[Heads of Staff]

As I told Neca.

I give up. This isn't about the incidents in which multiple players have told me to leave the server when I've complained about game mechanics I don't like or metacultures I don't like, but that's what you want to make it about, repeatedly demanding screenshots of that. Just dig through dead-chat for a few days and find how many times stuff along those lines is said by multiple people to multiple people, because that's the culture the server is currently breeding.

You're breeding a culture of metagamers, backstabbers, and moral grandstanders and it's no wonder the server has become stagnant with feature implementation becoming a crawl, new players being cycled out constantly, and regular faces forming unintentional cults of personality. You can't admit that your administration and this server has problems, so you parrot the same BS and deflect on what you want. 

 

Paradise has become a toxic LRP playground masquerading as an MRP server. MRP and rules are only dragged out when it fits the narrative of the community's big names or administration. It isn't even a conspiracy it's simple incompetence, and if you point it out you'll be implied to be wearing a tinfoil hat. The Heads of Staff outright fucking lied to me, deflected my criticism against them with their usual beauracrat by the books schtick. Let's go over some evidence.

Least of concern, Tully outright fucking lies saying that the heads of staff and all of administration extensively discussed proper course of action before banning me. Well then if that's the case why did it take me 17 hours to get any information from a headmin after the fact of my ban because the banning administrators were offline?

Yeah I admit I was wrong about it being because I'm opinionated that someone sought to get me banned but hmmmn? Is there somebody that wanted me banned because they didn't like me on an OOC level? Well it turns out there was, somebody who lied to administration that I was involved in an incident of "IC Rape" (they got their jumpsuit stripped then ran off into maintenance with confirmed vampires and tators, after which worried friends pursued them to apologize) when I was busy that entire round being an antagonist. And what did that person have to say when they fessed up to filing a complaint against me? They blamed me for species hate on slime, called me garbage, and gloated over the fact that I was banned. All because they couldn't handle a little shitposting in an OOC, the literal snowflake slime Serac needed to eject me from the community. And when I complained about them for being disrespectful and basically harassing me using admins as a proxy Necaladun continued to push for logs I can't produce because shit like that happens near daily on Paradise and I didn't have to screenshot every mean word said to me.

The thread the Neca responding to hear isn't even about what people shit talk about on deadchat or elsewhere, it was about Harkness gloating about getting me banned and playing the shame game with me to try to get me to apologize to them for something I never did. He brings in shit that is completely unrelated to the incident I complained about to deflect and continue the same attempt at disarming me he's done already. And just for the extra context, this is the log of what Harkness said to me and my friends over Discord that I complained about, which Neca completely dismissed. He still wants this to be about my ban when I stated in the same thread I don't care about being banned anymore because I don't want to share a server with Harkness due to their two-faced behaviour.

I apologized 2-3 times for my sense of humor in my unban thread by the way. Neca also ignored that and picked apart the rest of the appeal with a hostile overtone, clearly they were never intent on allowing me to appeal in the first place. Neca can't admit that he makes mistakes. He can't admit that he mishandles situations and only drags out the rules when they're convenient to him. He isn't a roleplayer, he's a ruleplayer. Hhehfunnyjoke.

Yeah, no shit it's an attack on the administrative staff, I'm criticizing the administrative staff for the way they've handled the server in the past year that's made me so opinionated against current metacultures and practices. But as has been evidenced criticism is an attack. This isn't the first incident you've been criticized for and will be by no means the last, and as my looking into things outside of this forum has revealed it's likely to never change. You'll never follow your own rules. You'll never follow your own guidelines. You do what you want, when you want, and use beauracracy as an excuse. I no longer wish to be a member of this community, and this will be my final post as it's likely to get my forumbanned anyways.

 

Edit: 

Just an addendum, Dumbdumn you can still give yourself a pat on the back. You were actually helpful and civil through this whole situation.

[@necaladun]

I would have delivered this via PM but it likely would have just been picked apart of its content or outright ignored.

I was not implying you had a conspiracy or vendetta against me. I was suspicious of a player complaint being disingenuously made against me to prompt the log dumping just to find incriminating content because I know other players dislike me. But as for the player that I suspect filed the complaint, they were right. Hours before the ban they told me to leave the server, I was not welcome here. Since it's clear that even though I took responsibility for my actions and apologized in my appeal in addition to pointing out the dismemberment of context, the suspicious circumstance of my ban, and seemingly preferential treatment, that I am not welcome here, I will refrain from posting another appeal for some while. You picked apart each part of the appeal that you didn't like, decided to take the bullet for another player who I know purposefully triggered log mining to get me banned for unrelated reasons, and ignored where I apologized not once but twice for the content of my PDA messages. You released the logs of those without the names I'd blanked out because I didn't want to drag friends into my own 'drama'. There is no conspiracy but there doesn't need to be one for this situation to be mishandled in the way it has been.

Thank you for showing me how a true Paradise handles this kind of situation. Have a good day.

[Mini-Antag: Luminary]

Beautiful. I don't have much else to say but this just seems fun.

["My Country"]

new jersey

 

nobody likes us so we might as well be our own country

[Give Wiznerds Objective (or just remove the gamemode)]

If there is no way to fix wizards being a terribly unfun game mode, then we should just remove it from rotation like other game modes that couldn't be fixed. Since giving wizards non-murderbone objectives will to some just make the gamemode even more boring than it already is, I see no other way to fix it as a gamemode.

As other people suggest maybe we should make wizards an event and remove some of their more round-destroying abilities like the summoning demons and such. Anything is honestly better than what we have now.

[Give Wiznerds Objective (or just remove the gamemode)]

The only objective a wizard has is to murderbone. It's just a free for all killing spree that lasts for over an hour with many ways to make victims unable to be revived. The only people who have fun in this game mode are the rampant validhunters and the wizards. Can we have wizards fixed already? Without any true objective the gamemode just turns into a slog of spectating the wizard hiding in maintenance then popping out and sending 4-5 people to the spectator zone. Over and over again for up to 2 hours.

[Nov 25th Meeting Questions]

There really needs to be some warnings or something going out for the security powergaming. Lately during peak hours I've been seeing completely excessive sentences, pre-emptively securing literally everything within the first 10 minutes of a round (most often the AI bolting all rooms with steal objectives and gateway), 'upgrading' permabrig by adding girders to all the windows and blocking off the bathroom, and random searches on any alert level for the most minor suspicious acts.

I know it's not particularly against the rules but lately it's been pretty excessive and only forgivable because most rounds sec isn't particularly effective at dealing with actual antagonists. Will we see anything to cut down on this behaviour?

[New Potential Magboot Sprites?]

The Shaft Miner magboots look so great I'd probably steal them instead of using the ones supplied to engineering.

 

This is a great idea though. My biggest gripe with fastmos apart from killing you with flung objects even when you have magboots on is that magboots are butt ugly thigh high stompers that make you look like you beat obesity out of every part of your body except the ankles.

[IC direction of Paradise]

On 10/30/2017 at 4:50 PM, necaladun said:

LRP, MRP, HRP, are all pretty nebulous terms.

For me, and the original intention was, was to be higher RP than things like Hippy, and lower than Bay. That holds true to me for sure (even if some people act a bit more hippy like, and some people more bay like).

 

 

This is spot on. Prefixed-RP is as nebulous as RP itself. To some, RP involves character development and a commitment to playing a character as a personality. To others it's simply the act of putting on a role. Even though I'd sometimes call myself a 'Heavy RPer' because I game a lot from the perspective of a long time PnP gamer; I log in here instead of other stations because it's not as overbearing as servers advertised as heavy RP tend to be, but not as chaotic and character breaking as places like /tg/ and Hippy.

There isn't really such a thing as medium RP, there is only enforcement and lack of enforcement in regards to actions being in-character.