reputation with the public, hence acting as a “protector” of UA.

How did your character attain the position of CO?

Being a competent leader and greasing a few hands with favours. He’s got friends in high places due to his family, a decently impactful player in TWE’s military politics, an W-Y put in a word for him being a good asset for both themselves and USCM.

But the main force behind his promotion was himself. Taking over command of USS Dusk Sun when its CO, Major [Blank] was killed in ship-to-ship combat, young-ish Captain managed to secure a victory in a seemingly hopeless situation.

Provide a short story of your CO.

Short.

Command Actions:

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

Pardons are a strong tool that COs should apply sparingly to achieve success with their operation.

It would be appropriate to pardon a prisoner in these cases (this excludes capital charges):

  • They’re the only specialist we have on hand that can perform specific tasks.
  • Their crime was minor and it seemed like MPs are being hard on them for no reason other than spite.
    In short: As long as Marine’s crimes weren’t completely atrocious, it isn’t against SOP/rules AND they are useful for the operation, pardon can/will be granted.

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

  • Our only doctor is arrested for Assault, but there are marines that require bone-fixing and larva removal – Pardon granted
  • Rifleman was insulting XO for making fun of them. – Pardon granted
  • Rifleman force-fed MP donuts and got jailed – Pardon granted
  • A Rifleman has stolen XO’s megaphone to yell obscenities to insult them and to delay the briefing – Pardon not granted
  • SO insulted a higher-ranked officer and refused to apologize. – Pardon not granted
  • Two engineers were fighting in the REQ line, escalating to knives – Pardon not granted

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

My personal opinion is that Battlefield Execution’s power lies not within removal of a disruptive individual from the round, but rather in the fact that it shows everyone else who thinks/wants to act like them that consequences of such actions will be dire.

I believe that it is appropriate to use a Battlefield Execution when offender in question has committed any Capital Crime warranting execution while in the Area of Operation, or their actions are extremely disruptive to the operation’s integrity and stability. It is appropriate to BE a marine in case they’re actively disrupting a push with nades or flamer fire, without any doubt.

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

To preface it:
If they harm Jones their punishment is head turned into the world’s goriest pinjata.
Ship-side crew being hooligans and causing minor disruptions to people’s mood by breaking lights or hitting windows isn’t worth BE.

Example #1:

Pilot Officer Jenkins has a silver medal of service. During the operation they have shot on flares without checking them at least 3 times already. Each time they hit marines and killed someone. When confronted about it they insult a higher-ranked officer confronting them about and refuse to put in more effort into their shooting. If order by CO to pull their act together or face consequences is ignored, then Battlefield Execute them.

Example #2:

On the ground, a rookie engineer (no service medal) fails to secure FOB proper, while also failing to follow orders of their superiors. Their actions are disruptive to the operation, but in face of circumstances a better choice here would be to not execute them, but to guide them by assigning a more experienced marine that has knowledge of how to properly establish fortifications. No BE.

Example #3.

If a marine is being disruptive to the briefing and breaks into the CIC bubble while I am holding a speech and attempts to harm/disarm me or prevent me from finishing Briefing in any way, I would most likely Battlefield Execute them.

Example #4

Squad Leader #1 has fired upon another Squad Leader #2 and killed them due to a dispute over whose coordinates should be used for Orbital Bombardment while CO is in the field. I would BE Squad Leader #1 for committing a Capital Crime (Murder) and being a disruption to operation’s integrity (lack of level-headedness in a position that controls other players).

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I’ve played with kai as Xo a few times now and not only are they a good XO but their fun to RP with and talk to on discord +1 from me

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Hey there! I would like to ask you a few questions, I’ll be glad if you answer them. However, you do not have to answer them since I’m not a Councillor.

  1. You’re a CO shipside handling an appeal. You speak with the prisoner who has committed a Manslaughter, as well as MPs who witnessed the arrest and you’ve decided to pardon the prisoner, believing that he’s a good guy who doesn’t have to be brigged over an accident. The Warden and CMP, however, disagree with you and not releasing the prisoner, claiming that you can’t pardon a prisoner who has committed a Capital crime, they are disrespectful to you the entire time, and the MPs are uncomfortable with both the CMP and MW. How do you deal with the CMP, MW and the prisoner?

  2. You wake up into a midround, when you enter the CIC, you see that XO says “I hate this shitter CO, who the fuck accepted his app???” on LOOC and then he throws the tablet to you. How would you react?

  3. You decide to board the Alamo on first drop and deploy. While in transit a marine tries to steal your boots. How would you react?

  4. Your SO accuses you of breaking SOP for wearing M46C in CIC on green and he says he’s going to fax to Provost about it, is he correct?

  5. How would you describe your CO character with one sentence?

  6. The CL acquires a xeno egg and is busted by the MPs and charged with sedition. The egg is in his private containment, but was never planted. The CMO mentions that the CL was asking about growing a xeno specimen, but since they didn’t have everything they needed for one, the conversation never got anywhere. The CL is appealing his Sedition charge, what’s your move?

  7. During briefing, one Marine hits an another Marine with chair repeatedly, then you stop briefing and call the CMP over to hall, you point the Marine and order CMP to arrest him. CMP refused to arrest that Marine and leaves the hall. How would you react?

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Hi.

  1. First of all. Remind CMP and MW that Manslaughter is a MAJOR, not Capital crime. I can pardon them if I wish to. Secondly, I will remind them that DASO, while a minor crime, is not acceptable for them to be committing, as they represent Marine Law on the vessel. I will warn and order them to cease with the insults or face consequences of Major Insubordination charge and Sedition.

  2. Ignore them. It’s their problem if they hate me. If they attempt to sabotage the operation after I wake up, I will deal with them accordingly.

  3. If I am not shoved down yet, I will shove the marine down and chuck them out of cockpit. I find it hardly worth of arrest.

  4. I am a bit on the fence, but. If I am not deploying, he is correct about me breaching SOP. However, if I am deploying, I have a full right to carry the rifle I can find in my crew locker.

  5. Cold and calculative man out to get results without compromising his moral compass.

  6. Depending on the situation on the ground. But most likely I would order MPs to confiscate it. Considering provided evidence, I would do next:

  • If CL is willing to work together with Research and host said egg in designated containment cells found in Research, I would consider approving their appeal.
  • If they’re not, they will be left in the cell.
    (I didn’t understand the question exactly. Did CMO know about the egg or not?)
  1. If other MPs are present, order them to arrest CMP and the assailant.
    If no other MPs are present, I will remind CMP that as per ML any Officer-Requested Arrest must be carried out. IF they still refuse, I will deputize other personnel to arrest CMP and assailant. I would consider Battlefield Executing CMP for Failure to Follow Procedure and Major Insubordination. CMP, being a role that requires a considerable amount of time spent playing Command and MP roles, allows for less room for error.
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Not sure if reply registered, so refer to message above?

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A notorious ‘gotcha’ among the CO Whitelist. Being a rare role alone doesn’t mean you get a free pardon, especially if you got brigged for something exceedingly unnecessary or stupid. For specs, this is usually the case.

So you would never pardon someone if they commit a major crime…? I’m not sure what to make of this phrase in particular.

So you wouldn’t pardon for failure to follow procedure?

My issue with these answers, is that nowhere do they consider the actual personality in question. Remember that a Pardon isn’t just about the crime they committed and the need you have for that person, it’s also about their conduct. Even if you have no doctors and a person is close to bursting, that doctor could get pardoned, walk out of brig and through CIC, insult or assault someone, and then you’re right back to square one - except worse, because now you, the CO, is also brigged. You just decapitated the entire operation’s leadership because you didn’t care about their ongoing behaviour and level of respect.

See above.

Again, it depends, and you should have elaborated on this. The XO definitely acted out of line but that doesn’t mean the Rifleman is gonna be a good guy in return. How do you know he isn’t just going to insult the XO right back the moment you pardon them?

Honestly… no? What a totally unnecessary crime to commit just to grudge and troll MP players. You’re literally just pardoning spiteful players who would gladly harm MPs again anyday.

Agree. This sort of stuff is kinda BE-able since the Briefing Disruption/LRP BE upgrade.

Usually I’d agree. But again, context. There’s certainly situations in which I would trust an SO to recuperate and not reoffend, and it depends on when said insult was spoken, to whom, and what’s been happening.

It’s honestly curious to me. Why would you NOT pardon this - assault with a deadly weapon out of completely needless reasons - but you WOULD pardon the Rifleman who force-fed an MP donuts and presumably also had them shoved (assaulted) nonstop to do so. Like why is THIS a offense that is not ok, but the third example is?

What if I accidentally burst you with FF? What if I call bad CAS and kill 5 people? ‘Capital crimes in the AO’ is really just (attempted) murder and sedition, so where do you personally intend to draw the line? What is just an accidental FF and what is grudging attempted murder? Is killing multiple people with a bad CAS/OB callout murder, or manslaughter? Is it my fault at all?

Elaborate. How do you mean this? We literally have a whole spec class for grenades and flames both. How do you intend to respond to this and handle this exactly?

If some shipshide MT is just playing out their inner madman then a BE for LRP (ICly insanity) is on the table, no questions asked. Obviously prefer to get MPs on this minor stuff, but if you see it happen and they’re just being a bunch of LRP crapheads destroying shit and annoying people? Fire away.

The PO is inside a safe environment aboard the Normandy, and you - and the MPs - know exactly where they are and when they will be returning to the ship. What is making you say “Yes, I would 100% kill this guy” when it’s probably one of the easiest arrests an MP could make? The PO is literally cornered, after all. Do you just want to skip the MPs entirely and BE them anyway? What is your accusation of crimes for them anywho?

Fine with this.

What if there are MPs present? The CMP usually stands guard right in front of the Brief bubble, after all.

A fair BE.

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There have been some concerns raised about you among the Whitelist by other COs, and as Councillor, I would like to have you clarify and take a stance.

To illustrate, here is a convo that stuck out to us.

Discord Convo

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Some things said here stick out.

  • Why do you say you won’t have the ‘strength of mind’ to deal with BEs? You are THE person of authority, who answers to no one except staff/special event chars. YOU have to make choices. Are you not ready to do so and defend them?
  • In contrast to the above, your app here states that you WOULD happily execute people even when it isn’t ‘immediately clear’. I mean you literally wrote you would run down from the CIC towards the Hangar to shoot a PO, did you not?
  • A fellow CO and community member, rightfully, asks what you mean by saying you don’t have the ‘strength’ to stomach BEs and the justifying of one. You then answer by more or less belittling them?

I will go on to say that the latter is not the only, isolated case where people in the CO Whitelist have stated that your OOC behaviour can be troublesome, if not leaning towards the egotistical side of things. I know I already delivered one such case to you in DMs prior to your application, because there were such concerns already, but if people do not see you as a good and sociable person to talk with and be around then I’m not sure about delivering you a CO promotion.

I’m awaiting your feedback here, and will be withholding for the moment, but it’s leaning into the negative so far. Your in-game commanding skills are good, that much I know, but as CO that’s not everything. You’re not a SO or XO, but a CO who has to worry about far more than that alone.

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A notorious ‘gotcha’ among the CO Whitelist. Being a rare role alone doesn’t mean you get a free pardon, especially if you got brigged for something exceedingly unnecessary or stupid. For specs, this is usually the case.

This means doctors, for most part. Not specialists. If SADAR fucks up it’s their own problem.

So you would never pardon someone if they commit a major crime…? I’m not sure what to make of this phrase in particular.

So my bad with this one, I KNEW I did forget something. I would pardon marines for Major crimes, but as long as I find accusations baseless or evidence extremely lacking.

So you wouldn’t pardon for failure to follow procedure?

Case by case basis, but No. I wouldn’t want to pardon people for Failure to Follow Procedure unless their actions were done to save marine/civilian lives.

My issue with these answers, is that nowhere do they consider the actual personality in question. Remember that a Pardon isn’t just about the crime they committed and the need you have for that person, it’s also about their conduct. Even if you have no doctors and a person is close to bursting, that doctor could get pardoned, walk out of brig and through CIC, insult or assault someone, and then you’re right back to square one - except worse, because now you, the CO, is also brigged. You just decapitated the entire operation’s leadership because you didn’t care about their ongoing behaviour and level of respect.

That’s my bad. Yes, I would take into account people’s behaviour during all that. Though my line of thinking was that I would order MPs to escort them to their workplace and keep vigil over them.

Honestly… no? What a totally unnecessary crime to commit just to grudge and troll MP players. You’re literally just pardoning spiteful players who would gladly harm MPs again anyday.

Personally, I wouldn’t be mad at this if I was MP. But I can see what you mean. Though I see it as a pretty harmless prank, feeding people non-spiked donuts. If they’re spiked with any chems, yeah, no pardon.

Usually I’d agree. But again, context. There’s certainly situations in which I would trust an SO to recuperate and not reoffend, and it depends on when said insult was spoken, to whom, and what’s been happening.

Refusal to apologize is already a red-ish flag for me that they will continue with their behaviour. However, if situation DID grant an insult, such as berating XO for OBing the FOB, then yeah, I would pardon them.

It’s honestly curious to me. Why would you NOT pardon this - assault with a deadly weapon out of completely needless reasons - but you WOULD pardon the Rifleman who force-fed an MP donuts and presumably also had them shoved (assaulted) nonstop to do so. Like why is THIS a offense that is not ok, but the third example is?

I didn’t assume a rifleman would shove MP down for that? More-so thought it was like… One-two bites while MP’s snoring at the line’s chairs as they usually do?

What if I accidentally burst you with FF? What if I call bad CAS and kill 5 people? ‘Capital crimes in the AO’ is really just (attempted) murder and sedition, so where do you personally intend to draw the line? What is just an accidental FF and what is grudging attempted murder? Is killing multiple people with a bad CAS/OB callout murder, or manslaughter? Is it my fault at all?

If you accidentally Burst me with FF, it’s fine. Situations I mean is that when they happen when person makes their intentions clear about what they gonna do.
1-2 bad CAS callouts as SL/FTL/Enlisted isn’t worth of BE. If XO OBs FOB twice, that’s BE offense.
Giving bad coords for OB more than once is BE offense. If you can’t get proper coords multiple times in a row, you clearly struggle with coords in general. An absolutely horrible CAS callout with 5 kills is Manslaughter. If it repeats more than once-twice it’s attempted murder. That’s how I see it.

Elaborate. How do you mean this? We literally have a whole spec class for grenades and flames both. How do you intend to respond to this and handle this exactly?

If I see a pyro spec halt the push by green-flaming the cave hallway and refuse to put it out or hit marines with it multiple times they get same treatment as would a marine with flamer get. Bullet to the back of their head. With grenadier it’s harder. But if they keep Friendly-Firing marines with their nades, causing captures and/or people going DNR behind enemy lines, that’s pretty valid.

The PO is inside a safe environment aboard the Normandy, and you - and the MPs - know exactly where they are and when they will be returning to the ship. What is making you say “Yes, I would 100% kill this guy” when it’s probably one of the easiest arrests an MP could make? The PO is literally cornered, after all. Do you just want to skip the MPs entirely and BE them anyway? What is your accusation of crimes for them anywho?

I wouldn’t skip MPs entirely. In the end of things, this example wasn’t great. I went off of an assumption that MPs aren’t present. If they are, I would order them to arrest PO. If after arrest PO comes back to their work and keeps doing what they did, yep, that’s BE. my bad.

What if there are MPs present? The CMP usually stands guard right in front of the Brief bubble, after all.

They already failed to prevent marine from entering the bubble. Like. Breaks in assumes they broke the glass door (which is funnily breakable) and allowed them to come within melee distance to me. I do agree it’s a bit excessive.

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  • Why do you say you won’t have the ‘strength of mind’ to deal with BEs? You are THE person of authority, who answers to no one except staff/special event chars. YOU have to make choices. Are you not ready to do so and defend them?

Conversations with staff honestly drain me a lot. I feel like I will be punished no matter what justification I offer. No, this doesn’t mean I don’t trust stuff. It just means that I usually try to avoid doing things that would land me a ping from staff, because I am afraid I won’t be able to handle them on my side.

  • In contrast to the above, your app here states that you WOULD happily execute people even when it isn’t ‘immediately clear’. I mean you literally wrote you would run down from the CIC towards the Hangar to shoot a PO, did you not?

Awful phrasing on my part. But also take into account that my statement was made uhh, a while back when I felt way worse than right now.

  • A fellow CO and community member, rightfully, asks what you mean by saying you don’t have the ‘strength’ to stomach BEs and the justifying of one. You then answer by more or less belittling them?

Did I? I am sorry. I don’t always remember what I said to people, but I usually don’t mean it in insulting way.

I will go on to say that the latter is not the only, isolated case where people in the CO Whitelist have stated that your OOC behaviour can be troublesome, if not leaning towards the egotistical side of things. I know I already delivered one such case to you in DMs prior to your application, because there were such concerns already, but if people do not see you as a good and sociable person to talk with and be around then I’m not sure about delivering you a CO promotion.

All in all, the situations happened during time I was in IRL distress. I am not sure what you mean by “egoistical”, as all I do is just care for myself and what I do. I will not deny that I am not extremely sociable person, but if someone approaches me and puts effort into talking to me, I will be more than happy to be friendly.

And y’know, I live in Ukraine. It’s not exactly good for your mood to be waking up to sound of missiles and suicide drones flying overhead. Not an ideal excuse, but I’ve been irritable IRL too. I’ll be moving abroad soon, so situation will become better for sure.

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Hello I am the lil guy, I would like to say that idrc about the insult I think it’s really funny and so does everyone else. I’ve seen you as XO once (we don’t live in the same time zone), so I’m not really going to comment on competency. Lilpenpusher pretty much covered it all, but I want to reiterate that pardons are really big thing. I’ve pardoned 2 marines in the entire time I’ve played CO, and that’s because if the marine ever messes up again then you’re being brigged, so make sure you are super careful when pardoning.

Staff cannot do anything with WL issues unless its a server rule break as well. All they can do is log it and report it to the council.

if you have mps like that do not ever pardon people unless you absolutely have to, they will do anything to get you arrested. Its like a high score for them.

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Staff cannot do anything with WL issues unless its a server rule break as well. All they can do is log it and report it to the council.

Oh. Huh. I thought Staff has some power over that. Thank you!

if you have mps like that do not ever pardon people unless you absolutely have to, they will do anything to get you arrested. Its like a high score for them.

I see. Thank you for giving this piece of advice! It’s actually incredibly nice.

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That has to be the single, only time I have seen someone refer to Doctors as ‘Specialists’. But sure, I guess.

You wouldn’t pardon someone for trying to deploy without armor (SOP violation) but you would want to pardon two marines stabbing each other with knives at the Req line?

If you need MPs to escort and watch over them then it’s already doomed to backfire. You need to be able to trust in the pardoned party to not reoffend on their own. If you cannot, then don’t do it. This is not a good answer for this instance.

While I get your angle, it’s really just done in bad spirit most of the time. And yes, when I read this I understood it as marines ganging up on an MP and forcefeeding them while shoving them. Speaking from experiences in-game, anyway. Otherwise it’s just on the MP who can freely walk 1 pace away to stop the feeding.

All questions should be answered under the assumption of a fleshed out crew. You’re applying to lead the Marine force and all its assets after all, not play skeleton crew on Australian time.

Honestly… I’ll be very, very frank with you. That’s not a good look for ya. CO is a high pressure role and environment. As I said, you’re THE role of authority. Players, Staff, and the CO Council will all be holding you massively accountable and under a lot of scrutiny constantly. If you yourself say you can’t, or don’t want to, deal with that… then this isn’t for you.

As much as I can sympathise, it remains a pretty troubling look for you.

Uhhhh… I mean, something-something “Please focus on not dying because you live in a literal warzone instead of focusing on grinding for a CO App in the Spaceman game”. Mostly /s but kinda uh, weird ig. Idk.

Good luck though. Really.

Why did you think so? Whitelist issues are Whitelist issues and that’s why WL reports are judged by the respective Council not Staff members.

I’m… gonna be 100% here. I like ya, Hellstrom. You reached out to me and some of the other Councillors beforehand to work out your story beforehand, and kept us in the loop about your intentions. I played several rounds with you as my SO and XO, and I know you grasp the role of CIC and frontline command very well from a mechanical and know-how standpoint.

But CO is more than that, and I hope I have illustrated that more than enough by now. I fundamentally disagree with the whole ‘CO is just XO+’ statement because CO has a whole lot more responsibilities to worry about and is under a ton more scrutiny in general, as well.

You’ve made clear to me that you can’t really take peer pressure very well, or at least that you are afraid of being argued with by people of ‘authority’ over you, such as Staff or the Council. Given this, I can only - for your sake - say that I don’t think this Whitelist is the place for you.

You’re a good man, Hellstrom. Damn good player, too. But I don’t think this is what you’re really looking for. I don’t want you to play CO and chew on your fingernails with anxiety because you’re afraid of doing anything or talking to anyone out of fear you’re gonna get prosecuted for a small misstep.

-1.

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You wouldn’t pardon someone for trying to deploy without armor (SOP violation) but you would want to pardon two marines stabbing each other with knives at the Req line?

That’s not what I said?

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If you need MPs to escort and watch over them then it’s already doomed to backfire. You need to be able to trust in the pardoned party to not reoffend on their own. If you cannot, then don’t do it. This is not a good answer for this instance.

I’ll keep that in mind then. The more you learn.

All questions should be answered under the assumption of a fleshed out crew. You’re applying to lead the Marine force and all its assets after all, not play skeleton crew on Australian time.

I usually get to play command when I get 3.5 marines. Most of the time I fail to roll for command position. So yes, I went off of an assumption I’d have skeleton crew.

You wouldn’t pardon someone for trying to deploy without armor (SOP violation) but you would want to pardon two marines stabbing each other with knives at the Req line?

No, I wouldn’t pardon neither parties. Wear your armor to the combat zone or at least make an effort to wear it until you drop. As for guys with knives. As I said, I wouldn’t pardon them under any circumstance.

Why did you think so? Whitelist issues are Whitelist issues and that’s why WL reports are judged by the respective Council not Staff members.
I’m… gonna be 100% here. I like ya, Hellstrom. You reached out to me and some of the other Councillors beforehand to work out your story beforehand, and kept us in the loop about your intentions. I played several rounds with you as my SO and XO, and I know you grasp the role of CIC and frontline command very well from a mechanical and know-how standpoint.
But CO is more than that, and I hope I have illustrated that more than enough by now. I fundamentally disagree with the whole ‘CO is just XO+’ statement because CO has a whole lot more responsibilities to worry about and is under a ton more scrutiny in general, as well.
You’ve made clear to me that you can’t really take peer pressure very well, or at least that you are afraid of being argued with by people of ‘authority’ over you, such as Staff or the Council. Given this, I can only - for your sake - say that I don’t think this Whitelist is the place for you.
You’re a good man, Hellstrom. Damn good player, too. But I don’t think this is what you’re really looking for. I don’t want you to play CO and chew on your fingernails with anxiety because you’re afraid of doing anything or talking to anyone out of fear you’re gonna get prosecuted for a small misstep.

Yeah, I see what you’re coming from. I know what CO Whitelist entails. No, I am not that afraid of dealing with people. In lieu of the fact I honestly did not know exact workings of the server, I was being fearful of being unsure what people I would be talking to about and such. I will politely ask you to reconsider your vote on my WL.

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Got some more questions for you.

  1. [quote=“KaiserBlackwood, post:1, topic:4051”]
    My personal opinion is that Battlefield Execution’s power lies not within removal of a disruptive individual from the round, but rather in the fact that it shows everyone else who thinks/wants to act like them that consequences of such actions will be dire.
    [/quote] So then do you find BEs as a tool for removing LRP or troublesome LOOC issues, or merely in-game failures?

  2. Explain the sort of Roleplay you aim to give as a character. As in you gonna be slimy, honorable, a corporate shill, military hardass, Coward, brave, or just a self insert?

  3. You get pinged by staff about BEing a private who was was being troublesome, and asks you about it. What sort of stance would you be aiming to take in this situation. Would this cause you anxiety.

  4. Does staff interaction in general give you anxiety? Do you feel you can take responsibility for your actions with full confidence.

  5. there is no wrong answer per se, but I would like to know, is there any reason why you want to play CO that XO can’t offer?

  6. You arrive at FOB after reports bravo is slacking. You get there to find this. Is this fine, and if not what actions would you take to remedy this. (Assume it is manned not this empty picture)
    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/636399852946980884/918223732768641034/unknown.png

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So then do you find BEs as a tool for removing LRP or troublesome LOOC issues, or merely in-game failures?

Could you specify on LOOC issues? If it’s just people talking shit LOOC, I don’t really pay attention much.
But using BE to punish people for LRP behaviour is reasonable, since it can translate directly to some in-game issues.

  1. A more towards “man on a mission”. Hellstrom has his own goals and works on furthering them. He’ll take bribes if it aligns with his general plan and will play along. He’s definitely on a braver side of things. Wouldn’t hesitate to charge enemies if that’s what needed for victory. But for most part he coordinates people, as long as they listen. At least that’s what I aim for.

  2. I’ll take a neutral stance. I’ve done what I have felt to be appropriate at the moment it happened and I will explain my line of thinking. This doesn’t spike my anxiety.

  3. In general? No. I’d say I feel that I am not anxious of interacting with staff. And while I can feel anxious about staff proving that I was very wrong with my decision, I am not afraid to take responsibility for actions I take.

  4. Recognition and respect, ability to reward people for performing exceptionally well during the game or giving people respectful roleplay.

  5. There are a few things wrong with this.
    I’d order Bravo Comtechs to return to FOB and guide them step-by-step on what changes must be done to the FOB in order for it to be a passable fortification. While I won’t specify in this answer what exact things I’d change, let’s just say there’s a lot of work to do. If Bravo comtechs aren’t enough, I’ll call in Engineering to deploy and/or other squad’s comtechs to help.

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Good commander. I trust Kaiser to behave responsibly as a CO (you just have to make sure to keep a level head, I’m sure you will ;)). +1 from me.

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Hey Kaiser, thank you for applying. I’m no councilor so you do not have to answer to my post (not much asked either way) but still as member of the community and now whitelist, I decided to weigh in on this one.

The two screenshots I’m posting below date back to little more than a month, one of my first rounds as CO and my first of three with you as XO. They show you selecting the primary LZ without consulting me even though I made my presence known on comms after round start. An SO is seen tabling you in these as well to which you answer by threatening to cryo.

The last screen once again below shows us both arguing about your selecting the LZ without me and your patronising me because I disagreed with your picking the meta LZ with both comms arrays around. Which is arguable since it was on LV-624, you picked LZ1 because of the arrays when there’s the surgery table near LZ2 (we had more than enough doctors to deploy).

LilPen mentioned some COs having issues with your OOC behavior. I’m one of these and vehemently argued against your entry in the whitelist with the other members. My couple rounds with you plus the screens above have convinced me you wouldn’t be a good fit in our whitelist for the following reasons:

  • You apply to play the part of the big boss yet you don’t conform to being the second in command, not acknowledging the CO is the leader of the Marines and that they must be consulted about all major decisions unless told otherwise. I’ve also never seen Hellstrom show any form of respect or regards to my character (basic stuff such as saluting or even calling him sir since he always used CO or Major, not admitting he’s fucked up, would Hellstrom be allergic to authority is what I’m asking myself). I won’t support applicants who let the power and prestige or whatever of the whitelist and the CO/XO roles go to their head.
  • I’ve seen you first hand on the third screen being a victim of the round and you often adopted a passive aggressive stance with me on decisions you did not agree with but yet without voicing any objections. I also witnessed you halting in your commanding the operation altogether for a few minutes when it turned badly. This added to “While I do plan on BEs, I probably won’t have strength of mind to deal with them” and “Conversations with staff honestly drain me a lot. I feel like I will be punished no matter what justification I offer.” comfort me in my beliefs. COs are team leaders and privileged interlocutors with staff who will often ahelp you to ask what’s up here or there and will sometimes try to influence round flow through you. Administration is made up of humans and not all interactions with them are related to policing.
  • Consistency (and honesty) is good in any application and you went here from the quotes above to “In general? No. I’d say I feel that I am not anxious of interacting with staff. And while I can feel anxious about staff proving that I was very wrong with my decision, I am not afraid to take responsibility for actions I take.” which I feel is you reacting as the situation around your appplication evolves.
  • Edit: I forgot but the meta option is not always the funnier and best one to pick. Enjoyment is what we play for.

All of the above is my own experience with you, I dont doubt others have had different ones. While parts of it are a month old, the issues I talk about are all related to you as a player and I do not believe in the “I changed” within a single month especially when I haven’t seen it.
I know you can run operations and have seen you do so, you don’t need to be a tactical genius to get on the whitelist and you can RP as well bar the specifics I mentioned above.
I also don’t doubt this might come off as personal but I don’t want to hurt anyone. We’re all players looking to have fun but in this case, I don’t believe you could manage to do that for both yourself and the Marines as CO. Good luck Kaiser.

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The two screenshots I’m posting below date back to little more than a month, one of my first rounds as CO and my first of three with you as XO. They show you selecting the primary LZ without consulting me even though I made my presence known on comms after round start. An SO is seen tabling you in these as well to which you answer by threatening to cryo.

I don’t remember details because it was a month ago, but I believe you’ve latejoined a little? Not sure. Either way I probably didn’t notice because I was writing an announcement and looking at the map, my bad.
As for SO situation, it was just a shit day for me and SO’s behaviour pissed me off to the point that I didn’t want to play. Everyone has those.

  • You apply to play the part of the big boss yet you don’t conform to being the second in command, not acknowledging the CO is the leader of the Marines and that they must be consulted about all major decisions unless told otherwise. I’ve also never seen Hellstrom show any form of respect or regards to my character (basic stuff such as saluting or even calling him sir since he always used CO or Major, not admitting he’s fucked up, would Hellstrom be allergic to authority is what I’m asking myself). I won’t support applicants who let the power and prestige or whatever of the whitelist and the CO/XO roles go to their head.

Hellstrom calls almost everyone by their ranks or assignments. It isn’t a show of disrespect, as you’ve put it. It’s simply more convenient for me to refer to people by those because it grabs their attention more reliably. It’s a matter of personal preference here, in all honesty. As to salutes, I usually don’t salute people if my character is seating/busy at work, as it’d look weird if he was seating and saluting, or his hands are busy. No, Hellstrom isn’t allergic to authority above him.

  • I’ve seen you first hand on the third screen being a victim of the round and you often adopted a passive aggressive stance with me on decisions you did not agree with but yet without voicing any objections. I also witnessed you halting in your commanding the operation altogether for a few minutes when it turned badly. This added to “While I do plan on BEs, I probably won’t have strength of mind to deal with them” and “Conversations with staff honestly drain me a lot. I feel like I will be punished no matter what justification I offer.” comfort me in my beliefs. COs are team leaders and privileged interlocutors with staff who will often ahelp you to ask what’s up here or there and will sometimes try to influence round flow through you. Administration is made up of humans and not all interactions with them are related to policing.

My opinion is that subordinates may show their disliking towards their commander’s orders, as long as they still follow them. We’re all people with our own opinions and wishes. I usually don’t pay much attention to people grumbling or being P-A about decisions unless they voice their own suggestions on how to alter the plan.

When things go bad and I don’t command people for a while, it’s usually because I am thinking of how to make the situation better or fix it.

Yes, I’ve said those previously. In fact, I wasn’t fully aware of what you can BE people for or what you cannot. I tend to be careful with things that are a legal round-removal in games like this because people get extremely upset about those. Most of my interactions with staff were usually when I was asked about situations where my actions were unfortunately in grey area of the rules, aka requiring a lot of investigation. I go off my personal experience when I say those. But since I’ve re-read a few more approved CO applications and witnessed how people conduct their own Battlefield executions I am more confident in being able to handle myself if it comes down to me explaining myself. I am not anxious about staff talking to me in general and I am pretty much happy to help them by being a good conduit for roleplay.

  • Consistency (and honesty) is good in any application and you went here from the quotes above to “In general? No. I’d say I feel that I am not anxious of interacting with staff. And while I can feel anxious about staff proving that I was very wrong with my decision, I am not afraid to take responsibility for actions I take.” which I feel is you reacting as the situation around your appplication evolves.

I am a type of person that understands flaws in their judgement and decisions pretty fast, and that’s why I seemingly change my opinion on a whim. As for the quote, please refer to my response a paragraph above. I’ve seen lapse in my judgement and realised my mistake, therefore a different statement, made after I have reflected upon new information.

I do not believe in the “I changed” within a single month especially when I haven’t seen it.

You can’t change in a month over a game, but I can tell you that I’ve made my conclusions from people’s feedback and will avoid situations that provoke issues with others in OOC regard.

We’re all players looking to have fun but in this case, I don’t believe you could manage to do that for both yourself and the Marines as CO. Good luck Kaiser.

With all due respect, but, if my knowledge serves me right, we’ve only played about 3 rounds together. I believe I can provide people with fun roleplay if given opportunity to spend time on it. But mostly, as XO, I am more focused on doing my job to avoid people being left in the dark by CIC.

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While I am not the council, I do find it rather disappointing you seem in your answer, to renege on your initial statements in regards to staff interaction. You seem to just say what you think I and the council would want to hear, rather than address it.

Does not seem to jive with statements you made on the subject a few weeks ago

I’m gonna be honest, I see this as massive detriment, along with some other OOC behavior of yours other COs have experienced/witnessed. While I’d say your answers to a lot of other questsions including mine, are passable or better, I’m not sure I can support this app.

A major part of the role is an ability to interact with staff, and not stress over it. I would even dare to say of all the whitelists the CO whitelist is the most closely tied to staff and staff action be it for punishments or not. I would even dare to say your answers suggest you wouldn’t be able to properly exercise your right to BE people in a way that is acceptable. This is not to say that BEing people is so much required, but more so that it may become necessary to ensure the enjoyment of the round for the playerbase as a whole, and you may not be willing to use it properly to do so.

A major part of the role of the CO is to ensure the enjoyment of the round for the majority through your actions and RP. You saying you feel trepidation behind one of the tools you as a CO would have for that, possible even stress, is a large negative in my book.

I also know in the past other CO Apps have been denied for similar reasons as well, in regards to mental stress/anxiety about some aspect of the role. I should say most of your app otherwise seemed pretty good, and your reported performance in-game is mostly fine on a purely mechanical level.

As such I will be -1 ing this App. Stay safe man.

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Does not seem to jive with statements you made on the subject a few weeks ago

My opinion changed over the course of multiple weeks. it’s not an uncommon thing for people to reflect upon their previous statements to draw out conclusions.

I would even dare to say your answers suggest you wouldn’t be able to properly exercise your right to BE people in a way that is acceptable.

A guide on how to Battlefield Execute people doesn’t exist, as far as I know. I go off of my own assumptions and what I have seen during my playtime. I’ve witnessed a few BEs and all of them were for different reasons and had different situations involved.