Commander - SovKitty's App.

[SovietKitty]

Byond ID: SovietKitty

Player name you use the most: Emily Strauss / Emma / Anya Kolyanavich / Zoey Lisile

Make a list of links to all of your applications and (job)ban appeals, including whitelist and staff apps, within the last year. Also, provide "Ban reason; Verdict" beside each (job)ban link:

• Synthetic Whitelist (Approved.)

Do you understand that any player - even donors or staff members - can have their whitelist status revoked should they break our Server Rules or Roleplay Guidelines?

Yes.

Do you understand how the Battlefield Execution functions?

Yes.

Do you understand you are not above Marine law, or allowed to enforce it yourself?

Yes.

What do you think is the job of a Commander?

To keep the round at a steady pace, their word is 'law' and with that command they can effectively control the flow of marines and how the round plays out. Their main function in my mind is for marines to set a unified goal, and offer the cohesion required for each squad to coordinate off one another. Due to the lack of Commons the Commander, and their team is the only reliable means of squad-to-squad communication. I also believe their duty is to rally their forces and lead them to an interesting round.

If a member of your staff is disobeying orders, how would you handle it?

This is a tricky question and makes a lot of assumptions. It all ranges from a conversation, or reminding them of the chain of command, to military police, to a mateba round. It all depends on how egregious something is, and each one requires a certain amount of tact.

Why should you be whitelisted?

No reason than anyone else, I put in effort, and I keep my notes clean!

[taketheshot56]

Emily Strauss is always super mean to me, +1 and I guess soviet knows what to do while in command.

[Weaselburg]

Seen Strauss and Emma around, Soviet seems to know what she is doing. +1.

[KaiserBlackwood]

I saw her around when played, she is reliable, we can trust her if she leads us. +1

[DriedMilk]

I enjoy all of Soviet's characters and ahe can RP very well.

Althought I would like to see how you manage yourself as a XO/aCO

Neutral leaning largerly to positive, I just would like to see how you handle Command Roles.

[Avalanchee]

Strauss is a great character
+1

[spookydonut]

Good RPer, I'll add my +1 to this popularity contest

[spartanbobby]

Yes +1

[Lumdor]

Yes +1

[Cry of Wolves]

Yes +1

[Lukey111]

Yes +1

[solidfury7]

Good roleplayer, has my blessing

+1

[Ghostdex]

Beat me up yesterday on big red. But I feel like I can completely trust Soviet to not abuse BE’s. Huge +1 from me. Yes

[Sleepy Retard]

I can't even give a +1 because I have NEVER, EVER seen you touch command roles once.

Not that it matters, because again - this is a popularity contest.

But in the past year, yeah, the closest I've seen you is CL.

[Bancrose]

Sleepy is 100% right that this is a popularity contest

And I wont lie this is the most barebones app I've seen, But you will get a +1 from me, solely from your RP.

[edda]

Don't remember seeing you in Command, but I seriously doubt you'd be inappropriate for the whitelist being that 1) you're good at RP, 2) you're staff, and 3) you're already a synth. +1.

[Omicega]

You can pretty much take what I wrote on Jenner's app and apply a lot of it here. This app is almost twice the length of that one, at least, by virtue of being seven sentences strong instead of just four, and although your answers are short as hell at least they aren't total cop-outs.

However, in my view some level of command play should be a prerequisite for the CO role. I have never seen you play anything remotely CIC related except for synthetic and I've been here since August. The only saving grace is that 1. my opinion doesn't matter because you are popular and will attract +1s like nobody's business, and 2. you have the roleplay level to carry off the finer points of the role. That said, something I have always stood by is that I will always take the hands-on, groundside focused, highly strategic type of CO/XO over the CIC roleplayer archetype, precisely because I think the enjoyment of more players should far outweigh the needs of the CIC crew. This is a criticism I have levelled both in public and in private at a number of whitelisted COs already, and without having ever seen you in a CIC role I have absolutely nothing to reassure me that you have the capacity to play CO in a way I consider healthy for the majority of the marine side.

You are a strong enough roleplayer, especially for CM and the general level shown here, but as I said in the last CO app I commented on I do not agree with popularity and time played adding up to an auto-pass on any whitelist application. In my view, considering just how much CM I've seen you play (you aren't that far out of my timezone), the fact that I've literally never seen you play a CIC role in person sets far too many alarm bells ringing.

I have a question for you before I even consider touching on a -1, neutral, or +1 - why do you want this whitelist? You don't seem to have had any desire to play command before this - why do you suddenly want to become a whitelisted CO?

[SovietKitty]

-snip-

I was SO not even hours before this message was sent, so while you don't see it. It happens, as rare as it may be. Why I'm not a CIC main is because I enjoy the flexibility, and freedom to roleplay more than just a voice in peoples ears. I look for more than ordering people to retreat, or to push. I understand what is needed to give information, and orders effectively. Simple, succinct, and depending on the situation, in all caps. Judging by people who've played with me, and intimately gotten to know what it's like when I'm in their squad that I am one of the most hands on players on the server. Very much depending on my mood I can swap on a dime between the tenuous CIC micromanagement, and the front line organizing CO guiding squads through the caves.

I'm not really in the line, as with my Synthetic app to try and convince people that I deserve their +1 or not. But both that due to our experience together, and the merit of your points, a response is warranted.

"why do you want this whitelist? You don't seem to have had any desire to play command before this - why do you suddenly want to become a whitelisted CO?"

First, and most direct question. I enjoy the freedom to roleplay how I see fit, and the flexibility given to the CO is something that attracts me, far more than SO/XO could. It's not a sudden change, but it may appear so, I never thought leading was an enjoyable experience that I could do confidently. But, after leading a few particularly note worthy 'unga charges.' And being apart of one when half of delta ended up in bravo in a mere twist of fate, I found when I said things people followed and listened. It was an enjoyable instance to direct people to the best of my ability, and help wrangle lives.

"In my view, considering just how much CM I've seen you play (you aren't that far out of my timezone), the fact that I've literally never seen you play a CIC role in person sets far too many alarm bells ringing."

It's fair to have concerns but I've also brushed shoulders with almost every flavor of CO, I've roleplayed with, and against them. I've observed their rounds, talked with them about their decisions and actions to have more than enough knowledge on how CIC functions, and what's expected out of a Commander. I'm of the belief that the most experienced players who know when the FoB is going to crumble, whose played enough to know when pushes are dangerous and the bad engagement locations come from just playing CM, and not playing CM as a anyone in CIC. I've been the helmet camera so many times to know when things are going awry. Or when the games bogging down to a stalemate and you need to rally a marine deathball to push from a flank.

"This app is almost twice the length of that one, at least, by virtue of being seven sentences strong instead of just four, and although your answers are short as hell at least they aren't total cop-outs."

I answered the yes or no questions with yes, or no. I am intimately aware with all of the rules to the server, whitelisted role guidelines, and I feel just pushing out fluffed reasonings to convince people that I do actually know them feels falsified. With how much CO procedure I've thrown at half of these whitelisted individuals, I think they're well aware. I also don't really feel comfortable telling people why I should be whitelisted, I don't think I'm anymore special than anyone else. I'm just the one making the effort to keep a clean note history, and good community outlook.

If you wanted specifics, most people not following orders fall under insubordination, almost every situation in the book that arises from these problems can be dealt with with military police, or dialogue with the offender on why they they don't want to follow the order. (Oddly rarely used.)

[CSolaris]

I would like to be a doctor serving under CO Emily "Stasis Bag" Strauss.

+1

[Omicega]

I was SO not even hours before this message was sent, so while you don't see it. It happens, as rare as it may be.

Fair point, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm still surprised I've never ever seen it myself over a six or seven month timespan.

The rest of your response, though, I have no qualms about. I have no issue with you answering yes/no questions in one word - trying to bloat them out is mostly app padding anyway, which I dislike almost as much as giving underfed or entirely useless answers to questions in the first place. For what it's worth, I believe you should convince people that you deserve the +1 - that's the point of the application in the first place. If you couldn't back yourself and respond to criticism, either accepting it as valid or attacking it if it's unfounded, I wouldn't think you had what it took to take up the role. You make a fair point when you mention you've pushed CO procedure at other COs in the past as well - I've seen that more than enough times myself. I know that you're capable of the standard of roleplay required, at the very least, and hope that you would adhere to those standards in this role in particular.

Your reply addresses more or less all of my concerns except the one about seeing you in Command positions more in person, which can only be fixed at all with more time. Given that these apps take a lengthy amount of time to finish processing and go through, I hope I'll have the opportunity to see you play either SO or XO some time soon and find out what you're capable of in practice rather than just in theory. Until then, though, I can't +1 based entirely off what you might be like as a leader when I've genuinely (to the best of my memory, anyway) never seen you in any position of that nature. To use a shitty analogy, it would be like if we had a CMO whitelist - giving a hard seal of approval to someone I'd never seen play doctor or even squad medic would be impossible.

Neutral with a hopeful change to +1 in the not-too-far future.

[Clutch]

Fun person to roleplay with, haven't seen you play command roles that much but I think you have what it takes +1

[nerocavalier]

I know I've seen you as a SO but not that often as an XO. Everyone else has already said anything I would have but what's the first thing you plan on doing for your first round should you become a commander?

Also neutral, leaning towards +1

[SovietKitty]

I know I've seen you as a SO but not that often as an XO. Everyone else has already said anything I would have but what's the first thing you plan on doing for your first round should you become a commander?

Also neutral, leaning towards +1

I'm sort of against gimmicks to be interesting. I don't really want to order 'no smoking.' Or things like, 'No M41A's. I don't constitute that with entertaining everyone and more or less being a hindrance to the overall enjoyment of everyone playing the game.