HALO: SPACE STATION EVOLVED BAN APPEAL FORUM
Your Byond/Ckey Username: Stephiee
Your Discord Username: WitchKat#8942
Your character name (if relevant): Lacie Summers
Who were you banned by: Crom
Date of ban: 1/28/20
Length of ban: This has not been communicated to me.
Full ban reason: Metarushed the artifact and blew up Kodiak without Covvies or ONI present.
Appeal details/ Why should you be unbanned:Â
This is for an ODST dewhitelisting.
Events as I recall:
Early during the morning (EST) on the date mentioned, I was playing ODST SL and leading several other ODSTs. My times may be a little off, but around 0:25-0:30 we headed to Northwind. We attempted to make contact with ONI, but it was clear after a while that there were no ONI personnel spawned. As the UNSC have the artifact objective, and UNSC players have always known IC about the existence of the artifact, I instructed two ODSTs to go to the planet and secure the artifact. I believe it was about 0:50 when the artifact was located, and about 1:00 when it was secured at Kodiak. In the next 10-15 minutes, we debated our next moves. ONI was still not present, and the Covenant had done a flyby, but no surface presence was confirmed. I issued the order to bring the artifact up to the surface, and to initiate Cole Protocol on Kodiak base. This occurred successfully, and we departed the planet. Shortly thereafter, I was messaged by Koen. IIRC, he explained to me that the UNSC is not meant to know about the artifact, and that our retrieving it was metagaming, and additionally we should not have nuked Kodiak and essentially prevented a fun fight with the Covenant. I apologized and said I would do better in the future. He said it was 'no biggie'. I also requested that the rules/guidelines on this be clarified in the forums, because UNSC knowledge of the artifact and it's general presence in the sublevel of Northwind has been common knowledge since I started playing on this server several months ago. Koen teleported the artifact back to Northwind, and myself and the other ODSTs engaged the Covenant in the ruins of Kodiak base, and a good fight was had. The round ended, I hopped off the game, and about a half an hour later Crom announced in the UNSC-Barracks discord that myself and another ODST involved were dewhitelisted.
Why I feel I my WL should be restored:
In the initial interaction with Koen about this issue, I was told specifically what I did wrong, we discussed it, and I agreed to follow what he said in the future. I also requested that this information be published to the guidelines, because it was my understanding (and the understanding of several other UNSC players) that the UNSC is supposed to know about the artifact. Additionally, I do not feel that we rushed the artifact, it was not secured at Kodiak until almost an hour into the round. I do not believe that securing the artifact as ODSTs without ONI presence violates any written guideline at the time this happened, but if I'm wrong, I'll gladly accept that this was wrong of me to do. I'm happy to play the game this way going forward, but I would like this guideline to be clarified for the sake of myself and other players.Â
That said, I understand now that despite the lack of ONI presence, we should have attempted to hold Kodiak through a fight with the Covenant. Cole Protocol before it was confirmed that they landed and were attacking Kodiak was wrong, regardless of how many ONI personnel were present. I didn't mean to, but through my actions, I prevented a chance for RP/Action between the UNSC and the Covenant, which is the whole idea here. It was wrong, I feel bad about it, and I don't want to repeat that kind of mistake in the future. I volunteered to become an ODST Squad Leader so that I could help maintain good gameplay and help make rounds fun and exciting for everyone. I am regretful that I not only failed in that, but caused the opposite to occur.
If I were reinstated as an ODST, regardless of rank, I would carefully adjust how I play to prevent myself from causing a situation like this again. This is my first disciplinary action that I'm aware of, and I don't feel like what I did merits a full deWhitelisting. I would really appreciate reconsideration. I am sorry that I've created issues for other players, and work for staff. I appreciate your time and your consideration.
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