Coopsbomb4

SS14 account: Coopsbomb4 Character name: Cooper McSweeney Type of Ban: Game and Job Ban Date of Ban and Duration: 3 days, Appeal only for Cargo Reason for Ban: Using an Infinite resource (chem dispenser + chem master to produce sugar pills) to sell as cargo/salvage, which tanked server tps as a result Server you were playing on when banned: Lizard Your side of the story: I was testing a method to make money as cargo, due to my personal opinion that the money making methods in for cargo are very limited and that the growth of money is too limited too. I had made around 1.1k sugar pills when the admin Retequizle contacted me in ahelp asking me wether or not I was seriously metagaming to make sugar pills to which I replied I either go salvage or stay here making sugar pills and die to the demon core. Once I had made 1.8k total sugar pills Ret ahelped me again to say that I was tanking Server Tps to which I responded that I would sell the pills and that I was merely testing an idea I had, Ret responded to this by telling me that I could have stopped at 100 and that I was tanking server tps due to 1.8k entities being on the same grid tile, I then said next time I would just sell plasma canisters, it was at this point that Ret told me that I understood what I was doing and that they could not let this slide, It was at this point that I received my ban until the 8th of September 10:14 am and the Job Ban from Cargo as an Appeal only ban Why you think you should be unbanned: I believe that I should get this opportunity as I was using a method to make money and at this point did not realise that I was in breach of rule 9. If I was to get the opportunity again I would either wait out the timer to get money or use the ingame salvage methods to produce more profit in ways that does not breach rule 9 or break the servers tps. I provide to the community a fairly competent player and Role Player. And I would hope to some a friendly face. Anything else we should know: I would not repeat this stunt again, instead reporting it in Bugs and Feedback so that it can be patched so that it will not be attempted again

Maybe it was some other application now that I go back and look at it, I remember reading something though that caused me to describe it like that

I was reading Ret’s application where I believe they reference it like that before I began writing so describing it thus was top of mind

Yes I am, sorry for the non-clarity on that one

In-game Username:Coopsbomb4 Discord username:Coopsbomb4 Characters you play: Cooper McSweeney How long have you been playing SS13 or SS14? I have been playing SS13 for about 100 hours and SS14 for 168 hours although much of that time may be due to idling in the launcher, which I have no way of knowing How many hours are you available per day: 3-5 hours per day although this will depend on what is going on in my school life and my need to study Days you are available on: 7 days of the week most weeks although it may vary depending on what is going in in my school life and my need to study Prior administration experience (SS13 experience recommended). Please also post a way for us to verify this: I do not have any verifiable administration experience although I did admin for a friends Minecraft server for about a year Have you been banned from our game servers or SS13 servers before? I was once banned from the game due to being in an ahelp situation and having to leave for personal reasons, this was cleared up and the result of my ban appeal can be found on these forums This is the more essay-y part of the application, you should answer the following questions in detail, so I can get a better idea of how you’d approach admining. What role do you think game admins serve on our servers? I believe that the game admins' role on the SS14 servers are twofold with one higher purpose. One of the two lesser reasons is to make sure that the game can be experienced by those that wish to experience it the intended way. This includes sorting out game breaking bugs that will alter the game in ways that do not make a round entertaining but rather ruin the experience of SS14 and removing self-antagers that would ruin the experience for the people that have become an antag the legitimate way. The other one of these two reasons is to cause events if they are considered needed by the crew, the reasons for needing this could be SSD or new antags or just a good crew that has managed to stabilise the station. The higher purpose of Game Admins is to keep the game fun and engaging for its players to maintain a healthy player base. This higher purpose varies in its execution from round to round and even server to server with LRP servers needing a lesser attention to keeping roleplay accurate and more on creating fun situations for the players. However on an HRP server this would be reduced and maybe even flipped with a steady but semi boring for LRP station being more fun for Role Players than the chaotic situations encountered on LRP servers. How do you feel about the current roleplay status on the server? I feel that the current roleplay status on the server is good for what the tag is most of the time with even further advancements coming with role timers. All official servers at this time are marked as LRP meaning that Roleplay is not the highest necessity but rather a basic thing required for the game. This means that characters have to refer to each other by name but not act out their personalities. The current situation that the server is in matches this level of roleplay almost to the definition with the only LRP breaking moments being metagamers and people who do not know what they are doing as heads of command. The recent addition of role timers will remove one of these problems only leaving metagamers left which is one of our jobs as admins to prevent effecting the experience of roleplay as much as possible Why do you want to become an administrator for SS14? I want to become an administrator for many reasons, the primary of which is to cover cutouts of admin uptime as much as possible, as a player who often likes to explore new things I know how frustrating it is to be locked behind a bug or situation that isnt your fault with the Ahelp box merely emmiting radio silence. This is especially clear as a player in the GMT region where sometimes you can spend 3 hours waiting for a fix to a major problem which stops your experience in its tracks, or a self antagger/metagamer/metagrudger that makes the game less fun for everyone else than themselves. Another reason that is slightly lesser but still major in my eyes is my intense desire to help out with SS14 and the brilliant game I see in its future but my inability to code which inhabits the normal avenue of helping to code or map. The way I can see myself helping is through making sure that the intended experience can be provided to everyone as standard rather than every other shift or even once in a blue moon of a shift. Sorry If I rambled on a bit, I just feel really passionate about the opinions I have put out here. Many thanks, Coopsbomb4

SS14 account: Coopsbomb4 Character name: Cooper McSweeney When was the ban: 7:00 pm Lizard Your side of the story: In an extended round I was banned for leaving when I was being AHelped, the reason I did this was as my dad came home from a work trip and was shouting at me for not getting off my device Why you think you should be unbanned: I feel it is unfair to ban me due to an event that was outside of my control (that being my dad wanting me off my computer) and it is different from the nature of the ban that was stated (evading AHelp) Anything else we should know: I didn't know that moony had specifically stated no water vapour and only meant no killing people