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2 hours ago, Fang said:

Ketchup & Corn

this is catastrophic 

7 minutes ago, Ophelia said:

Leaving the server in general. should be a ban for at least a few days. the reason I say this, Is because if they rage quit they aren't really losing anything anyway since they were probably going to leave the server anyway. So they'd just do again because it's a Loop hole for the rule in general. also the money the raider lost for the raid

MRDM at a first offense is a 3d ban. Breaking NLR to the point where you get banned, is only a 6 hour ban. I do not believe a few days would be just for the community at all.
I'd say maybe an hour, 2 tops for first offense. Repeating offenses, then maybe a day but that at max.
 

9 minutes ago, Ophelia said:

Although they might be upset over a Video Game I believe they shouldn't be treated any different because they've had a tantrum

Valid, though we can agree to disagree that they should be punished for it.

10 minutes ago, Ophelia said:

I mean I could just leave every time I get raided and have 0 consequence towards it. I mean what am I losing? Pretty much nothing.

While losing nothing, you also gain nothing. Now you've got to wait at least 20ish minutes to avoid the Rejoin to Avoid Raid warn, re-setup your base and hope you don't get raided instantly. I can see what you're saying and the scenario you're providing, I just see no reason to put yourself through that more than once. 

All raids must be completed in under 10 minutes, so there's less than 10 minutes in loss time. Tac juices and breach juices for 50k and 75k each, making it so that you can use 10 of one of them without even spending 1m, which is lowkey overkill for the bases I've seen. So we're talking about 5 minutes of time, less than 1.5m of your own invested money into the raid. So unless you're running into a base with a inventory full of expensive temporary weapons then you're not losing too much.

Lets say you raid a newly made base with freshly put down equipment. For a base with 1 cig smuggler, if you raid stick'd everything is this about what you'd expect to make:
lvl 1-4 printers = 400k (100k/ea)
Aether printer = 250k
Cig machines = 200k (100k/ea)
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That's only 850k you'd get from that raid.

I myself usually give the raider 10-15m to make up for loss in for certain winnable raid. Some others may instruct you to make a Discord ticket to get your funds, but don't feel like you can't ask for some sort of compensation in these situations.

I understand your comment, however it is challenging to tell people who play Garry's Mod to act "grown up" when the game is targeted towards children mainly.
What punishments would you like to be seen given in these scenarios?
 

7 minutes ago, Ophelia said:

you need to accept the risks and the punishment if you lose.

It's not as if their product or money making machines automatically sell during their disconnection, so they're still losing all of their stuff. When players break this rule they automatically make it harder on themselves, which is why I think it's not super strict.
Player dies in a raid > they disconnect; so now not only did they lose their items, but now they've lost their base and have to reconnect, all while you're looking for the next quick raid to complete. Raiding vs Basing isn't meant to make enemies amongst the two sides, so why let one player get another in trouble for their own known ignorance. I mean surely they've thought about how dumb it was to disconnect when they could've just re-setup their jobs, and continued playing.

In retrospect, it really is just best to leave these players alone. We never want to add fuel to any fires or gas up any arguments. Imagine how irritating it would be to lose a raid so bad that you felt you had to just straight disconnect, and then later come back to being banned for that same reason. I'd probably never rejoin that server again.

Like Jouaram said in this screenshot, it's kinda like throwing salt to the wound; if a player is angry about a raid and wants to remove themselves from the situation, I can totally understand that. This is much more preferred than the players who get angry and start fights and arguments in OOC. Now if they rejoin, then they obviously didn't do it because they were mad enough to rage quit but out of spite which is pretty toxic I agree with you.

Changing jobs while being raided, while there is no set rule against that I find this 100% punishable through either the same guidelines as if you rejoined, or Job Abuse.

From the raiders perspective I can why you'd want the person who left to be warned, it's just not Aethers best interest to warn these types of players.
 

+1 for a guideline showing punishments for those who "Switch jobs during a raid"

Player was dealt with in-game, thanks for the report!

This report seems a little silly to me. The sides of the story hardly matter in relevance to a false demotion sit; if there was a staff member online, active and able to take your sit if made, which it doesn't seem like one was ever made from you, then it's pretty clearly False Demotion. Only thing to do from there is to instruct & inform, warn and return.

If your side of the story is that somebody else was breaking the rules, then you should've made your own sit against them or waited for your friend to make the sit themselves since it was them getting the warrants. Taking matters in your own hands without knowing the rules can be a dangerous ball game.

100% believe you've got what it takes to become a staff member. Like said above your playtime is nearly impeccable and is quite up there, I see you on at all times of the day interacting amongst the community and livening up the area. Stay out of trouble and I see no reason why you don't deserve a shot at tmod!
+1

@Bryan

Player was dealt with, thank you for the report!

Seems like you meant to report @Papa Waffle instead of Blondee.

I dug through logs and do see where Waffle was inside of your base at the time of the raid, and he did not advert raid. Even though he admits his intentions were to assist the raid, just forgetting to advert assist; he never made any raid actions. Since he never used a breach juice, lockpick or retaliate any damage, this wouldn't even be considered fail raid as far as I can tell.
Even if players are in a party together, all players who want to participate in a raid must use their own advert. 

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but I'm confused on why this couldn't be dealt with in-game and why it's a staff report? Yes, we're not allowed to take sits against other staff members. But it's obvious in the clip that Blondee adverted his raid so he would be in the clear. Who are the other party members? They would be the ones responsible for advertising their own message no matter what Blondee had said.
 

Just now, Acmerica said:

+1 idea
-1 cause tremor

this

I spoke with Lonestar in-game and explained how the New Life Rule works, going forward I believe they understand now.
They've also received a warning, thank you for the report!

I cannot tell which items were traded but I did find where Loc confirms that the value of item('s) is 2 billion.

Co-existing with these chat logs I found that you did in fact have a successful trade between the 2 of you.

And then continuing my investigation I found chat logs, with enough context, that shows Loc mentioning that you in fact won and needed to come claim your winnings.

There's an economy log that shows that he paid you 4 million & as well as a chat log that says you had only placed a 1 million dollar bet instead of your item('s), going back on the initial deal which was the item('s) for 2 billion.


I believe that you were misled and misguided in this deal, but however I must say how bad of an idea this was to do. The player you initiated this deal with had a very low playtime, just below 20 hours I believe. It's kinda hard to believe that this player would have 2 billion of their own money to payout such a huge winning, so for future reference I suggest recording these types of transactions that way you've got every single detail to provide if needed.

+1

I'm literally devastated. I wish you only the best in your future endeavors, you're a really great guy and it's been a pleasure to get to know you. Stay safe and don't become a stranger! ❤️ 

Player was dealt with, thanks for the report!

slapstick

here’s the report that was made against you, when I was checking logs I seen a substantial amount of arrests during the PVP Antlion boss event. I could be mistaken but I’m also 98% sure while going through your logs the other morning you had also said multiple times that you were not worried about being reported and didn’t care at all. I suggest reading the rules in your time away, best of luck.

there's a pepperoni tree?

The player was warned for prop minge, thanks for the report!

Wanted to sit on this application for awhile before giving any input, simply due to the fact there's been a few applications before that got denied for a couple of different reasons. I think you've upheld yourself in such a way that a potential staff member should. I've seen no toxic behavior, and I've hardly got any critiques at the moment. I think you deserve a shot at t-mod, so if the opportunity is given make sure to give it your best shot.
+1

Player was dealt with, thanks for the report!

looks like a crack den tbh

So, yeah I mean definitely can't lock your entities up in a prop without adding a fading door... 7 active players, or 35 active players, the rules don't change.
Thanks for the report. Player received a warning.