Auxiliary

Hello, I am the administrator who handled your Permanent Kill. As outlined in the PK Guidelines, civilians that are not associated with criminal organizations may be killed by an organization as a result of them collaborating with a government agency to take down that specific organization. In regards to the PK request, I was provided a video of you admitting to the organization's Don and Underboss that you had, in fact, written a witness statement in regards to a mugging incident they were involved in that would implicate them legally. This would fall under that same category of collaboration with a government agency. Additionally, you mention in your appeal that there was metagame involved, and that you only stated that you had written a witness statement because he had been discussing something in the Local Out-of-Character chat. This would unfortunately not fall under the metagame category as all communication in game, outside of the LOOC chat, is considered in-character (see Metagaming Rule #10). If there is any additional proof to justify your claims of metagame in regards to your PK, I would be more than willing to review it. Good luck on your appeal.

I have no idea if any of these complaints are valid or not, but what I can tell you is that there are several steps to make sure that if staff truly don't take tickets seriously and are failing to enforce the rules, there are not one but two forums sections for Player Reports and Staff Reports, not to mention the fact that you can make a support ticket to bring the issue up DIRECTLY TO UA! Complaining in the forums on non-related sections about you getting arrested ICly for a valid reason looks pretty pathetic, especially when everyone is already calling you "poopdick". If you're unhappy and don't want to play Diverge, feel free to go play FiveM or whatever your heart desires, but if you truly want something to change and you think there's an issue that needs brought up, do it properly instead of making a fool out of yourself to the entire community.

+1 We need a replacement turk on the staff team after Velocity died... GET HIM ASAP!!!

+2 EXTORTION AND NON-LEO LEGAL VS. ILLEGAL RP!!! To add incentives for this type of, do things like take away certain luxuries from illegitimate/front businesses like car repairs and give it to civilian companies to force criminals to go to legal businesses to get their car fixed, or take away the detailing/customization ability from the car dealership and make it a player-based feature where a car shop would apply tints, repaint the car or turbo tune it. Non-essential aspects of RP that are still useful should go to civilian/non-front businesses and factions to stimulate RP. Would be cool to see how they interact!

FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB...

Cough Cough Takahashi-Kai...

-1 I'll just regurgitate all of the already listed criticisms; grammar and age. In my opinion, staff should be soft-locked at 16 years old or higher as the majority of the playerbase is in the late-teen to adult range, it would just simply be odd for a person not in that age range to be moderating and representing the server. Additionally, the grammar could use some work (which goes hand-in-hand with age). Come back in 2 years and you have my approval.

-1 No. Low playtime, plethora of grammar mistakes and in all honesty, I have never heard of you in my life. Anything below 3 days is just an instant no in my opinion.

Hello, I was the staff member who took your ticket. Based off of both a clip provided to me by the victim and what the logs reflected, I had determined that you had scammed an individual out of roughly $33,000 on his character, with you leaving your character as soon as he gave you the last of his oil. The rule when dealing with an incident involving both scamming and LTARP is that if the victim was scammed out of more than $10,000, then it is an instantaneous Permanent Kill (PK) of the person who LTARPed, which in this instance was you. I provided all of this evidence to the Administrator who performed the PK (Bullets), who approved your PK. Best of luck on your appeal.

Coming from an actually unbiased stance, as much as I like to make fun of them, I think Kosher Nostra has the best objective factors of a crime family. Not only do they have the best drug racket possible, but their playerbase is really interesting as well. They have both an insane amount of numbers but also great roleplay that's encouraged by their High Command. I find it rare on Diverge that a faction actually leans into the roleplay aspect of their chosen ethnicity, and I think the Kosher Nostra does that best through their Jewish roleplay. Don't ever catch me hanging around ICly with a jew though. Couldn't be bothered.

Hello, I was the staff member involved with your ban. I was presented a clip of you interacting with a police officer, where after he had asked you several times for your ID due to the gun on your back, you ran away from him. After he tried to tase you, you switched characters. LTARP, or Leaving to Avoid Role Play includes not only leaving the server, but leaving your character to avoid roleplay, which in this case was getting arrested. Upon taking a look at your ban & note history, I saw several bans and notes from this past year, with the last ban issued in June being for 2 weeks. It was clear to me that your behavior has evolved from simply ignorant rule breaking to intentionally manipulating game mechanics to avoid roleplay, so I issued a ban that I saw fit considering your history and the situation at hand. Best of luck on your appeal.

Hello, I am the banning moderator. From the information I was provided including clips and testimony from other individuals, you were attempting to glitch into the Police Department by sitting in the window and trying to jump through. Both that and the clip of you spawning inside of the Police Department, being chased by a cop with a taser, and then as soon as you see him you leave to go to another character was the primary reason for your ban. Coupled with both of those pieces of information, I checked your note history and you have a history of LTARP being warned by calink on the 25th of June. Best of luck on your appeal.

I believe that you misunderstand how the mugging works and how common sense works as well. Let's pose a scenario where I wanted to mug someone. The biggest concerns while mugging are (or at least SHOULD be) if I will be receiving a punishment through my crime family or through the police. Inherently, if you're reporting a mugging to either higherups in your faction or to the police, you have to DESCRIBE THE ASSAILANT. If I say, "A man who was wearing a white shirt and jeans mugged me!!!", then lo and behold, it's going to be almost impossible to find the person since that's just the default clothing. The same goes for real-life mugging, if I didn't want to be caught, I would probably put on something non-descript like a mask and black clothing so that it makes the police's job 100x harder to find me since half of the population walks around with that on everyday. Secondly, I don't really see the comparison with the precedent given. Racket Wars on Diverge Networks are just flat out unrealistic. The entire concept is that you walk up and kill someone so that you can have a more expensive drug, which goes on for hours on end. Additionally, this is only locked to certain groups of criminals at a time. The entire point of the Racket War is to open yourself up to police action in exchange for potentially getting a better drug to make more money. The reason it would be unfair to wear a white shirt during a Racket War is because the entire point of the event is to avoid getting caught while doing openly illegal things on the street. The exact opposite is true of mugging. The goal of mugging is to successfully take things off of a person in a private setting. The rules of mugging reflect this value of privacy during a mugging as they created a color-coded map to describe which places were private enough so that you could mug someone. The two functions of Diverge are opposite in their nature, and it's not really fair to compare the two. Anyways, -1 from me. People will complain until the day Diverge shuts down that mugging is either too lenient or too restrictive. Can't please them all.

-1 After doing a bit of my own research into previous bans as I truly don't recall many roleplay encounters I have had with you, I can't in good conscious recommend you for staff. I am all about second chances, but from your ban & note history, it seems like you've been given upwards of 30 by my count. The last note issued to you was in April, which leaves less than 3 months since your last infraction. I think this staff application would be different in many ways if this were made maybe 6 months since your last infraction or maybe even a year, but it seems that's not the case. I find it far-fetched that you are truly "reformed" after literal years of minging and rule breaking. Staff members are inherently the role models for how roleplay should be conducted on the server when it comes to behaving during roleplay and actually following the rules, and it seems like you are a sort of antithesis from the history I'm reading. Like I mentioned though, I don't know you. All of this information is simply the objective records of your history from the past. If people other than your minge friends can attest to your seriousness I may end up editing this post and changing my opinion, but until significant time has passed since your last infraction or enough people truly stick their neck out for you, I don't think you would be a good addition to the staff team.

+1 Well written application. In all honesty, I've seen people (including myself) accepted with playtimes of 2-3 days. In my opinion, as long as you have read and understand the rules, you are a good pick as staff. From what I can tell, you both have played Diverge for a while but also have read the rules. I look forward to seeing you on the staff team.