sure.
Alright, this interview is going to be in two different parts. The first being a part about handling diffrent scenario's and the second being ooc questions. The ability's you have to use during the situations are as follows
1. Access to ingame logs. This includes ALL attack logs. ALL local and antagonist ooc, including deadchat and admin pm’s. You can also send your own admin pms (bwoink)
2. The ability to wind players (admin freeze them).
3. The ability to boot players of a lower rank (regular players basically).
4. The ability to temporarily ban and temporarily job ban players. Self explanatory.
5. The ability to apply NOTES to a players’ ckey. This is a system staff use to keep tabs on players behavior and administrative action taken. It’s good practice to note what you’ve talked to a player about. You don’t need to note EVERYTHING. If they didn’t do anything wrong, a note isn’t required.
6. The ability to warn players. This is like a note, but visible to the players and requires them to acknowledge the warning.
7. The ability to admin-ghost (like observing, but you can re-enter your body)
8. Lastly, the ability to use modchat, where you can speak with other moderators and admins about stuff.
Tell me when you are ready to begin
RocketCowLast Friday at 11:41 AM
Alright. I'm ready.
Eh
one thing, my PC is sliiiighty unstable at the moment
so if at any point I just go offline
I didn't panic-bail
My PC just ate shit
Okay, I'm ready.
DragoLast Friday at 11:42 AM
You are on the server and you see a arrivals notice, it seems we have some new atmos tech's here today! Omar La-odin, Tamahr La-Odin and Demitrious La-Odin all join. As they arrive, they seem harmless and just seem to be doddling around, there characters howebver all have the same  hairstyle and theuy seem to be able to telepathicly communicate as they arent talking to each other but are able to communicate. What do you do in this situation?
RocketCowLast Friday at 11:44 AM
Well, the obvious suspicion is meta comms. I would probably ask via mod-chat if these guys are known of and inform them that they are under suspicion of meta-communication, which is against the rules. Everything after that would depend on the reaction from either mod-chat or them, I'd say.
DragoLast Friday at 11:44 AM
You are the only mod on the server
RocketCowLast Friday at 11:45 AM
Alright, in this case I would, as said, send each of them the message same as above. If they're being harmful I would wind them.
I'd observe them and wait for their replies.
DragoLast Friday at 11:47 AM
Omar tells you he is not communicating via discord and that he doesnt know these guys. The guys begin to wealk towards atmos storage, each grabbing a phoron canister and bringing it upstairs
RocketCowLast Friday at 11:47 AM
Yeah, okay, that's most certainly a winding for all of them, first of all.
I will then inform them that I have trouble believing their claim and that they are clearly breaking the rules.
DragoLast Friday at 11:49 AM
All of them say they simply werer trying to setup the engine
RocketCowLast Friday at 11:50 AM
Oh, sorry, that was a misunderstanding from my side.
You meant upstairs, within engineering.
My bad.
I would ask them why they all have the same last name and seem to be working in perfect tandem despite not talking to each other.
DragoLast Friday at 11:56 AM
The other's claim the same thing, the guys seem to all from there own words, not know each other
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:00 PM
Hmm. Since I'm the only moderator online, I will probably have to be a little less lenient, to be honest. I will tell them that the chances of them all rolling or choosing the same surname, joining at the same time into the same job and working together wordlessly. I would then apply a short temp-ban and add a note explaining what I did and why for each of them.
DragoLast Friday at 12:04 PM
Is there anything else you would change before we move on?
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:04 PM
No, I think I'm good.
as in "It's fine" not "I'm so good at this" :thinking:
DragoLast Friday at 12:07 PM
There is a group of mercenary's boarding the station, as they board you notice something. There is a janitor who appeared to of grabbed one of the weapons from the mercenarys. It appear's the janitor is firing sat the mercenarys and seems to be winning. What do you do
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:10 PM
I would bwoink the janitor, asking him why his character is capable of not only stealing a weapon from the mercenaries, firing said and weapon and be good enough at it to take out an entire team. If the situation is too hot at the moment I would wind the involved parties.
The wind depends on what and when I see it, really.
DragoLast Friday at 12:15 PM
He tells you he is mid combat and cant talk right now, he contuines to engage the mercs
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:17 PM
Yeah, that's a wind for the janitor. Perhaps for the mercs if there's a chance they don't see the winding message in time. I would then inform the janitor that he can consider himself no longer in combat, asking him to answer my question.
The potential wind on the mercs would of course be lifted swiftly.
DragoLast Friday at 12:25 PM
The janitoer replys in a quite angry tone. "What the fuck? You just literaly disrupted that fight we had going on and caused me to die!" he types
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:26 PM
I would explain that what he did could be considered quite powergamey and was threatening to ruin the round for most people involved and will repeat the questions I asked earlier.
DragoLast Friday at 12:28 PM
He claims he was defending the crew and his job department, he appears to be quite hostile in his response
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:28 PM
I would remind him that as a janitor his job is not defending the crew or his department under most circumstances.
DragoLast Friday at 12:30 PM
He seems understand, still however angry. do you apply a note or warning
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:30 PM
If he is showing that he understands I will put in a note.
I get that he may be salty, no point rubbing it in.
DragoLast Friday at 12:31 PM
Alrght, anything else to add onto this?
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:32 PM
If the mercs got fucked over bad and an admin is online, I would ask the admin to consider giving them a little bit of a hand so the round can still somewhat flow.
If they do it is up to them, but I would certainly suggest it.
That's it.
RocketCowLast Friday at 12:55 PM
Eh, are you still there?
DragoLast Friday at 1:05 PM
back
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:05 PM
Ah, alright :smile:
DragoLast Friday at 1:05 PM
You are sitting in the lobby working on a character when you notice a flood of attack logs in your chat window. An engineer is stabbing someone with a screwdriver, and said person, a cargo technician, is hitting the engineer with a fire extinguisher. A quick check indicates that neither of them are antagonists. What do you do?
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:07 PM
I would attempt to check the logs for wether or not there was any escalation beforehand or if this just broke out randomly.
If there was escalation I would see if it was appropriate. If not, I would, if the fight is still going, wind both players and ask them both why they were fighting.
DragoLast Friday at 1:08 PM
Both of them claim they were defending themself and that one of them shoved the other. Its apparent none can agree on why the fight started
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:10 PM
In that case I will tell both of them that starting to bash each other with a screwdriver and extinguisher respectively is not an appropriate answer to somebody shoving you. You wouldn't start beating the living hell out of somebody for shoving you in real life, after all. I would then await their responses.
DragoLast Friday at 1:15 PM
They both are understanding of the issue and apologize. Do you have anything else to add?
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:15 PM
No, seems like a good outcome.
DragoLast Friday at 1:16 PM
You have been moderating for a few weeks now, and you’ve noticed a staff member who consistently goes out of their way to obtain the best weapons, even going so far as to spawn themselves weapons when alone. They also sometimes edit their var’s to be stronger than average. What would you do with this information?
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:19 PM
Well, it depends. I would certainly start to collect logs of this happening, if I can. If I'm in a good standing with the staff member to the point where I know that they won't lash out at me or something I would contact them in private and talk to them about it. It's certainly cheap and I would hope that I can convince them to stop. If that isn't happening or I have no hope to convince them in the first place I would contact somebody higher up in the chain and tell them about it.
DragoLast Friday at 1:20 PM
Alright. Do you got anything else to add onto this?
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:21 PM
Well, I realize it sounds like I'm playing favourites, but I just want to avoid throwing somebody under the bus straight away.
Other than that, no.
DragoLast Friday at 1:21 PM
Alright, ready for the ooc portion?
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:21 PM
Sure
DragoLast Friday at 1:23 PM
Whats the role odf a moderator on aurora
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:24 PM
Make sure things work out as smoothly as possible, making sure that as many people as possible have a good time playing.
That includes solving problems that may arise, helping people if they're having trouble and helping with technical problems.
DragoLast Friday at 1:29 PM
alright
How do you feel the status of Aurora is, in your opinion? What is the best thing and waht can be improved
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:30 PM
I really like Aurora. I think we have great staff and the community in general is really nice for the most part (You can't like everybody, obviously).
I think we're doing some really cool stuff, cool events, great roleplay, character arcs etc. Which is both up to the players and the staff.
As to problems, there's the constant back and forth when it comes to security and antags, and how everybody is supposed to act. It's a balancing act, and I think we can improve on that, but it's not a deal breaker.
DragoLast Friday at 1:32 PM
How do you feel about current staff
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:32 PM
Very positive.
All the staff that I interact with here on the discord and on the server itself are pretty cool people.
I don't think I have any issues with any of them.
DragoLast Friday at 1:34 PM
If you can change one thing about staff, what would it be
RocketCowLast Friday at 1:34 PM
oof
I will need to think about that for a hot second.
Okay
I think the biggest issue I can see is that some of the coders seem a bit... out of touch with the playerbase? It's not extreme by any means, but sometimes it feels like there's a disconnect there. Perhaps this could be changed by introducing something like dev updates, in which, unlike a PR, they not only explain what is being changed or added but what their thought process behind it is. This is already happening in most cases via the forum, but sometimes certain changes can feel a bit out of the blue or not too well thought through.
If I was aware of a good way to change that, that would be it.