PPI

[Fre3bie]

 

Admin Key: PPI

 

Complaint: For quite some time now PPI has been conducting "events" that seem to be mostly for his personal amusement. A few examples of these include spawning four blob cores in the AI core, flooding the station with emagged Beepsky's and ED's, and making himself an antag simply because he can.

 

About a month ago he was told by a senior admin to stop doing his idea of events and only do things with permission and supervision of a senior admin, though he hasn't heeded that since he's still going about doing whatever he feels like since he has gotten no consequences for any of this aside from being told by other admins how they don't approve of it, though I doubt the respect of his peers matters much to him.

 

From the round going on 31/08/2014 at 4:00pm EST:

http://i.imgur.com/NaojczT.png

http://i.imgur.com/HP8P8TA.png

http://i.imgur.com/np5T7At.png

After wandering around on the station as a nuke op he then made this CentCom announcement after being arrested:

http://i.imgur.com/pFQMKkr.png

 

OOC: [Name withheld]: I am sad now I wasn't even close to finishing that revolt rp but the person dressed in the nuke agent armor screwed me

 

[W3bster]

 

Since i have yet to recieve any replies from the people i told on private channels, i'll make this public.

 

An incident may of just happened. Explosion in the brig in a traitor round. SocialSystem checked, logged an explosion with no Ckey.

PPI was at the epicentre of it.

Went to the admin test area, triggered a drop_bomb with proc call.

Did the same thing. Has an explosion, no Ckey.

Logs of the round may be provided if necessary.

SocialSystems may confirm the fact that PPI was in the epicentre of the explosion when it happened.

PPI was, in fact, not a traitor. And had no valid reason to blow the entire brig, killing most of security in the process and highly hampering it.

 

Theses are assumptions with the access to the logs and such i have and experiments of my own. Hence i am not 100% sure. Yet all investigations i led all gave the same results.

 

For reference, isolated logs

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=JvA3Cina

 

Part of the area of explosion, ~15-20 minutes after engineers arrived to begin repairs. Still has gibs and blood of the officers. Most died/critted from the actual depressurization it caused.

 

Update : Also added a few additional objectives to himself as ling..

 

 

But wait! There is more!

 

 

[MindLeaker]

 

While I see the humorous side to what PPI attempted, emphasis on "attempted", he has frankly overstepped his privileges and bounds. Personally, I would like to hear either an apology or unbiased explanation of his actions, while I myself haven't had any problems with the admins on this server, as they have been nothing but considerate and well-meaning, aside from a hiccup or two.

 

Even if he was trying to spice the rounds up, it is no excuse to openly self-antag and grief the Brig with administrator powers, from what I see from both admins, either a demotion or ban should be issued, but since PPI has refrained from answering the complaints, I remain open-minded, if a bit dubious.

 

I am neither a Mentor, nor an admin, and therefore cannot do much besides post my opinions. But taking people from the round illegitimately, self-antagging, and gross abuse of the admin powers is a violation of more rules than I can shake a stick at.

 

[DaveTheHeadcrab]

 

Been poking around the forums a bit recently. Figured I may as well toss in my two cents on this, despite being retired.

 

I usually never had an issue with admins making themselves antag on occasion. We were volunteers, an extra antag round every few days (Read: Every few days, not every round) is something that, in my opinion, is warranted as a reward for spending our spare time keeping the server safe.

 

That said, when you are actively opposing the station as antag and you hold admin powers, you should play on the same level as they do and abide by their rules. This behavior is, in my opinion, highly abusive because the players don't have a chance. The ones who attempted to fight PPI in the first incident were terminated by CentComm. It's not fair to the players, nor is it fun for them.

 

Note I only have the information in this post to go off of, my view of the situation might be skewed.

 

 

Respectfully,

Dave - Ex-Senior Game Master

 

[IcyV]

 

Seems like it's people more of just bashing him for one-time things

 

A million discussions and incidents brought up on our side. It isn't one time things. It's just a small collection of a very small amount of things he has done.

 

[Regen]

 

All other players are to refrain from posting any more in this complaint unless it holds any more evidence of admin abuse or the likes.

Your "opinion" is appreciated, but not needed.

 

[Spacemanspark]

 

Admin Key: PPI

From the round going on 31/08/2014 at 4:00pm EST:

http://i.imgur.com/NaojczT.png

http://i.imgur.com/HP8P8TA.png

http://i.imgur.com/np5T7At.png

After wandering around on the station as a nuke op he then made this CentCom announcement after being arrested:

http://i.imgur.com/pFQMKkr.png

 

OOC: [Name withheld]: I am sad now I wasn't even close to finishing that revolt rp but the person dressed in the nuke agent armor screwed me

I was a part of this round as Kei' Shen, and I would like to point out that he, at the start of his Nuke Op thing, was invincible to stuns. Another thing was, at a point when all of security surrounded him, he used some power to stun us to the ground one by one so he could get away.

 

[mkenner]

 

Thankyou to those providing this feedback. I'm sorry to be slow to respond, university has been keeping me incredibly busy recently.

 

Quoting from the 'what is an event' guide:

 

"The event planners are given authorization to intervene in the round to add to your play experience. Not to have fun at your expense. There are some seriously over-powered tools in our arsenal but they're there only to add to the narrative and story of the round. The enemies are there to allow you to be heroes by fighting them. The NPCs exist to prompt your own roleplaying and not to steal the spotlight. If the admins want things to be all about their characters, they have to join into the round with a normal character just like everyone else. Otherwise, we're props and extras to add to the story that unfolds from the actions of your characters."

 

There is nothing inherently wrong with an event coordinator creating an antagonist, the issue here is whether proper judgement was displayed and whether the actions undertaken were done to create an event or to further a personal play experience. The senior admin team will investigate this and determine any appropriate action to be taken.

 

Also for future reference, from a bureaucratic standpoint, intra-admin complaints should be handled via the admin forums as this particular forum is intended for players to lodge complaints.

 

Regards,

M Kenner

Senior Events Admin.

 

[necaladun]

 

Upon review of this matter by head and senior admins, we have asked around and other issues have been brought up.

 

It is the decision of the Senior staff that PPI is to be let go from his position as an event admin.

 

The exact details are a bit long to post, but in summary PPI was not found to be using his admin powers in the best interests of the server or in a fair way.

 

Thank you for submitting this complaint, and the polite feedback offered during the investigation from the players I contacted.