Oliver's re-application for potentially head mod or whatever.

[Oliver]

Byond ID: OliverCarswell

Age: 20 as of today.

Gender: Male.

Timezone: Gmt +1

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? This depends on my schedule. Definitely 5 hours per day minimum.

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

I do. A small server myself, and moderator for UT since a few months.

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?

I have. Although I'm not exactly sure on the version currently.

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? Resigning later today from UT.

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

If a player was shooting everyone in briefing at round start how would you deal with the situation?

Freeze, rejuvenate the affected so round continuation is not affected and speak to the griefer. Depending on their response, I will take further action. This can be anywhere from a warning to a ban.

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?

First offenders have no clue most of the time. I would immediately engage them in conversation however, and refer them to the rules. A simple warning for a first timer, with mention of it being a first timer so the next offense may be seen in a better daylight.

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?

I resolve things through an IC way. Send or have someone send a fax or CC announcement that their reqeust had been denied for too many friendly lifesigns are still moving about. I feel this is a much more preferred alternative to the known admin intervention. Breaks less immersion.

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?

Same like the shooter, I'd freeze the marine and rejuv the others first. If the medic poses a danger as well, same goes for them and both engage them in conversation to find out their reasoning. Depending on the response the medic has metagamed, and the soldier griefed. Depending on their situation and how aware they are of it, they may be subject to a ban.

What would you do if a player started to talk about the things he did to your mom last night?

As I know most people do this out of frustration and engaging them will only bring a smile to their lips in the wrong way. A simple OOC or LOOC mute is sufficient. If he decides to take it IC, then most likely a ban would follow.

Any additional information you'd like to add?

While I understand some of the people here do not hold me in high regard, after leaving for UT, I want to say it was a big mistake to do that, and I've known it for a while now. I'd like to rejoin here, to help out, and being somewhere I can enjoy myself still.

This doesn't come close near to an appropriate apology. But I hope my application and perfornance will speak for itself.

[speedybst]

Hmm, I do recall Carswell from his time as headmod and moderator. Seemed very reasonable then, and seemed reasonable the times I dealt with him on UT. Some of these responses use a couple of UT things, like the faxes and Freezing, which we don't have (you'd have to talk to the devs about alpha to learn if they'd be in that). I'll personally give it a +1, old blood is always welcome, provided they left under acceptable circumstances (q.v. Doctor Clockwork).

[Oliver]

Thanks for those kind words! I hope I can be considered.

[SASoperative]

Well, I am currently our only head of staff and while I need a Head moderator I believe I was a.... I want to say a trial mod back when you left. So I don't think I really know who you are mate. If you want add me to skype I will send you a PM for it momentarily.

[Oliver]

Thanks. I will definitely do such.

[Darknova]

Well the way I see it is from this perspective. From what I can recall, you have been gone for quite sometime(give or take six months if I'm not mistaken) a lot has changed since then. The first being the server is now it's own self sustaining server and not being helped by a surrogate server. There has been a lot of changes to the staff(particularly the heads of staff) and each person who is now in said position has their own agenda. The chance of you getting your old head position is slim with these changes. On top of that it would not be fair to the other mods who have been here before you to have to be denied a chance at the head position.

[Oliver]

While I certainly do understand your points, I am leaving the decision of my rank up to SAS and Apophis. So we'll see what they say later on.

[UnknownMurder]

-1
No. I feel like you're hopping around the servers like Clockwork, and I do know that you tried to mess with the developers, limiting their moderator rights when you were a Head Mod. Then, you knew you were getting fired by me; you declared to everyone you resigned. Let me put this short, you really angered many moderators and admins with your best to limit people's power. You were about to be overthrown, and I did my best to calm people down while working with Apophis (and probably Rah?).

[Oliver]

UM, I will not engage in this discussion on the forum. You may approach me privately.

[Lostmixup]

I personally don't know you, and I'm pretty sure it's like that for a lot of people. I'm relatively new to the server like a lot of people (I think I've been here for a few weeks now), but at least making yourself known on the forums to the newer players like myself would be nice before you become a mod again.

[Oliver]

While I certainly understand where you're coming from, I am known with Apop, SAS (A little), and Speedy. Those are the remainders of the old team. I hope to play a few rounds in-game here and there. My forum activity on SS13 isn't ever good, unless I have a duty on the forum. Not much of a pack animal.

[UnknownMurder]

UM, I will not engage in this discussion on the forum. You may approach me privately.

Done. I would want this man/woman to start as Trial Mod as everyone were, it's unfair.

Allan was one of the old team too and so was I.
Still -1.

[Mordrehel]

OliverCarswell..... -1 I think it'd be against everyone's best interest to let this person be staff. I'd rather not explain in public as there is simply too much to cover and I'd rather not have to deal with the conversations with Carswell that would ensue from that.

[TopHatPenguin]

Oliver in general you are a nice person from what i saw and that's fine and all but i mean one of the things that stuck out to me was that i believe you resigned once but then was reinstated and then you resigned again... so.. to be honest i'm not really sure where you stand on the whole dedication to the server and such... so....if you are going to be staying here.. and everyone agrees then sure why not, everyone deserves another chance but as long as you don't decide to resign again.

Overall i'm not really sure where i stand on this but.. eh.. i'll stay out of it, i'm just gonna give my view on it.

[Oliver]

I only resigned once here - and that was after my Head Mod promotion, 4 days to be exact. After that, I strayed away for a good amount of time.

[TopHatPenguin]

I only resigned once here - and that was after my Head Mod promotion, 4 days to be exact. After that, I strayed away for a good amount of time.

What was the incident before your promotion though.. i distinctively remember something happening?

[apophis775]

Well, there needs to be more discussion about if you'll be accepted for staff, but I can guarantee you won't be head staff, not after you resigned 4 days after we promoted you to go take a lower ranking position on another server...

[Oliver]

If you feel that is just, by all means. I'll await the reply.

[Juninho77]

I searched for you in the logs and came up with no results. Have you been playing recently?

[Oliver]

Not recently no. I reckon with the major switch logs were removed, though I've no clue.

I was planning on getting back into it today, but I've taken ill..

[SecretStamos (Joshuu)]

Oliver, I think you made a good mod when you played.

+1 from me, although I believe you should start out as a trial mod like Felkvir did when he rejoined.

[DesFrSpace]

I do support to give him a chance, though I"m not part of any staffs(for any reason).
Here is my pieces : I know how it's like moving places, but Oliver should seriously take breaks, earn the respect of the CM's wide.
I remember how CM was SIX months ago, and I don't want to be on a server like that.(It was H3ll).
PS Know what you're getting yourself into, it's more of a "Obligation" to serve, that benefits the server when starting as a Trial Mod.
Remember: This is NOT UT, Try to be more like B3stRP! T.T RIP ancient server *going to private corner.

[apophis775]

You know... BEstRP went down, because the staff was using the donations money for their own gains, and purlek was a giant dick...

[Juninho77]

I am sorry. You haven't played in the past two months. I would say you should play for a while take some time to see what Colonial Marines is like today, while letting Colonial Marines see what you are like.

-1.

[DesFrSpace]

:P No worries, that server was fun. But I moved on, and this server will be where I"m going to play SS13 most of the time.