Rocket2guns - Player Report: Charlie SL Jeannie Taggart(?), Rule 8: Use your Slot

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Rocket2guns - Player Report: Charlie SL Jeannie Taggart(?), Rule 8: Use your Slot

What’s your BYOND key?

Rocket2guns

Round ID:

24544

Your character name:

Kolton Murphy

Accused BYOND key:

Unknown

Accused character name:

Charlie SL Jeannie Taggart(?)

What rule(s) were broken?:

Rule 8: Use your Slot

Description of the incident:

This report is for 24544, but this also occurred in round 24543, but I attempted to solve the issue IC during 24544.

Failure to communicate during 24544

Jeannie Taggart as the Charlie SL during round 24544 and 24543. During round 24544, from what I could tell they said two things on squad comms. They announced they had a flamer available, and then later when I asked CIC for control of the squad. After a while they said “hey”.

I was the Charlie FTL. During the deployment on the DS I asked the Charlie SL, in squad comms, what their plan was. There was no reply. Later when comms were up I asked in squad comms to give us coordination, there was no reply. This continued on. Finally, I asked for CIC to give me control of the squad as we had heard nothing from the SL. CIC assigned me as SL, and I issued orders. Sometime later the SL replied “Hey” and CIC reassigned SL to them. I then attempted by walking up to the SL in person asking them to communicate with us, but there was no reply. I also witnessed then while in dchat mag-dumping into a marine standing in front of them, although I suspect this was an accident as there appeared to be no reason for it as it was well behind the front line.

They said nothing during the rest of the round.

Failure to communicate and then ghosting during 24543

I was Charlie FTL during this as well. They did not attend the briefing and simply went on board the DS. They provided no coordination and they appeared to be ignoring the orders from the SO. I had been following the SO issued instructions and ended up some distance away from the SL, along with others in the squad.

Eventually after I had died they went SSD as the SL. They ghosted for so long, the XO actually made a global announcement that the Charlie SL body be cryod to free the slot. However, they woke up after being cryo’d. I observed them in dchat. They walked around the ship for some time, eventually considering deploying although without a weapon.

I was hesitant to make this report as I do understand lack of competency is not a rule break and we should help people learn. I did several times try to communicate IC both face to face and through squad chat but I never received any reply, ever, in either of the rounds. I am concerned that for both rounds the failure of coordination and the taking up of the slot actually affect the round significantly as a whole.

Evidence:

Unfortunately I don’t know how to get the logs after the round as I only decided to make the report after the next round began.

The issue was discussed extensively in OOC with myself and others, including in the OOC portion of the beginning of the next round (24545). There was some concern that there was farming for hours for SO.

I do know Katosx was at comms at the time, and can verify they heard nothing (OOC chat preround 24545):
… after me outlining Charlie SL’s lack of communication
OOC: Katosx: i heard no shit in comms the entire round
OOC: Katosx: and i held comms the entire time

[BasilHerb]

I don’t know if this helps, but I was part of Round 24544 as Samson Jack, an SG. I can confirm that the Charlie SL was absolutely mute, and whilst command as a whole was rather… verbally challenged, I do believe that the Charlie SL was kind of just, not really trying.
I don’t care that they were bald- Everyone deals with bald SLs all the time. The issue is that they didn’t even try. New players ask questions and attempt to do their jobs (badly). This guy didn’t say a single word in the 15-20 minutes we were fighting groundside, and just ignored their role completely.
From what I saw, it mostly involved stumbling around obliviously while other players begged them to talk or give orders.

Marines killed the queen and hunted down isolated groups of xenomorphs before the lack of leadership (both shipside and grounside) on the marine-side basically gridlocked everyone into staying at Lambda podlocks, eventually leading to a xenomorph encirclement and subsequent total wipe of groundside elements.

Whether the person was “farming” hours is impossible to prove, but I think it’s quite demonstrably clear that they certainly weren’t putting any effort whatsoever into using their role-slot as intended.

I didn’t really pay any attention during Round 24543, so I can’t say anything about that.

I only paid attention in Round 24544 when I noticed Rocket’s character, Kolton Murphy and some other people evidently being exasperated they had gotten the same mute SL twice in a row.

[stalkerino]

Player report accepted.

BUT.

There will be no serious punishment given to the player, they were new and clearly needed a talking to; which they /WILL/ be getting.

A note will be placed on their account for recordkeeping and they’ll get an explanation on what they’re expected to do as a Squad Leader and a Leader role in general.

Thank you for your report, and I’m sorry for the delay in my response.