Citadel Community

BYOND Name: PostmanPet

Reason Banned: Suicided at the roundend with 3 minutes before serb restart

Admin who banned: Crashinator08

Length Banned: don't really know met with PK first time

Appeal Reason:
Since I'm pretty new with the RP serb I didn't know that some rules can't be slipped with just a few seconds before the restart and that my test for the medical system and code of the projectile weapons couldn't be allowed. I accept that I did pretty bad, but still, killing the whole char is pretty too hard, I believe.

Few things I'd like to clarify. You suicided with a few minutes before restart, yes the round had ended, but "Just a few seconds before" is completely wrong. The other thing is, one of the rules, which is listed on the main server rules and not just the RP rules is

Do not intentionally commit suicide to avoid IC punishment or for cringey "an hero" moments (e.g., killing yourself in the permabrig/offing yourself after making a long, drawn-out play about how you're gonna off yourself because you're sad). Doing so will result in either a server ban or identity ban.

We're harder on suicide on the RP server because as I said, it's pretty LRP, and in fact, even main is moving to punish this more. As a result, I do not support this unban at this time.

I want to note, through, that my suicide was not because of the cringy hero moment of to avoid a punishment. It was made for me to test some in-game aspects, as the codebase of Bay/vorecode is not familiar to me.

And yet the rule stands. If you suicide on RP, you get PK'd. An announcement about this was made a few months ago, and nobody gets special treatment without good reason.

For reference, this was the announcement.


Now, I wont leave it to just my decision. I'll ping RP staff with this one, and let me put in their two cent. If it's a majority in favor of lifting the PK, I'll lift it, with the standard "Dont do it again because next time it wont be lifted"

I believe intent behind the actions plays the key role here.
It was a little dumb and LRP, but I don't think it's should be slapped that hard.
The announcement specifically states "this is if you decide to use suicide as a RP mechanic intentionally".
There was no RP intent behind it, as the player has stated.
I'm in favour of un PK-ing.

I'm of the opinion that this character very much should be PK'd on RP. You know the RP server is HRP, you've played on the RP server in the past, you've seen the announcements, you know we don't tolerate LRP behavior. I don't believe ignorance is a justifiable excuse in the slightest. I do not support this unPK.

Honestly you do know better , lets see you play without incident and id think about a appeal after that

Given 24 hours have passed and the majority of admins that actually bothered to post are in favor of the PK, I'm tempted to toss this in denied and call it a day. But I'm willing to give you one more shot as long as you don't do this again. Remember, it's a roleplay server, so don't kill yourself again to "test something", because next time I won't lift it. Only reason I'm lifting it this time is because there's nothing actually listed in the rules other than a poorly worded rule that only applies for the main server.