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by iain0
Sat Aug 19, 2023 4:11 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: The other two headmins are inactive and you also need to be inactive. What would you do before becoming inactive?
Replies: 13
Views: 3543

Re: The other two headmins are inactive and you also need to be inactive. What would you do before becoming inactive?

It's pretty hard to imagine a situation where I'd step away and be unable to internet for a week, I guess I get hit by a bus or something, that's the one work always trots out. Though I don't get much lead time for that. Regardless, to answer the hypothetical anyway, the place should generally run j...
by iain0
Sat Aug 19, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: March 2023 Headmin Self-Insert Fanfic Workshop - the thread
Replies: 9
Views: 2836

Re: March 2023 Headmin Self-Insert Fanfic Workshop - the thread

The Ligger ruling is a lovely high point, it's such a good way of getting the word slowly driven out and replaced without banning it, which was never really practical. Idk how we ended up talking about shuttle stuff in this thread but same, shuttle cockpit is just anarchic free-for-all zone. Station...
by iain0
Sat Aug 19, 2023 3:37 am
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Candidate Scrubby Checkpoint
Replies: 13
Views: 3571

Re: Candidate Scrubby Checkpoint

Scrubby
Spoiler:
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Played time - quickly tapers off, anything below chemist on this list is almost certainly an admin spawn in TD ; e.g. I've never been a wizard but I've certainly spawned in as one to test or execute a few things. Except the nuke ops, that was real.
Spoiler:
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by iain0
Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:59 am
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: iain0 - I made a candidate posting!
Replies: 5
Views: 2496

Re: iain0 - I made a candidate posting!

Hi both, thanks for your postings! Regarding the questions posed: I guess I'm pretty fond of current escalation policy, it makes sense and gives chance for conflict and moving on as a player, and as an admin has typically been quite easy to explain and draw lines with, and tends to play out how I fe...
by iain0
Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:18 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [iain0] note appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 574

Re: [iain0] note appeal

Updated as agreed, thanks!
by iain0
Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:31 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [iain0] note appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 574

Re: [iain0] note appeal

Apologies on the neck grab thing if that was incorrect, simply a phrase i'd noticed a few times during the reading of the logs, but really more a side comment than anything that relevant. Seems fair on the factors you'd like expressing so I'll propose a draft of the replacement note as follows: As a...
by iain0
Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:52 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [iain0] note appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 574

Re: [iain0] note appeal

Hi there, thanks for the appeal. Firstly the current note severity level is "medium", so there's only "low" that it could be reduced to. Severity levels are not well defined in administrative policy (not defined at all really, other than higher=worse), my personal take is "i...
by iain0
Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:29 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [FatalX1] KickPaw - Notice Appeal
Replies: 4
Views: 579

Re: Notice Appeal

Please update the thread title to the format from the template, should be in this format:

Code: Select all

[<Admin Name>] Player Name - Fluff text
I believe the filing admin here is FatalX1 so "[FatalX1] KickPaw - Notice Appeal" should suffice.

Thanks.
by iain0
Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:53 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: iain0 - I made a candidate posting!
Replies: 5
Views: 2496

iain0 - I made a candidate posting!

Greetings forum-goer, if you're familiar with my previous platforms or my adminning on Terry there's probably not a lot in here thats going to be a surprise, for everyone else, here's a little bit about why I'm here. Who am I? All the usual play time graphs at the end. As a character, I'm Bob Stange...
by iain0
Tue Aug 15, 2023 1:26 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [iain0] Bobe Picard
Replies: 1
Views: 409

Re: [iain0] Bobe Picard

Hi there, Thanks for the appeal. I'm not going to post the full ticket because I don't really think it adds anything to the way I'm evaluating this appeal, it's worth a look over if you want to remember the context a bit better though so here on statbus or here on mothbus . Of note about the ticket,...
by iain0
Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:57 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Raise the amount of midround injections and increase threat on roundstart.
Replies: 11
Views: 2190

Re: Raise the amount of midround injections and increase threat on roundstart.

I have witnessed the exact opposite, where there will initially be 1 traitor at the beginning of a 25 pop round, and over the coarse of 1 hour there will be 11 traitors. This seems like a statistically uncommon round given each sleeper/infiltrator is +1 tot, thats 10 injections in an hour. But I do...
by iain0
Wed Aug 02, 2023 4:42 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Return of Disabling safeties on defibs
Replies: 5
Views: 1401

Re: Return of Disabling safeties on defibs

Yeah, as a medical main I never really understood it being completely removed, the department already has some of the least actual options for improv weaponary, compared to for example Cargo : Straight up orders actual guns, or lasers, or stun batons, or insuls, or basically anything they want, can ...
by iain0
Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:56 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Iain0] Jeebidon - note clarification
Replies: 3
Views: 476

Re: [Iain0] Jeebidon - note clarification

Updated as agreed with the caveat that it didn't fit into the ban reason, so I dropped the final parenthesis section in the ban record, and the associated note contains the full text. Nothing to worry about, just a weirdness about how notes and bans interact and are slightly different. Thanks for th...
by iain0
Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:22 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Iain0] Jeebidon - note clarification
Replies: 3
Views: 476

Re: [Iain0] Jeebidon - note clarification

Hey there, this is probably a fairly reasonable request, I had about six tickets open at the same time and there was a chunk of copy pasting and generalisation done, happy to tune this more specifically. I will note, the seccie who got crit on the bridge I don't think participated in the lethal fire...
by iain0
Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:36 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: He can't keep getting away with it! Peanut
Replies: 79
Views: 6042

Re: He can't keep getting away with it! Peanut

This ban's unjustified solely on the grounds that this needs to be documented clearly in the main rules somewhere. And this is how we end up with coffee that says "Caution: Contents may be hot" on the side. Though I always thought the 'may' ought to be a 'should'. If you can't infer that ...
by iain0
Tue Jul 25, 2023 11:12 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Paradox clones should more likely roll for "higher impact" jobs
Replies: 9
Views: 3766

Re: Paradox clones should more likely roll for "higher impact" jobs

Please not head of staff, we already have revs that means taking a head of staff job is significantly more likely to result in you playing "stand in the brig" simulator for your entire round (super exciting head of staff content) rather than getting to do job related content. Stacking more...
by iain0
Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Peanut jokes aren't funny
Replies: 111
Views: 12841

Re: Peanut jokes aren't funny

This rebuttal does not work. While literally nobody who's here has been murdered, there can be survivors of murder attempts . It does, because if you're suitably scarred by those mechanics which form the core of gameplay (murder, violence) then you're just in the wrong place. If you're scarred by t...
by iain0
Sun Jul 23, 2023 2:09 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Peanut jokes aren't funny
Replies: 111
Views: 12841

Re: Peanut jokes aren't funny

But why exactly is this worse than saying something like “X MURDERING ME” when they’re dragging you away in cuffs? As a starter for ten, no-one playing this game has previously been murdered. However ... think it through yourself. Also players pick some really weird hills to vomit up a hill of an a...
by iain0
Fri Jul 21, 2023 7:38 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.
Replies: 10
Views: 926

Re: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.

I've updated the ban as discussed, it will expire at 2023-07-26 19:19:09, I believe thats in UTC so please add hours as necessary for your local timezone. Normally I'd leave this open in case you had trouble getting back in, but since that will be 5 days from now just @ me on discord in the #help ch...
by iain0
Fri Jul 21, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Ian0] Stevononono- OOC channel ban
Replies: 3
Views: 586

Re: [Ian0] Stevononono- OOC channel ban

Actioned, appeal resolved.
by iain0
Fri Jul 21, 2023 1:00 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.
Replies: 10
Views: 926

Re: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.

Alright, let me give you a few breakdowns on things of particular note to me here The unjustified aggression or murder/round removal ; to start a fight with someone, you should have an appropriate reason that makes sense in the story (no 'im insane' either), and be reasonably proportionate (read esc...
by iain0
Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:49 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.
Replies: 10
Views: 926

Re: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.

Ah, we've gone from "admin thought i stole it" to "i was going to put it back", despite your vocal statements about just stealing it. Then there's this, which is where you got your initial rep as a possible griefer, where you killed someone for no reason, and were told not to 201...
by iain0
Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:09 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: speedrun any% peanut
Replies: 14
Views: 820

Re: speedrun any% peanut

Now I know why they got randomly gibbed. I thought it was some weird organ or something they have that makes them get gibbed when getting batonned. Lol, sorry about that, I had been inclined to prison them around the time of the SM shovings as I'd decided that was enough observing, but that would p...
by iain0
Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.
Replies: 10
Views: 926

Re: Ezo1 PermaBan Appeal.

Probably shouldn't be appealing the ban while the round is in progress, it might be considered IC OOC (similar to your discussion on discord about this during the round) As for why a quick trip to perma? Well, read on. You already got done once for murdering someone for no reason, the handling admin...
by iain0
Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:03 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Ian0] Stevononono- OOC channel ban
Replies: 3
Views: 586

Re: [Ian0] Stevononono- OOC channel ban

Alright, you don't have a huge ammount of additional play time since these events but I might be able to extrapolate a general improvement over time, so, firstly please read the following key points on IC in OOC 1) The rule is very objective and thats a good thing ; *no* IC in OOC, there's no argume...
by iain0
Sat Jul 15, 2023 11:03 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [lain0] Wizenedlake - Permaban Appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 998

Re: [lain0] Wizenedlake - Permaban Appeal

Hi there, not heard anything further in a week, so I'll be closing this out in a few days time if you have nothing further to add.

Thanks.
by iain0
Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:25 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Roundstart Sentient Bots and Implications
Replies: 12
Views: 3531

Re: Roundstart Sentient Bots and Implications

Every single cleaning bot goes off and begs for a knife to be added. And then goes around knifing and grief deleting items (caught one when playing deleting the intellicard on the bridge). The item deletion is the bigger problem, knife cleanbots should just be auto valid :P
by iain0
Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:50 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Ian0] - Improvedname note appeal
Replies: 4
Views: 1286

Re: [Ian0] - Improvedname note appeal

Far as I can tell from some investigation, one player died in the engine room / lobby area likely as a result of the supermatter explosion, however, I would also accept the argument they died to their unreliable network connection. Regardless, as a non revolutionary there's not even an indirect conc...
by iain0
Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:34 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Ian0] - Improvedname note appeal
Replies: 4
Views: 1286

Re: [Ian0] - Improvedname note appeal

I'm not going to entertain the "what was the CE doing" in an appeal, it'll get off topic fast, and much as everyone is obsessed with the power situation (probably because I mentioned it as an IC footnote) the station will run for 20-30 minutes on APC batteries and so forth, and the shuttle...
by iain0
Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:56 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: VIVA LA… Supermatter?
Replies: 23
Views: 1922

Re: VIVA LA… Supermatter?

Like the thread title. The IC conversion as brainwashing is presumably absolute, does that extend to OOC? Also, mixing antags in with revs generally I feel misses some of the key of the revs game mode which is a "pitchforks" and other basic equipment riot to the death ultimately, even just...
by iain0
Mon Jul 10, 2023 1:59 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Ian0] - Improvedname note appeal
Replies: 4
Views: 1286

Re: [Ian0] - Improvedname note appeal

Hey, Not sure if this is necessarily worth the appeal ; personally I classify this kinda note as a 'lesson learned' sort of thing, as in, you now know something you didn't before, and all that really means is next time you can't say you didn't know. It's not just or even really about the loss of pow...
by iain0
Sat Jul 08, 2023 5:32 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [lain0] Xynorex - Appeal for a permaban
Replies: 1
Views: 405

Re: [lain0] Xynorex - Appeal for a permaban

https://tgstation13.download/parsed-logs/terry/data/logs/2023/04/13/round-203707/atmos.html A relevant log file, and some relevant lines Line 181: 2023-04-13 19:18:06 [0x2009157] (80,129,5) || Nitrous oxide canister was set to 1955 kPa by Xynorex/(McLoving). Line 182: 2023-04-13 19:18:06 [0x2009157...
by iain0
Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [lain0] Wizenedlake - Permaban Appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 998

Re: [lain0] Wizenedlake - Permaban Appeal

Alright, I decided to put in some effort into number crunching (thanks to Riggle for LogBuddy and someone else for grep). I pulled the last 150 rounds of your logs from the servers and did a little search for "Explosion" or "has gained antag datum", this gives me a list of all yo...
by iain0
Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:24 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Doktur Explosions Internal Affairs Intern
Replies: 43
Views: 3418

Re: Doktur Explosions Internal Affairs Intern

I shouldn't get meta protections when I demote someone for being a deranged shitsec. That person will be angry at me, which makes total sense, and I should have to be on the lookout dealing with the consequences of my choice. What? So if someone is being a shitter in my department and I decide to d...
by iain0
Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:02 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Doktur Explosions Internal Affairs Intern
Replies: 43
Views: 3418

Re: Doktur Explosions Internal Affairs Intern

His reply was pretty shitty but come on... a permanent ban for bombing as an antag? This is ridiculous. It's disgraceful to have an admin trainer give such unholy bans. Haha, I can see why you accumulate a reputation of having bad takes. (Like you formed this opinion before I'd even posted a respon...
by iain0
Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:03 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [lain0] Wizenedlake - Permaban Appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 998

Re: [lain0] Wizenedlake - Permaban Appeal

Hi there, Thanks for the appeal, got to say this one's a bit of an unusual case, you have a very intermittent play-time on TG (Scrubby) which isn't a bad thing but changes how some of this can be viewed. Starting with your relevant TG record we have this: wizenedlake-appeal.PNG Now, typically notes ...
by iain0
Thu Jul 06, 2023 2:03 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Coroner feedback
Replies: 14
Views: 4206

Re: Coroner feedback

Please consider removing the research gate that became locked behind coroner. Having just tried to play old station, I can spam the research console and spend 250k research points on all sorts of things. Including for example Medical HUDs. But you cant do the basic medical research which is locked b...
by iain0
Sat Jul 01, 2023 12:44 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: ban appeal
Replies: 38
Views: 3347

Re: ban appeal

Of additional note, you were already permabanned once for a very comparable sequence of events, the above notes are not the entire sequence of events (all reverse chronology): 2023-06-30 23:27:38 | Terry | Round 209406 | Iain0 | 873h Living Playtime High Severity Change Expiry Time Delete Not secret...
by iain0
Wed Jun 28, 2023 10:29 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Ian8] - Improvedname self requested ban
Replies: 2
Views: 576

Re: [Ian8] - Improvedname self requested ban

Sorry, there's no admin called Ian8 :P

Ban lifted, have a good one.

Cheers
by iain0
Sun Jun 25, 2023 6:23 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Banned by Unkown: Priest20243
Replies: 3
Views: 386

Re: Banned by Unkown: Priest20243

Player has since connected to Terry successfully and we had a little chat, as such, considering this resolved/closed.
by iain0
Sun Jun 25, 2023 2:47 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Banned by Unkown: Priest20243
Replies: 3
Views: 386

Re: Banned by Unkown: Priest20243

Hiya, was asked to have a look at this, I also agree that your account is currently unbanned and don't see any reason why you'd be picking up a matching ban based on your historical data that I have available, additionally the lack of a ban message appearing at your end suggests it may not be a ban ...
by iain0
Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:45 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Ban evading is gay
Replies: 24
Views: 1675

Re: Ban evading is gay

Yeah, this isn't exactly what I'd call "comfortably resolved" from my end, but giving them another shot and seeing what happens can be informative. Paperwork was done. Most more hardcore evaders won't go through this effort either as rerolling is already just a way of life for em.
by iain0
Wed Jun 21, 2023 3:10 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Iain0, Dax_payne
Replies: 5
Views: 999

Re: Iain0, Dax_payne

Yeah, that's fine, other servers bans aren't generally taken into much consideration, certainly not the same way as tg bans, they're just something we can look into for further insight, and in turn raised that extra yellow flag, which led us here.
by iain0
Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:28 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Iain0, Dax_payne
Replies: 5
Views: 999

Re: Iain0, Dax_payne

Indeed, it's more that you raise a few yellow flags while also committing the worst of IC OOC ; outing the person who just got one up on you. The ban message placed from /vg/ doesn't really do you any favours, doesn't really explain you're trying to retrieve a card or anything, merely that you appar...
by iain0
Tue Jun 20, 2023 5:56 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Iain0, Dax_payne
Replies: 5
Views: 999

Re: lain0, Dax_payne

Hi there, Firstly, can we not call it "mindrape" thanks. It's brainwashing or hypnosis (former i guess) Secondly I'd like to apologise for effectively silently banning you while you were online ; I attempted to reach out to you after the incident in OOC but you had disconnected, however, b...
by iain0
Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:22 pm
Forum: Closed Complaints
Topic: [Trexter] SashaIsDead - unwanted event
Replies: 9
Views: 3352

Re: [Ian0] SashaIsDead - unwanted event

To give players context, "failed to create a CentCom response team" can also just mean "closed the ERT spawn menu". Yeah, this. I discussed sending a yellow ERT with the admin channel and Kubi I think recommended a marine team, so I cancelled out of the dialog and spawned myself...
by iain0
Thu May 18, 2023 5:29 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Increase default lobby time by like 30-60 seconds
Replies: 16
Views: 2540

Re: Increase default lobby time by like 30-60 seconds

Oh, it's not just me who finds timing a little tight a little too often. Neat. My bet is I can manage to still feel rushed and run out of time regardless.
by iain0
Wed May 17, 2023 11:34 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Admin Assistant: Valid Confirmer
Replies: 2
Views: 874

Re: Admin Assistant: Valid Confirmer

The broad concept of the game trying to infer and summarise conflict related information is interesting. That said, the above system largely seems to be an instigator check, which isn't something that's usually too hard to pick up from the logs, not that it wouldn't be a tiny QOL if it could referen...
by iain0
Sat May 13, 2023 5:30 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Iain0] tousled - soapbox politics amongst other things
Replies: 3
Views: 576

Re: [Iain0] tousled - soapbox politics amongst other things

Lifted OOC perma as per tickets/205608/3

And seen in game so closing this as resolved, cheers.
by iain0
Sat May 13, 2023 12:29 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Iain0] tousled - soapbox politics amongst other things
Replies: 3
Views: 576

Re: [Ian0] tousled - soapbox politics amongst other things

Hey, Thanks for the appeal, it's been a few months and you seem suitably aware of the issues, not really the kind of thing anyone wants to get to a permaban stage but it remains the option of last resort. I'll unban you and place a summarising note on your account for 3 months, be good and have fun....