[AlphaaBeta] - Snerdly - banned for metacomming
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:45 am
Byond account and character name: Snerdly, I forget. I was a nuclear operative and the commander picked a retarded family name.
Banning admin: alphaabeta
Ban type (What are you banned from?): both servers, permanent.
Ban reason and length: Metacommunications, permanent.
Time ban was placed (including time zone): 8/28/16 00:38:55
Your side of the story: It's no secret that Byosfeer, the person I was accused of metacommunicating with, and I live in the same residence hall. He's a friend of mine and we both love this game and we have the same IP because our hall uses the same internet thing throughout the hall. However, we, at no point during the round, were in the same room, or were metacommunicating. I was on the 2nd floor of our hall and he was on the 4th. Alpha says that he knew the round from the start, and he saw me killing a dude in maintenance. I truly don't know how he found me in maintenance but it is nothing but an honest coincidence. He saw multiple bullet casings which prompted him to get a bulletproof armor on, and he saw my military belt on the ground which proved it was an ops round. He then announced it after he saw the belt. I talked to him after we were both banned and he said that the reason he didn't try and go after me when he saw me in maintenance is because he saw me a) over the dead body of someone, b) unloading a very lethal weapon and c) with a c-20r in my hand, and all he had was a telescopic shield. He also knows I'm a much better fighter than him, so he ran. Alpha then accused me of not shooting him when I saw him later, which is complete BS as I literally unloaded half a clip onto him as he was running near medbay, but I think I missed every shot I fired, as there was a lot of commotion. Finally, after one of the idiot ops bombed the bar of all places and killed me with it, he accused me of directing him to the location of the warden, which is also untrue. I was orbiting the HoS to see if he would be able to kill any other ops, but I didn't tell him where the warden was. He searched many rooms prior to locating him and opened nearly 10 lockers before eventually finding him in the escape pod.
Why you think you should be unbanned: We legitimately were not metacommunicating. We play on the same IP and multiple administrators have noted that we aren't metacommunicators. i.e the round in which I redeemed an antag token from PAS and we were both wizards, we talked ingame and had no external communications the entire round. This is the first time someone has ever really accused us of this, even though we're usually really good about making it as fair as possible, being on the same IP. There's no real way to prove either side but I think that the idea of us not ever having a real history of this being problematic can speak for itself. I'm sorry if it appeared we were communicating, but we truly were not. I love the idea of this being a secret and paranoid game and doing that would ruin the game, especially in a situation in which I'm opposing him. From a logical standpoint it makes no sense for me to tell him where I am/my occupation if he's the HoS and I'm an op and we're trying to kill each other. Once again I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this has caused and I hope for a resolution.
Banning admin: alphaabeta
Ban type (What are you banned from?): both servers, permanent.
Ban reason and length: Metacommunications, permanent.
Time ban was placed (including time zone): 8/28/16 00:38:55
Your side of the story: It's no secret that Byosfeer, the person I was accused of metacommunicating with, and I live in the same residence hall. He's a friend of mine and we both love this game and we have the same IP because our hall uses the same internet thing throughout the hall. However, we, at no point during the round, were in the same room, or were metacommunicating. I was on the 2nd floor of our hall and he was on the 4th. Alpha says that he knew the round from the start, and he saw me killing a dude in maintenance. I truly don't know how he found me in maintenance but it is nothing but an honest coincidence. He saw multiple bullet casings which prompted him to get a bulletproof armor on, and he saw my military belt on the ground which proved it was an ops round. He then announced it after he saw the belt. I talked to him after we were both banned and he said that the reason he didn't try and go after me when he saw me in maintenance is because he saw me a) over the dead body of someone, b) unloading a very lethal weapon and c) with a c-20r in my hand, and all he had was a telescopic shield. He also knows I'm a much better fighter than him, so he ran. Alpha then accused me of not shooting him when I saw him later, which is complete BS as I literally unloaded half a clip onto him as he was running near medbay, but I think I missed every shot I fired, as there was a lot of commotion. Finally, after one of the idiot ops bombed the bar of all places and killed me with it, he accused me of directing him to the location of the warden, which is also untrue. I was orbiting the HoS to see if he would be able to kill any other ops, but I didn't tell him where the warden was. He searched many rooms prior to locating him and opened nearly 10 lockers before eventually finding him in the escape pod.
Why you think you should be unbanned: We legitimately were not metacommunicating. We play on the same IP and multiple administrators have noted that we aren't metacommunicators. i.e the round in which I redeemed an antag token from PAS and we were both wizards, we talked ingame and had no external communications the entire round. This is the first time someone has ever really accused us of this, even though we're usually really good about making it as fair as possible, being on the same IP. There's no real way to prove either side but I think that the idea of us not ever having a real history of this being problematic can speak for itself. I'm sorry if it appeared we were communicating, but we truly were not. I love the idea of this being a secret and paranoid game and doing that would ruin the game, especially in a situation in which I'm opposing him. From a logical standpoint it makes no sense for me to tell him where I am/my occupation if he's the HoS and I'm an op and we're trying to kill each other. Once again I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this has caused and I hope for a resolution.