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[Scrat505]

Byond ID: Scrat505

Colonial Marines Character: Mckenzie "Cotton' Swabey

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Timezone: Central Time (GMT +/-6)

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

I start college in the fall, but pretty much whenever I have the free time (and for this summer, ALLL THE TIME), since I don't really play much else.

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

I was a Mentor, Trial Admin, then Game Admin on Paradise station for a time, and I've also held several staff positions for (admittedly quite small) servers on various serious RP garrysmod servers.

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?

No.

What other servers do you play on?

I rarely play on Paradise still, but my interest in it has begun to wane (after almost 3 years of playing) and I spend less and less time on it.

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

Paradise only, rarely as mentioned above.

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines before?

None.

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?

Never banned at all on here.

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on ANY server? If so, where and When (roughly)?

No.

Are you familiar with Slack (It's use is required)?

I am not, but I can learn it easily.

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.

Jump over to the shooter. Freeze the shooter, as well a those that try to take a pot shot at the frozen. PM the shooter. Ask them "So what are you doing, and why are you doing it?" If they give a reason that is clearly illegitimate (IE: "i was bored"), slap them with a 3 day ban, as they've obviously no interest in RPing here. If they give me a reason that is petty (like "He called me a bad name so I shot him"), give him a 24 hour ban. If they give me a reason that sounds legitimate, (IE: "I followed escalation with the other marine and it ended up in a firefight"), then I'll message the others involved in this and see if they say the same. If it was honest escalation, unfreeze them and permit them to continue and face the IC consequences.

2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.

Spawn in a wall tile or dirt or whatever to quickly patch it up. If the reason for the breach is not obviously apparant, say in OOC "Alright, whoever caused the breach, you'd best speak up." From there, it's very likely the perpetrator (or someone who saw them do this) will speak up. Depending the situation that caused the breach and the magnitude of it, a warning to a ban can be applied.


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.

I wouldn't respond to these requests at all, not a word. They're on their own. If in theory I had access to MOTHER announcements, I'd announce the count of aliens and marines, and then insult the marines via the announcement for their ineptitude.


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.

Ban the griefer for 3 days. PM the researcher and tell him (if he didn't know) that a marine has abused his grenade, and kindly help him by suggesting he hand out the grenades to squad leads, specialists, and below those engineers as they are more likely to be able to use it properly.


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

Reply to this insulting message with "Anything else?", permitting him to get his salt out (to an extent, I wouldn't let him lay into me for more than 5 minutes), then message him "Okay then." once he's concluded and give him a two day ban.

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

PM him and inform him his name is inappropriate and request he change it, then offer to change it right now to something more acceptable, giving him the option for what his new name will be for now, so long as it follows the naming rules.

6a. The marine is arguing that: They've used the name for several years, noone has told them to change it before, and that they didn't know it was a rule.

Inform him he's going to need to change his name anyway. If he has a serious problem with it, a staff report can be made by him on the forums and it can be discussed there. Ignorance of the rules is no excuse in ANY situation.



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

Give him a message that he needs to drop the gun right away, and get back to doing medical work, as his job designates, he shouldn't be running around armed like that. If he does as I instruct, no harm done, and a thank-you for complying. If he doesn't, job-ban.


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

Tell him to stop it right away. Of course with only 2-3 doctors most rounds, one of them isn't going to risk their lives on the ground! Tell him to bring the patient up to the ship for surgery. If there's no doctors up on the Sulaco, welp, too bad, no surgery for you, marine!

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?

Make a MOTHER report noting the numbers of both sides, and insult the marines for their cowardice. If the Marines know how little of them there are (the refusal to move could be due to the mistaken thought by the marines that the planet is totally flooded), they are fairly likely to haul ass, from my experience. Maybe even offer a 5% pay increase for those that go and fight, with an additional 10% for every alien they kill!


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

Wham, 3 hour ban, right on the spot.


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

This is an extremely petty "offense", and is mostly completely harmless and as such nothing will happen. However, if the marine is taking this to the extreme, IE: bringing the soap and slipping people in combat, long after he's gotten prepped, he must stop it right away.

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

Inform him that this was a terrible failure to follow proper escalation and give him a 2 day ban.


Any additional information you'd like to add?

I have a fairly high tolerance for people disrespecting me (it doesn't affect me at all, really) in that I do not lash out back at them, and like little more than rulebreakers who acknowledge they've done wrong, apologize, and are willing to make amends or correct themselves in the future. It's what I do when confronted in any situation where I did do wrong, and expecting the same is no huge favor, I hope.

Sidenote, although the forum account is just over a week old, I played and browsed/lurked the forums for about a half-to-full week prior.

[Infant Punter]

Was a good lad to have around back on para. Recent in-game interactions have also reassured me that they are still who they were back then.

Solid dude.

+1

[Varnock]

While I could nitpick at your answers some, I like what I see for the most part.

I'll slap a +1 down, sure.

[Scrat505]

I much appreciate the input from you two! I'm interested in hearing more.

[CapREDSPEAR]

+1 I know you from playing with you as a CL, definitely a nice member of the community

[freemysoul]

Eh, Haven't really seen you around, then TIMEZONES so could your coming on when I'm going off, Answers while they aren't the most detailed answers around, are clearly for good intent. 0.5 Positive.

P.S. Have a reread of Scenario 7.

[Scrat505]

Eh, Haven't really seen you around, then TIMEZONES so could your coming on when I'm going off, Answers while they aren't the most detailed answers around, are clearly for good intent. 0.5 Positive.

P.S. Have a reread of Scenario 7.

Ah yes, I was aware that there were no xenos in the medbay and surgery was still possible, and was just mentioning the only time when I would find a doctor running around with a gun to be acceptable. Thank you oncemore for those that have given their feedback. As for timezones, you may be right, as I don't recognise the byond key or character name of yours, but given the summer's start, hopefully we might happen to be on at the same time.

[Feweh]

I'd be ok with giving you a chance, I've seen you in-game a few times.

[Scrat505]

Given that the headmod has given their okay, I would appreciate a final decision whenever one can be given.

[Seehund]

Potential new staff members undergo a ridiculously high amount of scrutiny.
Give it time.

As for me, I don't have any problems with you, but your activity is pretty low.
Very much neutral.

[Feweh]

Stickied for apops attention

[TR-BlackDragon]

This has already been accepted and proccessed, locking and moving