Username: Gregoryoffny
Noting / Banning Admin: chando
Length of ban: N/A
Ban reason: Was using an autoclicker for spam grabbing/clicking person.
Ban issue: I did not do what I was banned/noted for.
Events leading to the ban
It was a regular shift and i have been passing the time with the usual of walking around and doing some mischief. Actions releveant to this appeal: Grabbing / Choke grabbing, inserting and removing items from slime players.
Reason the ban should be removed
First things first, i did admit in the Ahelp to using an autoclicker so the note isn’t entirely wrong in this regard.
Despite this my issue lies in for what i have been noted for, i did not use the autoclicker to grab other players which would be also considered cheating and very disruptive for the game. The round specified in which i was noted for Round #35901 has examples of both where i did deliberatly use it on the slime players as previously mentioned to insert and remove items in an excessively fast manner, aswell as hard grabbing other players which i do by manually spam clicking. There is a very clear distinction of frequency of actions per second for both instances to proof that iam not using the clicker to gain an unfair advantage. As a quick sidenote the clicker isn’t crazy fast at 20 cps compared to my speed of ≈ 8 cps so its only a bit over twice my speed but still very noticeable when used vs manual clicking.
Now to the problem with the note itself, which is that hard grabbing is essentially a spam mechanic by design as you have to repeadetly ctrl+click the other person to successfully get them to the next grab severity from Soft → Hard → Choke. My issue here lies with the fact if i want to grab/choke someone and use my regular clicking speed, and someone would Ahelp me over it i would risk getting banned for no fault of my own with the way the note is right now.
And lastly for my closing thoughts, i initially thought this was just about some IC issues about some player beeing annoyed about getting items quickly being put inside them using a clicker to make it unusually fast or someone getting choked in place. But after some information i got from another admin i learned that input spamming is a much greater issue for this server as a whole than i initially thought, most other servers i frequent have similar policies about clickers but are moar leniant in the regard, that they dont really mind it beeing used for stuff like crafting or quickly picking up items to cut down on tedious tasks that dont really impact the gameplay. But i recently learned that even that “minor” stuff can cause serious problems on the server including the ability to crash the server! For which i want to sincerly apologize! i genuinely didn’t know it was possible to cause such a massive problem for what i assumed was just some “visual gag” and cutting down on manual clicks, iam very sorry for any server issues i may have caused.
I hope we can agree on this note beeing removed / changed to better reflect what actually happend. I doubt chandont had any ill intent on making it seem like i was actively cheating on the server. As stated earlier i do owe up to the fact i used a clicker for what i used to consider to be “tolerable rulebreaks”.
But i never did or will use macros to gain a competetive advantage over other players.
Another note aside in the Ahelp it was mentioned that my grabbing caused a bunch of red text to appear from “spam clicking too much” which i assume was the reason i got suspected for using a clicker when choking another player. It is not caused by the person grabbing but by the person trying to escape the grab (unless there is some other text you cant see as a regular player).
Alternate Accounts
None.