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Name of Character: Bruce Altoni Character ID: N/A SteamID: STEAM_0:0:951941784 Your Discord ID#: its_Dotson Date of PK:10/30/25 Reason for PK: Fail Mug Why should you be unPK'd? What server rule or PK rule was violated?: I was in a Public Area. In the view of an npc, possible target mug If possible please provide video evidence or photo evidence if PK does not follow the guidelines

Yeah no one is getting comped for failing a gun fight, or RP escalation, I have literally never seen a ticket that suggests someone's tried to either This suggestion also doesn't consider actual RDM or VDM at all It's not whether you should 'consider the weight of drawing your weapon' when you get ran over from behind at mach speed by a random white shirt You're locked in on the specific instance of RDM baiting, that's not enough grounds to remove a system that is 99% of the time used for completely different scenarios -1 Terrible suggestion

maybe we should start with stricter punishments on staff abuse first

Maybe an addition i'd put on this suggestion would be fixed contract template items, rather than google docs like the typewriter uses For example, in City Hall there is a legal supplies vendor who sells contract templates, they could be: Sale/Purchase Agreement Lawyer Contract or probably a few other options- Then they are a nice IC template of a contract with places left out for Item Category/Money Amount etc. and then at the bottom Name and Signature of each party (auto filled via your char id upon signing) These can then be used via factions IC-ly to enforce missed fees for Lawyers, or missed payments on custom clothing or guns, and have a purpose in PK sits Could also be used in other Legal RP scenarios for things like Oil Coupons, Police ticketing, Fines, Bills at restaurants even I think it'd be cool, the more Diverge interactions that can be pulled away from a Google Docs tab the better imo

Steam Name: Marlock In Game Name(s): Darrelle "Big Dick" Dickson, Donnie Alonzo, Kenny Cooper Steam Profile Link: https://steamcommunity.com/id/MarlockTheGreat/ Steam ID: 76561198064436475 Discord Username: Marlock. Age: 28 When did you first join the server? June 2023 Total playtime on our servers (do !time in game): 2W 2D 20H Time Zone: Eastern Time (EST) How much time can you realistically dedicate to moderating? 4 to 5 hours daily Have you read the rules? Yes Do you have a working microphone? Yes Do you acknowledge that you must meet the weekly minimum ticket quota of 20 tickets? (Unless you have posted a valid LOA): Understood Are you familiar with SAM and or Nutscript commands? Yes Do you acknowledge that lying on this application will result in immediate denial and blacklisting from staff? Yes Long Answer What is your motivation or reason for applying? After spending a lot of time on Diverge Networks, I realized how much I genuinely enjoy helping improve the roleplay experience for others. I have staffed here before and I miss contributing to the server. I know how to handle situations calmly and without personal bias. I want to help new players, maintain immersion, and make sure everyone has a fun and fair experience. I want to give back to the community I have invested so much time into. Why should you be considered over other candidates? I am older and have more experience than most players in the community. I stay calm under pressure and handle every situation fairly. I do not get emotional or take things personally. I focus on solving problems, gathering facts, and keeping roleplay going. I want to improve the server, not just hold a staff title. Do you have any previous staffing experience? (Please list where, what position, and how long.) Yes. I was previously staff on Diverge Networks. Before that, I was an admin on Superior Servers StarwarsRP for over two years. I handled ban requests, moderated daily activity, ran events, and assisted with community management. I have been involved in Garrys Mod communities since 2009. Have you been banned before on any of our servers? If so, why? No. Would you say that you are well known in our community? What is your reputation? What do other members think of you? Yes, many people in the community know me. I held high command in multiple factions and I believe players would say I handled situations respectfully and calmly. I do not bring emotions into decisions. I keep the focus on fun roleplay and fairness. My reputation is that I am mature, helpful, and relaxed. What is your favorite moment on Diverge so far? My favorite moment was the July Fourth musket battle event. It brought players together, created a lot of laughs, and boosted community engagement. I enjoy events that unite the playerbase and increase interactions. These types of moments make the server memorable and help keep the community active. I would enjoy helping plan community events like that again. Have any staff members recommended you? If so, list their names: N A Problem Solving Someone RDMs and you are currently off duty. How do you handle this? I would contact an on duty staff member and explain what I witnessed. If no one is available, I would switch to my staff character and handle it. I would gather both sides of the story and review any proof. If the situation requires a higher ranking staff member, I would document everything and report it through the correct channels. You have seen a fellow staff member of higher or equal rank abusing fairly often, but not doing anything extremely noticeable. What do you do? I would gather evidence, such as video clips or screenshots, and then privately report it to a higher ranking staff member. I would not accuse them without proof. I would remain professional and follow procedure. A member of your faction or a friend of yours has a ticket made against them, accusing them of RDMing and minging. You know this person rarely does this. How do you proceed and does it create a possible bias? I treat the ticket like any other. I request evidence from both sides and compare it to the server rules. Friendships do not change how I handle staff duties. If I feel bias might exist, I request another staff member to handle the ticket. Fairness always comes first.

I thought it would be cool and much more "Mafioso", that in each crime family, street gang has an hitman who is sent by the Don and faction's superiors to kill the target, such as someone who has betrayed the agreements or someone from the enemy family or anyone who makes mistakes. But rightly the hitman must be given various information and must be sent ONLY FOR VALID REASONS.

on cool old server we had two features that helped combat this: - when you switched to a gun in your weapon wheel it would start on safety and depending on the type of gun (big rifles had longer timer), it had a short delay on how quickly you could unsafety it, to mimic the time it would take to actually grab it and raise it - progress bar on equipping/unequipping weapons in inventory (a few seconds) if you guys put aside your own subjective opinions, features like these despite seemingly small would absolutely go a long way in increasing RP quality. It would force people into enhancing interactions, instead of resorting to taking someones head off if they look at you funny. Always been an advocate for this, and so should you all.

just make it a requirement to do /me pulls out x gun forces players to roleplay (impossible for some)

If you are a staff member and you comp every ticket you get you should not be a staff member The best immediate answer is staff training and punishments for staff who are too lazy to investigate tickets fully- including not noting perps of rulebreaks

Have you been active in recent months? As long as you have a good understanding of the current server then I'm sure you'd be good! On the other hand your play time is generally low compared to some staff apps

Hey guys can you pretty please just, as the title says, nuke my rep. I think it would be very, very funny to have like -500 or even more. And yk heres a cookie

I'm not going to go and check if this was or wasn't AI But Sean, maybe in a more concise TL;DR style response you could outline the key points instead of this enormous novel - just outline your apology in a normal paragraph or 2

+1 pretty chill guy bwo

+1 biggest dick I've seen

Oh also forgot to mention, we have screenshots of you guys in a group dm chat. User who it was taken from deleted the chat when asked by staff to show it.

Could also open up some cool attachments like weapon slings or something to decrease draw time etc? I think adding more to the gunplay, especially now attachments are back, would be great. I also think gun bags should show on your back, but not class as probable cause for a search by police Otherwise you can be interacting with a guy who has a whole AK stuffed in his trouser pockets, as far as you're aware

Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Character involved was deemed to be a mugging character and has since been punished, in addition you will be unPK'd.

Learn what IC and OOC mean my guy, bringing an OOC currency disguised as IC to be used IC is retarded.

-1

This will be added with the Diverge battlepass update

-1 Support Unless proven the char was indeed a mug char. Otherwise, legit Pk.

Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this PK to be reasonable and/or justified. You may not re-appeal this PK.

Hello, while I empathize with the situation and friends have made it clear how much they appreciate and care for your RP. The major issue here, is you didn't inform or contact staff when this happened; you connected an hour and 40 minutes later, deposited your stuff and went on. You didn't make a ticket at such a time either. The clip provided can't definitively say whether you disconnected, as part of client side bug or a user disconnection. To point out, you do move after gunshots and typically logs will show differently for cases of a crash or a timeout. The convenience of crashing at that exact time can't be ignored and you have failed to provide enough evidence for you defense. You state you had a thunderstorm and wifi kept going on and off, implying you should have had wifi at some point or access to the internet, to make a discord ticket or to inform staff in any way; even just when it came back on. Secondly, you state this has been a recurring issue with gunshots. Which means you were aware of the issue, which means you took the risk of playing with the possibility of a crash. ( and the consequence's thereof. ) The area you were mugged is also a red zone or a 'mugged where stand' zone. Meaning you were fair game. I have also investigated the user and it can't be proven they are a mugging character at this time. I can understand the gesture, you'd give back the items they'd have acquired mugging off of you. But you didn't actively attempt to do so, until your character was at jeopardy. Effectively rolling the dice. This is the clip provided https://screenapp.io/app/v/7xDb8JxsP2 and with the logs attached. I must deny the appeal at this time.

+1 always liked this dood previous staff anyway so sure he knows what's necessary to help out

It's not for me to say, I'm sure someone Seasoned+ can make that call when they rule on the appeal I'm just saying that this is an RDM ban for a guy who RDM'ed with a previous RDM ban and a previous RDM note - If being banned for 2 weeks in August lead him to still RDM 2 weeks ago and now again the other day, he clearly needs more time to understand the server rules

-1 Needs playtime, staffing ability aside there is a 1000 problems that occur that are unique to the server

This could be a new way to kill people and a new way to pk someone for example you place a bomb under someones car and click a button boom it blows up and they die scarface style

My 2 cents WOOC doesn't really have a downside except maybe some weird in game metagaming shit, but people who'd do that would do it over Discord anyway And all of the counter points are valid and fine too There is the ingame pager, you can IC-ly whisper a pager username, many people have 'business card' binds, you can make your discord username not cringe and it'll fit right in If it takes 2 minutes to code why not just add it If it is a considerable effort - no ones roleplay is *actually* being affected enough to worry Moshi Moshi Omerta Sama Kun Nippon Japan moment

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Hi Here is the clip I was provided with, as you can see you left the item on the ground for well over 20 seconds, in a public zone, enough time to cause issue for the players and faction, and effect their ongoing RP. https://medal.tv/games/garrys-mod/clips/liqM9eXQUtDg-6jcQ?invite=cr-MSxUUHQsNTExNDQzMTE&v=39 I will reiterate the length of the ban was determined with input from other staff members, and is intended to give you time to understand why studying the server rules and respecting them is important. Hopefully during your ban you will understand there are consequences to your actions, and reading the server rules will prevent you from having these issues in future. Once again, good luck in your appeal

Hi I was the staff member who administered this ban - For one, you blatantly powergamed, dropping a brick of marijuana at the door step of a property, and running away - I have the clip that shows you did not immediately pick this up, I will post that should it be necessary once I am home. You also continued this behaviour after the fact, in the ghetto. Secondly, you were RDM'ing when I was spectating your play afterwards, something you claimed was okay as you 'knew the person' you killed - I was lenient and downgraded this to a NITRP, which was exceptionally fair considering your extensive notes for RDM. When it comes to your ban time, I had spoken to a Seasoned Admin about this case, and asked for some advice on the severity of the situation. With his advice, aswell as another member of staff, I decided on 5 days - Due to your extensive notes and your insistence that I 'only ban you for a day' as a favour, it felt like you needed some time to truly consider the consequences of your actions. You have gained an impressive wrap sheet in a very short time - I suggest you spend the remaining 4 days considering what it means to provide valuable roleplay to the server, and reading up on the rules. Good luck on your appeal

It takes 10 clicks with a 'one mississippi' between them if you want to save yourself from spamming and from accidental shooting They also already 'shift click' into place like ATM's now do which is nice I think it's manageable currently but if there's no negatives to adding it, why not increase the QOL

Dude typed this out in 4 seconds flat

Low qual app and also the last thing the server needs, imo

The bargaining implies you know how silly that is

Still a poor app for a staff member compared to the other 2 It's a staff app, the response was based on the individual 'I think we should enforce the rules' - Doubt any staff disagree with that

I can agree with a guy without thinking they'd be a good staff member I think he sounds objectively bad for staff considering the whole 'I want to be a dick to people' powertrip Compared with the other open apps this is poor

+1 has a lot of experience, not sure what other gmt staff there are other than myself too

+1 makes a lot of sense

+1 good guy, been around awhile and well spoken, I'm sure he'd make an efficient and considerate staff member!

Seems like a good guy, honest and non-drawn out staff app, has been staff in the past +1

Hi - As a final response: Your PTSD RP was invalid, and not a reason to begin conflict with the police - which you did by spraying bullets and hitting them numerous times. It also wouldn't have helped you IC-ly with your court case. The decision to ban you and treat this as a rule break was mine, not the players. They did not report you for RDM or Cop Baiting, but with the information provided via logs, clips and testimonies that is the outcome I deduced. I tried to have more productive communication with you, but you were more interested in telling me about how you would be making a staff report with your 10 friends if I punish you. When you are unbanned, I hope you will not insist on 'roleplaying' in the same way. Thankyou for sharing your perspective

Your ban was unrelated to IC law, and was to do with your server rule breaks. I apologize for a lack of clip to show you, but your sprees are findable in logs, and your own ban dispute details quite well that you broke the rules. As specified - your PTSD roleplay is not a valid reason to engage in conflict. I don't believe you did this maliciously, and I'm sure you will hopefully have learnt from this experience, and be able to provide better, rule-aligned RP in future.

-1 - I think with the prior bans and such a more detailed and well thought out app would've been necessary

+1, seems well liked and experienced with moderating- wish all the text wasn't bolded though made it hard to read

this is just a @stunnaboygetemhollywood_starr on instagram copypasta hes a mentally challenged micro celebrity

+1 Jennay is good and cool also very active

+1 He is knowledgeable and well equipped for a staff position, being a judge and civ main he can moderate fairly Extremely well known and also very beloved by newer players who often have some of their first interactions with him, and for every bad experience someone with a forum account has had - there are 10 non-forum users who have 10 good ones He has always been a huge help to me surrounding rules and legal rp, and is active all the time (particularly active during the 0 staff hours) Why not give him a shot!!

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