Carprillo - Moderator Application

[Carprillo]

Byond ID: Carprillo

Colonial Marines Character: Elijah Sutherland, a shitload of Xenos whose numbers I don't remember.

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Timezone: Central

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

Well, I'm on for quite some time almost every day, so...At LEAST 50 hours.

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

Yes! I'm actually also a staff member on the HL2RP community 'nebulous.cloud'. I currently hold the rank of Administrator there.

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?

I did not, sadly.

What other servers do you play on?

/TG/.

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

/TG/, /TG/, and Hippie.

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines before?

Yes, a Predator application. Unfortunately, it was denied, but I get why it was.

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

As I mentioned earlier, I am a staff member of 'nebulous.cloud', a high-RP HL2RP community! As I also earlier stated, I currently hold the rank of Administrator.

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)?

/TG/ about...a year ago, I think.

Are you familiar with the chat program Slack (its use is required)?

Yep!

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.

This is...complicated.

If he's firing AT people, that's obviously a break of Rule 6 unless he was actually provoked by someone. I suppose my response would go a bit like this:

a. PM him (maybe put him to sleep first?) and ask him why he's doing it. At the same time, I'd also be looking at the rest of the scene to try and figure out why he was doing it. Checking his notes would also help.

b. If he doesn't respond to my PM and/or keeps shooting people, I'm going to assume he's knowingly breaking Rule 6 and punish him accordingly. It'd probably be a six hours-long ban, due to the fact that he's knowingly harming other players for no reason.

But, see, then there's also the possibility that he's just shooting at a wall or something, not really causing any harm. Depending on what he's shooting at, how it affects the others around him, and the reason he gives for doing it, I'd handle it a bit like this:

a. Shoot him a message asking him why he's shooting at whatever it is he's shooting at. Check his notes while he prepares an answer.
a1. If it's a window, such as the one leading to the CO's briefing area, or anything else of similar severity, I'd have to keep that in mind when considering a consequence.

b. If his reasoning isn't particularly valid, assuming he gives any, I'd probably hand him a warning and a note for disturbing the end of the round and potentially breaking Rule 6 if his shots break something.
b1. If he refuses to answer, I'd probably give him a 3-hour ban since he's clearly not interested in following the rules or helping staff resolve the situation.

2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.

My response to this is pretty circumstantial. I'd first check to see what caused it. If it was caused by a Predator using his gauntlet bomb, I'd leave it be. However, if it was caused by something else, I'd repair it and administer a note/warning and MAYBE a temp ban, depending on the reasoning of the person who did it.

If it was an accident because they didn't know it led to space, I'd just repair it and give them a note and warning. If they have repeated notes/warnings on file about doing that, or it's a Xeno doing it over and over, I'd administer the appropriate temp-ban (probably 2 or 3 hours.)

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.

Well, as a moderator, I can't give nuke codes anyways. Only admins can, I believe. And that's with Head Staff permission.

On top of that, their reasoning is really bad. They outnumber the Xenos 5:1. I wouldn't give them the nuke codes with those kinds of odds.

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'd shoot the Marine a PM asking why he did what he did. If it was an accident, I'd give him a note (maybe a warning?) and tell him to be more careful. If the Marine gives really bad reasoning/obviously meant to do it, I'd give him a note, warning, and an hour/two-hour long temp ban.

In any event, I'd let the researcher know what happened and strongly advise he be careful with his impromptu ordinance. Winners don't blow up Logistics, after all.

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

I usually consider 'your mom' jokes to be pretty petty, so I'd just mute the ahelp. Nothing to get super worked up over, really.

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

I'd inform him that his name is currently breaking said rule and ask, politely of course, that he change it in the next round's lobby.

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.

Rules are rules. If he refuses to change it even after being told several times about the naming guidelines, I'd sadly have to give him a note and temp ban him for somewhere around two-three hours so he can adjust his behavior. (And his name.)

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.

Shoot the guy a message telling him about the rule for doctors regarding weapons. I'd then ask him to turn the weapon over to a Marine or the MPs before requesting he go back to doing his job.

If he refuses to cooperate, I would probably give him a temp job-ban for Doctor and a note informing others that he has had issues with the aforementioned rule.

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

I'd first check the FOB to confirm his claim. If he's telling the truth, I tell him to finish up as fast as he can and politely request that he refrains from performing surgery in the future if possible. If he does it again, a warning should suffice. A temp job-ban if he does it again again.

If he's lying, however, I'd give him the warning right away for both lying to staff and breaking the Medic rules. (I'd direct him to a link regarding said rules, of course.)

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?

With odds like that, I'd just wait for the bioscan. If, for some inane reason, Marines refuse to do anything and allow the round to continue to slooooowly die, there are a few options I'd consider:

a. Spawning in more larva/xenos so that the round can keep going.

b. Making a Command message telling them to get their asses in gear.

c. If there are any Predators, maybe help them get involved with the Marines a bit?

If all else fails, threatening them with something or other usually works. I hope.

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

He's breaking Rules 6 and 13, as well as the Lethal Force rule for Marines. That warrants, in my opinion, a four-to-five hour ban and a note warning about this behavior.

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

If it's obviously all in good fun and nobody seems particularly annoyed, I'd just let it be.

On the other hand, if he starts doing it in excessive amounts over and over again, and ahelps start coming in, I'd probably warn him to knock it off.

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

While my initial thought would be how shaky that reasoning is, I'd take a minute to investigate the situation further. As with many of my responses, I'd have to work this out in steps.

a. Check with the other Marine. How many times did he punch the killer? Was it an accident? If not, what was his reasoning?
a1. If it was only a single punch, not repeated strikes, I'd consider the killer's actions to be improper escalation.
a2. HOWEVER. If the punch was properly played out as being hostile with intent to hurt, instead of a single hit because of a wrong intention, I'd say that lethal force in self-defense would be overkill, but not entirely unjustified.

b. I'd then check the notes of both marines, as well as looking to see if the killer actually had been punched instead of just making it up.
b1. If both of them have histories of random punches/improper escalation, I'd probably laugh at the coincidence for a minute before preparing hour/two-hour long temp bans for both. Maybe a note on both their files saying that this had happened.
b2. If I found that the killer was lying, I'd respawn the accused and ban the killer for about 3 or 4 hours, along with a note.

c. Once I'd completed the above steps, I'd work out a punishment if I hadn't already delivered one or decided on notes and/or warnings.



Any additional information you'd like to add?

Sure! My profile page on nebulous.cloud: https://nebulous.cloud/members/oneclassybanana.539/

Also, deus vult.

[freemysoul]

Hmm, Fairly decent application, Afew mistakes in the Summary investigations, While I haven't seen you around much, this can be explained by the timezone difference.

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

This is a straight up 3 hour ban if it's team member on team member (Marine/Marine)

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

While I would tell them to seal them up straight away, Everyone to their own though.

As for all of these events however noting them doing this is ALWAYS advisable.

Positive from me.

[Carprillo]

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

This is a straight up 3 hour ban if it's team member on team member (Marine/Marine)

Ah, alright. I'll try to keep that in mind. I'm just used to delivering rather harsh verdicts for things like that.

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

While I would tell them to seal them up straight away, Everyone to their own though.

I mean, chances are I don't know the exact circumstances of the surgery. I don't want to interrupt it and fuck up the round for the person getting operated on.

Positive from me.

I can't tell if I should feel proud or terrified.

[Carprillo]

(Just in case anyone was confused, by "proud or terrified" I meant to imply that I was unsure if I should be proud that I managed to get a positive rating or if I should be terrified by the pressure of having that sort of expectation on me.)

[slc97]

The round for the person being operated on won't matter if the rules are being broken. You would have to have the medic stabilize them and get them to an actual doctor.
Besides that, I have nothing against you and you seem alright.
+1

[Carprillo]

The round for the person being operated on won't matter if the rules are being broken. You would have to have the medic stabilize them and get them to an actual doctor.

Fair enough. Thanks for the info.

[Feweh]

This is accepted, welcome to the team.

I'll be messaging you shortly with instructions.

[Carprillo]

Hey, that's pretty good!