Ramke
Today at 21:16
What other IC and OOC aspects do you believe should be considered when deciding on the resolution of an incident report?

Borya
Today at 21:17
Can you clarify what you mean by 'other'? Like, something not directly mentioned by witnesses, victim and the reporting individual?

Ramke
Today at 21:19
To give a few examples, something like "is this reasonable to expect the player to do during a normal round?", i.e. an engineer has been IR'd for not setting up RCON and blamed for getting someone's hand ashed
OOCly if it has significantly set the tone of the round (if a lot of people were involved and it lasted a long time)

Borya
Today at 21:26
Well, extremely egregious cases should, obviously, be handled by actual moderators instead of being an IR problem. Like murder for no raisin(even with reason a lot of murder would fall under this category. There were very very few canonical murders outside of events that remained canon after the fact). In the case that you provide, I am personally a little bit torn;

on one side, we all make mistakes and especially so do new players, even if they read guides and other appropriate material. On the other, it is an appropriate IC way of handling something that should not be OOC-ly punished unless intentional and reoccurring. Ultimately, if the person did this intentionally rather than unknowingly, I do believe it belongs in the IR territory; and I think it's not the significance it has had on the round that matters to decide the verdict, but the severity of the damage done. If it was a hand that's ashed, I would personally think it's worth keeping an IR and in-character resolution over(such a resolution being, obviously, extremely harsh. We already have Quinn Scott who's a janitor for 3 months after spilling coffee at someone's face with malicious intent)

Ramke
Today at 21:27
Great, moving on:
How do you feel about the current iteration of Corporate Regulations? Do you feel like it is in a good spot, or could some improvements be made?

Borya
Today at 21:29
I would(obviously) want and probably need a more concrete look over all of the regulations and Ship Procedures going further, given I don't read it religiously ever month or so, but I do think it is in a good spot, yes. Ultimately it covers any bases that I encounter in my experience, and, mostly, in others' as well. It is fairly rare that something extremely wacky happens because of a loophole in the regulations.

Ramke
Today at 21:30
CCIA, through faxes and announcements, can sway the round heavily in response to faxes or antagonistic actions. Could you provide an example, either from your own personal experiences in a round or a hypothetical scenario, on when CCIA/Central Command should intervene with a heavier hand (through orders, faxes, adminbus, etc.)?

Borya
Today at 21:38
This is a pretty tough question. Faxes and CCIAA intervention occur pretty rarely in my experience(it is not that rare for command to even submit situation reports for red; shit hits the fan and people forget), so from the top of my hand I can not bring up a real round example. As for hypothetical scenarios, though, here are some examples;

Things are really bad and the mercenaries have the means to launch the scuttling device and destroy the SCCV Horizon with all its crew and assets onboard. Such a situation, if possible for command to communicate it, definitively, in my opinion, requires some form of response. It does not necessarily have to come in the form of an ERT team coming down to obliterate mercs into oblivion, but potentially smaller boons like some form of equipment that could be helpful to the situation.

Another thing would be, for example, antagonists pretending to be CCIAA and requesting access to something like the leviathan or the scuttling device; I believe that these two stand above our other high-security areas, and as such access to it would be heavily, heavily regulated; and both of these tools are rather round-ending(less so in the case of the leviathan but still extremely important), should antagonists obtain access to them. Should command communicate something to this end, I do believe that a stern reminder to validate the claims of the horizon's guests would be appropriate, rather than the usual go-to hands-off response that is done to allow gimmicks to take off.
As an addendum, some of these actions are not always well-received by either the crew or the antagonists, but once again that is my personal opinion and I find these, personally, valid. ERT summons through adminbus do happen on occasion

Ramke
Today at 21:40
That's absolutely fair - time for scenarios, you can ask additional questions (but it's entirely optional) about the scenario in question if you want some further details:
During one of your incident report investigations, you learn that the incident that occurred was the fault of both parties, one instigating another, and the other responding with escalation. While both conflicting parties have managed to resolve this amongst themselves, the reporter still believes they should be punished for causing the incident in the first place as it has distracted multiple departments from their work. What would you look into before handing down the resolution, and would you punish the parties involved?

Borya
Today at 21:43
Well, if the accusing party is also at fault for the situation taking place, additional questioning should be made into such motivation and if it is something that happened, happens or is likely to happen again in the future to other people; in most cases whatever the incoming information from such additional questoning would still result in the punishing of the accusing party, but it would help decide the severity of such punishment.

Potentially, if this has been resolved and seems to be an isolated incident on both the ends of the accuser and the victim, then a simple restraining order so that they do not interact may be appropriate.
switching to phone
will be a bit slower

Ramke
Today at 21:44
np
Next one:
During one round, the antagonists decided to play a fake Hephaestus representative gimmick. They have taken things a bit too far, and Command has decided to send a fax to confirm their identity and authorisation as a result. The round time is now 01:45, and you warn the antagonists via AOOC that you will now reply. The antagonists ask you not to blow their gimmick. What do you do?

Borya
Today at 21:47
People tend to be poor judges of themselves in the moment. Provided that the antagonists' actions are deriving absolutely no response from the crew, and if they've taken things to a point where the crew should definitely be acting(like, once again, trying to access the levi or scuttling device), then a response will come through regardless of the antagonist's wishes.

Ramke
Today at 21:49
Great, and last scenario:
Command has sent you a fax informing you that the Dominian consular has been arrested for instigating a duel on the holodeck and causing an injury, and are now requesting that you revoke their representative privileges as a result. The consular has actually done quite a lot more as an antagonist, including killing someone, but this was just before the fax was sent and left out of the paper. What do you reply with?

Borya
Today at 21:51
I believe it would be fairly straight-forward to revoke privileges; intentional harm especially in a duel is not something diplomats should get away with. Even the fax alone beside the more recent offenses is enough.