shortest admin complaint peanut
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 8:00 pm
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can you believe this?? how abhorrent...
can you believe this?? how abhorrent...
For what it's worth I absolutely wouldn't have done the same thing either, and I have a pretty longstanding personal rule on Manuel that whenever I get cuffed/batonned I literally just alt-tab and play a game of Master Duel or Hearthstone or something because it's literally not worth your time to try and RP with sec for exactly every reason described in Maia's ticket, regardless of whether they were an abductor or not. I'm quite vocal about this being a rule of mine too.
I'll tell you what I told Sinful in their policy thread: If someone is wordlessly arresting you, adminhelp it so we can find out what's going on. The exception here is, y'know. Actually being incapable of speaking to people.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:18 pmFor what it's worth I absolutely wouldn't have done the same thing either, and I have a pretty longstanding personal rule on Manuel that whenever I get cuffed/batonned I literally just alt-tab and play a game of Master Duel or Hearthstone or something because it's literally not worth your time to try and RP with sec for exactly every reason described in Maia's ticket, regardless of whether they were an abductor or not.
With the state of current Manuelsec I don't think it honestly would've made a difference if they weren't an abductor.
The last time I tried this was when I built a 4-tile hallway detour as a clown and spent 34 minutes out of a 60 minute round in the brig, with the same sec officer trying the exact same shit when I did the same bit the very next day.Vekter wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:21 pmI'll tell you what I told Sinful in their policy thread: If someone is wordlessly arresting you, adminhelp it so we can find out what's going on. The exception here is, y'know. Actually being incapable of speaking to people.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:18 pmFor what it's worth I absolutely wouldn't have done the same thing either, and I have a pretty longstanding personal rule on Manuel that whenever I get cuffed/batonned I literally just alt-tab and play a game of Master Duel or Hearthstone or something because it's literally not worth your time to try and RP with sec for exactly every reason described in Maia's ticket, regardless of whether they were an abductor or not.
With the state of current Manuelsec I don't think it honestly would've made a difference if they weren't an abductor.
I'm concentrating on actually doing what I can to fix the issue of bad sec players on Manuel. I can't speak for the other admins, but if something like this happens, please ask whoever's handling it to ping me and if I'm around I'll look into it as well. I'm not telling you that I'll take over for them (that's admin shopping and I refuse to step on another admin's toes), but if the problem is as bad as you say it is, the only way to get it fixed is to know exactly what's happening, when it's happening, and why other admins are determining it's an IC issue.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:40 pm Deadass the average sec player on Manuel is explicitly not there to roleplay and will outright tell you that if you ask them on Manuelcord or whatever, it's not some kind of secret problem. Most of the regulars outright admit it, most players know it, the defense is "it's hard to RP as sec", which I figured was bullshit, so I went out of my way to play 60 hours as Manuelsec and confirmed it was bullshit.
This exchange would be absolutely standard regardless of whether the HOS was an abductor with the current state of Manuelsec and almost every ahelp I've sent about it gets either a completely disinterested response or blames me for starting shit when I'm getting 20+ minute brig sentences for building two railings and a table and it ends up being like a 40-minute ticket to convince an admin "No, putting someone in the brig for one railing for half an hour is deranged".
It's an absolutely atrocious state and "just ahelp it" is not the solution you think it is because it got to that state with "just ahelp it" being the proposed remedy
Posting this here since it applies like it did on the manuel discord:BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:40 pm Deadass the average sec player on Manuel is explicitly not there to roleplay and will outright tell you that if you ask them on Manuelcord or whatever, it's not some kind of secret problem. Most of the regulars outright admit it, most players know it, the defense is "it's hard to RP as sec", which I figured was bullshit, so I went out of my way to play 60 hours as Manuelsec and confirmed it was bullshit.
Yeah someone made this argument to me to justify it once and I thought it was bullshit so I went and played 60-ish hours straight and surprise surprise it was bullshit, most antags were so fucking thirsty to have someone actually engage with what they were doing that they practically tripped over themselves to rope me into the bit They went for top-left like 95%+ of the time.RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:51 pmPosting this here since it applies like it did on the manuel discord:BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:40 pm Deadass the average sec player on Manuel is explicitly not there to roleplay and will outright tell you that if you ask them on Manuelcord or whatever, it's not some kind of secret problem. Most of the regulars outright admit it, most players know it, the defense is "it's hard to RP as sec", which I figured was bullshit, so I went out of my way to play 60 hours as Manuelsec and confirmed it was bullshit.
That's sort of the point though? Like, in this case the antag hadn't really done anything interesting or engaging, got caught, and was looking to extract some sort of roleplay and fun out of the round. Instead, they got silently donked and completely stonewalled even after repeated attempts to get literally anything meaningful at all.
On Manuel I witnessed a tot trying to goad the HoS into a cowboy style gun duel. They got turned down. They tried to goad the Detective into a duel. They got turned down. I eventually witnessed this guy talking to the HOP in the hallways trying to get them (anybody!) to duel them. The mans is practically begging. HOP just says "No" and walks away. I thought man that must suck. Trying to put on a show and people just give you the cold shoulder and don't engage with you in the slightest.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:24 pmYeah someone made this argument to me to justify it once and I thought it was bullshit so I went and played 60-ish hours straight and surprise surprise it was bullshit, most antags were so fucking thirsty to have someone actually engage with what they were doing that they practically tripped over themselves to rope me into the bit They went for top-left like 95%+ of the time.
Yeah that's pretty much how the majority of my gimmicks that require engagement from other players go on Manuel. Having way better luck with those on LRP.AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:11 amOn Manuel I witnessed a tot trying to goad the HoS into a cowboy style gun duel. They got turned down. They tried to goad the Detective into a duel. They got turned down. I eventually witnessed this guy talking to the HOP in the hallways trying to get them (anybody!) to duel them. The mans is practically begging. HOP just says "No" and walks away. I thought man that must suck. Trying to put on a show and people just give you the cold shoulder and don't engage with you in the slightest.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:24 pmYeah someone made this argument to me to justify it once and I thought it was bullshit so I went and played 60-ish hours straight and surprise surprise it was bullshit, most antags were so fucking thirsty to have someone actually engage with what they were doing that they practically tripped over themselves to rope me into the bit They went for top-left like 95%+ of the time.
Then I watched an unrelated Sec Officer unceremoniously fly around the corner and baton them for possessing a Syndicate Revolver while laughing at the guy at how they'd won the duel. The guy never got to shoot it once.
It was an immensely disappointing thing to watch. I bet it would have worked much better trying that on Sybil.
Yeah this is literally the kind of shit you run into regularly, I'd almost say constantly on Manuel right now. The current crop of sec mains are just horribly obtuse and largely uninterested in the concept of collaborative roleplay; they play like they're the protagonist and the concept of "yes, and" escapes them.AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:11 amOn Manuel I witnessed a tot trying to goad the HoS into a cowboy style gun duel. They got turned down. They tried to goad the Detective into a duel. They got turned down. I eventually witnessed this guy talking to the HOP in the hallways trying to get them (anybody!) to duel them. The mans is practically begging. HOP just says "No" and walks away. I thought man that must suck. Trying to put on a show and people just give you the cold shoulder and don't engage with you in the slightest.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:24 pmYeah someone made this argument to me to justify it once and I thought it was bullshit so I went and played 60-ish hours straight and surprise surprise it was bullshit, most antags were so fucking thirsty to have someone actually engage with what they were doing that they practically tripped over themselves to rope me into the bit They went for top-left like 95%+ of the time.
Then I watched an unrelated Sec Officer unceremoniously fly around the corner and baton them for possessing a Syndicate Revolver while laughing at the guy at how they'd won the duel. The guy never got to shoot it once.
It was an immensely disappointing thing to watch. I bet it would have worked much better trying that on Sybil.
I agree, but the sad fact of this is that what the HoS did was technically in line with security policy in this case.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:52 amThat's sort of the point though? Like, in this case the antag hadn't really done anything interesting or engaging, got caught, and was looking to extract some sort of roleplay and fun out of the round. Instead, they got silently donked and completely stonewalled even after repeated attempts to get literally anything meaningful at all.
It's kind of expected for antags to negotiate, especially in bad faith, but it's also literally your job as security on MRP to engage with these people.
I agree that negotiation would be the better option, but Maia was already caught in suspicion of murdering a doctor and was found with heretic items. It's very hard to talk your way out of that.Murder and Major Sabotage rank amongst the most severe of crimes and can generally be met with permanent imprisonment or death, though leniency can still be offered. These are all general guidelines, and the particular context of a situation can vary greatly, so you are given some leeway as to how harsh or lenient you can be.
I think it's really funny that if you want to get into a fun scenario as an antag right now you have to go to LRP to have a decent chance of firing it off.Striders13 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:22 amYeah that's pretty much how the majority of my gimmicks that require engagement from other players go on Manuel. Having way better luck with those on LRP.AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:11 amOn Manuel I witnessed a tot trying to goad the HoS into a cowboy style gun duel. They got turned down. They tried to goad the Detective into a duel. They got turned down. I eventually witnessed this guy talking to the HOP in the hallways trying to get them (anybody!) to duel them. The mans is practically begging. HOP just says "No" and walks away. I thought man that must suck. Trying to put on a show and people just give you the cold shoulder and don't engage with you in the slightest.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:24 pmYeah someone made this argument to me to justify it once and I thought it was bullshit so I went and played 60-ish hours straight and surprise surprise it was bullshit, most antags were so fucking thirsty to have someone actually engage with what they were doing that they practically tripped over themselves to rope me into the bit They went for top-left like 95%+ of the time.
Then I watched an unrelated Sec Officer unceremoniously fly around the corner and baton them for possessing a Syndicate Revolver while laughing at the guy at how they'd won the duel. The guy never got to shoot it once.
It was an immensely disappointing thing to watch. I bet it would have worked much better trying that on Sybil.
Dude Vekter
Okay, so now that we're not in a policy discussion thread, we can actually talk about the matter.sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:43 amDude Vekter
I'm gonna just come from the heart here and set the policies aside for a second
Ahelping over a wordless arrest even if justified feels so intensely petty and pulls you completely out of the round
I don't want to have to write a synopsis of the events that led to the situation and engage in a 20 minute back-and-forth investigation because a seccie took a fart in my face
I get that most of your rounds are observing as an admin and I appreciate you for contributing in that way
But most players that join the server want to be in the round playing man. To ahelp every single one of these sucks the fun out of the game because you're not playing anymore at that point, you're sorta just coping endlessly in ahelps (even if it's justified coping, it messes up the vibe of playing a videogame)
this is the reason most players don't ahelp things btw, it's not your fault or admins fault, it's just we're playing a vidya game and the instant you press F12 you are now stepping out of the videogame for an indeterminate period of time to do something very unfun and definitely not the reason you chose to spend your time on spaceman
anyways on-topic this is a terrible ided complaint, HoS did nothing wrong
Vekter I did not speak from the heart to have you come to it with such a close-minded lack of charitable reading. Can you at least see how recommending people ahelp minor things that happen several times every single round, would have a deleterious effect on their game experience?Vekter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:49 amOkay, so now that we're not in a policy discussion thread, we can actually talk about the matter.sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:43 amDude Vekter
I'm gonna just come from the heart here and set the policies aside for a second
Ahelping over a wordless arrest even if justified feels so intensely petty and pulls you completely out of the round
I don't want to have to write a synopsis of the events that led to the situation and engage in a 20 minute back-and-forth investigation because a seccie took a fart in my face
I get that most of your rounds are observing as an admin and I appreciate you for contributing in that way
But most players that join the server want to be in the round playing man. To ahelp every single one of these sucks the fun out of the game because you're not playing anymore at that point, you're sorta just coping endlessly in ahelps (even if it's justified coping, it messes up the vibe of playing a videogame)
this is the reason most players don't ahelp things btw, it's not your fault or admins fault, it's just we're playing a vidya game and the instant you press F12 you are now stepping out of the videogame for an indeterminate period of time to do something very unfun and definitely not the reason you chose to spend your time on spaceman
anyways on-topic this is a terrible ided complaint, HoS did nothing wrong
I'm going to be 100% honest with you: The way I've seen you play the game and your other recommendations all scream to me that you just really want to be able to beat the piss out of people in the game for pretty much any supposed slight. "It's lame as shit that I should have to break immersion to adminhelp this" No, it's lame as shit that people keep doing it to begin with and even lamer that you want to reinforce that by giving them valid reasons to get into a combat interaction with players.
I was pretty confused about how someone could miss understand an argument so hard but then I remembered that you played this game 3 rounds(on manual ) since Halloween of last year. What Sinful says is perfectly reasonable, he isn't even saying that he disagrees with you just that most people arn't going to go out of their way to rules lawyer every encounter because unlike you the main reason for booting up the game isn't to be a jannie. Its to have fun.Vekter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:49 amOkay, so now that we're not in a policy discussion thread, we can actually talk about the matter.sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:43 am Dude Vekter
I'm gonna just come from the heart here and set the policies aside for a second
Ahelping over a wordless arrest even if justified feels so intensely petty and pulls you completely out of the round
I don't want to have to write a synopsis of the events that led to the situation and engage in a 20 minute back-and-forth investigation because a seccie took a fart in my face
I get that most of your rounds are observing as an admin and I appreciate you for contributing in that way
But most players that join the server want to be in the round playing man. To ahelp every single one of these sucks the fun out of the game because you're not playing anymore at that point, you're sorta just coping endlessly in ahelps (even if it's justified coping, it messes up the vibe of playing a videogame)
this is the reason most players don't ahelp things btw, it's not your fault or admins fault, it's just we're playing a vidya game and the instant you press F12 you are now stepping out of the videogame for an indeterminate period of time to do something very unfun and definitely not the reason you chose to spend your time on spaceman
anyways on-topic this is a terrible ided complaint, HoS did nothing wrong
I'm going to be 100% honest with you: The way I've seen you play the game and your other recommendations all scream to me that you just really want to be able to beat the piss out of people in the game for pretty much any supposed slight. "It's lame as shit that I should have to break immersion to adminhelp this" No, it's lame as shit that people keep doing it to begin with and even lamer that you want to reinforce that by giving them valid reasons to get into a combat interaction with players.
What makes your stance even more confusing is that you don't understand that all it does is make more work for us when the security player you inevitably crit whines at us about it and the situation becomes even more complex when it could've just been "Hey, stop being an asshole and actually try to RP".
I'll be real I 100% just alt-tab and play Master Duel like I said because spending 20+ minutes litigating why the sec player should be told to open his fucking mouth in an ahelp sounds like the absolute worst possible use of my time and I'd rather drag my dick through broken glass than have to do that five times a week just to get admins to enforce a minimum expectation of roleplay.Vekter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:49 amOkay, so now that we're not in a policy discussion thread, we can actually talk about the matter.sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:43 amDude Vekter
I'm gonna just come from the heart here and set the policies aside for a second
Ahelping over a wordless arrest even if justified feels so intensely petty and pulls you completely out of the round
I don't want to have to write a synopsis of the events that led to the situation and engage in a 20 minute back-and-forth investigation because a seccie took a fart in my face
I get that most of your rounds are observing as an admin and I appreciate you for contributing in that way
But most players that join the server want to be in the round playing man. To ahelp every single one of these sucks the fun out of the game because you're not playing anymore at that point, you're sorta just coping endlessly in ahelps (even if it's justified coping, it messes up the vibe of playing a videogame)
this is the reason most players don't ahelp things btw, it's not your fault or admins fault, it's just we're playing a vidya game and the instant you press F12 you are now stepping out of the videogame for an indeterminate period of time to do something very unfun and definitely not the reason you chose to spend your time on spaceman
anyways on-topic this is a terrible ided complaint, HoS did nothing wrong
I'm going to be 100% honest with you: The way I've seen you play the game and your other recommendations all scream to me that you just really want to be able to beat the piss out of people in the game for pretty much any supposed slight. "It's lame as shit that I should have to break immersion to adminhelp this" No, it's lame as shit that people keep doing it to begin with and even lamer that you want to reinforce that by giving them valid reasons to get into a combat interaction with players.
What makes your stance even more confusing is that you don't understand that all it does is make more work for us when the security player you inevitably crit whines at us about it and the situation becomes even more complex when it could've just been "Hey, stop being an asshole and actually try to RP".
I agree with this. I don't like ahelping issues I see unless it is something like a person running into the SM roundstart OR if I died because of it. I am just too immersed in my game! Mind you I personally don't see behaviour that ruins my gameplay experience that much anyway (probably due to my playstyle or somethin idk), so something is working out!sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:43 amDude Vekter
I'm gonna just come from the heart here and set the policies aside for a second
Ahelping over a wordless arrest even if justified feels so intensely petty and pulls you completely out of the round
I don't want to have to write a synopsis of the events that led to the situation and engage in a 20 minute back-and-forth investigation because a seccie took a fart in my face
I get that most of your rounds are observing as an admin and I appreciate you for contributing in that way
But most players that join the server want to be in the round playing man. To ahelp every single one of these sucks the fun out of the game because you're not playing anymore at that point, you're sorta just coping endlessly in ahelps (even if it's justified coping, it messes up the vibe of playing a videogame)
this is the reason most players don't ahelp things btw, it's not your fault or admins fault, it's just we're playing a vidya game and the instant you press F12 you are now stepping out of the videogame for an indeterminate period of time to do something very unfun and definitely not the reason you chose to spend your time on spaceman
anyways on-topic this is a terrible ided complaint, HoS did nothing wrong
I personally want be be able to retaliate against people without having to ahelp. Once upon a time somebody decided to just murder me by pushing me on like 50 glass shards. I didnt ahelp it, Instead, after getting revived, I yelled at them, and punched them a bunch in public (I think I used my baton?). Other people then deescalated it IC. There was no issue. We both ended up having great memories. No ahelps were made (from what I know). I really did think about ahelping there, but I decided to deal with it IC. I am very glad I didn't ahelp that now. If I end up being forced to ahelp every single annoying thing that happens due to admin convenience, I would end up having a less enjoyable experience.Vekter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:49 am Okay, so now that we're not in a policy discussion thread, we can actually talk about the matter.
I'm going to be 100% honest with you: The way I've seen you play the game and your other recommendations all scream to me that you just really want to be able to beat the piss out of people in the game for pretty much any supposed slight. "It's lame as shit that I should have to break immersion to adminhelp this" No, it's lame as shit that people keep doing it to begin with and even lamer that you want to reinforce that by giving them valid reasons to get into a combat interaction with players.
What makes your stance even more confusing is that you don't understand that all it does is make more work for us when the security player you inevitably crit whines at us about it and the situation becomes even more complex when it could've just been "Hey, stop being an asshole and actually try to RP".
Handling it IC doesn't fix the issue, but players shouldn't be required to fix the meta issue to be completely honest.Vekter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 5:55 am If the idea of adminhelping when people break the rules is so bad that you'd rather fight them over it, what can we do to improve the situation to make it easier on you guys? I firmly believe that "just handle it IC" doesn't actually do anything to fix the issue, it just passes the buck on and doesn't result in anything of value. One person ends up dead and upset, their outlook completely justified and they keep doing the same thing over and over.
It's largely that admins act pretty disinterested, and sometimes, borderline hostile unless it's some egregious shit, you constantly get the sense that you're just annoying the admin. This is especially true if you're being, like, marginally annoying and probably deserving of a minor hassle by security but they drop a fuckin anvil on you instead of just smacking you on the knuckles or hassling you then leaving you to it.Vekter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 5:55 am Let me try this differently.
If the idea of adminhelping when people break the rules is so bad that you'd rather fight them over it, what can we do to improve the situation to make it easier on you guys? I firmly believe that "just handle it IC" doesn't actually do anything to fix the issue, it just passes the buck on and doesn't result in anything of value. One person ends up dead and upset, their outlook completely justified and they keep doing the same thing over and over.
E: I'm also not pointedly ignoring anyone here save for Boot, you all have valid points and I want to make this an opportunity to improve things on Manuel.
RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:51 pmPosting this here since it applies like it did on the manuel discord:BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:40 pm Deadass the average sec player on Manuel is explicitly not there to roleplay and will outright tell you that if you ask them on Manuelcord or whatever, it's not some kind of secret problem. Most of the regulars outright admit it, most players know it, the defense is "it's hard to RP as sec", which I figured was bullshit, so I went out of my way to play 60 hours as Manuelsec and confirmed it was bullshit.► Show Spoiler
I played it for 60 hours, hated most of the other security staff for being NRP goblins who brag about their silent batong skills, and quit.dirk_mcblade wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:21 pm Sounds like you all should start maining sec on MRP and be the change you want to see.
This is a good take and I will die on the hill that this is a good take.Boris wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 10:19 pm it is midnight, and thus time to spew my incredibly questionable security opinions.
security is on the backfoot, security has to be on the backfoot, and you have to stay on the backfoot in order for the round to actually be fun. you will arrest someone you know to almost certainly be a traitor and you will ding them for contraband and whatever crimes you know for a fact they have commited, and put the contraband into storage. that PDA, Pen, and Headset aren't contraband untill they are proven to be uplinks, shut the fuck up. it doesn't matter if you know for a fact that they'll come back later, them coming back later is a good thing. you will die, you will die painfully, and it will have happened because you gave them mercy, and that will be fine.
that's all I have to say.
Ah but if two of you started maining sec and formed your own metagang, think then of the possibilities.BrolyButterfingers wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:44 pmI played it for 60 hours, hated most of the other security staff for being NRP goblins who brag about their silent batong skills, and quit.dirk_mcblade wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:21 pm Sounds like you all should start maining sec on MRP and be the change you want to see.