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Hello! As with any former UCs PK, we had to be sure all the info obtained to pursue you was valid. No metagame, no OOC obtainments, etc. In your case, your former faction's High Command presented us with the evidence they had and it did not suffice. I want to make clear to everyone - photos that are not obtained in RP (with a camera, a slash me to show using the camera, and the player with their ID showing) is not valid IC evidence. Especially when only proof is given of it being shared over Discord. Furthermore, I encourage all factions to properly record their IC interactions with others when they are obtaining sensitive info such as the identity of a potential UC. Due to your former faction being unable to reach the bar of evidence that UA is comfortable with accepting in cases such as yours, your character will be restored. To make clear, the faction previously involved in trying to kill you now has no knowledge of you and your past life. The same goes for you and your knowledge of them. It's as if the two of you have never met. If this line in the sand is broken by either side, those involved will be given a Diverge rehab retreat. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Hello! While reviewing your PK there were two main things we were looking into. The first being how the information of your new identity was obtained. While we found no signs of malice and it was obtained validly IC, there were too many questions raised about potential conflict of interests that we had to choose to be cautious in rule that in your favor. Secondly, we had too look into who actually killed you. Rules have had to extra clarified to show that UA thinks doing hits on low risk characters "is gay." This is not behavior we wish to promote so when it was made clear a char with no value to the player did the hit, we also ruled that in your favor. To make clear, the faction previously involved in trying to kill you now has no knowledge of you and your past life. The same goes for you and your knowledge of them. It's as if the two of you have never met. If this line in the sand is broken by either side, those involved will be given a Diverge rehab retreat. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

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Hello! While you claim that the cops shot at your vehicle, there is clip to support this claim and logs do not support it either. Your only damage logs leading up to your death are you taking damage from the world. This is caused by things such as drug withdrawals, hunger, or physics collisions! Due to there being a lack of evidence that shows the officers starting the violent confrontation, we 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! To go by your appeal point by point. First, when PKs are sent to staff they are OOC. What causes the PK and what comes after are all valid in RP. The sit itself and the report are OOC and are not affected by NLR. Under the logic you try to argue people wouldn’t be able to report RDM because they don’t remember it due to NLR. Second, the officer shooting was not him starting the violent confrontation. You pulling your weapon out and aiming it at the officer arresting you started the violent confrontation. He was quicker to the draw than you, doesn’t mean you weren’t violent first. 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! As already stated you were PK’d for starting a violent confrontation with police. This is clear from you being the one to begin shooting at a clearly marked NYPD officer. His badge is in plain view and his crest on his shoulder is right in your face where you were “trying to place your crosshair” which apparently obscured your vision enough to not see the blue name over his head. The next argument you try to make is that the raid is invalid which means it’s all invalid. That is false for the OOC side of things. If you believe it was illegal that is an IC issue and would be handled via the courts not an OOC PK appeal. The question UA had to decide is that if this raid was false enough to be considered fail corruption which would be an OOC factor affecting your PK. We have decided it is not. The officers had a search warrant for the exact location you were located in. They acted on the location that was signed off on by the judge. Anything beyond that is an IC issue. Appeals are not a way to settle or get around IC issues. 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! As already explained to you, item transfer will always result in a ban and a PK. It is very easily tracked by us. Due to your admitted dishonesty on this appeal, it will be denied outright and you will face no reduction. 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.

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Hello! While investigating this appeal we reviewed the clips provided of both interactions as well as damage logs to help establish a timeline. As shown in the first clip provided by Troubled, and reinforced by logs, the officer in fact began the violent conflict when they opened fire on the vehicle. Whether you were trying to hit him or the car doesn't matter. You take that risk as an officer when you shoot a vehicle. Further more, the time between the conflict started by the officer and the shoot out in the motel is just a couple of minutes. Well within Ghost's self defense period and definitely short enough to consider it the same conflict, not a new separate one started by Ghost's shooting. In the future officer I suggest you be fully honest with your PK tickets and not leave out the part where you shot first. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Hello! As clarified by your factions command already the orders were not from this isolated incident. I have spoken with your HC and was given more direct examples of the reasons for your death. After investigating we have confirmed they had multiple instances of your actions warranting your death. 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 you may claim ignorance to what you did, our logs followed your trail with these bones! As Calink pointed out where they started and how they got to where they were, you were the direct facilitator of that! Regards to your PK, while this is not an appeal for that I can clarify that Calink is correct in his deeming you as involved in the hit. If you choose to appeal the PK, that will be directly looked into with further detail at that time for now this is about the matter of your ban. We feel there is sufficient evidence that you knowingly and willfully helped your friend in attempting to powergame another faction you have had recent conflict with. 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.

Hello! First, to clarify, you weren’t PKd for being put under Fear RP, you were PKd for dying while PK active. You became active the moment you tried to tie this player up. Now, I see your argument that it was accidental. The “evidence” you provided for this just clearly doesn’t add up. You for one cut out the start of the tying. We can’t see if you did it through the C menu or through your F1 inventory where you have to right click and actually click the appropriate option. Second, you keep yourself still and tying them. And finally, you admit yourself your “plan” was to even bait them into using them first to try and PK them. Which is PK hunting and also frowned upon greatly. You played a stupid game and you won a stupid prize. In the future I recommend you don’t randomly try and tie people up or PK hunt to begin with. Helps with avoiding losing your character. 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! Banning admin here. First, you weren't pulled as this was a report made directly through a UA ticket. In this ticket, we were given ample evidence of your actions and the intent of your actions. You have just recently returned from a two month ban from another incident stemming from your mugging habits that even warned you to return with better RP. In this instance, it was shown you had a repeated and clear intent of only mugging one faction. While on it's own not the worst offense your reason to why is why it was decided you had used your last chance. You were target mugging one faction as a form of failed escalation to force actual escalations to happen in a sad attempt to kill off your own faction. This incident right after an extensive ban and your enormous amount of previous, pretty serious, POs showcases you have not learned your lesson and you refuse to engage in quality RP or to be a valued member of our community. For these reasons it was decided your time with us had to come to an end.

Hello! This should have in fact not happened but we need to clarify on the reasons why. First, the location of the mugging. While the clip shows you in that tuck away there is a few issues with this. The tying logs show it happening very close to the corner right beside the NPC. With the clip starting late, it is unable to validated where the initiation happened. If it happened in the FOV of the NPC, it's invalidated from the start. This leads in to the other issue with this PK. The clip itself. As already stated it started late leaving out vital context. On top of this, the audio of the person who clipped it is cut. You can hear the victim, the partner, and can see the clipper is speaking but there is no audio. The would also automatically disqualify this PK as there is too much room to hide potential metagame and the orders being given to the victim are not audible. Finally, there is the issue of the reason you killed him to begin with. He is already tied. While tied, you never make an attempt to drag him while also shooting him for moving when you had control over it. There was also no attempt to search him or actually take the items. You sat there and wasted time while never actually continuing with the mugging. This combined with your own admission in the clip showed you were not there to mug him. You were there to try and PK hunt and sadly this was accepted thus giving you what you wanted. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Hello! There seems to be a major misconception here. You were not PKd by your precious faction, you were in fact PKd by your current faction. With that clarification, they had multiple reasons to kill you. One was for deciding to take photos up someone’s skirt. That someone was an allied factions HCs wife. Second, you had not paid your dues in a month. While your Capo may have been ill informed, it was a valid orders. 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! As already clearly laid out by Boom, you were PK’d for the blatant metagaming in the mugging. The mugging char was a separate additional report received on top of that. The metagame is clear as day which is already enough to have killed this character. For the mugging char, while you may have cared about the character in the past, all signs point to this being a mugging char now. 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! After an investigation was conducted, it was made clear there was heavy metagame involved here. The users guilty of such have been dealt with and your PK will be getting reversed. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

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Hello! So, while being mugged at a stash could be against the rules in this situation I would say that is not what happens. First, they did not approach you while you were at or using your stash. You had multiple moments where you were just standing idle by your car away from your stash, or sitting idle in your car. Both of these instances would have given you ample time to leave the area. In your own third clip, you discuss that you knew yourself you were being mugged. You chose to then run putting your character at risk. In the end, you died resulting in your 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! So, under normal circumstances this would most likely be a deny. In this case though there are some external factors at play. As stated previously target mugging isn't inherently against the rules. The issue arises when factions use target muggings to try and chase PKs on those they do not like outside of their faction. That is what we believe to have happened here. The individuals have a had a recent track record of using muggings as a guise to attempt to PK people. This is PK hunting which is not allowed. We are lead to believe this is the case for three reasons. The individuals involved have a recent history of this PK hunting behavior, the lack of response when asked about this mugging, and the suspicious nature of the clip now being deleted. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Hello! While you may have logged off, that doesn't make you immune to being PK'd. You can be PK'd if you log off within those 15 minutes for LTARP, but that is not a rule in play here. While unfortunate staff were delayed in getting to this ticket, the PK is still valid as you began a VCWP and died in the process. 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.

I've told you countless times to read the rules and I will again. Needs to be an active threat or have shot you for you to just turn and shoot them. Your own clips show you RDM'ing twice. Once, he pulls out his gun looking at the ground to check it as you had ran him over twice. The second time it's clearly someone not actually a threat to you as he immediately puts it away and crouches down to talk to you. The PO count comes from your admitted alt with an already gross record. Your ult first joined Dec 20th. In less than a month you've wracked up four notes, five bans, two PD blacklists and blacklists from countless factions. Do better.

Hello! While you may be new, that's not an excuse for ignorance to the rules. After investigating, it was found the arrest you LTARP from could have likely been a life sentence or serious felonious charges. In these instances, if the player refuses to return to resume the RP they are often PK'd and/or banned. In this case, the admin handling the ticket opted to PK you over ban you. You yourself admit to what you had done. There is nothing found here to deem this an invalid 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 it may have been late at night, the rules of the server always apply. In this instance there is clear proof, and your own admission, of your intent to kill an officer. This initiate a violent confrontation with police. When you start this confrontation you are PK active as laid out in our PK guidelines. It is always unfortunate to lose a character but that is a choice you made to risk that character. 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! When you join a criminal faction you are given the above cautionary message. You have accepted that message to join the faction. I have spoken to your HC and they had received multiple reports of you acting suspicious around illegal business opportunities. After multiple reports of your behavior, they deemed they couldn’t trust you to live with the knowledge you had obtained. We deemed the reasoning for the orders were valid. 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.