Furrycactus Interview

Matt - Today at 11:35
alright
so
are you familiar with what your verbs are as a trial moderator?

Joshie - Today at 11:35
I'm not

Matt - Today at 11:36
very well, let me go over them real quick:
Admin PM: You can bwoink the guy.
Winding: Freeze someone in place by permanently sleeping them.
Defusing fuel tanks: Click on a fuel tank to defuse it.
View Variables: Lets you see that person's specific attack logs (attacks received and given) and other stuff.
You can place notes.
You can ban people, you cannot however permaban.
You can kick people.
You can view player panel.
You can place warnings.
You can check account age, you can check silicon laws, and some other stuff too.
For this interview however that will be all.
Tell me when you've read everything.
All good?

Joshie - Today at 11:42
Yeah, I've read it all

Matt - Today at 11:42
aye, so let's start with the first scenario, if you don't have any questions?(edited)

Joshie - Today at 11:43
Just one, what's the player panel?

Matt - Today at 11:44
It lets you see the ckeys/jobs(not job titles) of people playing, you can hover their name and go to their VV/personal player panel/teleport to them/SM them/wind them
Here is what a personal player panel looks like:
It's very very very handy
we can wait until this round's over if you like
seems to be pretty busy-- so it's all good

Joshie - Today at 11:50
Alright, thank you very much
I didn't expect it to pick up so suddenly, I apologise

Matt - Today at 11:50
:ok_hand:
No prob

Matt - Today at 12:44
we good?

Joshie - Today at 12:45
Yep

Matt - Today at 12:45
Alright
Here is the first scenario: A guy named "Ultra Instinct Goku", a green neon haired assistant spawns in via cryo and starts making his way to tool storage. What do you do?

Joshie - Today at 12:50
Well, first thing I'd do is focus on him to watch him, then give him a quick ahelp, just giving him a quick reminder that Aurora is a HRP server, and ask him to take a quick look over the rules

Matt - Today at 12:50
He completely ignores you and begins beating up a guy in the elevator with his bare fists.

Joshie - Today at 12:52
No IC interaction at all?

Matt - Today at 12:52
Nothing.
He just spots the dude and beats him up.

Joshie - Today at 12:54
Right. I'd wind him, again inform him that we're a HRP server, tell him to read and follow the rules if he intends to play, and give him a kick

Matt - Today at 12:54
You kick him?

Joshie - Today at 12:54
Wait. No, I'd give him a chance to respond.

Matt - Today at 12:55
Alright.
He tells you "I thought this was a battle royale server"

Joshie - Today at 12:56
I'd inform him that the server is HRP, and that the expectation is that players create a believable character and roleplay with them, as the focus is on story and roleplay and less on pure mechanics and fighting people, and I'd ask him again to read the rules.

Matt - Today at 12:56
He tells you "get fucked admin youre ruining my roleplay"

Joshie - Today at 12:59
I'd link the rules, remind him that just running up and attacking someone with no RP is immersion breaking, and politely request that he make a new character

Matt - Today at 13:00
He tells you "fuck you motherfucker"

Joshie - Today at 13:03
I would then kick him, after asking him to please take things a little more seriously

Matt - Today at 13:05
Alright. You kick him, he comes back and tells you "this server is dumb like your face"
Someone else, a moderator, comments in msay that he clearly has no intention of playing here.
fyi you can ask mods+ to perma on your behalf

Joshie - Today at 13:07
Oh, right
Well, if there were someone capable of doing such around at the time, I'd speak to them and perhaps suggest that. If no one like that were yet available, I'd add a note about their conduct, so others can see, if it doesn't happen before a temp ban ended, and temp ban him
I'd probably ask for opinions with any other moderators and such that are online first

Matt - Today at 13:10
The moderator online tells you he's blatantly griefing.

Joshie - Today at 13:11
Then yeah, temp ban if no one is available for me to request a perma ban from

Matt - Today at 13:11
alright, is that all?

Joshie - Today at 13:12
I'd let some other staff members know, and that would be all I think

Matt - Today at 13:12
aye
ready for the next one?

Joshie - Today at 13:12
Yep

Matt - Today at 13:14
It is a 25 pop round, you are the only server staff online with 15 people playing, it is voted mercenary. The mercs boarded via merchant dock and have entered cargo.

You notice the QM is singlehandedly fighting the mercs off using cargo-bought weapons. One merc is in crit, the other 3 are fighting. The critted merc ahelps complaining about the situation.
What do you do?

Joshie - Today at 13:15
How far into the round is it, and what kinds of weapons were bought

Matt - Today at 13:15
45 minutes, a bullpup rifle
the mercs JUST boarded for reference

Joshie - Today at 13:16
Ah, right
I'd give a moment to see how the situation unfolds. It could be possible that someone like the Captain or HoS ordered the firearm, and the QM just got un/lucky with the timing and had it on hand.
Once the action is over, then I'd start inquiring

Matt - Today at 13:23
One merc dies. One is still in crit, the other 2 are fighting.
You keep on observing, eventually the mercs all die to the QM.
The once-was-critted merc ahelps again about the situation.

Joshie - Today at 13:26
Hold on, for reference, how advanced of a gun is a bullpup rifle? I don't know my guns very well

Matt - Today at 13:27
it's the assault rifle the ERT gets

Joshie - Today at 13:27
Oh.

Matt - Today at 13:27
5.56mm caliber
its basically an assault rifle. IRL comparison would be an AR-15

Joshie - Today at 13:27
Oh, shit
Okay, in that case, could we rewind a little bit. If I saw a QM fighting mercs with that, then I'd be stepping into LOOC near them for a moment and asking them to please put the fight on pause for a moment
Also is there a way to stop the critted merc from dropping dead while discussing things in ooc?

Matt - Today at 13:29
the mercs LOOC "it's too late man, we cant stop now"
you COULD rejuv them but we have a policy to not touch active firefights and let them unwind as is unless its blatant griefing
but remember
you cant rejuv as a moderator... and you're alone

Joshie - Today at 13:30
Right, right.
In that case, if the policy is to not touch firefights, I'd then wait for it to unwind. At which point I assume the QM beats them still?

Matt - Today at 13:32
Yes.
The QM manages to kill all 4 mercs.

Joshie - Today at 13:34
I'd ask the QM why the gun was ordered in the first place, and how his character was able to use such an advanced thing anyway against four mercs

Matt - Today at 13:34
He says "It's voted merc, I knew mercs were arriving because of that. Moreover they tried taking over cargo and I had to fight or I'd have been shot"
He also mentions "My character's hobby is firearms, he goes to the range a lot." You notice it checks out in skills and records.

Joshie - Today at 13:35
Is such a rifle something you'd expect to even see at a typical firing range?

Matt - Today at 13:36
Reasonably, yes.
You could argue it works similiarly to other assault rifles, which is very true.

Joshie - Today at 13:36
Right. I know nearly nothing about guns, I apologise
But anyway
I would tell him that preemptively ordering a rifle because he's aware of the round type is very much metagaming and unacceptable. If the character's skills and records check out then that aspect is okay, but metagaming isn't okay. I'd also tell him that a single person deciding to play hero and open fire on four heavily armed people itself is quite an unrealistic thing.

Matt - Today at 13:41
Alright, good. Is that all?

Joshie - Today at 13:41
Would he have any response?

Matt - Today at 13:41
He says he understands.
What punishment would you apply?
His notes give you 2 notes about metagaming, 1 about powergaming and a warning about metagaming and powergaming from 1 month ago.

Joshie - Today at 13:46
I would thank him for saying he understands, but bring up that he's already been warned about this kind of thing before, so it doesn't exactly seem like an accident

Matt - Today at 13:46
He just says "ok" in response. No punishment?

Joshie - Today at 13:49
I'd probably put another warning on him, telling him that the behavior is unacceptable, and given that this kind of thing seems to have already happened several times before, give him a short temp ban
Given that he's effectively ganked and ruined the round for the mercs

Matt - Today at 13:50
we dont double down on punishments. its either tempban or warning
which one?
both show in notes anyways

Joshie - Today at 13:51
Oh, if they both do, just a warning then. A strong one, of course.

Matt - Today at 13:51
aye, is that all?

Joshie - Today at 13:52
I'd keep a bit of a closer eye on him throughout the round, and fill in any other staff if they happen to come on during the round, too

Matt - Today at 13:52
alright
final scenario! are you ready?

Joshie - Today at 13:53
sweat sure, hit me

Matt - Today at 13:54
Alright.
You are not alone for this one-- there is a moderator and sec. admin.
You're observing around when suddenly you see two security officers shooting eachother with energy carbines on lethal filling up your logs. You're told to investigate it.
What do you do?

Joshie - Today at 13:56
I'd go over to check out what's going on, but I'm not going to step in until the fight is over and I see what's going on. There could be a genuine IC reasoning behind it, and I don't know yet

Matt - Today at 13:56
Aye.
One of the officers has critted the other, they're RPing holding them up by the collar of their uniform and slamming them into a nearby window.
Some observer ahelps about what's happening.

Joshie - Today at 13:59
I'd tell the observer that I'm still waiting to see, as so far it looks like there's some RP happening. Is the one in crit still fighting back, or are they in unconscious crit?

Matt - Today at 13:59
They're in paincrit now, yelling stuff like "please don't kill me!", generally pain RPing really well.

Matt - Today at 14:00
They're not really resisting either, but they're emoting stuff like tugging at their own collar and the like.

Joshie - Today at 14:00
So far it looks like acceptable RP, I'd continue watching to see what's going on

Matt - Today at 14:01
The other officer is eventually thrown aside, stomped on and killed.
The person that killed this officer is then arrested by security without putting up much of a fight.
They're currently RPing being in tears about killing the other guy and etc.

Joshie - Today at 14:03
It seems like it's been decent RP so far. I'd just quickly ask the one who was killed about the situation, perhaps in LOOC or deadchat instead, as it doesn't seem like it's so major to make an ahelp about it
Or maybe just looc, assuming it's only the officer and victim nearby

Matt - Today at 14:04
Keep in mind this situation was ahelped by an observer.

Joshie - Today at 14:04
Oh, almost forgot about that
Was the observer already on the scene, or did they show up later?

Matt - Today at 14:05
They're an observer in dsay.
you can see they're the first to call out the scene on deadchat, so you assume they saw it all

Joshie - Today at 14:05
Right. I'd ask them in their ticket about the situation and how they saw it going down

Matt - Today at 14:07
This is what they say:
"So I'm hanging around and I see this officer shooting the other one, right. I keep looking and suddenly this other officer is straight up being killed which makes no sense? He then proceeds to stomp his face into the ground straight up killing him. I find it unreasonable for 2 sec officers to try to kill eachother."

Joshie - Today at 14:08
I'd ask if he saw anything earlier of the situation, or just when they started opening fire

Matt - Today at 14:08
He says:

"No, I only saw when they opened fire."

Joshie - Today at 14:09
Alright. I ask him for a moment, and I'd ask the officer who killed the other as to what the situation was about and for a little insight
Matt - Today at 14:12
This is what the officer says:

"I got killed by a traitor, right. I get cloned after the traitor's dead and suddenly I forget half my life. Obviously I'm pretty mad about this, RPIng having a mental crisis. This other officer who I've had a lot of quarrels with in the past is actively making fun of my character's situation. I tell them to stop and stop, they don't. So I punch them in the face. We get into a little brawl, he gets pissed, he whips out an ecarbine and says he'll shoot me if I continue punching him. Being in such a terrible mental state, I grab an ecarbine that was in my satchel and get the drop on him, shooting him with lethals. This becomes an active firefight and I have the best on him, he starts begging for his life while I have him in a neck grab so I make fun of him like he did to me. I throw him aside and stomp on his face really hard until he dies. Obviously my character wasn't in a lucid state of mind at all as he JUST got out of cloning and was being shat on. This other guy RP'd it really well though."

Joshie - Today at 14:14
I'd thank him for explaining, and quickly check with the officer who did get murdered to get some verification on the matter

Matt - Today at 14:15
He says it's true and he adds that it was RP'd wonderfully, and that they would keep this canon.

Joshie - Today at 14:16
Meaning they'd be going with their canon character death, unless they also end up being cloned too?

Matt - Today at 14:16
Yes.

Joshie - Today at 14:19
Right. I thank him for the input and close the tickets with the officers. I quickly tell the other staff on that the situation was okay, and had good rp. Then I'd respond to the observer, telling them that the two officers both had valid IC interaction with the situation, and are both more than fine with what happened.

Matt - Today at 14:19
alright
that's all?

Joshie - Today at 14:20
Unless the observer says anything else, yes

Matt - Today at 14:20
alright
this concludes the interview
are you cool with the logs being put on your application?

Joshie - Today at 14:20
Sure thing, no worries

Matt - Today at 14:20
:ok_hand: