Exia - Today at 04:48
So, we'll start off with a few questions where I put you in an example situation.
You're playing and you realise someone has joined the round with a character named  'Bruce Wayne'. Upon inspection, you note that they are a 30 year old, bald security officer. What do you do?

AmoryBlaine - Today at 04:52
I PM them asking if they had read the rules yet. I direct them to it if they say no, and inform them that it's an infraction to use reference names. I then ask what they'd like the name changed to. If they say they do know the rules, then I warn them, and ask the name change question. Given that they are not responding, I wind them and tell them to click on my name to respond, then carry out either of the two ways of responding to the answer I'm given.

Exia - Today at 04:53
Alrighty, next question.
A bunch of logs show up on your screen. Looking at the logs, it seems that two players are shooting at each other with lethal weapons, one of the two being a regular, though you only know them on an acquantance-level. You're not exactly that close to them. The other you don't recognize. You were in the lobby the entire time, so besides the logs, you don't actually know too much about the situation prior to them actually shooting each other. There aren't any other mods or staff on at the time. What do you do?

AmoryBlaine - Today at 04:58
Have the logs stopped or are they continuing?

Exia - Today at 04:59
Continuing.

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:02
I'll immediately aghost and jump to the scene. I'd have to know the specifics of the scene to properly deduce this situation. But, from my prior experiences, this means they are both Non-antags, right? Hence the logs popping up for both of them?

Exia - Today at 05:05
Both are non-antags. Logs appear for any attacks that occur, antag or no. The regular is playing the head of security for the round and the other player is a security officer.

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:09
Okay, so before anything I'd check the unaswered ahelps for one related to this. If there isn't one, then I'd have to wait for the situation to play out until one of them stops firing/Is incapacitated OR  Sleep both of them. I'm in favour of sleeping both of them as I can safely PM them one at a time without the other killing or moving them. I'd also LOOC for anyone nearby to not interfere. Then I'd hear both their POVs out and make my call from there.
You'll need to expand on it for further reesponse to the situation as I'm unsure of the specifics.

Exia - Today at 05:10
So I'm going to assume you're winding them both and talking to them?(edited)

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:11
Yes, unless there was an ahelp. Then I'd sleep whoever is, according to the ahelp, responsible for the gun fight.

Exia - Today at 05:14
There are no prior ahelps regarding this situation. The head of security player tells you that the other guy came in with a pistol with lethals and shot at him after a few words. The other player tells you a similar story, but that he was manipulated by the quartermaster to take out the HoS with threats about his wife being held hostage.

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:19
Since they both agree on the how things were, I'd unsleep the player and question the QM about what was going on. Depending on what he says and the reasons he gives- also including his status as antag or not, I would have to decide on whether a 'verbal' warning, a ban, a note warning or nothing is applicable.

Exia - Today at 05:20
He is an antag, a traitor.

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:21
Oh, okay then this is fine. He had interacted with the Security Officer and used whatever means to RP his point and got the Officer to go along with it. So it's not worthy of anything other than a pat on the back for actually using RP rather than trying to off the HoS himself. I'd go back to the HoS and Officer to see if either of them have any grievances still.

Exia - Today at 05:22
They're fine with it and carry on should you choose to unsleep them. Shall we move on to the next question?

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:23
Onwards.

Exia - Today at 05:25
Right, next question. You recieve an ahelp from a player, stating that, and I quote: "The secborg NT2020 fucking stunned me and locked me in solitary after saying I'm unclean? Isn't this extended? He's not allowed to do that."
You are able to check the roundtype and any antags

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:26
Are there any antags? Is it extended?

Exia - Today at 05:26
There are. The roundtype is autotraitor.
The cyborg he mentioned is on the list of antags.

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:28
I guess I'm left with asking him exactly what happened- I don't tell him what round type it is, and ignore that question.

Exia - Today at 05:29
Who're you asking what exactly happened, and what question are you ignoring?

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:30
Oh, I'm talking about the ahelp'er. And I'm ignoring; " Isn't this extended?"
I can't reveal that.
But, I can make sure that this wasn't a situation that messes with rule 1.
IE: Don't be a fick.
eh, dick.

Exia - Today at 05:31
To be clear, what exactly are you replying him?

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:32
"Could you tell me the events that lead up to this? What exactly happened as you recall it?"

Exia - Today at 05:33
"The cyborg comes to me, tells me I'm unclean and I need to be confined in solitary ad stuns me when I walk away."

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:34
"Alright, thank you. It will be dealt with this in mind."
I don't really do much other than PM the Borg, ask him his side of the story. To borg: "What happened with Player X?"
Really, they were right in doing what they did, but this is just for good measure. They're an antag and the player had not complied.

Exia - Today at 05:36
We'll skip past the investigation with the borg, but it does genuinely seem like it was their gimmick and that they provided ample rp for the player in solitary. The ahelper is now ahelping again, asking about the situation with the borg.

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:37
"It was dealt with accordingly."
"Thank you for your concern, but further ahelps are not required."

Exia - Today at 05:39
Right, the next few questions will be on your view on the server. In your mind, do you think the server rules and how they are enforced by the staff team is sufficient? Would you add, remove or generally change anything to better enforce a HRP environment?
Not just rules, sorry, policy included.

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:40
Alright.
They enforce them well, the biggest issue in my opinion is response time, and that's mainly due to a staff shortage. As for the HRP environment, I'd prefer things be a little more grounded in the reality of Aurora being a corporate research facility. More restrictions on largely RP-based roles like the Chaplain and Shrink- I'd even go as far as to suggest a whitelist for those roles. But overall, for the most populated HRP server things are handled well enough from my perspective. On a tiny note- removing things that encourage LRP behavior, such as Clown equipment, mime, ect-- that would help a lot with clearing up LRP activity. Also, more enforcement of RP-based gimmicks for Antags. I mean to cut out antags who only focus on combat, and do not interact with the crew. But this is all just rambling at this point.

- Things are handled well, although aghosting to ahelps is a good idea rather than just taking ahelps at face value.
- More restrictions for characters that are RP-Based and open slots- Chaplain, Shrink.
- More enforcement for Antags to have solid RP gimmicks that include the station. Antags exist to enhance round RP and add diversity to rounds- not for you to click other players to death.

Exia - Today at 05:57
Alrighty. Any objections to me putting this up on your moderator app?(edited)

AmoryBlaine - Today at 05:57
No, not at all. I assumed it was a given anyways. I just hope I did well on this.