Your Character or Steam Name: Solidus Snake Drive
Your SteamID (Click to retrieve): STEAM_0:0:63400391
Your Discord ID#: 847268125589110784 (I'm in none of the discords, left after ban)
Reason for ban: Metagame
Length of ban: Permanent
Reason for appeal (dispute/apology): Apology
Why should you be unbanned?: Hello. It's sadly not 6 months since my ban, but it might be 3-4 months. Diverge's 1980s Mafia RP is the first, and only roleplay I've ever played in my life. I have about 3,000 plus hours on Garry's Mod, and all I really played was TTT and Sandbox with my friends. When I logged into Diverge, I believe it was March 3, 2025. I hadn't played Garry's Mod in over 10 years since I had logged in. This context is important and I hope you guys understand. I was banned permanently for metagaming, which is when you are "using knowledge or information from outside the game's core mechanics to influence gameplay." Prior to the ban AND after the ban, I didn't even know what metagaming was. I'll give one example, I was talking to someone in my faction, I then whisper to them "I have access to this factions radio frequency 24/7" the person responded "That is metagaming" I didn't respond, but the person followed up with "It involves real life money". Ok for me that was difficult to understand at first but after a few hours I understood what they meant by real life money. Either way, I remember what led up to my ban. My char had been PK'd by a cop maybe 6-12 hours before the interaction. Since I had been PK'd, I made a new char and walked back to the restaurant I was employed at on the PK'd char. I then just start saying "Hello [name], hello [name]," to people I worked with but since I was on a new char, this is metagaming I know that now, but back then I had no clue what metagaming even was, in the slightest. I didn't even know how to make staff tickets with the @ sign, that's how little I knew.
Yes I still have fond memories of Diverge, many, even if it was like only one month of playing, I no lifed that server and that was the first time I had got hooked on a video game since pre-2020. I finally had found a game I liked. For more context, that I don't feel is important but maybe it is for you guys, I had been drinking alcohol on top of alcohol for 3 days straight, my girlfriend had just broken up with me leading to me just drinking and pretending like I didn't care but I definitely did. I remember in the admin sit, I was very drunk, I was not using a microphone but I remember telling the staff member in chat "I don't care, ban me" when honestly the staff member was very reasonable and kind with me. Sadly, I was burned out from real life, drinking, burdened and it showed it game. I want to say that my emotions/feelings back then should not be applicable to this appeal but as typing this, I realize it's tied to what led up to my ban.
I had not read the server rules even once, I literally didn't know what metagaming was, my girlfriend had broken up with me and I was being a drunkard on diverge. This combination led to a permanent ban which is not at all surprising. I trust the discretion and judgement of the staff members of this server and their opinion of my appeal. Thank you for reading all of this and taking time out your day by working as staff.
(update 5:02PM: Yes I did try to ban evade like immediately after the ban and failed miserably. Console insta-banned. Got the accounts in my family banned. My brother yelled at me and can't really blame him. Bringing this up because this up because I feel it is important to mention as well.)
I can provide the ban logs from the 2 other accounts I got banned trying to alt back in April 20, the alts were banned by console. I will only be using 1 steam account only.
Additional Information (images, videos, etc): I have never been permabanned from anything besides CS:GO in 2014, and Diverge's 1980s Mafia RP.
