Ugnip55 - Staff Report: Enforcement Action Taken - SmellyHippie
What’s your BYOND key:
Ugnip55
Round ID:
30973
Your character name:
Joe Dafoe
Their BYOND key:
SmellyHippie
What are you reporting?:
Enforcement Action Taken
Description of the incident:
During a round playing as a USCM synthetic, we had just evacuated. I witness, standing next to the Alamo, that it magically departs on its own with no one inside. When I reach the CIC, I talk to the CO, who rightfully turns the ship to code blue when he hears this. I mention to him that, if the autopilot has failed once, it is likely it’d fail twice, and that he would be wise to gear up.
Considering it’s blue alert, it’s not like this would actually give him any meta advantage in the first place, nor do I believe it is acting on OOC information to be wary that if a ship left once, it may leave twice. SmellyHippie and I had a discussion, but alas ended up with two separate conclusions. The no metagaming hijack rule, how it was enforced when I was staff, tended to be obvious cases. IE, “They’re gonna come up here!!!” out of the blue, with no pretense.
It was not used to punish suspicion or wariness, with a good reason. I feel anyone would have the thought process that if something happens without cause or reason once, it can potentially happen without cause or reason twice, especially if the xenomorphs are all gathered in the ship. The same logic can be applied to CIC making it code blue when the ship disappears; because that IS something to be wary about. That would not count as metagaming either, nor is it punished as it.
I do not find it a huge stretch to assume a synthetic, making several calculations a second, hundreds even, can foresee that if the ship went on autopilot groundside with no cause or pilot, it can go on autopilot back shipside; and to then subsequently share this suspicion, not confirmation, with his commander. As far as I see it, this is roleplay, with pretense and reason.
Edit:
Hijack also occurred not even a minute after the alert happened, so I wouldn’t say any preparation really occurred either. It was, to me, a roleplay conversation between two whitelisted players.
Evidence:
I tell the CO about my suspicions. He agrees. Under this ruling; he’d also be metagaming for having a similar assumption.
The actual ticket conversation; I don’t know if this is relevant or not, or makes it simpler, so I’m leaving it in here. Feel free to edit it out if you only need that internally.