TOPIC: [SSRP Moderator] Jacknelli's Application

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DarkRP Related



Explain "Random Death Match" and give an example scenario.

Random Death Match (RDM) is where one player kills another without a valid roleplay reason to do so.

An example of this would be player X killing player Y because player Y would not sell player X a gluon gun for 50,000 RP cash.



Explain "New Life Rule" and give an example scenario.

New Life Rule (NLR) prohibits a player from going back to the district they died in for a time of 3 minutes.

An example scenario is player X raids player Y and player Y comes back to his base and kills player X before players Y's 3 minute NLR timer was up.




Explain "Metagaming" and give an example scenario.

Metagaming is using out of character information for in character benefit or vice versa, using in character information in an out of character circumstance.

An example scenario is player Y says in OOC: "Police help my shop is being raided. The building next to the hotel. Come quick!"
In this scenario player Y has broken the meta-gaming rule. Additionally if any CP class players use that information and immediately go to the location because of the information they gained from an out of character source, they too would be breaking the meta-gaming rule.




Explain how you would handle the following situation:

Player x accuses player y for RDMing him, the console log shows that player y killed player x.

I would teleport to player X and inform them that I will be handling their F1 situation. I would ask player X to give me a brief overview of the situation and ask how player Y RDM'd them. I would then go over the logs and determine whether or not the logs match up with player X's story. Once I have all the information from player X I would then tell them to wait there and I would tp to player Y. I would inform player Y that there has been an F1 made about them and they are accused of RDMing player X. I would then get player Y's side of the story away from player X so that player Y has a fair chance to explain and either admit to the rule break or challenge it. I would ask what player Y's role play reason for killing player X was. If player Y decided to challenge the rule break and say he didn't RDM player X I would tell him that I am going to tp him to have a sit with myself, player X, and player Y. Once I have determined if player Y is guilty or not guilty of RDMing player X based on logs, evidence provided by player X, and the accounts of what each player says happened I would then either reason to verbally warn the player, use the /warn system to warn the player, or if I have deducted that no rule has been broken and there is no proof to say otherwise then player Y would be teleported back to their original position without receiving any warnings.



Explain how you would handle the following situation:

Player x accuses player y for breaking NLR, the kills are pretty close together in console (a few lines apart) at a peak time

I would teleport to player X and inform them that I will be handling their F1 situation. I would ask player X to give me a brief overview of the situation and ask how exactly player Y broke NLR. I would then go over the logs and determine whether or not the logs show that player Y could have indeed broken NLR. Once I have all the information from player X I would tell them to wait there and I would teleport to player Y to get their side of the story. I would inform them that there has been an F1 made about them and that they are accused of breaking NLR. I would ask them to give me their side of the story and either admit to the rule break or challenge it and say they did not break NLR. If they say they did not break NLR I would tell them I will be teleporting them to have a sit with player X and myself to determine what really happened. Based on the logs, player X and player Y's accounts, and any evidence provided by player X, I would then determine whether or not player Y has indeed broken NLR. If so I would either give them a verbal warning or a warn through the /warn system depending on the offense and other circumstances. If I determine player Y has not broken NLR I would not be warning them and I would teleport them back to their original position.



Explain how you would handle the following situation:

Player x calls for help in the ooc chat because his bank is being raided

Firstly I would make everyone aware over ooc that they are not to use that information in character and if they do so they may too be punished. I would then teleport to player X and inform them that they have broken the meta-gaming rule and inform them of what that rule means if they are unfamiliar. Based on the situation I would either give them a verbal warning or a warning through the /warn system.

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Why I should be chosen.


I believe there are many factors in determining whether or not an applicant is fit for a staff position. Those factors may include:

- Current server activity (past week/2 weeks, amount of time played each day)

- Overall time played on the server and knowledge of the server

- Being able to have proper reasoning in handling F1 situations

- Being friendly and professional when interacting with players on the server and handling staff situations

- Past staffing experience if any

- Recent warnings and/or bans and problems caused on the server

- Overall community view on the applicant (Feedback on applicants application)



Now I will go over a self assessment of where I stand on all of the above categories.


Current server activity:

I have recently taken a break from not just zarp, but all gaming platforms for the past few months due to school, work, basketball, and other priorities I have over gaming. I decided to take a break and focus on real world things but I have now decided to come back as my situation has stabled and I will have time every day available to be on the servers. I came back and started playing again on the 15th of October which will have me being active for over a week by saturday the time these applications will be reviewed. My activity has been upwards of at least 2 hours every day for this period. Some people may believe that being active for only little over a week before applying is too soon but I ask you to take in factors such as over 1,000 total hours on the server, the amount of activity in the time that I have been back, the amount of time I served as staff before leaving, knowledge of handling situations as a staff member, and other various factors elaborated on below.



Overall time played on the server and knowledge of the server:

My overall time on the ZARP SSRP servers is currently at over 1,000 hours. I am a long time member of zarp and am very familiar with how the server works and the various aspects of the server.



Being able to have proper reasoning in handling F1 situations:

Through my explanations in this application and over the course of time I have been staff in the past I have shown that I have very good reasoning when it came to handling F1 situations with players and handling rule breakers. I have a very good knowledge of the rules and review them every so often and whenever there are updated to the rules. I am not so quick to warn players as I am quick to trying to help them correct their mistakes and learn from them. I would much rather work with a player to help them understand the rules they have broken and how to avoid breaking these rules and making better decisions in the future. I do this because my goal is to make ZARP a more enjoyable place to play for everyone in the community. If I was quick to just give warns and punishments and be on my way then players will just end up reseting staff members and the rules of this server and create problems for more players in the community.



Being friendly and professional when interacting with players on the server and handling staff situations:

As stated above I try to be friendly and work with players when they have broken server rules. I always maintain a professional manner when dealing with rulebreakers. Many staff think that because a user is being disrespectful to them that they have a right to be disrespectful back. However all that is doing is dragging staff down to the immaturity of the user and being immature themselves. Staff are to set an example for players to follow and if staff aren't setting that example then players will continue to be disrespectful and cause problems for others in the community.



Past staffing experience if any:

In my time in being staff on ZARP I have gone from being a moderator though being a Super-Administrator. I have great knowledge of how to use the powers given to staff to handle situations and rule breakers on the server. I have been staff on a few other servers and have an adequate knowledge of handing myself as a staff member and staff situations.


Recent warnings and/or bans and problems caused on the server:

One of the days when I first came back on the server there was an incident with SmartKiller, a moderator, and he gave me two /warnings. One of them for attempted RDM and one for lying to a moderator. The situation was I had slams and there were two of them on the ground near me at spawn. I was talking to some people at spawn and SmartKiller comes up and moved the slams to a corner with his gravity gun. I said ok fair enough and once he started walking away from them I blew them up so that they were no longer there. SmartKiller had gotten slightly damaged by the explosion and I said over mic "whoops wasn't me" in a joking manner because we were looking at each other and i obviously had the detonator in my hands. I thought all was good until he froze me and then proceeded to give me the two warnings. I said whoa whoa whoa bud I was joking and you didn't even talk to me about it what's going on? He walked away and wouldn't talk to me so I preceded to /pm him asking why he gave me the warning because I was clearly joking. He then proceeded to unwarn me and apologized and the warns were resolved.

Other than that occasion there are no recent warnings or bans.



Overall community view on the applicant: (Feedback on applicants application)

Please take a moment to look over my application thread and review the feedback and the communities view on me applying for moderator.



Thank you all for reviewing my application.

Cheers

every time i log in i see you standing still afk. . might be me but you seem to be afk most of the time.

You'll have at max 9 days of activity by the meeting. In the whole month.

Fantastic Mr Fox wrote:
If you read my application I have already addressed this. But thank you for your input.

Jacknelli wrote:
Eh, apart from that you're golden; you just need to make sure you don't get warned and I don't see and reason to deny you.

That dem activity.. But in s2 rip but still
Gr8 guy
Greatttttt appppppp
Y no support den

From what I've seen you've improved drastically from last time - just try to stay mature and be careful of what you say.

Goodluck.

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Thank you for your feedback mexi, stratiic, soxey

Thanks for applying for staff at ZARP DarkRp! During our weekly staff meeting your application, question answers, game trackers and in-game warnings are checked and then the staff team votes on your application.

This time, the staff team have decided that you still need to work on your application and then apply again next week. To try and help you they have summarised some positives & negatives discussed during the meeting:

You can apply again at any time, and thanks for supporting ZARP!