Solidfury7 - Staff Report: Enforcement Action Taken - Westrover
What’s your BYOND key:
Solidfury7
Round ID:
29752
Your character name:
William ‘Jester’ Crimson
Their BYOND key:
Westrover
What are you reporting?:
Enforcement Action Taken
Description of the incident:
After testing a tactic over several days, I was further experimenting with using the GAUs on the Alamo. With double coolant, the Alamo can do extremely quick flybys, firing on a designated flare before landing and being ready to launch again within 30–50 seconds.
In this particular round, the shared budget was 10,000 at round start.
I used 31.8% of that budget to kit the Alamo for the rest of the operation.
This left just under 70% of the budget for the CAS pilot.
In prior, longer operations where I’ve tested this, I’ve even recycled the Alamo’s full kit back into the Normandy’s CAS budget, working with GPs such as Chad Creatone to do so.
Regardless, I did not expect to run out of points, and the option to recycle was always available.
The note in question "“Warning - Rule 4, Rule 8 - Griefing & Role Expectations. As a Dropship Pilot outfitted the transport dropship with 4 GAUs, spending all the CAS budget on equipping the Alamo to do CAS duties while in transport. Essentially what this player has done is intentionally put the GP in a worse position, putting a player out of the round.”
Why This Note Is Incorrect
Rule 4 – Griefing
CM defines griefing as:
“The intent of one player wanting to cause grief or annoyance to other players or the server without a valid roleplay reason.”
I coordinated with the GP throughout the round and did not act with intent to annoy or disrupt.
I did not even fire a GAU that round – I only engage on 10/10 flares to preserve budget.
I performed transport nearly every 1–2 minutes without fail. This would be visible in the logs had the moderator checked.
A comparable setup, such as using multiple sentry launchers for flare strikes, would not be punished. The mechanical function is the same.
Rule 8 – Use Your Slot
I fulfilled all my duties as a Dropship Pilot, including regular transport, unloading and onloading supplies and intelligence organisation.
The Alamo’s GAUs do not prevent it from fulfilling its transport role. I can fire directly, if I so wish, and even if I chose to “flyby” with duo-coolant, doing a flyby and recharging, takes less than a minute and does not interrupt transport duty.
The GP continued CAS uninterrupted for TWO HOURS before he went to cryogenics, with plenty of points and ammunition remaining, and I mean, a fuckton. None of my equipment was recycled against him, even though I explicitly offered that option when I went cryo. I’ll include images from points in the round showing how much he actually had.
Ultimately my concerns about the moderators conduct are:
The rules they claimed I broke don’t remotely match the behaviour ingame, nor mechanical intent. I was punished for, in practice, using 15% of the budget. as everything could be refunded. Thats 1,500 points. Thats 300 points more than the usual boring standard “5 turrets”
The moderator didn’t do a proper investigation before applying the note.
When shown clear evidence that the note was wrong, instead of correcting it they doubled down and refused to look in to it further.
Leaving a note in place thats factually incorrect or at best, misleading is a serious problem. If you cannot trust a staff member to make a won’t fix mistakes when they’re pointed out, it damages trust in the system.
Ultimately, this is an extremely concerning take from the moderator, it is in essence setting precident that if you spend anything over 1200 points, which is 12% of the points as the dropship pilot, you run the risk of being punished. Would this occur if I did this with a sentry launcher, despite being extremely poor economically to purchase? What about if I take fulton/med-evac myself on Alamo to help with both during trying times? Yes, its ridiculous having to make these comparisons, but clearly it is a possibility with absolutely bizzare and baseless rulings like this one.
Evidence:
Honestly, just look at the photos. If you are telling me that having 1000’s of points and this amount of ammo is not enough 2 hours in to the round.
Do these photos look like someone locked out of a round? This is a moderator who didn’t like someones playstyle or didn’t do the one thing they’re supposed to do in these situations, investigate. I’d honestly just give him the benefit of the doubt, but the fact they doubled down when I asked them if they wanted to look in to it more because I have more information they’d need, shows a really poor judgement of the staff member here. We’ll see if anything gets done about it beyond the usual “talked-to”.)
(image showing nothing was cannibilsied from Alamo, so he’d have 1500 point for ammo at least if he really needed it)
