4Lights

The officer must make a reasonable attempt to arrest you. In the context of watching the brown car, I think it's more than possible to miss the officer. Further, you were at a pitted position at the time of the officer shooting. Without any other instructions given, this PK lacks the officers POV and may lack crucial context. With the officer also stating he just shot, because of minge behavior from a third party. I find a reasonable attempt at arrest was not made in this case. Also, I know you touched on this. But give Adam a break, he's doing his best so that we all can have a solid platform to play on, there's no bias here and he doesn't deserve any grief over this or for you to paint him in a negative light. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Hey there. You have 3 PO's for RDM, 1 for mass VDM and than for VDM/Fail Mug. You have all these bans in the last year. The clip shows you showing a blatant disregard for the person your VDM and the person you ran over for no reason. The mugging is a fail mug and you participated, with your record you are lucky to have no gotten further punishment. On these basis I will be denying this appeal. 4 Days is more than fair. Your ban appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this ban to be reasonable and/or justified. Ensure you have read our Server Rules.

Hey ban will expire soon, you could argue accidental, but it does seem fairly intentional. You have notes and bans for minging/nitrp, avdm and NLR. So it's likely this was interpreted as you continuing to minge and you were punished more harshly. You have only been in the server since march, if you continue to amass a record you will be punished more and more harshly. Your ban appeal has been reviewed and denied. We have determined this ban to be reasonable and/or justified. Ensure you have read our Server Rules.

It's for both. Expands possible things to do as a corrupt cop, and gives an untrustworthy mechanic. Where you would need to trust the person involved, gives the ability for either party. To cause issues for the other involved.

1. Allow the police, rank locked. To sell select equipped firearms ( on your back items ) to criminals as single use weapons ( too hot to store ). 2. Create a command that police can use to check the serial of anyone who has these weapons on their back. The serial can be checked in the police computer, to see the officer who the gun is requisitioned out to. 3. Allow police to set up busts using this mechanic. As to make it untrustworthy and promote having a corrupt guy on the inside. - If you have an alt in a faction, the command doesn't run.

Hello banning staff here. You were part of an investigation for it which it was found you heavily middlemaned a number of high value items and transferred the majority of your own from your Callaghan character, through a proxy; sharing all of your banks with McCarthy characters, leaving them nearly empty. You took a lot of items from Cannon's original character, transferred many into #Gift or #Locker 1. You maintained direct access to a number of high value McCarthy banks which were used as deposit points. I do not see any evidence of fair market value being paid, I see April 15, the day after Cannon was PKed and the days leading up to to it. You and others simple exploited sharing banks with eachother to move stuff to McCarthy accounts. Example: #62207 (MESO P/E) and #62553 (Texas P/E) your nearly empty Callaghan banks are shared to the following permissions. With others having shared similar access for your McCarthy character. ex; #Gift (OWNER) Ethan O’Connor Eoin “Toasty” Dunlavey Niall Dunlavey Aisling McCarthy Yes it looks bad considering that it could and has hurt Callaghan, if you wanted out. This was not the approach, you can't just simply act as a group; drain all valuables from your Callaghan characters and start new civs using the resources obtained. This is character abuse. This was a concerted effort involving multiple individuals to jumpstart a new faction, throwing away your old characters in the process. With allegation involving attempting to poach members, while maintaining said characters, which could effectively sabotage said faction. Other do it isn't a viable defense, if we catch word of wrong doing and investigation yield results. We will punish accordingly.

Hello banning staff. We have compiled a 150+ document that links to this ban. What it has shown is you assisted in item-transfer before becoming staff. Notably an NOI suit. I believe you took the opportunity to learn how to safely transfer your items, while as staff. Exploiting information learned. You had your friends systematically empty all your old bank accounts and then shared access to those bank accounts with you and your McCarthy friends, on McCarthy characters. Your friends and you transferred large amounts of items of high value items. The day after you got Pked on April 15th, most everyone involved shows up on this day passing items between each other and into select banks. ( some even spamming lobsters to obscure logs ) These select banks typically being a Callaghan bank shared with McCarthy characters. Including a specific 'Gift' bank, which you were added to on your Cannon and your Aisling McCarthy character ( later removed ), which contained many high value items from your previous char. You were straight given other item from Callaghan characters such as your Thomas' suit. Other banks such as Locker #1, had guns originating from Callaghan characters and your dead character. Passed between characters to be put into said locker. Notable items include a Mini-14 dropped and deposited. It was also identified previous to the investigations as a "McCarthy gun bank". With information being provided including dms and screenshots. You and several others, emptied their banks of their most valued possessions into these banks. You appear to conducted a large meth for cocaine deal, a couple days before getting pked and redirected that cocaine. A few webhooks to unauthorized discords were put into these banks. Linking to people involved. The evidence shows you maintained technical possession of your items for use for your new faction and employed a systematic approach to doing so. If you wish to confess your full involvement, it may help your appeal. Otherwise please wait for another staff to respond.

Hey, sorry but this is not a situation, that will typically be handled in a support VC. Please wait for another staff to respond. EDIT: To be clear, because it's an appeal and has been ruled upon already.

There could be a number of reasons. Typically the hitbox isn't the same as the model, here is a full explanation from ai.

Hey, just FYI. The appeal process starts with the banning staff, who responds to why they banned the person and is processed by another staff member without their involvement in the final say. You are actively backing up on this clip, the model clipping slightly because of it. Is not a bug.

Hello banning staff here. From examining the clip, it looked intentional to me. You sped past the vehicle, then went full speed backed up into the car. Even continuing backing up after he died. While this is not always going to blow up the vehicle, in this situation you initiated and followed through and caused a death. You had previous offenses for the same thing and your behavior in the sit, I believed to be mingey and lack any sort of remorse. Simply insisting it wasn't your fault and refusing to take any sort of responsibility for the incident that you caused. You currently have 6 bans and 2 notes in 11 months, if this was a first offense, I would have been more lenient. But considering that, and I don't believe this to be an accident or bug. I think this was more than fair.

https://www.nytimes.com/sitemap/1989/05/12/

Just gonna put this here. May 8th - Times 1989 https://time.com/vault/issue/1989-05-08/page/1/ ____ May/June - Nintendo Power 1989 https://archive.org/details/nintendopowerissue006mayjune1989 ie; ____ News May 11th 1989 - The Palladium Times https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=pal19890511-01.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- - You can access historical news papers from New York, at NYS Historical News Papers New York from 1700 - Present. https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=cl&cl=CL2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- also https://archive.org/details/tpir-7194d-ob

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.

Hey, so given the circumstances. You mugged someone who had your F3 doing over $10,000 damage to them. You are revealed several times and you take several photographs with your full name. The clips given, reasonably would identify you. The 30 minutes is only if they do not have their F3. ( 3 Guns value exceeding 10k were taken. ) ■ The person in question, must have repeatedly done something to directly harm you, your family, or another member of your family. Unwarranted Harm in a financial (+10,000$) or repeated physical way, there has to be tangible damages, disrespect is not a reason to kill someone. This also means you cannot PK someone JUST for being part of an enemy faction. Having continued gunfights, scams or warnings about territory, money or other continued violent disputes can cause escalation to a PK. (Be sure to record all encounters/transgressions) Credit Monaclu for flow char below: As this PK had nothing to do with escalation directly, you were simply identified and retaliated against for mugging by someone with your F3. I will be denying this appeal.

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! I have reviewed your appeal here and a few things stand out. 1. You have failed to provide solid evidence of any sortof of bad faith interactions, and most importantly have not provided evidence of your exemptions. I can understand the frustration here, and at times it may seem like peoples whims change, it's possible people said things, peoples feelings got hurt, but without solid evidence, everything you are saying is hearsay. 2. You were a made guy and capo ( considerd a hc rank ), given oversight, responsibility and an integral part of things. Intimate knowledge. You were part of running the faction in a sense, so orders for your death, may have less oversight, as you know a thing or two. 3. People responsible for giving you oversight determined- you did not contribute positively and did not pay your fair way. It is claimed you harmed faction relations, incompetence, failed to pay fees and bragged about illegal activities. This is probably where the frustration comes in, while I can understand sometimes the vagueness can be piss people off. We do our best to verify, but when you take that responsibility, and people are now saying you did this and that, because you were in such a strong position and again knew intimate knowledge, your life is owed more to the faction and when they say you did wrong and we get that story, there is a level of trust to the factualness. Not saying we don't verify, but as everyone says, you take that risk when you join a criminal faction. I get sometimes people have a hard time separating OOC and that can leak into IC, but again without any sort of solid evidence. 4. Adam is a senior staff member, who arranged for the PK logs to not be posted with Canadian in potential to metagame. While not the most common practice, it does occur on the occasion for someone high profile. As on the odd occasion, sometimes things get out and someone who has something to lose, will play 'the game', more than they play the rp and will go through length to protect their characters. ( oh I can log in now they never put orders out, instead of trying to arrange a way out. 5. You left the faction and joined a different faction. Again I can understand OOC frustration, but regardless of the reasoning for the original dons orders, you did leave on your character, to join another faction, without arranging your way out and were subsequently pked.

Hello! To be clear, there is a mechanic in place to check someone's inventory, therefore any /me gun checks, are inherently invalid. I do see in the clip, you attempt to search his inventory several times before he attempts to shoot you. Which to be fair, could have roused suspicion enough. That being said, I found solid evidence for metagame/powergame occurring directly after involving the person who was PKed and another party. After reviewing the recording, and matching it to connection logs and overall logs. I find a strong likelihood that the player was tipped off, and being that PKs need to be "120% sure", taking into account the metagame that occurred after. I will be accepting and reversing this PK. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Your ban appeal has been reviewed and accepted. The ban will be reduced to 2 weeks.

You have been pked over a dozen times in the last year- many times, by your faction for not contributing. You have a few classified as mugging chars and PKed by staff and even more characters pked for raiding and whenever you come back, you make names similar or almost identical to your your previous characters name. You have pked over a half dozen people doing so. You have 16 bans and even have a couple of permanent bans. You have just over a dozen notes and many of your punishments have been related to mugging/fail-mugging/raiding. As-well as extensive RDM/Cop bait, extensive RDM, powergame, meta, minge, nlr, item transfer. You have the phone book and your were permanently banned Now you are back after a contribution was made. The first thing you do. Is return to the same behavior, grab a suit of clothes, restraints and a mac-11. You sell some oil you had. You then gun down a cop, gun down 2 other people. Then mug/pk someone for breaking fear RP. 50 min later, you break into a ghetto room, mug 3 people and get into a shootout and gun down 2 other people and a cop. Rob everyone. You then sell some LSD, log off and call it a day. Every time, you are brought up in these contexts. You generally mug on all of your characters and generally with a disregard for any of your characters life. You typically don't contribute in RP and will attempt to 'do the minimum' to disguise' characters you mug on. The perception is generally your characters have been known to mug, pk, minge, bait or generally harm others experience and you have a bit of a reputation amongst staff for such. We'd like you to contribute more positively and not just go about only focusing on just mugging, pking, getting pked and repeating the cycle endlessly. You can make any such argument you'd like, but that's what this boils down to. You may not make a character for the sole purpose of mugging, for example if you are pk'ed for mugging and simply create a new character and continue the same actions. It shows you have no regard for actual roleplay. Generally you shouldn't invite conflict then try to hide behind the rules when you're killed. This can also be considered baiting as described under killing rule 6. Intentionally instigating someone or goad them into breaking a rule. Continually putting yourself into fearrp scenarios in order to to PK people, or 'PK hunting' / being 'PK hungry' is not permitted (Mass Muging, baiting, shootouts on alt characters). If an Admin feels like you're doing things intentionally for no regard for actual roleplay they may deny your PK requests or issue according punishments. I will accept this appeal and reduce it to two weeks, just know you are not in great standing and any actions especially relating to mugging or pking people will be intensely scrutinized.

So, there were a few factors that went into this decision. I will let Mangos tell his side, but on my side here. You had recently received an RDM note from earlier in the day. While, I know you are not one to go about RDMing. I had felt you maybe had gotten a little out of hand because of the event and could use the rest of the event to cool off and I recommended that to Mangos. The person in question was not part of the people you were shooting- prior on the clip I could not ascertain his motivates, he pulls up in his vehicle, jumps out, as you guys jump over a fence. It is possible he may have been going for the package, it is possible he may be scouting. But it plays out rather quickly in an already heated situation. I will admit, he does pass painfully close and his direction could be suspect. He does, however, appear to be following the command to back off, he backs off towards a common direction- in this case the city hall. He doesn't seem to equip a gun at any point, doesn't match gang colors and the command given is simply to 'BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP", which the person appears to following in your clip, as his direct position is, in front of you and you shoot him when he is at a fair bit distance from you. The Askulls clip, he almost seems to be jumping away from the package carrier, onto the railing- at the time you gun him down. I thought from your clip, that you still didn't give enough warning, they didn't have enough time to properly register the commands and they were running away. ( Which was their story, saying they weren't going for the package ). The situation plays out too quickly with the binds used. I know the event, can be rather intense and I knew at that moment, his presence wasn't welcome and it's possible they could be attempting 'game' a little bit, but nothing could be proven. From my perspective this was still RDM, again, I know you're not one to go about doing this usually, but you had a note from prior in the day and I felt, maybe the event was getting the best of you and you needed to take the last few hours of the event off.

Hey there. Banning Staff. While investigating your PK appeal. I found several instances that I believe constituted powergame. You dropped drugs just inside in the door ways of 3 businesses. ( 2 with you saying Zingo Zappy was a drug deal. But it being just inside an entrance way, is kinda sus. ), You dropped drugs infront of ATMs, infront of a hotdog vender and by a chess table. When you first messaged me, you said and I quote "people took it tho"; "i was legit just giving away drugs in my bank" ; "bc my char was gonna die". You then argue that I may have banned you initially for 60 days and given your PO's and history it was perhaps too much, I considered it and I agreed perhaps 60 was a bit long and dropped it to 30 days; trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, realizing you were probably just trying to have a laugh and I to my interpretation at the time admitting some resemblance of guilt. I noted in the PK denial, how you said your character was going to die (pked). You then message me and say in your messages "thats not the reason i dropped the drugs" ; "i was going to suicide gerald" ; "i never knew i was going to die bc of the stealing". So I said it was "my mistake" and that I "misinterpreted" you. However, to note. You said nothing about suicide being the reason your character 'was gonna die' prior. Your current actions from looking at the PK appeal, I thought you were being a bit mingey, stealing and returning things and I thought it looked clear cut over 10k was actually taken, to your admission you're having fun with your pal, but with a third party there. It became, under a rules, to me not valuing your life. So I denied it. If you believe, there is some issues, that you were setup I encourage you to open a ticket and we will investigate any rulebreak claims you may have. Your actions here, for the ban. Given the places I pointed out, seems very hard to believe wasn't intentional.. Given the evidence, and the exact locations you dropped drugs in, your PO's, I determined a ban was in order. I apologize for not bringing you into a sit to explain it better, I had wrongly assumed you were offline at the time and I did my best to try to explain my reasoning through DMs to you. Another thing to note from your appeal, I don't see you dropping drugs in an alley way, or mugging someone on logs in the timeframe mentioned. ( doesn't mean it didn't happen, just that I can't or am having trouble verifying it through logs ).

Hello. I have investigated your PK and while you did give $5000, but you effectively steal 3 bricks of Weed and 1 Bricks of Meth. ( some shenanigans where you give some back, then steal some meth, but all in all. This is what I have effectively tracked ) The value of 3 weed bricks and 1 meth brick yields, $23,600 to the NPC when sold. Minus that $5000 = $18,600, means you stole excess of $10,000, meaning this is a valid PK. Further, when investigating. You go about stealing the drugs, then by your admission figuring you're going to get killed, you go and drop drugs all over the city and various businesses. Which, makes you guilty of power game. Being a cop main, I believe you should know better. For which I have banned you. After dropping the drugs around town, you go and return 2 of the bricks you stole. Then steal another 3 meth from the container, to only after- shortly put it back, to then get PKed a minute later. While even if, you weren't guilty of stealing in excess of $10,000. ( Which you were ). The behavior exhibited to me shows a blatant disregard for your life. For these reasons I will be denying this appeal. 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.

If I recall you were mugged/fail mugged in the court room, if this is wrong. I may have confused you for someone else and I apologize. Yes, people say hurtful things on the internet. We have rules against harassment and anything targeted towards anyone, we investigate reports of anything of such a nature. If you had a problem with someone harassing you, you should have brought it to staff. You have a cheat launcher, assumable for the half life 2 engine? You openly admit to it. Why would we want to unban you? You're basically saying you're a cheater and you cheat in online multiplayer environments. Even if I felt, you did feel sorry for you actions. You are seemingly openly taking the stance, that it's okay to cheat, by not just saying 'Yeah I'll remove all my cheats and I'll stop'. Instead you are seemingly just saying, I'll disable it and not use it for YOUR server. This is a public forum and how would it look if we took that stance? This to me is the wrong stance to take and the wrong thing to say in a ban appeal for cheating. I disagree in the nuances, and I believe we in agreement on that disagreement. I believe heavily in fair play, I believe you went against that notion. Yes, for a lot of legal RP. You may not need cheats, but fact is, the advantage you may gain, the information you may see, steam ids, steams names etc. Just plainly looking through walls, could give you and enormous advantage over other players. Even if you had altruistic intentions. We have no way of moderating such things and for many the temptation is more than enough, to make an excuse to use said cheats. Cheaters never prosper and one day I hope you'll realize the only person you are cheating is yourself.