TheLancers Interview

What is your ckey?

Lancer - Today at 5:45 AM
the lancer

Mini Moose — Today at 5:46 AM
As a moderator, here are the following perms you have:

- Access to msay. It allows you to speak with other staff members.
- Access to dsay. Self-explanatory, you see the deadchat and can even speak in it.
- Access to in game logs about a lot of things. This include LOOC, dchat, admin actions(like kick, ban, note, warn) and some things to prevent grief. Imagine Urist McUrist open a phoron tank you'll have a message stating it. Same for a fuel tank or a valve of any kind.
- Access the variables of the objects on the server. While you cannot edit them, you can view attack logs on a player, who touched what the last, etc.
- The ability to adminghost, basically will consider you as if you ghosted from the lobby or died. You can aghost again to re-enter your body.
- The ability to Wind people. It freeze them and keep them from interacting with the game.
- The possibility to AdminPM someone, and check all the tickets that have been made on the server.
- The ability to kick, note, warn, ban. More in-depth about this:
Kick = Just boot someone off the server. You can set a custom message. It's not really used often, but still useful to get someone's attention.
Note = It's basically our notepad about players. It's useful for the other staff that will interact with the player, to know their behaviour and if something already happened before.
Warning = Depending the severity of something, it can be directly a warning. This one is visible to the player, and they need to acknowledge it to play on the server again.
Ban = Same thing as kick expect on a larger scale, or even permanently. A ban is often an escalation of warnings.
Every action taken by a staff member is visible on the player's ckey. Only kicks are not shown.
You can ask me about these at any point. Are you ready to begin?

Lancer — Today at 5:47 AM
yeah

Mini Moose — Today at 5:48 AM
I will be asking a few scenarios. Answer them to the best of your ability. There is basically no wrong answer.
What is powergaming? And how can you spot someone powergaming?

Lancer — Today at 5:50 AM
Powergaming is when a character does some things that they realistically wouldn't be able to given their background. If a psychologist starts doing surgery for example, you can easily spot that they're powergaming.

Mini Moose — Today at 5:50 AM
Alright
If someone you knew was actively powergaming, what would you do? This person is a friend. Let's use Bear for example.

Lancer — Today at 5:50 AM
I'd look at their notes first
see if they have any priors

Mini Moose — Today at 5:52 AM
In this scenario, Bear has no notes regarding powergaming. However; he is playing as a Security Officer who just asked the Warden for three magazines of .45 lethal, and a .45 because he "wants to be prepared for the worst".

Lancer — Today at 5:52 AM
Is there a reason that would justify it? Like an active mercenary situation or gunfights etc

Mini Moose — Today at 5:53 AM
There's no active situations, it's ten minutes into the round.

Lancer — Today at 5:55 AM
I'd admin pm him then, tell him that what he's doing is powergaming and explain that a security officer cannot have lethals at what is basically roundstart. They're locked in the armoury for emergency situations for a reason, and to "prepare for the worst" doesn't hold ground as a justification.
I'd tell him to hand it back and I'd put a note that I talked to them

Mini Moose — Today at 5:55 AM
Alright
A mercenary team boards the ship and loudly states in the common radio - "We are here to scuttle this ship so our syndicate can take this sector!" - Fifteen minutes later, they have fortified the holodeck and setup the nuclear bomb they spawn with. They set it to detonate with a ten minute timer. Is this a problem? Why is it a problem if it is?

Lancer — Today at 5:58 AM
It's a very huge and game-ending escalation essentially. It doesn't really help the round at all, facilitate any opportunity for roleplay, and forces everyone to escalate in turn. It seems like poor antag play and an excuse for them to just get kills and "win" the game.

Mini Moose — Today at 6:00 AM
Alright. What would you do to solve it?

Lancer — Today at 6:00 AM
Well first of all I'd stop the nuke, get an admin to help me with that
Then I'd start admin PMing the one who armed it, asking why they're escalating so fast, while also going through the mercs' notes

Mini Moose — Today at 6:02 AM
The mercenary replies with "We established a conflict, and the story is here. So, instead of the round being looong and drawn out - We wanted to force Security, Command, and the ship as a whole to have to jump to the fun action packed gameplay!"

They one warning regarding something similar with a cult round and Nar'sie, and three notes regarding Ganking crew as a Ninja.

Lancer — Today at 6:04 AM
Can I check the logs to see how the situation escalated to that?

Mini Moose — Today at 6:05 AM
You can if you're observing, but really all that happened is what they said in common and the nuke being armed.

Lancer — Today at 6:07 AM
I'd tell them that the way this gimmick was set up doesn't promote any roleplay, there was basically no escalation and they already have notes and a warning about similar cases in the past. I'd tell them to take a break and get familiar with the antagonist play that we'd like to see on this server, and antag ban them

Mini Moose — Today at 6:07 AM
Got it
Next scenario
Someone joins, the account age is 0 - the character name is "Boe Jiden". He is an elderly character, in a wheel chair with no legs and a single arm. He has a purple Afro and a red Gotee. What rule (or rules) does this violate? And, how will you handle it?

The account has no notes

Lancer — Today at 6:10 AM
This violates the reference names rule as well as the fact that it probably isn't a believable character. I admin PM them to inform him that the name should be changed, and to ask if they're new to the game.

Mini Moose — Today at 6:11 AM
They're not new, they come from beestation.
They ask "How is this a reference name?"

Lancer — Today at 6:12 AM
It is very clearly a reference of Joe Biden, the US president. They're going to have to pick a new name.

Mini Moose — Today at 6:12 AM
"I don't know who that is, what's the US?" is their response.
"I am a NanoTrasen employee, this is ableism"

Lancer — Today at 6:14 AM
Well at this point it's clear that they're here to troll. I tell them they'd have to read and comply with aurora rules, including the name change, and that I won't debate it with them. I'm also looking at what they're doing.

Mini Moose — Today at 6:15 AM
They're rolling around on Deck one with a wheel chair.

"Oh rite, da roolz!" is their only response.

Lancer — Today at 6:16 AM
I tell them they can return to Aurora when they are ready to comply to the rules. I apply a permaban that they can appeal.

Mini Moose — Today at 6:16 AM
As a heads up, you have to request a permaban as a trial mod. You can only temp ban. I need to update the mechanics doc for mods

Lancer — Today at 6:16 AM
ah okay

Mini Moose — Today at 6:17 AM
It's a traitor round in the lobby, and you see a bunch of logs come up with an antag shooting up a non-antag.

The non-antag ahelps after this. They're a security officer. They say "Hey-- I just heard about someone breaking in to the vault and went to check it out-- opened the vault doors and as soon as I saw the antag they shot me dead. Medical didn't even have a chance to save me."

Lancer — Today at 6:18 AM
I go to get logs of what happened before the antag shot him up. Was there any prior escalation?

Mini Moose — Today at 6:19 AM
The Antagonist was robbing the vault, the turrets were broken, the door was cracked open. But between the officer and the antagonist, there was no prior escalation.

Lancer — Today at 6:19 AM
I check the antag's notes

Mini Moose — Today at 6:19 AM
They have no notes regarding failure to escalate, but a few for lrp behavior and general "new player" type notes.

Lancer — Today at 6:20 AM
I pm the antag, asking them why they killed that officer

Mini Moose — Today at 6:21 AM
"I was robbing the vault. I had a gun, and I was going to be permanently brigged if I didn't shoot first. Or they would've shot me dead with the laser rifle on his back. I simply struck first."

Lancer — Today at 6:23 AM
I tell him that he didn't give the officer a chance to do anything, that they immediately killed him and removed him from the round without any word

Mini Moose — Today at 6:24 AM
"I didn't mean to kill him, just incapacitate."

Lancer — Today at 6:24 AM
how many shots did he put into him? With what weapon?

Mini Moose — Today at 6:25 AM
A super heavy pistol - fires .454 which is what the Captain has, he put three shots into him according to VV. If you check the contents of the gun, he has 2 shots left of 7, meaning he missed once.

Lancer — Today at 6:27 AM
I tell him that this really doesn't seem like he tried to incapacitate him. I give him a warning to not escalate to such lethal action without a word.
I ask an admin to rejuv some of the damage for the officer so that medical can fix him

Mini Moose — Today at 6:28 AM
"See you in your staff complaint" is his only response
Ok, that's the end of the scenarios. Just a couple of questions now

Lancer — Today at 6:28 AM
yes

Mini Moose — Today at 6:28 AM
Do you think you'll be able to keep any personal bias regarding politics, sex, gender or race aside when it comes to making official judgements?
If you have any

Lancer — Today at 6:31 AM
I try not to consider any biases while being staff, so yes. I also like to think I don't have any such biases

Mini Moose — Today at 6:33 AM
What is something you like about Aurora, and what is something you don't like about Aurora?

Lancer — Today at 6:36 AM
I like the expansive lore, how you can make any story you like and you'll certainly find some background to fit it in. I don't have a lot of things I don't like, but I suppose one of them would be the arguments over the discords that go off sometimes. I wish some of them were more moderated sometimes.

Mini Moose — Today at 6:39 AM
Alrighty
Well, I have nothing else for ya
ill get this posted sometime today

Lancer — Today at 6:39 AM
epic