Afya/Bobbob212's interview

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?

Afya — Today at 9:16 AM
So adding notes show to the players as well?

Mini Moose — Today at 9:16 AM
No, players only see the warnings.

Afya — Today at 9:17 AM
I assume mods also have SM + alooc perms right? Least codewise shows that.

Mini Moose — Today at 9:17 AM
SM is questionable, but isn't really used. Alooc is allowed, yes.

Afya — Today at 9:18 AM
Alright I'm ready to begin.

Mini Moose — Today at 9:20 AM
Alright.

If someone you knew was actively powergaming, IE putting objects inside objects at spawn, how would you react?
Powergaming, defined in our rules is -
Powergaming = Also know as 'playing to win'. If you're trying to complete your objectives, kill the antagonists, or 'win', at all costs and ignore RP, you may be better off somewhere else. This includes having your character unafraid of death or pain, resistant to any torture, ready to battle alone against a crowd of opponents, or, being unarmed, senselessly attacking a gun wielder or hostage taker. This also includes loading up your character with items 'just in case', for example wearing internals 'just in case' there's a hull breach or plasma leak. Or wearing a spacesuit indoors for no reason. Further, this includes using knowledge that your character would not possess: such as knowledge of changelings, the cult, syndicate, etcetera, and acting on it.

Afya — Today at 9:26 AM
Tbh didn't think about it/realize. Just saw em mention it and found it interesting. Yeye I getcha.

Though at this point if I realized someone was powergaming. I would open a ticket with them and message them 'Hey can I talk with you a minute?' and check their notes/records.

Mini Moose — Today at 9:27 AM
Alright.
When you message them, they don't reply. How do you proceed?

Afya — Today at 9:28 AM
I would wind them and message 'Please click on my name beside this message to respond. Just so you know using objects that would not normally fit out side of spawn is considered power gaminging.'

Mini Moose — Today at 9:29 AM
Alright. They respond with "Okay, my bad. Didn't realize it!" This was their first offense.
Second scenario!
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?

Afya — Today at 9:34 AM
Generally this is something that I would want to see cleared with staff in AOOC before enacting. If staff allow the gimmic to go ahead and is fine it's less bad but- I would say this isn't great just based on the fact that that's not any time to do proper escalation or any interactions outside of stating a threat and nothing else.

Mini Moose — Today at 9:35 AM
You'd be right in saying this is improper. So, with that said, staff did not clear the nuke use. How do you proceed?

Afya — Today at 9:37 AM
Assuming it's just them in the holodeck I would Alooc asking what they are planning to do exactly. I'd then PM the group leader 'Hi there! Just wondering, what is you team's plan exactly?'

Mini Moose — Today at 9:38 AM
So Alooc is doable or you can use AOOC, antag out of character.

The Group leader replies "We're forcing conflict and stuff, we didn't want to wait too long!!"

Afya — Today at 9:38 AM
Yeah wasn't sure which cause aooc can be preference turned off can't it?
'I see! Conflict as antagonists is perfectly fine but unfortunately what you're doing isn't. You see we require proper escalation and RP interactions that build up and escalate the matter in a reasonable matter. Please turn off the timer for the nuke.'
'Also for future reference ask staff in AOOC if you are planning to do a plan which forcefully involves the entire Horizon and threatens such drastic actions.'

Mini Moose — Today at 9:43 AM
They turn the timer off and all is well.

Afya — Today at 9:44 AM
I would then properly repeat what and why it isn't acceptable in AOOC and then add a note on the instigator for future reference.
Assuming they have no other notes on the matter*

Mini Moose — Today at 9:45 AM
Alright. Ready for the third scenario?

Afya — Today at 9:45 AM
Yeah

Mini Moose — Today at 9:46 AM
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.

Afya — Today at 9:48 AM
I'd wind the person, as they are probably the serial griefer that's been on recently, message them 'Hi! Got a minute?' and check their note history to see if they happened to have anything.

Mini Moose — Today at 9:48 AM
As you message them, they reply with "Sorry, what's up?"
There's no notes.

Afya — Today at 9:49 AM
"Hi, welcome to the server! This is a high RP server and meme names/characters aren't allowed. They need to be believable members who would actually be on the ship."

Mini Moose — Today at 9:50 AM
"I am believable though? I'm a veteran!" They replied after a few moments.

Afya — Today at 9:51 AM
What job are they?

Mini Moose — Today at 9:51 AM
Lab Assistant

Afya — Today at 9:54 AM
"Boe Jiden is not a very believable name and is also clearly a reference to Joe Biden, which isn't allowed. Your hair is very clearly silly for the job and missing almost all your limbs would not be very useful for your position."

Mini Moose — Today at 9:56 AM
They begin to spam OOC - "MODS ARE NAZIS AND IM BEING OPPRESSED!"
(this happened to me)

Afya — Today at 9:57 AM
I believe you.
Temp ban for big number, poke next mod/admin I see for a perma ban for being a griefer/ban evader.

Mini Moose — Today at 9:57 AM
Alrighty
Next!
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."

Afya — Today at 9:59 AM
Add myself to the ticket. 'Looking into it.' I'd then message the the antag 'Hi got a minute?' and check their notes.

Mini Moose — Today at 10:00 AM
"What's up?" There is no history of this type, aside from a temp ban a year ago for executing a Captain as a ling.

Afya — Today at 10:01 AM
"So what happened with the officer? Why did ya end up shooting him to death?"

Mini Moose — Today at 10:02 AM
"He's Security, I'm an antagonist. I ambushed him, and he lost"

Afya — Today at 10:03 AM
"Well, ambushing someone without any proper interaction before hand is considered 'ganking' which is not allowed in the rules."

Mini Moose — Today at 10:04 AM
"Oh. Okay, well I didn't know."

Afya — Today at 10:08 AM
Not sure on procedure exactly but I'd message "Unfortunately it's required that you know the rules before playing, and I've seen you've had this issue in the past so I will be banning you for it. Take this time to read over the rules." I'd then temp ban them for 3/7 days.

Though if there were other mods/admins on I'd ask there opinion on if I should do a ban or official warning first. The ban is just my assumption.

Mini Moose — Today at 10:09 AM
Alright, sweet. That's all I have for you scenario wise.
If you could change anything about the server or community, what would it be?

Afya — Today at 10:10 AM
Honestly? If I could magically change it I'd love high pop to be like four hours earlier, same with events. There's a lot of stuff I can't be apart of/see because that all tends to happen past my bedtime.

Mini Moose — Today at 10:10 AM
Haha, that's a common issue.

Afya — Today at 10:10 AM
;-;
Mini Moose — Today at 10:10 AM
What is something you have enjoyed about the server?

Afya — Today at 10:12 AM
I have really loved RPing with other characters, it's always interesting and it's a fun way to learn about more lore I'm not familiar with at the same time.
A couple of my favorite moments have to be on low pop when there's a little bit of sillyness, everyone just hanging out in a hallways together and just chatting IC and sometimes LOOC as well.

Mini Moose — Today at 10:12 AM
Alrighty
I'm going to end the interview here!