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Hello! We were able to review this PK and look more closely into logs and confirm you were not the one that shot the cop. The rapid devolvement of the situation and multiple deaths in quick succession caused some confusion! Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

Hello! I can't speak fully on your first note as I was not the staff involved but I was the one involved in your second offense and the one that took your flags. I will say it's strange that you say now that you forgot to do it. In our sit you proclaimed to not have known which is when I had to explain to you ignorance of the rules does not make you exempt from them. The reason I took your flags is due to the proximity in time to your first warning. The short time between the first and second warning showed me you had a consistent history of abusing your flags instead of following the rules around them. But yes, I took your flags due to you putting up multiple signs that you had no "/me"'s for and that you could not have realistically reached in RP. This is what lead to PET abuse / fail rp with props.

Hello! In the time that this appeal was being reviewed, player has deleted the character and has began a new life following the same RP. This character is no longer retrievable. Good luck on your new char! Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. You may not re-appeal this PK.

Hello! As explained by Ace and what appears to be understood by you, you were PK'd for char abuse / metagame. A PK of the benefiting char and a ban for the player is the normal action taken in these instances. While reviewing your appeal and your player history, myself and other UA recognize that you are a long time player but with a low playtime. Due to this and your apparent sincerity, we deemed this to be a case of ignorance versus malicious intent. With that being said, we will be reinstating your character. However, it must be recognized that this a case of us granting grace, not a matter of the PK being invalid. Because of this, you are using your one chance. If you caught are performing similar behavior the PK will not be appealed and your ban will be more severe. Welcome back to the server. Your appeal has been reviewed and accepted. Your character has been reinstated and can be used again.

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Hello! Crimson already explained clearly why you were banned and you admitted to it so we don't have to rehash that. I will just clarify this rule for you. You in fact did LTARP. You were well aware what you were doing was illegal. A cop began to speak to you. You acknowledge yourself that is the reason you chose to leave. That is the definition of Leaving To Avoid RP. 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! As explained by Ace you were banned for your poor attempt at Mass VDM. She also clarified to you that on our server, as also stated in the rules, the player does not have to die for it to be VDM. Your clearly malicious intent was to kill people in mass with your vehicle which is VDM. Just because you're a failure doesn't mean you didn't break the rules. 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! As explained by Lunar you were PK'd for VCWP! This tends to happen when you try to MRDRM them from a rooftop. While investigating your case I looked into Lunar's logs to verify how he explained how it happened. And a few things are confirmed. He was not on the server when the ticket was originally made, he told the server as a whole to remake any PK tickets when he did connect as no admins were on that could take your PK as the only other admin online had been involved in your killing, and he was handling your PK ticket the same time another staff member was handling your RDM ticket. After taking your PK ticket he went straight from his staff char to his cop char. At which point yes he saw you had the same name as the character who was just PK'd. He should have informed you on his staff char but he opted to do it on his cop char as that was also the one involved in the paperwork to changes a cop char's name. 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, as already explained by Calink your PK was the result of a VCWP. You decided to shoot a cop, tried to run in that same moment, and failed miserably before being killed for your own actions. Let us go through why it will be standing as is. You bring up Howie's Pk appeal which I also reviewed. If you think your two situations are remotely similar you are delusional. He didn't kill a cop. He shot one when missing someone else, immediately put his weapon away and was attempting to apologize when he was executed by a probie. You executed a cop then were killed while trying to flee the scene in the same interaction. You keep bringing up this argument of "Oh the situation was over". No, it wasn't. You had just shot and killed an officer triggering your PK active time. In that same moment that you try to drive away the killing officer shoots you. You still attempt to flee instead of deescalate the situation at which point you wreck and then the officer finishes the violent confrontation. Just because you turn around doesn't mean you void the confrontation that just happened and does not void your PK active timer. You killed a cop and then failed to flee and died as a result of it. 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 by Winchester you were killed for initiating a VCWP with police and that will be standing but let's get into the whj and your arguments against it. First, you state that because one officer is breaking NLR then it is all invalidated which is simply not true. He did not have the other officers respond, he didn't initiate the first contact with you after returning to the area. You began that interaction with him when you decided to RDM an officer that was allowing you to leave the area. When you start another VCWP with multiple officers around you brought that on yourself. Stop trying to push that blame to others when you made that decision and got clapped for it. Second, you want to argue the NLR break which as already stated is minor in light of your actions. You RDM'd an officer after breaking character to distract him so you could kill him. You pulled a bitch move and got bitched for it by another officer not involved in the NLR situation. 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 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.