Game Administrator Application
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In-game Username: Valen
Discord Username: Valen
Characters you play: Valen Oraka
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On average, how many hours do you expect to admin per week: 20 to 25 varies based on school / work
How old are you? 19
Do you have any SS14 experience outside of Goob Station servers, or any SS13 experience? Nopers.
Do you have prior administration experience (SS13/SS14 experience preferred, please also post a way for us to verify this)?
Goob station for about 4 or 5 months had to leave for boot camp rouge2t7, watchel nigel and any other admins at that time really.
Have you ever been banned from any SS14 or SS13 servers?
Yes, wizden.
Detailed Questions
What role do you think game admins serve on our servers?
While admins do enforce rules on goob, I believe its more important to make sure the fun of playing on goob is maintained
Why do you want to become an administrator for SS14?
The community primarily, they are pretty inviting and i enjoy playing and interacting with everyone.
What are you primarily interested in doing as an admin?
Interacting with the player base, obviously a key part of adming but i realy enjoyed talking and getting to know the players of goobstation and helping to make sure everyone is having fun and not getting mistreated by other players.
What are you least interested in doing as an admin?
From when i last did admining there wasnt really anything that i didnt like doing If i did have to pick it would be banning a actual player from the game. It’s different when its a raider or a shitter thats going out of there way to make sure there fucking up everyone else’s experience.
How do you feel about the current roleplay status on the servers?
I mean there are moments where there is some really good RP on goob but, thats not really the point of goob in my opinion its more towards having fun playing a game we all enjoy.
Other than banning problematic players, what admin actions do you believe have the biggest positive impact?
setting standards with the community.
Have you ever had a good experience with the game or a game admin? If so, what was it?
As mentioned before I have admined for goob before just had to leave for life
Have you ever had a negative experience in the game or with a game admin? If so, what, if anything, would you do to prevent other players from experiencing this?
I have I would say the biggest point i can take is try to put your self in someone else’s shoes when going into an ahelp and try to understand their point of view instead of just relying on a first contact ahelp of “this dude is killing me for no reason”.
Scenario Questions
Scenario 1
It is the start of the round. There are 60 players on the server. The game mode is traitors, traitors have not been selected yet. There are three players who decided to observe the round instead of join it orbiting you. Two of them are encouraging you to “do something funny”.
I would tell them that while it would be intresting but the round hasn’t started at all people are just starting to get into the swing of this station and should be able to enjoy playtime with no intervention.
Scenario 2
This scenario takes place on LRP. The Head of Security has decided to coup the Captain. The Head of Personnel agrees with the Head of Security and has taken up arms in case it is necessary to aid in effecting the arrest of the Captain. The Captain is hiding with the Quartermaster in the cargo shuttle to avoid the Clown who has stolen the captains saber as a non-antag. There are five people named in this scenario. Please describe what actions, if any, you would take in relation to each, and why.
Lets start with HOP, HOS, and Cappy, I would first tell the captain that it is against the rule to leave the station as depending on the game mode and round objectives it can be a form of round stalling, Hos and hop I would ask why they are trying to over throw the captain and if it is a actual reason then I would look into that and allow them to continue. If they are doing it for rp-ing it then i would make sure the captain is okay with what is happing and allow it to continue as its a player lead rp and all parties are okay with it. I feel like in this senario the Qm is kind of just there as command they should try to make sure that the captain stay aboard the station but i wouldn’t really have any actions towards them besides telling them they really shouldn’t let the captain leave the station. Same with the clown unless he attacked the captain to obtain it, the clown is given more wiggle room than most players to create “funny” and as long as he is not harming anyone i see no real issue with that.
Scenario 3
You are ahelping a player about an issue. The player has no prior noted issues. A few days earlier, an admin had told you that this type of situation should result in a temporary ban for a first offense, and you are confident that this situation is not substantially different from the type that admin was describing. During the ahelp, another admin pings you on Discord with a link to the ongoing ahelp and tells you to just indefinitely ban them and make them appeal. Excluding trialmins and headmins, all admins are equally “ranked”. A headmin is not currently available.
I would tell the admin thanks for the opinion but I am going to go with the least severe punishment as it is there first rule break listed and should not be punished as harshly as that and that if it is an issue later on we can always edit the ban if need be.
Scenario 4
A brand new player has joined, chosen cargo tech, and instantly rushes to get satchel charges and other salvage gear. How do you act, if at all?
As a previous admin this raise the alarm of raider as he is going towards something that can harm other people but for round start i would most likely watch him and sees if he does anything more suspicious like going for other weaponry or attacking other players for no reason then i would ahelp them.
Scenario 5
A security officer, on code blue, spots a mime breaking into EVA, in response, he shoots the mime with lethal force then takes him to medical, in cuffs. How do you act, if at all, and to whom?
There is fault on both parties but i feel that the secoff is more at fault as they escalated for zero reason now if the mime had a kos for some reason like confirmed ling or the like thats different but just shooting the mime for zero reason is a huge issue as a secoff requires quite a few hours and should know escalation rules and in game rules enough to not do that. The mime Id just tell them not to break into places for no reason (if there wasnt one) and give him a verbal.
Scenario 6
A chief engineer has been slacking all round, generally ignoring the responsibilities of the department, despite meteors and gas leaks happening all round. How do you act towards them, if at all?
In my opinion that’s just incompetence for command they are avoiding a job they signed up for so id follow the guidelines for incompetency in command and engineering and possibly role abandonment as they did not help with either major events as chief engineer they should be a very knowledgeable person and should help with that.
Scenario 7
You are adminning with 2 other admins, and recieve an aHelp, you start handling it when one of the others butts in to the aHelp correct you. How do you act, if at all?
If I was providing incorrect information I am all for being corrected admins should correct each other when wrong.
Scenario 8
A passenger arrives on station and starts skulking around in maints. Not preparing weapons or breaking into places, but gathering tools, insulation gloves, wires, gas mask, batteries, etc. How do you act, if at all?
I mean with goob that sound like any tider I would just make sure that they dont attack people or break the rules other than that there good.
Scenario 9
You are playing as the HOS in-game when the only other admin online notifies you that they have to leave. Since you are an important figure, you decide to continue playing for the remainder of the round, going SSD when ahelps occur in order to deal with them. While playing, you arrest the clown for non-lethal assault against the HOP inside the medical bay. Just as you arrive at security with the clown in cuffs, you receive an ahelp from the CMO about their chemist blowing up chem. In order to investigate, you quickly hand the clown over to the warden and tell the warden to “deal with them.” While investigating the CMO’s ahelp, you then receive an ahelp about the warden beheading the cuffed clown. How do you act, if at all, and to whom?
to begin with id cryo and give my stuff to warden if i need to admin that badly and by stated procedure by staff last time I was admin, you don’t admin a round that you were in or as command if you are the only admin in game dont deal with ahelps if you are going to inform other staff to see if they can hop in and try to help and also to be in ln a basic crew slot.
First issue that seems more important is the warden id investigate that first and the rules broken that pops out to me is killing crew for zero reason and incomp in sec the warden should 100% know better than to think hey i should kill them though I would try to be more specific than that wording.
now chem getting blown up if they accidentally mixed two chems on accident then tell them to be careful next time if they did it on purpose either to injury other crew members that self antag and destroying chem for no reason.
Do you have any further notes or information we should know about you?
Endorsed by yubs and Buff Orphan