[ValZarGaming] Moderator Application

[valzargaming]

Byond ID:
valzargaming

Age:
22

Gender:
Unknown

Timezone:
EST

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate?
20~

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)?
Yes

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?
All of them, going back to KittyStation

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines or New Eden denied before?
No

Are you currently a staff member elsewhere (not just SS13)? If so, where?
No

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on Colonial Marines?
No

If a player was shooting everyone in briefing at round start how would you deal with the situation?
Mute OOC temporarily, make announcement to cease and desist, check attack logs and pm accordingly to discover the nature of the disturbance. If it's an uprising because some LO was being a shithead, I'd make an announcement as Central for people to cool their heads because people start getting Court Marshalled. if players were killed, I'd discovered the reason as to why and deal with it according to intent and whether it was IC-related or grief. If it was grief, I would verbally engage with the offending player and inform them of the rules, probably issue a 1-3 day ban depending on their responses, and instruct the Military Police to take control of the situation

You notice that a xeno is breaching the Nostromo and is unable to seal it with resin. How would you deal with this and what punishment would you give for a first offender?
Find out why they're breaching the Nostromo, inform of rules, spawn resin to seal if time effectiveness is necessary, check byond key's history and notes, if repeat offender add a note, and decide a punishment based on the severity of the beach and the intent behind it, or if they are a new player, inform them of the rules and issue a warning and add a note. I have always seen breaches as an IC issue if caused by a Marine, but Xenos typically don't have a legitimate excuse to cause breaches. Depending on the severity, I would either remove them from the round or issue a 24-hour ban.

The marines want the nuke codes to detonate the Nostromo because they claim they are losing too many marines. There are currently 4 aliens and 20 marines in your /who. What do you do?
Depending on the circumstances I would not intervene, but would pm the Commander to see if the reason for calling for a nuke is properly rationalized IC'ly. In the case that there really is no threat, I might decide to intervene as Central, or if the Commander has truly lost command of his squad, join the game as a Nanotrasen Admiral to rally the troops.

A Sulaco Medic has made several napalm grenades and hands them out to marines. One of the marines throws the grenade into Logistics. There are no admins or other moderators online. What do you do?
PM to ask why they did it to determine if there was a proper IC reason to do so. If a Sulaco Medic had the time and felt the need to make several napalm grenades and hand them out to marines, there had better be a damn good reason to do so. I feel this would mostly be an IC issue so long as the intent wasn't to cause unjustifiable grief to the LO Officers, in which case a ban would insue with the ban length being proportional to the damage caused and a prediction of how likely it is to be repaired.

The Napalm recipe is disabled, so I don't see this ever happening anyway.

What would you do if a player started to talk about the things he did to your mom last night?
Inform them of Rule #8 and mute them if they continue to be unreasonable.

Any additional information you'd like to add?
Generally as a moderator, I would be lurking on the server as a spectator and check in occasionally. I am a firm believer in letting IC issues develop themselves rather than stepping in immediately and risk breaking immersion.

[SASoperative]

These answers are pretty vague... Definitely gonna have to think if I am a +1 or -1. Neutral for now....

[valzargaming]

These answers are pretty vague... Definitely gonna have to think if I am a +1 or -1. Neutral for now....

Wasn't expecting a response this fast! I just got home after a gruesomely long day at work, and I'm editing some of my answers now to include more detail and proper grammar.

[UnknownMurder]

Insufficient details and improper actions.
-1

[valzargaming]

Insufficient details and improper actions.
-1

Which actions would you find to be improper?

[Rahlzel]

+1

Good grammar and spelling.
Picked out the "trick question" about napalm (this just happened within 24 hours, too, so he/she is paying attention)
Reasonable "your mom" answer.
Good age.

I'm guessing they're talking about the "Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)?" answer only being "Yes". It is technically a yes or no question, though. Perhaps they were looking for you to elaborate.

[valzargaming]

+1
I'm guessing they're talking about the "Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)?" answer only being "Yes". It is technically a yes or no question, though. Perhaps they were looking for you to elaborate.

When I said yes, I just kind of assumed people knew me from Reddit and my previous administration positions. It just now hit me that I don't know very many people on this forum except for Apophis.
I have been an admin for Laser50's old server, I'm an original New Eden Gamemaster, I worked for (as in received payment for my services) Heaven's Gate as lead developer before its official launch and saved it from dying on more than one occasion due to various issues in code compatibility (including converting from Paracode to Baycode after Paracode had an issue where the server would not compile), and a plethora of other servers that are either not worth mentioning or whose names I cannot remember because it was so long ago.

[slayerplayer99]

A +1 if it makes any difference, I like the RP approach answer

[SASoperative]

+1 from me at the moment.

[Felkvir]

Well he says he's going to let IC issues develop and handle themselves if possible, but i get the scent of a lot of OOC interference here. Briefing answer was kinda awkward, and napalm answer pretty meh..

I feel like staying neutral, though i guess trying him out wouldn't hurt.

[Rahlzel]

I worked for (as in received payment for my services) Heaven's Gate as lead developer before its official launch and saved it from dying on more than one occasion due to various issues in code compatibility

If you have dev experience, why not apply to be a coder?

[valzargaming]

If you have dev experience, why not apply to be a coder?

Too time consuming, I work two part time jobs for 40+ hours a week. Unless someone were to pay me, I'm not going to do it.

[apophis775]

Pay a Dev?


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I don't even get paid.

[valzargaming]

Hey, Heaven's Gate paid me $60 to boot their shit. Paracode -> Baycode with a total map conversion from scratch AND resyntaxing is very time consuming. I also did not ask for payment, rather they donated $20 on three different occasions to me over a period of a few weeks.

[apophis775]

Whelp, we don't have the funds to pay our devs. We've got a decent sized "warchest", but it's for server costs. We can currently cover our current server costs, for a good bit of time.

And no offense,

but If I was going to pay Devs, it would most likely never be a dev we just brought on...

[SecretStamos (Joshuu)]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SS13/comments/ ... t_them_on/

I came across this a while ago on Reddit. I'm sure its just a misunderstanding, but could you just clear this up?
Some of these allegations are pretty serious..

[apophis775]

I do remember hearing of this from "he who must not be named".

I know that "something" happened and valzar was talking bad about CM/NE.

As a result he was playing one day, and sgt.Voldemort pulled a voldemort and banned him because he was talking about the server.

I did remember, there was some sort of Stigma going on, but couldn't remember what.

[valzargaming]

Pipex, Jagger and iSplendid (Bot net owner, griefer, went under the IC name of Xx_ProScope-NoScope_xX, RDMer, yet somehow managed to become a leading admin months later on same server) dragged New Eden down the drain and tried to throw me under the bus. I was a game master, Jagger refused to enforce his own rules against iSplendid and certain griefers because they "knew each other in real life" or because they "donated money to the server" (I have chat logs for all of this somewhere, buried deep inside my hard drive.) It came to my attention and the attention of other admins such as Dre, SkyeAuroline, TheEvilDude, and others, that Jagger was considering making iSplendid A HEAD ADMIN! Literally the #1 trouble maker and #1 reason for the server's downtime.

A week before said "incident" I made a public announcement in the admin chat that if iSplendid were to join, I would immediately resign. The day after this "incident" came where he was officially made an admin. This so-called "incident" occurred during my last day as Game Master where I was holding a player voted event with then-trial-mod ToxicZero doing a Dungeons & Dragons event (I was the first admin to do it and it soon caught on with other servers). I gave him the +spawn flag to help me out with spawning specific items to help me finish the round, and it finished without a hitch, all players were happy, and we all went to sleep.

The next day I find that I was removed from the Skype Admin convo and had my Game Master removed for "admin abusing" by giving ToxicZero the +spawn flag. Yes, that is the ONLY reason they have EVER given. To top it off, that SAME DAY, iSplendid was made a a Head Admin for New Eden Station. More than half the admin team, including Brodt, TheEvilDude, Dre, ToxicZero, Griffen, SkyeAuroline, and myself left to form ValZarStation (I still host it, but it's a private server now for coding tests for myself and a few of my friends) and later SPQR.


Obviously there was a lot more involved that lead up to this moment, but the main factors were the fact that none of us liked Jagger or Pipex. The event night "unauthorized admin controversy" (which was just a temporary +spawn flag that removed itself on round restart) and the news of iSplendid becoming a head admin was just the last nudge that sent all of us into a raging frenzy against New Eden. There was no controversy over my standings with New Eden, in fact I posted an open resignation that morning upon finding that my admin powers had been removed before Jagger officially PERMABANNED me from New Eden (and later every admin that left to join ValZarStation).


PS: The ban on CM was issued by sgt.marine and was removed upon appeal and sgt.marine was removed from Colonial Marines shortly after.

[Davikhale]

Since NE was mentioned here, I would like to chime in. I will not use this opportunity to flame, deface or otherwise ruin an application. However; I would like to point out when you said a good portion of the staff left NE for valzar gaming, that is a stretch of the truth. SPQR was formed by dre and Brodt, and they brought you, toxic, Skye, myself and a handful of others over. Unless I'm incorrect you formed valzar after leaving SPQR? I might add, you were removed from SPQR staff for admin abuse. The exact situation was you using your power to metagame, avoiding, and later attacking the antag down in virology, by which you had no reason ic. Apophis, or rahl, feel free to remove this post if you feel it's in error. I just wanted to give my input of his responses involving NE and SPQR, which are both previously associated with myself.

Thanks,

Davikhale

[valzargaming]

Since NE was mentioned here, I would like to chime in. I will not use this opportunity to flame, deface or otherwise ruin an application. However; I would like to point out when you said a good portion of the staff left NE for valzar gaming, that is a stretch of the truth. SPQR was formed by dre and Brodt, and they brought you, toxic, Skye, myself and a handful of others over. Unless I'm incorrect you formed valzar after leaving SPQR? I might add, you were removed from SPQR staff for admin abuse. The exact situation was you using your power to metagame, avoiding, and later attacking the antag down in virology, by which you had no reason ic. Apophis, or rahl, feel free to remove this post if you feel it's in error. I just wanted to give my input of his responses involving NE and SPQR, which are both previously associated with myself.

Thanks,

Davikhale

The issues with SPQR was that I opened up a new way to donate to the server by people mining Bitcoin and donating it to a wallet accessible to those in charge of running the server. I was going to donate a sizable sum of bitcoin that I had mined myself over the period of a few months, easily enough for three months worth of server uptime. The wallet was empty, in fact I had not even had the opportunity to make a donation with my bitcoin. Shit happened, Dre goes on a reddit rampage because I did not give them my bitcoin and continues to insist that by not donating to his server that I was stealing from his server. Obviously I took offense and I resigned. They came up with the rest of the bullshit at a later point. Again, this was eight months ago, leave it where it belongs.

[Davikhale]

Agreed. Leaving the past between us behind. But the fact still stands. You did not resign. You were deadminned for admin abuse. The whole bitcoin thing was an idiotic thing to fight over, and dre going to reddit was a mistake. That is why he is no longer with NE.

[apophis775]

There seems to be a lot of stuff questionable. Additionally, I checked with some of the people you said you left NE with, and I received stories that were fairly different from what you said, but were the same between them.

Thus, I'm going to use my power as host, and say this will be denied. With your reputation, it's just risky. I've spent a LOT of time, trying to build up the reputation of our staff, and I can't be sure how you would affect it. But also, from everyone I asked about you that was around during that time I'm still in contact with, I was given the same advice.

I did know there were some reddit shenanigans, but I wasn't aware of the entire situation. However, the fact that you said all those staff left to form Valzarstation, but I know (simply from talking to them in the past) than many of the ones you listed, left for SPQR, not Valzar.

So, again, in conclusion, this Application is DENIED.

[valzargaming]

There seems to be a lot of stuff questionable. Additionally, I checked with some of the people you said you left NE with, and I received stories that were fairly different from what you said, but were the same between them.

Thus, I'm going to use my power as host, and say this will be denied. With your reputation, it's just risky. I've spent a LOT of time, trying to build up the reputation of our staff, and I can't be sure how you would affect it. But also, from everyone I asked about you that was around during that time I'm still in contact with, I was given the same advice.

I did know there were some reddit shenanigans, but I wasn't aware of the entire situation. However, the fact that you said all those staff left to form Valzarstation, but I know (simply from talking to them in the past) than many of the ones you listed, left for SPQR, not Valzar.

So, again, in conclusion, this Application is DENIED.

You seriously denied the application based on the fact that I can't remember if SPQR or ValZarStation was formed first? This was a year ago and I have early onset alzheimers and a zinc deficiency. If you want to talk to someone intimately familiar with the situation from beginning to end, hit up ToxicZero or Salron on skype (grifflikeabawse and drell.monk). They were present admins since the beginning of this and can probably relate the details more accurately.

[UnknownMurder]

Denied. Moved before it gets out of hands. Locked and secured.

[apophis775]

That wasn't the only reason I denied it. Like I said, I talked to some of the people.