Ban Appeal

[Cannon]

Your Character or Steam Name: Sean McCarthy

Your SteamID: STEAM_0:0:201255454

Your Discord ID#: sauerkaut9103

Reason for ban: Character Abuse - Organized Item Transfer / Metagame / Unapproved Diverge related discord

Length of ban: 2 months, 3 hours

Reason for appeal (dispute/apology): I do not believe i am guilty for these rule breaks besides unauthorized diverge related discord. I have been working for a while to start a faction so I made a discord server as an exoskeleton and to "gather" my members up for when its time to put in the application and i understood the discord server would have to be owned by Pendred. I do not know the reasoning behind the Organized Item Transfer, Character Abuse, nor Metagame. I deeply apologize for my actions and i thought it was acceptable to make a faction discord pre - application. I personally think a 2 month ban is a bit harsh especially when my clear background.

Why should you be unbanned?: I have a clear record, i have never broken any rules before, and the actions i admit to i didnt realize were unacceptable. I was planning on using this summer to buildup my faction and i was going to put in the application in a week as i was working on finishing touched. I still got no context to what i got banned for, I do not have any excuses for what i may have done, I am an active member and roleplayer of the server and i would never intentionally do anything to harm it. And again, I am truly sorry for my actions and appealed or not, it wont happen again.

[DaddyD15]

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[4Lights]

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.

[Cannon]

21 minutes ago, 4Lights said:

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.

I will admit my faults here, during the situation with me getting pk'd from callaghans and then again as my McCarthy character there was a lot of mixup of items getting into bank accounts that i shouldnt have had access to let alone the items from callaghans being near our characters. At this time all i cared about was bank accounts for my faction and i was doing what i thought was best even though it being very stupid, i cannot explain actions of others but mine were definitely not atonable. We were wanting to give our items to each other from callaghans since we were all leaving them, we never intended to keep our own items from callaghans and the bank accounts, like a said, shouldnt have gotten near any of us and we should had just bought our own yet we didnt. Some of the items that were believed to be mine (specifically the thomas' suit) did not belong to me and even thought these items are limited to what was and wasnt transferred it does not give justification for our actions. I deeply apologize for this mistake and like ive said before, appeal or no appeal this will not occur again. The NOI suit however i cannot explain myself as i forgot about this whole situation and all i remember was being added to a bank account that had the suit in it. (i bought the bank account from a friend using it for my crews fund when i was a right hand, this is all i recall from that situation).

[Thomas]

There were a lot of ways you could have handled this situation; in my eyes, you handled it in the worst way possible. Time after time, you made bad decisions after bad decisions with the complete knowledge of what you were doing. I dont know why you are using the excuse of lost items between multiple characters, even in your apology, you are lying. There are countless examples of people who created factions without #1 leaching off a current faction and #2 breaking half the rule book to accomplish it. At the end of the day, this is a game, and I have nothing against you, but if you played by the rules like everyone else, you would be able to create a faction and you wouldn't be banned right now. There is not a single doubt in my mind that you regret what you did, just the fact that you got caught. Staff have everything they needed to make the decision, and I think 4lights did a perfect job on all accounts. It was clear from day 1 that you intended to circumvent the rules and the RP surrounding my faction to make yourself and your faction have an upper hand. Unfortunately, everyone you convinced to go with you has been PKed and banned because of what YOU wanted. I offered advice and guidance, and instead, you tried to maliciously hurt my faction. Again, I say you could have handled this situation a lot better; instead, you did the opposite and did what caused you to be banned and PKed. I don't think you should have a reduction of a ban, nor should any of your characters that are involved be unPKed. You need to learn true leadership and how to follow rules, not try and cheat the system so it benefits you. I hope you learned from this situation and maybe when you come back, you will use this as a learning experience.