Your CKEY (Including any alts you have): Haliris
Your Discord Name (Including any alts you have): Haliris#5397
How often are you online to help?: In the evening and afternoon (GMT+1). I’ve yet to receive my final schedule from University for this semester, but I should be free at least four days a week and in the weekends.
What changes, if any, would you bring?: Not much out of the blue as a moderator. I don’t know how BYOND code works. The rest I can do without being a mod like maintaining the wiki. The only thing I would do if I could is experimenting by adding a “magistrate” role (mentioned in the space law rework thread), splitting the judicial power from sec so they can fully dedicate to their roles as enforcers, and not be the sole judge and jury on the station. Being a law student, I think about this idea a bit too much.
How old are you?: 23
Why do you want to be a moderator?: I’ve played for a bit now and want to give some of my time by helping maintaining the server. The latest talks on the forum about the lack of staff for moderation motivated me for writting this app.
How long have you been playing SS13?: My first connection to Golden probably dates back to 2017-2019, although I’ve only gotten into SS13 and started really playing in September 2021. Hours: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
How long have you been playing BeeStation?: For four months roughly, and I’ve messed around on Golden a few years ago.
On a scale of 1-10, how skilled are you in SS13?: 7, I know most jobs and most mechanics.
On a scale of 1-10, how skilled are you as an administrator? (this can include past games): 2, I know roughly what admins can do but I’ve never used their tools.
Have you ever been an admin or moderator on another server? This is not limited to SS13: Not much, but I’ve adminned a minecraft server one of my friends was hosting during highschool (30+ players on average). The reason this is worth mentioning I believe is because it taught me a great deal about how to manage egos and handle petty drama.
Do you have any alternate accounts on SS13? If so, could you provide their CKEY?: Nope
Your strengths: I’m thick skinned and patient. I try to do my best to keep my emotions and pride in check when judging others. This is in my opinion the best way to be unbiased and fair.
Your weaknesses: I happen to be insecure at moments, especially when I’m thrown into an environment I’m not acquainted with, which leads me to being too passive in social interactions. As a moderator, this will likely lead to me being too lenient or not proactive enough with bwoinking someone until I get the jist of it and I build enough confidence. I’m essentially too scared to mess up.
Also worth mentioning, I have a low attention span to the point where I’m going to get checked up irl. This can result in me missing details missing details or pieces of information if they are mentioned only briefly.
Is there anything that gets you really mad, real fast?: People who act shitty towards new players and out of line backseaters.
What do you think is the most important trait for a staff member to have?: Humility. Given the nature of this game and the tendency people have to take it way too seriously, I believe the ability of a staff member to remain calm and solely focus on what the server needs is to be valued. Almost all dramas we see on reddit and such involving admins on servers have egos and personnal feelings out of place from one or more parties.
What makes a staff team good?: Communication and being as honest as possible. The gap between the playerbase and the staff team should be as small as possible so the two can understand and talk to each other in an effort to make the server better.
What is a staff team’s purpose?: To create an environment in which people can have fun and enjoy the game. In the case of Beestation: RP through SS13’s game mechanics.
For a moderator, this would mean helping fullmins with tickets and making sure the server isn’t disrupted by people who are simply not interested by what Bee has to offer.
What kind of player are you?: Job simulator dude that can spend hours on pet projects just to fail, rejoin, and try all over again and still fail. I also enjoy helping new players and have no qualms spending entire shifts dedicated to teaching people engineering. Although I try nowadays to interact more with people, I have no shame admitting my RP isn’t excellent and I’m working on characters that hopefully could be more memorable and interesting to others.
How do you think you will change once you become a staff member?: Nothing much really, I don’t really enjoy Discord in general so I don’t expect to post more there. However given my status as a staff member I would probably join in conversations regarding the server and would definitely get myself involved in forum threads that are relevant as such.
The clown slips the HoS and steals his gun, spacing it right after. What do you do?:
Two things to consider: in what context did the clown acquire the gun and why did he space it. HoS’ gun is a sensitive item and stealing is an antagonist action.
I would first check the clown to see if he is an antag.
If he is, no actions are required.
If he isn’t, I would bwoink him and ask him why he did that, just to get his side of the incident while I double-check logs.
Assuming things are what they are, I would remind him of the status of the HoS’ gun, that it is a possible antag objective and that he potentially griefed players with his “prank”.
The sanction ranges from a note to jobban/server ban.
If the clown is a low hour player/has no history and shows good faith during the ticket, issue a note. If the incident occured during red alert, issue a one hour server ban telling him to reread the rules, as it aggravates the self-antagonism.
If the clown is an experienced player, issue a higher severity note (I think they work like that? If not, then a day ban). If the history of the player is terrible, with several notes and bans, elevate the ban length potentially all the way to perma with input from an admin.
Finally, I would respawn the HOS’ gun in his locker and issue a CC announcement so that other players know where it is.
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?:
Adminjail the player and ask him why he did that. Voluntarily sabotaging atmos requires a decent amount of experience so we can exclude ignorance.
Checking logs and the player retelling of the event in the ticket, assuming nothing important has been missed, I would permanently ban him.
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?:
Considering how often chemistry explodes without any antagonist involvement, this looks like an IC mistake. Still I would bwoink the chemist and simply ask him what happened. Assuming nothing relevant to the server rules comes up in the ticket, I would redirect him to the chemistry guide on the wiki and tell him to ask for help next time he’s experimenting, either IC from other players or by mhelping.
