Wibo333 - Permanent Ban Appeal

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Wibo333 - Permanent Ban Appeal

What’s your BYOND key?

Wibo333

Character Name?

Ron Fields / Grub Dunkers

Type of Ban?

Permanent Ban

What is your Bancode?

Admin who banned you?

piterskiy

Total Ban Duration

Permanent / Till the sun explodes

Remaining Duration

None / Was banned on 18-08-2024

What other servers do you play on?

No other servers really, this has always kinda been my place to relax

Are you now or have you been banned on any servers? Which ones?

No

Do you play using a Virtual Machine?

No

is your copy of Windows legitimate?

Yes

Reason for Ban:

Fired a faulty OB that cost the lives of 20+ players during a zombie event. Mod labeled it as mass grief.

Links to previous appeals:

None

Your appeal:

Unfortunately I was playing on my more heavy RP leaning character ‘Grub Dunkers’ during a zombie event as an SO behind the console overviewing Delta during the remainder of the OP. I got carried away after a call was made by the SSGT that the civilians were rioting and hauling their squadmates away after confirming some OB coords at the dead center of where the civilian mass had blockades, a few faint notions about people rising from the dead was made and some chaos over comms + a fire command from the SSGT and my own faulty desire to smash that fire button caused the deaths of many players during that event.

I got carried away, heard that it killed way more people that anticipated and took the blame since both the XO/CO didn’t authorize the fire command and acted on my own. I know how much it sucks to be taken away from an event role or have your round ruined while you slowly perma in some corner of the map where no one can save you, and I promise you this was not my intention. I’ve been active on the server since 2018, been CO, had my fair share of good and bad times on the server and apologize for the players in that particular round that got hit by that OB. Most players were revived after but I was to blame for messing up the event.

I usually play on Ron Fields, who really just runs and guns as a good marine and goes *warcry instead of doing something as stupid as firing blind OB’s without proper authorization. I know how the game works, know the weight of having your round ruined and really don’t wish any ill will upon anyone just enjoying their time off shooting aliens. We’re all here to have fun together, but I got carried away that round.

The mod told me it was blatant mass grief and that I had a huge list of recent notes, which doesn’t add up since I can’t recall doing anything wrong on Ron for the past months since that’s the only character I’ve been playing on and told me that I deserved a permanent ban for stepping out of line. And to be fair, I did step out of line, I regret doing so since I come here to enjoy my time on the server and blast a few xenos, scream warcry and play the game accordingly without stepping on anyone’s toes, without reaching out I decided it was also for the best to take a little break and touch some proper grass, so in a way it did do me good to step back and reflect on stuff.

I hope I’ll be given another chance to play on this server, right my wrongs and just bring enjoyment in a more calm manner wherever possible without ruining the round for anyone. That’s all.

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Hi and sorry for the delay!

I wish to ask a follow-up question, what exactly went down when you fired that OB?
What were you trying to hit, and why?

From my investigation, it seems that you intentionally OB’d a lot of players with no hostiles in the vicinity and decided to roleplay it as accidental when you said it was not in your ticket.

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No problem,

I remember prior to firing the OB that I was overviewing the console and saw various Delta’s getting shoved down, dragged behind the barricades, civies were acting a lil hostile which prompted me to ask for OB coords from the SL. I believe the entire event idea was them actually not wanting to work with the USCM so they were protective and slightly hostile towards the marines without any intent to kill, but just a lot of shoving and telling the marines to stay in the LZ instead of getting inside their colony and such.

At the time I tried roleplaying firing out the OB as Grub wiping his fingers on the console (with burger greased fingers) and onto the fire command which hurled the OB down at the colony at the time (hoping for minimal damage) and honestly for reasons I can’t quite comprehend anymore but it turned out not a single zombie was present + marines got caught in the cross fire and most of the civies died at the hands of me, deciding to go arround the command structure and blowing up a big part of the colony and most of the civies keeping the marines out.

When I heard how many people died and that such an act can’t be brushed off with RP in CIC I kinda realized the scale of the fuck up and took the ban for stepping out of line and ruining the entire event like that, which wasn’t my intention at all. I was only hoping it would bring minor chaos and some more RP shipside with Grub getting executed for his fuck up.

Prior to this event I’ve been playing many months as Ron, just being a regular good marine and I honestly regret deciding to switch it up to play as Grub and do something like this, there isn’t really a good defense here apart from that I genuinely thought at the time I could roleplay firing an OB out with maybe 1-5 civies dying to that OB and then get hauled to jail and executed for my crimes.

Unfortunately the OB coords were dead center and it turned out everyone died and I paid the price for doing that by getting banned, which I fully deserve for doing something like that during an event.

Prior to this on Ron Fields I believe I’ve had barely any notes over the years I played him, Grub has had quite a few over the years since 2018 but that was a character I retired in 2022 and sometimes logged onto for wacky ideas. (Biggest mistake ever)

I genuinely apologize for ruining the time spent by mods for setting up that event, I really do enjoy the core game and community an awesome people in the server, I have spent many many hours really just playing the game without stepping out of line, and hope I’m given another chance to redeem myself and spend the rest of my life as a background character blasting xenos.

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Firing an OB ‘just because’ is too shenanigan-y considering the cooldown and limited stockpile of warheads.
You did aim to hit 1-5 civies though and that is really not a good defense. Though I appreciate your honesty here.
This is a hard choice and therefore I’ll be consulting with others. Apologies for the extended delay.

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Understandable, I can’t really defend my actions during that event either other then that I decided to do something really stupid and thought at the time it would play out differently. I hope that some of the admins can vouch for me over the other 6 years I’ve been active (Frozen or Forest probably still remember me a lil) on the server. I’ve had my goofy moments but really try to stick to the rules and wouldn’t actively wish harm upon anyone and prefer helping/saving people or getting them started on the server if it’s someone new. I believe I have a long note list over the years that have gone by, but only have been banned once, for a week. For the rest, I’ve always tried to do good and bring fun for people in CM, and apologize for the inconvenience I caused everyone that round. Thanks for taking your time and figuring it out.

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Hey there, @wibo.

I will be honest and brief not to waste your time. Because, reading your messages, I think that you either willingly missing our point here or you don’t understand what caused you to be banned.

In your appeal message, you’re talking about that OB like firing that was just a “bad call” and calling it “faulty OB”. Later, we see in the logs and what you said in the ticket that you fired that OB knowingly and willingly based on a roleplaying reason that you made up yourself without consulting staff.

This is your message in the ticket,
“So you can’t make IC decisions? It was just a RP bit with the burger juice covering up the screen”

You got banned not because you did it during an event, or because players died as a result of it. You got banned because you wanted to do it and did it, then you thought it was okay. You have negatively impacted the experience of many players, including your friends, because of your “burger juice” roleplay.

The problem here is that you did this without considering how it would affect the other players’ experience and you thought you could get away with it by saying “it was my rp, its ic issue”. The problem here is your mentality as a player, Ron or Grub you are talking about as if they were another persons is you, not another player, and the actions you take with these characters do not hold those characters responsible, but you as the player. If we accept this “burger juice” roleplay, then one day someone else may spill coffee on the screen, blow up the FOB, and then use you as an example and say “you didn’t ban them when they did that”. Nobody wants that.

You are not being asked to justify your actions, we are not expecting an apology from you, and we are already aware of how long you have been playing on this server. I don’t expect a long message from you explaining your good intentions and yourself, nor will I ask you to gather vouches from other servers. What I want to see from you is a guarantee that so-called roleplays like “I wanted to OB the front because burger juice roleplay sounds fun” are not okay, and will not happen again, quite simple.

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I can guarantee that these roleplays won’t occur again, my mindset has changed over these past months and I’d like to help people wherever possible instead of bringing ruin to a round like that again without believing that IC/RP actions on that type of scale, or even a smaller scale (even killing a single person without proper reason/cause) can be brushed off, because they can’t. I screwed up big time.

I learned from that mistake, took the time to reflect on how I could’ve done a thousand different things without blowing anything up, or taking people out of the round and could’ve just calmly roleplayed like everyone else in a calm manner. I whole heartedly promise, these things won’t happen ever again.

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Heya! Looking over your responses and appeal once more, I believe that it is only fair that you receive a second chance.

I trust that you will not break the rules again anytime soon.

Appeal accepted. Welcome back!

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