Garnascus - Today at 3:32 AM
so im going to throw a bunch of situations at you and you just explain to me how you would handle them from a moderator perspective. Walk me through your thought process and what not. that sound good?
Noggles - Today at 3:32 AM
Absolutely. I do wanna confirm a few things first, before we begin, if that's fine?
Garnascus - Today at 3:32 AM
yeh
Noggles - Today at 3:33 AM
I have experience when it comes to managing all sorts of situations, but I'm not actually sure the extent of powers moderators have on servers. The server I came from we didn't really have them.
So I'm guessing they have a Bwoink. But what other powers would they have?
Garnascus - Today at 3:34 AM
you can also paralyze players with the wind command
Noggles - Today at 3:34 AM
I'm not shy to say I don't have much experience in the field. Of straight moderation, anyways.(edited)
Garnascus - Today at 3:34 AM
thats fine, its easy to learn how stuff works. whats more important is your judgement
Noggles - Today at 3:34 AM
Alrighty.
Throw'm at me, Boss.
Garnascus - Today at 3:34 AM
oki doki situation 1
a character named "Obama" joins, 30 year old bald assistant. Database says their account is 1 day old. what do you do?
Noggles - Today at 3:36 AM
Bwoink'm, explain to them that it's not an acceptable name for the server and ask them if there's anything else they'd prefer it changed to. (Presuming an admin is around to change the variable), and check for their response.
Usually watch'm after that to see if they're up to any fuckery before acting on any sort of direct punishment.
Garnascus - Today at 3:37 AM
alrighty, onto the next one.
you recieve an ahelp from a regular on the server claiming that they have been thrown into solitary for no reason. He gives you the name of the warden that put him there.
Noggles - Today at 3:38 AM
No other information than that?
Garnascus - Today at 3:38 AM
nope
Noggles - Today at 3:41 AM
I might bwoink the warden to try to investigate further, while keeping in contact with the first person who ahelped to get a full understanding of the situation that happened. See exactly the context of what's going on and if it really was for no reason. However, especially if there is a capable security crew that might act on this and actually do something about it, I might give it just a few minutes to see if this semi IC-Issue sorts itself. If the Warden genuinely didn't know he couldn't put people into solitary for no reason, then politely explain it and try to correct him on it.
Mostly just get an idea of the situation first to see if it's IC or the Warden being ignorant.
Usually, if something is wrong though in security, there's a lot of good players that tend to correct it before I was done investigating.
Atleast in personal experience.
Garnascus - Today at 3:43 AM
when you say "correct him on it" what do you mean? if you find out that the person has been locked into solitary for a bad reason what happens to them?
Noggles - Today at 3:44 AM
Well, this is under the pretense that they didn't know they couldn't.
If they're trying to roleplay correctly, I might try to tell him that the way things are done follows a procedure something like -blank-, and maybe throw a link to the Aurora Regulations.
Garnascus - Today at 3:46 AM
ahh ok
Noggles - Today at 3:46 AM
Yeah. Just like-...
Talk to him politely and explain.
Garnascus - Today at 3:46 AM
fair enough
Noggles - Today at 3:47 AM
90% of the time if you're polite, people are liable to listen and understand.
Garnascus - Today at 3:47 AM
true enough
onto the next one then
You are in the lobby, only staff online, suddenly you see two people, an engineer and a scientist shooting each other with lethal weapons. They engineer dies and the scientist dies shortly after because of the wounds. You see that neither of them are antagonists. how do you respond?
Noggles - Today at 3:48 AM
No RP reason behind it from what I've seen?
Garnascus - Today at 3:49 AM
you werent paying attention, you jumped over because of the logs.
Noggles - Today at 3:51 AM
Assuming I don't have logs to pull through to look at it (Even then, probably) since they're dead I've got good time to talk to them. I'd try to prevent cloning or whatever else while I figure it out as well. Discern the reason, and if it's not something RP and it's a case of actually assault or ganking I might try to figure out who is directly responsible and try to pull over someone who can do something actively about it.
An admin.
Especially if the situation is a bald 30yr old scientist who has made the biggest laser rifle and the first person he saw was the engineer and started firing.
There's a lot of ways the situation could go, so there's also a lot of ways to deal with it.
Either or party might be at fault, or both.
Garnascus - Today at 3:54 AM
alright, lets say you spend some time conversing with the two players. you find out that each have had a long standing grudge IC between them. Far beyond a simple workplace feud, it evolved from simple disputes over work to fist fights and arguments over religion and other hot topics. After a particularly controversial round in which one of them had to choose who to save when a meteor broke a window they both agreed to settle it with a duel to the death.
Noggles - Today at 3:55 AM
Well. For starters. That's pretty metal.
I don't, however, see it as something that is either a rulebreaker or any sort of gank. Both parties agreed. They did their part. They contributed to eachother's roleplay with eachother's actions.
No salty party should be walking away from this unless it's it turns into an OOC grudge, and then it just needs to be shut down.
Garnascus - Today at 3:58 AM
alrighty then, onto the next question.
You dibs an ahelp from a player claiming that the quartermaster is powergaming. you jump over to the QM and find that he has chased after a nuke ops team into maint armed with heavy weaponry and armory he has ordered from cargo. He is winning the fight. what do you do?
Noggles - Today at 4:00 AM
Hrm. That's a little bit of a rough one.
Is it alright if I answer a bit from server experience here in the time that I've been here?
Garnascus - Today at 4:01 AM
you can answer however you want
Noggles - Today at 4:03 AM
The most common thing I see when dealing with powergaming around here is the letting it play out as not to disrupt the RP too much incase of developments and then giving speakings to after. Usually, with disappointment and lack of fun on both ends as a result.
I don't think it's right to wind the guy while he's in the middle of a firefight, but at the same time know that it's probably not okay. However, it's not one of those things that I see addressed that often.
I'm having a bit of a rough time explaining exactly what I would do, though.(edited)
Garnascus - Today at 4:06 AM
this question is meant to be tricky
Noggles - Today at 4:06 AM
Hrm. I need a second to sort've formulate this in my head.
Garnascus - Today at 4:06 AM
no problem, take your time.
Noggles - Today at 4:08 AM
Alright. I think I've got this in my head, and chances are I'm handling it a bit silly. So here goes. Again, I unfortunately have to speak strictly as an admin here since it's the only thing I'm used to.
The first thing I have to figure out is if this is powergaming or reactionary measure.
There's a difference between the guy stocking up on guns "Just in case" or "I saw a red suit" rather than all of security being dead and half the station being vented.
In times like that it's not unreasonable to see every other person with a fire-axe. Is that great roleplay? No. But you can blame people?
If it's the former, I'm usually a bit silly with it. I usually do that thing where people hear stuff in there mind like "Why do I have all these guns? Maybe I'm being just a bit too paranoid." but that's too late.
In this situation, is half the station dead?
Have the syndi been merking it up and killing folks left and right?
Garnascus - Today at 4:12 AM
probably not more than usual. lets say they where just pulling off a heist.
Noggles - Today at 4:13 AM
No request for the QM to order the weapons, or situationalism behind it?
He just ordered weapons and then started hunting.
"If it's red, I'll see it dead."
I probably wouldn't have the chance to do this In-Server, I know.
Just kind've trying to poke the waters where I can, since I'd usually be watching this kind of stuff.
Garnascus - Today at 4:15 AM
in this situation he appears to have ordered weapons and armor and then ran after them when they passed by cargo
Noggles - Today at 4:16 AM
Yeah, this is power-gaming. He's putting beating the Operatives and winning the round over RP.
It's a rough call, and I'm not really sure who would do this, but he's breaking the rules and could purposely fuck up the round. So I guess-...I'd have to wind him? Eugh.
I wanna say that, but it's such a hard callll.
People get pissy, and it just doesn't feel right.
But rules are being broken.
Garnascus - Today at 4:18 AM
are those all of your thoughts on this situation?
Noggles - Today at 4:19 AM
Yeah, I guess I'd wind him. The alternatives are letting him run wild and killing all the traitors, leading to one of those "God damn it the Qm was being shit" OOC endings where everyone ends up mad.
I hate to ask, but how would you handle it?
Garnascus - Today at 4:19 AM
for the moment i am afraid i cant say
Noggles - Today at 4:20 AM
Yeah, I understand.
I'll ask after.
It might just not be a good enough idea of my role though.
I'm not sure if stepping in on that would be over-stepping my bounds.
Garnascus - Today at 4:21 AM
If those are all of your thoughts on that we have two final questions.
but they are not ones like this
Noggles - Today at 4:22 AM
Of course.
Garnascus - Today at 4:23 AM
the first one is  i noticed in your application you play sporadically? do you feel you might go weeks without logging onto the server?
Noggles - Today at 4:23 AM
I do have a history of playing in burst, but they're mostly long burst for months at a time.
The current dates written on my application are like that since I've only begun replaying the server since about-...
A week ago.
And I've had a few days skipped while playing. I'm playing more frequently now and would be able to be more effective I think.
It might not be an every day of the week thing, but I may have days between time.
Sorry. Last question scrambled my brain so much I can't not answer in paragraphs.
The answer is no, I don't feel that way.
Garnascus - Today at 4:26 AM
excellent
the last question is are you willing to use discord? Trial mods do not yet get access to the staff discord but if you pass it you will. we use it for discussing server issues and keeping everyone up to date on all the crazy stuff that goes on in running a server. its super critical you be active on it and at least availible. will that be a problem?
Noggles - Today at 4:28 AM
Yeah, I am. The only reason I don't use it is because I'm not very familiar with it.
Give me some time and I'll be fine.
Garnascus - Today at 4:30 AM
excellent. that about wraps everything up. i will get these posted in staff discord and on your thread for others to weigh in on. you can expect an answer fairly quickly. Do you have any closing comments?(edited)
Noggles - Today at 4:31 AM
Nah, I think I'm good.
Garnascus - Today at 4:31 AM
alrighty, until then.