Staff Complaint: MactoPerFuror

[Paean]

Which part is appalling for you? The fact that you did not get to rules lawyer the situation? I was the only active admin on, being flooded by tickets. I am not going to spend extra time on your feels. The stripping of your chara? This was done because you broke the RoE and other players were being actively impacted by the situation. Force dropping the item in question and having you die fast resolves the situation quickly while punishing you for it.

Towards the prophet, your input about heresy means very little when through the entire game you kept screeching in admin help that you NEEDED human speech so you could survive. When told no you continued to press it. I imagine that you were also dragging that grunt around so that you could speak to the humans anyway. You were so focused on your survival over roleplaying out the scenario that you did not care about the rules in the slightest. You also lied that you did not ask the sang to commit heresy to protect yourself, which is evidenced in the screencaps. You are the reason that prophets are going whitelist. Both of you are lucky I did not decide to strip you of your faction.

The Rules of Engagement clearly state that the Prophet can pardon bouts of Minor heresy. Minor and Major heresy is not defined anywhere. I pardoned a bout of what I interpreted as Minor Heresy to not only protect a Forerunner Relic, but also to protect a San'Shyuum. You cannot classify something as Minor or Major at will, at whim, without notifying the players of it. That's simply not fair.

Having someone drop all of their items in the middle of a combat situation instead of admin-pming them to drop it, which they no doubt would have done instantaneously, and then acting in a manner that not only portrays that you do not care, but that you cannot be reasoned with isn't something a staff member should be doing. 

That is what is appalling to me personally, as the Vice Host you are a representative of the server and right now you're painting an image that the server condones bouts of admin abuse, doesn't resolve situations civilly, and insults players for bringing complaints against them both in discord and on the forums. 

In the situation with Galactic Common, you may ask members of your staff team and the current head of the Faction. San'Shyuum are supposed to speak galactic common, when I asked for it you said no. At first, since I did not know you well I figured you were joking, when I asked you again you told me no again. I then asked for clarification and you said that you were not aware of this situation, so I dropped it there and then. 

If you're trying to spin and make it so I pestered you over and over and over for galactic common, that is not what happened. We sent a total of five messages, maybe four back and forth over a period of 5-6 minutes. The server logs should be pulled up and this conversation should be reviewed. 


I was not carrying an Ungoggy around to speak to humans, I never once asked the Ungoggy to speak at all. I was dragging the Ungoggy around because I and the Ungoggy ejected off of the SDV Vindictive Infraction because we were being blown to bits. He landed in VT9s hangar and fought some ODST. I landed in the middle of the VT9 compound. We were not there by choice.

The First Ungoggy I was dragging around was shot, wounded and dying from internal damage. As the Vice Minister of Sanitation, it is completely in character for me to act in the manner I did taking a wounded Ungoggy with me to the Medical Bay so I could treat them as the Ministry of Sanitation is responsible for the Public Health of the Covenant. This is official, canon lore, not something I am making up, even though you told me explicitly that you do not care about the lore your server is running. Here's an official link. https://www.halopedia.org/Ministry_of_Sanitation

The Second Ungoggy I was dragging around was the only other covenant member alive besides me, and they were missing a foot and dying of internal bleeding. I was using them as protection, and hopefully was going to treat them.

You can accuse me of lying, however, my main reason for ordering that the Sangheili pick up the confetti maker and use it was for the safety of the Relic, which is what I told you in the PMs. I would have been fine dying right then and there if it fit the story. You instead decided to interrupt the roleplay in an abusive, immersion-breaking way, and when confronted show an apathetic and hostile response to both of us. 

You then tried to turn this situation around on us, for filing a complaint on you. This complaint was discussed in length in the Covenant Channel in the discord and we have been told that the way you handled the situation was unacceptable by a high number of other covenant players. It also shows that either you or James is lying as James specifically said that I was not the reason for the whitelist, whereas you contradict him. I am unsure on the rule of posting covenant channel stuff outside of the covenant channel, however, I have taken screenshots and if requested will post them on this complaint to attest that you have a history of either exaggerating the truth or simply disregarding it if it suits your personal image. 

What you did could have been handled IC, you could have sent a fax, you could have done a million things to continue the story. Instead, you stripped a Sangheili naked in the middle of combat, showed that you clearly do not care about the server's lore, and threatened us. This behavior is not the way a person of your station should behave, it is damaging not only to the server's image but to the trust the players have in the staff team.

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Heresy in the laws is defined as

"Teaming up with heretics (humans, covenant who have been branded as heretics), using heretical items, and touching or using forerunner artifacts without permission."

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Even though I do agree on you about his behaviour, this is what it says about heresy in the ROE

"No using heretic gear like human guns and vehicles"

You should be looking at the RoE as they are the ooc rules that each faction follows. Covenant law is an IC thing in itself

It is clearly defined in the Rules of Engagement that the Prophet can pardon minor heresy. There is no definition of what is minor or major heresy in a situation. Using human weaponry to not only defend a San'Shyuum, but a Forerunner Relic and nothing else is what I would interpret as minor heresy. It is not on the same level of touching a Forerunner Relic (Which would literally destroy the foundation of their religion) or Treason. This situation doesn't constitute the OOC staff action that took place, nor the insults being slung at me by staff members both in discord and on the forums. 

The staff member in question completely ignored all roleplay, the situation itself, and the lore precedent for such actions taking place. They decided, instead of speaking with the Sangheili using an adminPM, to use the drop all items command and strip him mid-combat. When confronted he was not only hostile but showed a careless disregard OOC as-well. This is not the image that a staff member should be projecting, especially a Vice Host.