liltiptop
Player name you use the most:
Nick 'Chief' Weller
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:
- Example: http://www.colonial-marines.com/viewtop ... 67&t=10027 | Griefing; 3-day ban
- Exact formatting is helpful but not required.
- viewtopic.php?f=87&t=11274 | ERT permaban, lifted.
- viewtopic.php?f=87&t=15980 | Doctor permaban, lifted.
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?
I do. Commander is a heavy RP role that requires a complete understanding of server rules, and roleplay guidelines. I understand completely that if i'm constantly messing up as a commander, I shouldn't be a commander.
Do you understand how the Battlefield Execution functions?
Yes. Battlefield Executions are a serious matter to perform as a commander, it allows for you to execute any staff (except for the CMP) if you feel they are a threat to the operation, and you are required to state a reason to as why. As a commander, your marines and crew are your ASSETS, so removing one of them isn't something you should do if some PFC throws a tray at your head. If I were to see a marine constantly doing things like assaulting vital crew, for instance doctors, or sabotaging telecommunications. This is a final method of securing the safety of the Almayer, and the operation as a whole. It should only be done if you feel that there's no possible other way to get the target to change their malicious ways.
Do you understand you are not above Marine law, or allowed to enforce it yourself?
Yes, no one is above the law. If you commit a crime, you'll be sent to the brig, same as anyone else. There's a CMP and MPs for a reason, if you're running around chasing criminals, you're not being a leader. That doesn't mean you can't check in on the CMP and their MPs to get a status report, it basically means that you need to let the CMP and their MPs do their jobs, just as you need to do yours.
What do you think is the job of a Commander?
A commander's job has multiple parts, in my opinion. The most obvious answer is just "to command", but what does that really mean? Commanding is defined as simply "having a position of authority", and in CM, that doesn't really mean much, some squad marine can just deny a squad leader's orders, and run off to the corner of the AO. As a commander, you need to do much more than just tell which squads are going where, you need to be someone to rely on.
That can be from helping hand out attatchments in requsitions, to listening in on squad comms and relaying information to the entire ground forces. It can mean that you're someone to blame if something goes wrong, it can also mean that you're the guy who gets all the credit when something goes right. If the entire ship is falling around you, then as the commander, you need to be the one to rely on for guidance even when there's almost not a chance in hell you'll make it out. You need to be there for your assets, your marines, and help them along to the path of victory. So the job of a commander, I think, is to be the one guy who can people can look up and rely on, even in the darkest hours.
If a member of your staff is disobeying orders, how would you handle it?
The first thing i'd have to know is the context of the situation. If this was just a miscommunication, then just let the staff member know what I ordered to do. If they knew my orders but refused to carry them out, i'd like to ask them why they chose to deny my orders. If they chose not to perform my orders for a reason that I can understand, like a requisitions officer not sending ammo to a squad because they just sent a crate over with ammo for another squad that's near them, and they have enough ammo packed for the both of them, I can understand that. If, however they didn't perform my orders just out of spite for me, or incompetence, I would first give them a warning to get it done, or i'll have them arrested for insubordination, if they still don't do it, i'll have them arrested. If they still kept up that act of refusing my orders, they'd keep going into the brig, simple as that.
Why should you be whitelisted?
I've played XO for a while now, and i'm ready to step up to the next rank. I want to be more involved with RP on the ship as the head honcho, most importantly my staff officers and XO. I want to have their ideas of how to perform the operation integrated with others, to form a new plan of attack that could end up being extremely successful. I'm open to new ideas, and critique on how I lead, and I use those ideas and critiques to better lead the forces of the USS Almayer.
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