ethan's appeal

[Ethan 121]

Your Character or Steam Name: Ethan / Ciaran McGahon Your SteamID (Click to retrieve): https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198972963331/ Your Discord ID#: 586589691906752583 (ethan_121) Reason for ban: Character Abuse - Organised Item Transfer / Metagame / Unapproved Diverge related discord Length of ban: 2 weeks Reason for appeal (dispute/apology): The reason for my dispute is i personally believe we did no wrong yes we made a discord for a faction we where planing to bring to the server so i see no wrong with making a hub where we collect ideas and members for our soon to be faction on to the item transfer yes we did take some items from freddies pk char but again this was just best interest in mccarthy we just needed as much help as we could get in this cut throat server i agree it looks especially bad as we where all part of callahans an other irish faction palning on leaving to make another but there was a lot of internal problems and a lot left to be desired with the metagame we did make some trades between each other but we keept to market price never not paying the correct amount and im sure if you looked hard enough you would see several rule brakes in many other factions Why should you be unbanned? Why should I be unbanned It's simple. Yes I understand that some of the stuff I did was wrong but a lot of people get away with a lot worse Once im unbanned, i plan to help properly make McCarthy the correct way

[4Lights]

Hello banning staff here.

You were part of an investigation for it which it was found you heavily middlemaned a number of high value items and transferred the majority of your own from your Callaghan character, through a proxy; sharing all of your banks with McCarthy characters, leaving them nearly empty. You took a lot of items from Cannon's original character, transferred many into #Gift or #Locker 1. You maintained direct access to a number of high value McCarthy banks which were used as deposit points.

I do not see any evidence of fair market value being paid, I see April 15, the day after Cannon was PKed and the days leading up to to it. You and others simple exploited sharing banks with eachother to move stuff to McCarthy accounts.

Example: #62207 (MESO P/E) and #62553 (Texas P/E) your nearly empty Callaghan banks are shared to the following permissions. With others having shared similar access for your McCarthy character. ex; #Gift
(OWNER) Ethan O’Connor
Eoin “Toasty” Dunlavey
Niall Dunlavey 
Aisling McCarthy

 

Yes it looks bad considering that it could and has hurt Callaghan, if you wanted out. This was not the approach, you can't just simply act as a group; drain all valuables from your Callaghan characters and start new civs using the resources obtained. This is character abuse. This was a concerted effort involving multiple individuals to jumpstart a new faction, throwing away your old characters in the process. With allegation involving attempting to poach members, while maintaining said characters, which could effectively sabotage said faction.

 

Other do it isn't a viable defense, if we catch word of wrong doing and investigation yield results. We will punish accordingly. 

[Ethan 121]

we started moving stuff from callaghans after the pk of cannon which was a heavy meta game kill we decided to this as we all feared a pk for no reason in character we all also planed to stay in both faction and never fully quit callaghans if you want things to look into you can look into cannons death and the reasons around it all I'm saying there's a bigger picture 

 

[Thomas]

2 hours ago, Ethan 121 said:

we started moving stuff from callaghans after the pk of cannon which was a heavy meta game kill we decided to this as we all feared a pk for no reason in character we all also planed to stay in both faction and never fully quit callaghans if you want things to look into you can look into cannons death and the reasons around it all I'm saying there's a bigger picture 

 

I wasn’t going commenting on this however, I feel it’s important to talk about some of your claims that you made. #1 You have not been around my faction to fully know the ins and outs of it, So for you to say you feared for your life is a really interesting claim. Also, cannons PK was completely in the guidelines of the rules, and if he didn’t think so he should have appealed it then so bringing it up now means nothing and does not help your case whatsoever. You said you planned to stay in both and it was mentioned to me that you would which is why I didn’t kill you or anyone else. You claim that you did a lot of this stuff because of cannon and his PK. This does not give you the excuse to break rules and help others break rules just to benefit you and your friends in creating a faction. I have said this on cannon’s appeal as well there are a plenty of better ways to handle the situation and you guys did the complete opposite of that. It’s very sad that it’s excuse this and excuse that instead of an apology. It just shows that there is no accountability in this group and it shows that you all had every intention of doing what you did. I’m glad cannon has apologized so for you to sit here and try and make my faction out to be the bad guy is baffling. I will say you did not do as much as some other, but you still participated heavily with as much motivation as them. It’s also not a secret that you used your position in “mccarthy” putting that in quotes because it’s not a real faction to metagame and try to gather information on the Callaghan’s. So, I end this off with the same way I ended cannon’s. You knew what you were doing even admitted it and you are upset you get caught doing it. I think the time needed to reflect on your mistakes is the perfect amount of time listed on your ban seeing as you were fairly malicious in your actions.