The take away from what I explained should not be that staff say random things. I don’t know where you are getting this interpretation from anything that I have said. I keep reiterating this, but the purpose of a staff report is for a player to allege that someone in staff acted out of line. From the staff reports pinned rules:
The verdict that Soldier made on that post was addressed to OtherHuman (the person who made the report in the first place). In addition to denying the request for staff action to be taken against LynxSolstice after review, Soldier also reiterated that they played as a CL and as such should not think of the role as PFC+ bringing in full combat gear. Why? Because its out of character for the role, and that mindset is what got them into this situation in the first place where they found themselves leaving the fob and shooting at someone ambushed by a xeno because they wanted combat action and were geared up for combat action.
The relevant rules to this are:
Rule 6. No Metagaming or Metacommunication
Rules Clarification → Gameplay Rulings:
Can I guard a dead human to make sure they go into permanent death?
No, this is akin to walling off dead bodies, which is still forbidden. If a human is dead, they’re dead. You can only guard a body if a queen makes their intent to gib the body known.
27/05/2023
The exception to this is if there’s an intent to gib, but there wasn’t. It also a fairly recent clarification, so many people may not agree or even known about it - and no one will know about it unless its enforced. In this case it was enforced, and the verdict:
The second topic you linked is a player report. Think of these like ahelps performed outside of game - its much easier to provide additional evidence this way or to handle situations where the issue doesn’t get resolved in round. They allege that rules 4 and possibly 10 for No Griefing and Lethal Force respectively. But after review Solider closed the issue and stated:
So that’s that. Its not your job to second guess the decisions of staff - especially those you aren’t an involved party for. The issue was brought up, reviewed, and handled. I will reiterate again, reviewing verdicts on reports is not the place to be looking to see what the rules are and how you should play.
I’ve stated previously:
I would think the entire existence of Rules Clarification suggests that yes we try to clarify any rules that players don’t fully understand or are ignoring. It doesn’t really matter how things used to be ruled vs how they are ruled now. The rules are what they are now. You break a rule today, the rules that existed today then apply to that situation. They aren’t written in stone and will change as needed.
Just like I keep reiterating, the place to determine how you should play is in the Rules and Rules Clarifications. Not a conglomerate of decisions made in reports.