Rain.S here to give my side of the story:
Let’s start with the Space Law:
(TL;DR: Yes, you are correct, I broke it albeit unintentionally)
Long version:
at that point you have been charged with attempted code 401 (Prime Murder) as well as code 310 (BEHSA) (even if it wasn’t you who broke into HoP Office, you would still be charged with 309 (High Sec. Trespass), assumed it was code 310 since I left the crown you were wearing in the HoP office), code 206 (Possession of Contraband) and 205 (hostile agent). At that point in time, I also argued that you have been behind the bomb that blew up in robotics (therefore code 303), which yes, you can argue is a stretch.
At that moment I was under the impression that, with multiple broken codes some of which were major crimes (310, 303), I could charge the highest crime possible (401) with full sentence, regardless whether attempted or not (I consulted the brig phys for this, which they agreed with after “They revised the space law”, I assume the phys. thought you could be charged with 405 without reading it properly first.). However, upon revising space law today by me (which yes, I should’ve confirmed that at the time of the situation), I see is not the case, therefore yes, i am guilty of breaking Spacelaw, you are correct. (Would’ve been cool to see that resolved IC with CC, too bad no admins were on)
Now the powergaming:
(TL;DR: you can only argue I powergamed at the end of the shift (after crew transfer was announced), however even then it wasn’t valid-hunting.)
Long version:
Never was this a prioritization of “winning” nor was it valid-hunting? I’ve never made an attempt to chase or find any antags throughout the game? I’ve spend the majority of my time in R&D, making mechs, a spare cyborg and research. The only times I’ve went into maints was when the Rad storm arrived and when I was looking for an airlock to find Mia (more on that later).
My character’s whole plan that round was to make cool mechs and experiment with different equipment available to mechsuits, regardless of combat capability or utility. And before you argue that I’ve only made combat mechs, I’ve made medical an Odysseus before even constructing a durand, and was planning to make a firefighter mech after the Gygax (for bounty, but that idea was scrapped after crew transfer request).
Now the question arises:
Rain, why not play Roboticist then?
At the time and throughout the game, I was the only member of command. My intention when picking HoP (which caused me to become defacto cap, was hoping an actual captain would arrive later on.) was to assist people with access into areas they might need as well as job changes. Since this was a lowpop round, these issues were bound to arise (Paramedic with no access to med supplies/surgery due to lack of personnel, or a person wanting job change/additional access to fill the lack of crew in certain areas). Of course, I wasn’t sitting in HoP line the entire shift, I want to do my own stuff too and quite frankly, sitting there 24/7 isn’t the job of HoP (That’s like saying a botanist should be in botany 24/7). I’ve send out a message on comms that if crew needed me, they can message me on the PDA, and I obviously prioritized that over whatever I was doing.
The only times that I was present in a Durand was upon its construction, transfer to sec for equipment, back to robotics and to bridge for storage (After our altercation, I’ve moved it to robotics charger, where it stayed for the rest of the round). All in all, I’d say I sat in the Durand for ~20 minutes at most? Considering I entered the round late when it was about to hit the 1 hour in mark and the round ended after 3 hours, I don’t see how that is considered camping? In fact, I believe you’ve seen me a plethora of times without a mech.
About using your PDA: I don’t see how that is against the rules? It makes perfect sense to me IC for command to use the PDA of a Syndicate agent to purchase a Syndicate radio implant to eavesdrop on any other potential traitors?
And now the Mia incident: You’re just blatantly wrong there, I didn’t ignore that in the slightest. I was busy trying to find my way back to Captain’s office to acquire the hardsuit, at which point my Byond bugged out and froze for a few seconds. What also didn’t help was that upon being halfway through the way to an airlock, oxygen from a mask I was using before has ran out, so I had to backtrack to EVA for a new tank, combined with my lack of knowledge of where the airlock are (Rarely do I ever play Kilostation) caused me to be late. There was even a player that was on-scene that asked me “What took you so long”, so no, I did not feign ignorance.
Honestly, the only scenario where we can argue I powergamed was when Crew Transfer was announced. Initially, I was going to cryo as round was getting dragged out and I had IRL things to take care of. When CT was announced, I’ve decided to stay until it was over. After learning about the hilarity that is the grenade launcher which spews out a multitude of flashbangs, I’ve decided to equip the newly-constructed Gygax with it for end-round tomfoolery that happens 90% of the time. As for the Energy gun, I thought since an attempt on my life was made, it made sense for me to equip myself with better weaponry (Especially since the altercation began when I was out of the mech, and was getting my ass beat.), however I can see how that could be consider powergaming due to it being blue alert and I’ll trust the admin’s judgement on this one.
As for the clown: Wow. You, uh, took that personally huh?
For the borging, I was half-joking. Initially I asked that in a joking way, but afterwards i asked brig phys if you had committed any capital crimes that warranted that. I guess I can see how you thought I was serious so I’ll try to make those things clear for the future.
As for the mech practice thing, I thought it was pretty clear that it was a joke with the way I constructed my sentence? (“Brig physician are you alive or can I use the clown as Mech target practice?”, something along those lines I can’t exactly remember.). Through those interaction I was trying to play into the “Sec/Command hate clown” trope. So, uh yeah, sorry I hurt your feelings I guess?
(Unimportant sidenote: That borg joined on its own and I didn’t make him or was at all involved with what transpired, so you might want to make a separate report for that, because I have no idea what happened there.)
I want to reiterate: NEVER WAS IT MY INTENTION TO VALID-HUNT OR POWERGAME THROUGHOUT THE SHIFT. I can see how, from your perspectives, you interpreted my actions as Powergaming, however please stop painting me as some bloodthirsty, valid-hunting sweat with violence on his mind, if that we’re the case, I would’ve been banned long ago. No one’s perfect and we all learn stuff everyday, regardless whether you have 10’s or 1000’s of hours in the game or if we’re new to the game or staff members.
Well, that was a lot of rambling. I just want to use this as learning experience so I can hopefully avoid these situations. I probably won’t be replying immediately after posting this (spent ~3 hours writing this and have IRL stuff to take care of), but I just want it to be known I’m not holding grudges about this, and hopefully you guys won’t too.
Okay uhh I want to end this on a light note so uuhhhhhhhhhhhh:
