IAMMagikarp - Moderator Application

[IAMMagikarp]

Byond ID: IAMMagikarp

Colonial Marines Character: Evan Coughlin

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Timezone: EST us

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? 4-6 hours every day except Sunday

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)? Yes but on long shut down gmod servers , I was an admin on a server called X52 and a dev. on a server called NLG.

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers? Yes , pre-alpha or what version was last year

What other servers do you play on? Not really any others except for Hippie

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM? Hippie, CM, and CM

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines before? I had a dev app but I forgot about it and it was closed due to me not replying.

Are you currently a staff member elsewhere (not just SS13)? If so, where? Nope

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on Colonial Marines? Nope

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on ANY server? If so, where and When (roughly)? I got perma'd on TG for being an all around jackass, but that was a year or so ago

Are you familiar with the chat program Slack (its use is required)? No , but I can learn

Common Staff Situations:
Write a description of what you would do in each situation (BELOW) the situation. If you start it on the same line, I'll assume you can't follow directions and auto-decline your application.



1. A player is firing his weapon in the briefing area near the start of the round.

I would look to see if there was any reason to fire , if not I would contact him asking why he is shooting if it turns out to be a misfire I let him go on. If he persists after I ask him to stop I may need to add a note about randomly shooting in briefing. Now if he firing at marines then that is a whole different problem. Firing at marines for no apparent reason is griefing. Now if one of these shots his a marine or god forbid a window and he was just blatantly breaking the rules he would be banned.

2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.

First, plug up the hole to prevent further damage / deaths. Next, I would investigate if it was intentional or an accident. If it was done on purpose that would be griefing and they would be handed a ban and a mark on the notes, the ban severity depends on notes and ahelps. If it was accidental I would give them a warning and mark to the notes. Next , I would see who was killed by the breach and make an announcement in OOC asking those who died from the breach to ahelp. I would look through the vars to check if they really did die from the breach (burn damage / pressure damage / suffocation)

3. The marines want the nuke codes because they claim they are losing too many marines. There are currently 4 aliens and 20 marines in your /who.

A head admin would have to give the codes . However, I would just do a mother scan and some moral boosting words to the marines.

4. A Sulaco researcher 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.

I would see if the researcher has a history of griefing, I would ask him why he was handing out nades to random marines , instead of engineers and SLs. If I deem his intentions as malicious he would be banned and have a possible permaban depending on notes and ahelps. If he didn't have a history he would be given a warning to be careful when handing out nades and a mark on his notes.

Secondly, I would ask the marine WHY he would toss a nade into the LO office. Obviously, he would most likely not have a good reason and would be banned depending on his notes and ahelps.

5. A played is starting to talk about the things he did with your mom last night over Ahelp.

I would tell they to stop abusing ahelp. Most likely they would stop after me telling them. if they continued for quite a while they would be muted from ahelp temporarily. If they still were doing it a short ban would be placed.

6. You notice a marine with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules.

I would tell them that we have rules against whatever name he was, and ask him if he has a name he would like me to change it to or me come up with a name.

6a. The marine is arguing that: They've used the name for several years, no one has told them to change it before, and that they didn't know it was a rule.

I would tell them that he should read the rules before playing and to keep up to date with them.

7. You see a Sulaco Doctor with an M41A rifle strapped to his back running around the briefing area. There are wounded in med bay, and the other doctor is in surgery.

I would see if they were in danger, if not I would ask why they have a rifle and that they should drop it and go to med bay when has wounded that need treatment or face admin consequences (mark on notes , possibly a short ban).

8. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.

I would inform him that no matter what he is not allowed to do that and tell him to stop before I intervene and that he should just stabilize them and inform them about the no squad medics do surgery rule.

9. The round is stagnating. There are 30 marines and 4 aliens. The marines won't leave the Sulaco, and the aliens won't attack. What would you do, to "encourage" the sides to engage each other?

I would do a MOTHER scan and tell the marines to go kill the aliens. If they didn't I would USMC message the CO and tell him to order his men down planet side and kill the remaining aliens.

10. The round ends, and a marine starts unloading his weapons on other marines.

I would ban them for 3 hours as the ERG rule says to do.

11. A marine who has recently awoken is using soap to slip other marines.

If he is just slipping like one or two people I would just shrug it off at shenanigans . If he was slipping people mid combat or some other life threatening situation and/or if he would harassing people I would tell them to stop.

12. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why he said it was because the other marine had punched him.

Firstly , I would see if this is true because the reply could have just been a quick vague statement. if it turns out he really did murder him because of punches I would tell them that they improperly escalated. I would view their notes if they have a history of griefing or improper escalation they would be banned for a day depending on the severity of notes and ahelps.


Any additional information you'd like to add?

I think I would be a great mod and may have a good feature on this server, I don't really get stressed while under high workloads and normally strive for administrative positions on most servers I play on. IMO I'm a pretty level-headed guy and most shit someone will say to me will not effect me.

[Jay Burns]

Sorry time to nerd out, but was NLG new life gaming?

[IAMMagikarp]

Sorry time to nerd out, but was NLG new life gaming?

yes sir , have you been on it before?

[Jay Burns]

yes sir , have you been on it before?

Maybe was known as coolmiters or jay.

[Feweh]

I havent heard great thing about you, especially in-game wise.

[slc97]

I have had nothing but poor experiences with Evan Coughlin. I believe his notes speak for themselves. -1

[IAMMagikarp]

I have had nothing but poor experiences with Evan Coughlin. I believe his notes speak for themselves. -1

I havent heard great thing about you, especially in-game wise.

Yes I have made mistakes in the past but most complaints about me are misunderstandings , I assure you if I was made a trial moderator there would be no incidents. I try to play more relaxed nowadays to avoid any misunderstanding I may have with other players.

[EMT_321]

I have seen you harmbaton marines rather then simply dragging them, when one went AFK in the RO line.

I do not believe you possess the emotional maturity and patience required for moderation.

[IAMMagikarp]

I have seen you harmbaton marines rather then simply dragging them, when one went AFK in the RO line.

I do not believe you possess the emotional maturity and patience required for moderation.

This is what I mean by misunderstanding, I had harm intent on to prevent getting pushed around while guarding the line. The RO said to remove a marine from line urgently and the marines were screaming riot so I just clicked on him with my baton. I honestly didn't mean to harmbaton him and quickly fixed my mistake and apologized to him. I was promptly ganked after that.

It was only one marine that this happened to. And remember the marines were rioting because the RO only gave out one attachment, this riot ended up killing me and many others

[IAMMagikarp]

Furthermore, I'm a different person than my character. I play my character to act differently than how a really am. While Evan may be immature and a dullard I my self am not. Most of my notes were just mistakes or ignorence I try to improve myself by reading the rules and thinking before doing something to avoid any rule breaks and for the most part recently I haven't broken any rules. I hope you guys sincerely believe me when I say I don't try to do anything unsavory it just kind of happens by mistake, and that I have made great strides at being a better player than I once was.

[Feweh]

Denied, you don't have the best behavior in-game.