Ban Appeal

[squirll1227]

BYOND Name:
Squirll1227

Reason Banned:  
The reason is: Killed friendly as Deathsquad. Appeal or don't.

Admin who banned:
ragolution

Length Banned:
Until Lifted

Appeal Reason:


Greetings. 

First of all let me take responsibility for my actions, I did shoot a friendly and initate a firefight in the starting room of the Deathsquad Spawn. I hope to explain here though that this was the result of a misunderstanding, a bit of nievity at being a new player,  and a little too much alcohol.

Let me just say that I really enjoy the Citadel server and have a lot of respect for its rules. I like the lack of trolls and the amount of RP and would never seek to try and grief or mess up another persons round. 

However I have come to accept a "cultural aspect" of the server if you will. When the round ends and the green/red texts post there's about a 2-3 minute window in between the end and the server shutting down to restart. During this time anarchy breaks loose, security usually starts stunning everyone, people throw bombs, sometimes even  space bears and bubblegum are summoned and start killing people. I thought it was annoying at first but began to roll with the punches and embrace it as "end of the round shenanigans" or the "Endgame gauntlet" as I called it. I began to actually enjoy it, a little bit of good natured chaos gives me a chance to practice fighting, play with the controls, and just go a little crazy at the end of the match. It's all in good fun and I don't think I've seen anybody take it personally, after all there's mere seconds before everything gets reset and nothing matters anymore right?

Cut to the night that I killed a team mate. I had had a REALLY good match as a xeno, Being the second one spawned I built a nest and worked to really enable my team... had me on a bit of a social high, plus I had been drinking, and Xenos got the queen aboard the escape shuttle. As I was ghosting I received a offer to play as a deathsquad member, which seemed exciting so I took it. But the round ended as I did.

If there's some kind of extension to the round that exists with the Death Squad, or some higher expectation of professionalism up until the moment the server closes I was not aware. In the moment I was expecting the round to end in about 60 seconds, I assumed the formation of the deathsquad was just a formality the server had spawned randomly.  I shot a few shots at a team mate to start a duel, not to try and betray them but just because I was trying to start some "end of the round shenanigans". After all we were all equally equipped and the match was ending. I ran around and tried to avoid being shot, thinking I was sparring with them. They put up a good fight and I did kill someone before I was killed.

Apparently I offended somebody or broke the rules because I Was job banned as a result of this. I am deeply sorry, I did my actions in good faith attempting to play with my team mates in a manner that I thought was a common tradition on the server for the end of the round.

Obviously don't kill your team mates is a pretty obvious rule, but as I said, I thought there was a suspension of this rule in the short window at the end of the round. I was not attempting to ruin anybodys game or break the rules of the round. I'm still new to ss13 and to the server and really am just trying REALLY hard to fit in.

My appeal is to request that, since this is my only offense and I'm still new to the server and game, that the job ban either be reduced to a warning or a temporary. As well as having some clarification onto what is and isn't appropriate during the end of the round chaos.

Again, apologies for any trouble I've caused with this misunderstanding.

[Raeschen]

did you do this action before or after the "The round has ended" message?

[squirll1227]

did you do this action before or after the "The round has ended" message?

After the round had ended message. The window had popped up showing who the cyborgs were, who the antags were etc. and I had minimized it.

[Ragolution]

The entire Deathsquad spawned after the message and the roundend report had been present.

Deathsquad members should focus on their objective, regardless of round status, before turning on one another.

If you had completed your objective BEFOREHAND I wouldn't have given so much as of an iota of a shit.

[Raeschen]

Then yeah i think you should be unbanned. EORG is EORG for everyone....

[deathride58]

Yeah, the post-round-end report period has always been a definite period of no rules, a 1 minute period where players can smash shit, grief, and generally cause chaos without getting banned. It's one of the many traditions of SS13.

The *only* time anyone should *ever* be banned or noted during EORG is if they attempt to crash the server.

+support for unbanning and removing the notes, since all of the actions took place *after* the round-end report appeared.

[Raeschen]

Bumping this for the new HAs, it needs to be unbanned imo

[Kenzie]

if it was round end this ban is not really valid imo, but it's already been lifted