27-Aug-2012 | Banned - IC in OOC. ~gamarr [-]
Now this is like 2 years ago and I don't recall ever being banned for IC OOC, especially not in a major way because even before I started playing I understood the concept of IC/OOC very well. But since IC/OOC is almost a daily offense and this is so old I won't even contest that it might or actually did happened.
20-Sep-2012 | Released the singularity as a non-antag. Said he was messing around. Knew what he was doing though. ~giacomand [-]
20-Sep-2012 | Banned from Chief Engineer, Station Engineer, Atmospheric Technician, Roboticist - Releasing singularity as non-antag. Said he was messing around. ~giacomand [-]
20-Sep-2012 | Job banned from Engineering for the previous reason. (releasing singularity as non-antag) ~giacomand [-]
20-Sep-2012 | Banned from Assistant - You shouldn't release singularity even as an assistant ~alien219 [-]
20-Sep-2012 | Banned - releasing the singularity "for fun", being unrepentant and stupid ~giacomand [-]
These are all the same, though if I recall correctly I was talking to Gamaar back then.
First I have to mention that this was one of my very first rounds, like maybe my fourth or fifth time playing ever, so I still didn't understood many things and my biggest misconception was the role of Assistants. From what I've read and heard back then it sounded to me like Assistants were supposed to cause trouble (with lots of talks about greytiding, Assistants being "useless" and everyone hates them etc.).
That being said I'm angry at two points mainly... first the "for fun,being unrepentant and stupid". I did fully admit that I cut cables that would cause the singularity to escape, I never not taken full responsibility for that, I never tried to lie about it or avoid telling the truth. I also explained that I did not do it "for fun" but because I was sincerly under the impression I could mess with engineering and it being actually their fault for not paying attention. Yes my conception was really stupid and I admitted that back then. What more can a player do than stand up and take responsibility for his actions?
Second what really pissed me off back then were the jobbans. As I explained back then already... first the ban from being an assistant was a joke because I still spawned as an assistant all the time, but I got the symbolic meaning of it and it was actually the one jobban I was okay with. I released the Singularity as an Assistant and not as an Engineer, Chief Engineer, Atmos Tech or Roboticist (that was back when Robotics was next to Engineering where tcomms is today) and I explained that when and if I actually have a proper job I would never "mess around" like that because I would take that role serious. Like I said I had the stupid conception that Assistants were supposed to mess around, but I also understand that when you have a proper job you have responsibility and a role to play. Also the Roboticist and Atmos Tech normally don't even have access to the Singularity so I was banned from two completly unreleated jobs. And really it didn't feel at all like "I'm jobbanning you from these jobs because you've proven to not be responsible enough to do them" and really more like "I'm jobbanning you from these jobs just because I can."
Also I was kind of pissed off that my "first offense" seemed to have such permanent repercussions because I kept these jobbans for months until some update or whatever wiped every jobban and mine weren't renewed or whatever. (or maybe they just were for a few months)
Really it almost made me quit the game back then because it was "broken" for me, just because I made one mistake I learned from.
08-May-2013 | Banned - Making himself a slime and rampaging on the station trying to kill everyone without reason. ~aranclanos [-]
The problem I have with this is that the rules on that suddenly changed back then. Back then I actually turned myself into a slime quite a lot and rampaged through the station and it was never a problem, in fact the wiki even seemed to endorse it. Until one day out of the blue there was a rule added that you aren't allowed to do that as a non-antag which I didn't know.
And since then it has changed back! So I broke a rule that came "out of the blue" and which isn't even in effect anymore. It's outdated, if I were to do the same thing today I wouldn't be banned for it.
27-Jul-2013 | Warned for letting the wizard "steal" his bombs as non-antag scientist ~aranclanos [-]
This is simply bullshit, as I explained back then there was literally NOTHING I could've done to stop the Wizard from simply taking the bombs. Me trying to be diplomatic and polite about it and "offering" them to him was pretty much the only thing I could've done to came out alive of the situation. (which I did)
This one really does baffle me because there was no way out of this. I guess I should've just tried to attack the Wizard in a suicide attack and then "let" him steal my bombs after I would've been dead.
If a robber with a big gun enters a store and the storeowner opens the register and throws money at the robber and yell "Take it! Take it! Don't kill me!", would you say the storeowner "let the robber steal" his money? And what if the storeowner didn't loose his cool and kept being dignified and polite about it?
Seriously...
27-Apr-2014 | Observed: as a secborg, allowed harm to happen by letting sec harmbaton cultists. ~creationpro [-]
Yeah this is the reason I have no respect for creationpro anymore and I already raged about that on some page in this thread. I was a secborg and I was in the science hallway, there were like... I dunno, 2 sec officers, the HoS and at least three to four cultists and it was one very big brawl. It was absolute chaos, think escape shuttle chaos levels, on the left (where the game takes place) people were running around wildly, Cultists used EMPs and runes, people were falling over on both sides, it was madness, and on the right the chat/attack log was racing like crazy from all the actions on screen, red on red on red on red with the occassional black in between. And among all that chaos I tried to contain without any human getting harmed some security idiot decided to harmbaton instead of stunbaton a cultist. And when the dust settled after this chaos and the cultists were prevented from escaping and were dragged off I get a bwoink because I'm not some superhuman who can keep track of everything.
I'm sorry that under all that chaos during that big brawl I did not notice that among all the red messages there were a few red messages that would've informed me of harm.
I'm pretty positive most people would've missed that because the eyes of most people would've probably been on the left side of their screen where the action takes place and ignored the flood of red text on the right side.
And the worst part is that this very incident actually made me too afraid to board the escape shuttle as a borg, because theres's always SO much going on with SO many people and often SO much harm that it is impossible to keep up with it, especially when all you have are some audible clues (like hearing slashing) and maybe the names of the person being attacked and who is attacking (and then have fun shift-clicking on every single person finding that attacker) all while your path is being blocked by other people. I'm always glad when I can see the harm which just isn't always the case.
And now I know that some admins would hold it against me for not being able to stay on top of that situation and punish me for not being omniscient.
15-Oct-2014 | Warned - "Accidentally" turning on lethal lasers while human nuke ops were in the upload as asimov cyborg ~ikarrus [-]
Yes, that did happen and... IT WAS ACTUALLY AN ACCIDENT... an accident that I also instantly corrected! See... I have a two monitor set up, since in that situation the Nuke Ops were still trying to enter the upload I clicked on my second screen to select a new song to play, as soon as I selected that song I clicked back on my SS13 window to select it, but I did not pay any attention to where I was clicking so I actually clicked the button in the turrent menu to change from stun to lethal. Yes I know the chances of that happening are stupidly small but that's just how it was. As soon as I realized what I clicked by accident I instantly went "OH SHIT!" and corrected it, hoping not a single barrage of lasers would be fired. (sadly one got off)
I instantly switched back to stun.
And this is something I have to explain again I guess... I love playing borg and I play borg 90% of my time and my borg name is among the better known ones. Being a borg is my favourite role in the game and my reputation actually really matters to me, which is also why I want the borg naming rights so much, not for some metagamy reason, but because I want people to see my borg name and known that this is a reliable and competent borg, just like most people choose to not have a random-name every round, because they want to have some sort of reputation. And it's not like other silicons aren't successful with that, AIs like HEX or borgs like Golem, Killerborg, Archimedes etc. are being recognized.
So all that considered... why in the world would I ever and I really mean EVER put my most favourite role in the game and my reputation on the line, especially for something as stupid as getting one barrage of lasers off so that one Nuke Op is hit with maybe two laser beams? Would that really be worth it?
And while most players who don't follow the binary chat won't know, I'm actually one of the most pacifist borgs out there, most of the time when given the actual choice I opt to not murderbone. (though of course I will when ordered)
Point is, I would never intentionally do something that would get me banned from any job (not just borgs) or harm my reputation as a good borg. (really, nothing in the game makes me happier then being recognized as a good and competent borg and nothing makes me more sad than people saying I'm a shitty borg, especially when I just try to follow the laws and rules to the best of my abilities)
