Your CKEY (Including any alts you have):
GaySatan. And GayerSatan for testing/learning things by myself.
Your Discord Name (Including any alts you have):
GaySatan#3388
How often are you online to help? (Timezone):
CST. usually i’m around in the mornings / nights. Anywhere from 6 am - 12, to 8pm - 1am. My schedule is not predictable in any way because of some not fun chronic illness stuff, but generally I’m usually on for at least one to two shifts a day at minimum.
What changes, if any, would you bring?:
I’d really like to see some more chat moderation in ooc chats. See a lot of rude stuff said in ooc or ghost or looc that just. Isn’t conducive to fun player to player interaction and usually isn’t commented on (probably due to staff shortages i imagine) I’d also like to see maybe some more active admining aka round observing to make sure newer players are conducting themselves in a way that’s. not terrible. (again i imagine this has more to do with staff shortages then actual staff)
How old are you?:
24
Why do you want to be a moderator?:
Hmm, There’s a couple reasons. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of iffy player behavior and the lack of admins / mods available to deal with it seems to be leading to an increase in it. I have the time and the ability and the know how to do the work, and I like playing on bee, so I might as well. I’m also just sort’ve, hm. Having a lot of chronic pain in my life right now is making doing kind of anything productive pretty difficult for me, and I think I’d like the ability to do some work that I’m physically able to do and that I’m interested in.
How long have you been playing SS13?:
short answer? Too long. Long answer? I don’t even know anymore. I think I started playing around 2012? It was back when like- all the servers were still using teamspeak because discord wasn’t a thing yet. my god what a time that was. Miss the days of massive cuban pete style bombs that just absolutely demolished the station. Also that’s a joke i literally don’t miss that at all.
How long have you been playing BeeStation?:
year wise i’m not sure covid has killed my sense of time. Hour wise living: 328 hours, Ghost: 34 hours. Unfortunately most of these are in cmo, cringe i know.
On a scale of 1-10, how skilled are you in SS13?:
8, i’m incredibly unrobust, and atmos still eludes me (curse you toxin bombs and gas piping!!!) But I would say pretty confidently I know my stuff in everything else, though there’s always room for improvement, and every now and then I do forget something really obvious in the middle of the round.
On a scale of 1-10, how skilled are you as an administrator? (this can include past games):
ss13 wise specifically i would say like a 3. I’ve messed around with admin tools before on private servers while testing stuff but honestly they are so confusing and all of the menus so hard to read I always avoided learning. Willing to learn so long as someone is willing to explain it to me this time. pretty fresh faced though a blank slate some might say.
Have you ever been an admin or moderator on another server? This is not limited to SS13:
Definitely have admined for minecraft servers back in highschool but that of course was. A hot mess because I was a highschooler doing admin stuff so, no not really.
Do you have any alternate accounts on SS13? If so, could you provide their CKEY?:
Yeah as stated above it’s gayersatan. I really have only ever used it for testing in private servers when I’m trying to figure something weirdly specific out. Forget I have it half the time.
Your strengths:
Generally I would say I’m a pretty level headed person. If someone is making me mad or causing an issue for me I’m good at taking a step back, taking a breather and going “it’s fine” and then either changing the subject or carrying on like nothing has happened, especially when they’re not doing it on purpose. I’d say I’m also pretty good at dealing with people who are angry or acting as a mediator between angry people. If someone were to say start being rude to me in an ahelp about something that upset them that happened in game, i would probably let them know i understand why they’re upset but that i can’t assist them if they’re going to be outwardly rude to me. So Having boundaries about what is acceptable staff to player interaction I guess also.
Your weaknesses:
Gonna be for real - my bee hours specifically are lacking. If i could include hours from other servers the total would probably be in the thousands but! That’s okay. Even if I could, my hours in antag and security would still be incredibly low. I’m not a fan of combat in ss13 so I avoid those roles. Also My health is definitely poor right now which might make it hard for me to put in a LOT of hours towards moderation but i’d still like to try. Other than that sometimes in peak server hours it’s a little difficult for me to keep up with and read chat (curse you adhd!!!) but usually if i go back and reread it or double check i’m okay. It just means that sometimes it might take me some time to see a part of a chatlog or read through an entire conversation.
Is there anything that gets you really mad, real fast?:
Direct verbal attacks against me. Trans/homophobia. It makes me pretty mad when someone calls me bad at my job for not doing something I’m actually in the middle of doing. And I don’t like having to repeat myself because someone is talking over me or ignoring what I have to say, especially if I am explaining something to them and they are insisting I am wrong because they know more than me and are clearly not listening to a single thing i’m telling them.
What do you think is the most important trait for a staff member to have?:
Kindness, Clarity, a willingness to listen, and the ability to admit when you’ve made a mistake and it needs to be fixed. Also a strong understanding of the rules and how players should treat each other.
What makes a staff team good?:
The ability to work together, stay professional when dealing with players, and probably an enjoyment for the game and all its weird little mechanics, aka overall wide game AND rule knowledge. Also definitely a unified idea of how players should act + Treat each other.
What is a staff team’s purpose?:
To ensure a round is fun, productive, and that players are treating each other with respect while following the rules of the game. Also to, of course, hold the ban hammer at the ready for more bible chatbots as is my right.
What kind of player are you?:
I play exclusively head roles most of the time. I like playing the manager that wants my staff to be productive while also balancing their ability to have a good time. Sometimes that means as cmo that i have to tell the chemist that no he cannot make a meth lab, and sometimes that means as cmo when the clown who changed careers to med doctor asks me if they can make an sm engine in medical storage because he wants to know if he can telling them no, but that they can do it in maint if they follow proper safety protocols and ask the cap for permission first. I want the people who interact with me to have fun, but I also want them to follow the rules of the game to a degree so that the other people playing with them can have fun. Sometimes that means being a head of staff who has to demote geneticist for random gene injecting people without saying a single word to them, and sometimes that means sticking the entire station budget in a box and handing it to the qm for safekeeping while there are pirates trying to steal it. There are fun solutions to all sorts of problems in ss13 and that’s why i like it. If I can “Yes And” something I will, but I’m also very clear on where the line of “this may be funny but it could also ruin someone else’s shift” is. And I have no problem enforcing that as a head of staff.
How do you think you will change once you become a staff member?:
I Think i’ll probably accrue a lot more ghost hours for one. I also think I’ll be able to foster a more positive environment between players. Hopefully. I’ll probably also have to stop playing head of staff as much which is a little sad, but i’ve been meaning to branch out more anyway so might as well start now.
The clown slips the HoS and steals his gun, spacing it right after. What do you do?:
First things first. Did the HOS ahelp about it? If he didn’t he probably thought this was a fair interaction. It would change how I approach this situation if he has or has not. Definitely still speaking to the clown and checking his notes either way, and also checking to see if the gun was an antag objective that round. If it was, (and if i can do this as a moderator.) I would probably Teleport it back into security, and ping the hos to let him know where it is. If the clown has no notes, and the HOS didn’t ahelp about it, Would probably just ping the clown to ask why he spaced the gun, To inform him for future reference that the gun is an antag objective and to ask him to please avoid spacing it or otherwise removing it from the station in the future. If the HOS has ahelped about this, then I would speak to both of them. Listen to what hos has to say about the situation and then ask the clown why he did what he did. Depending on his reasoning I would still inform him that the gun is an objective and to please not space it in the future, and then either provide a note if the reasoning was not sound or seemed a little to lrp, or otherwise just mark it as an ic issue if it seemed like it happened because of a roleplay interaction.
A non-antagonist is sabotaging the Atmospherics loop and pumping plasma into the distro, along with dragging around a canister and releasing it into the atmosphere. Assuming that an admin is cleaning up the after-effects, how do you conduct the ahelp with him?:
Ping him immediately and ask for his reasoning behind this. There of course - really isn’t a good reason for this behavior, it’s self antaging and griefing, but I think it’s reasonable to give someone a chance to respond or provide whatever their idea or reasoning is. The severity of the ban is most likely going to depend on how they interact with me through this ahelp, but I would probably also still ask other more senior admins about how to deal with this. Personally I would either give them a permanent until vouch ban or just perma ban them depending on if they seem like a serial griefer / someone who is just avoiding a current ban to grief or someone who is new to the game and just has no idea that there are like. rules.
A chemist who is working alone accidentally mixes an explosive mixture inside of his chem dispenser, instantly killing himself and destroying the machine, along with exposing Chemistry to space. Nobody else was injured aside from him as a result of his actions. What do you do?:
Ah i’ve seen this so much as cmo sighs. check notes, check antag status, and check what he was making in the machine in the first place. (especially if someone ahelps it) Either way this was MOST likely an accident so if they’re newish, speak to them about what happened. Ask what they were making, and if they know what went wrong. Explain to them how / where they messed up if I can, and provide them some tips on safely making more dangerous chemicals. If they blew themselves up while making meth for no good reason, or some other dangerous harmful drug as non antag, definitely ask for their reasoning behind making it and then let them know why that was a bad idea. Probably inform them of the sop for making chems like that, and maybe add a note for making dangerous chems / being negligent as chem depending on how completely baby fresh they are. If they have notes for blowing up chem previously while making dangerous chems and it seems like they’ve maybe done this a couple times now, probably job ban them from chemistry/medical for a bit. Probably a couple days? There’s only so many times someone can blow up chem before it stops lookin’ like an accident.
Chemistry is pretty easy to cause an explosion if you’re goofing off and you don’t know what you’re doing, but no one else got hurt, and the damage is repairable, so it’s not grief or anything, just a bit of mistake or negligence on a player’s behalf. Maybe suggest cmo demote or babysit them if they were making meth and exploded themselves, and they have like no hours on bee and seem kinda new, generally most likely an ic issue though, might just need some help learning da ropes. Just tell them to be more careful / how to be more careful next time.
