pk appeal - Sonny "vito" Luciano

[Sonny Luciano]

 Sonny "Vito" Luciano I Steam Name: Joe Rogan

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198972248724/

Discord ID#: xroccox

Reason for ban: "Item Transfer"

Length of ban: 5 days                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I’d like to appeal my ban for “item transfer.”

From my understanding of the rule, it specifically prohibits transferring items or money between my own characters or acting as a middleman for someone else doing that. In this situation, I did not transfer anything between my own characters.

What actually happened was that, due to a lack of active buyers over several days, we used another player’s character to sell products through normal in-character transactions. At the time, I believed this was legitimate roleplay trading, not item transferring, since the rule does not explicitly mention selling through another player’s character as prohibited.

There was no intent to bypass progression systems or exploit mechanics—only to continue roleplay and move goods in a stalled market.

If this does fall under the rule’s interpretation, I understand and will not repeat it. However, I’d appreciate reconsideration or a reduced punishment due to the ambiguity and lack of malicious intent.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       As for the screenshot, we had several barrels of meth that we legitimately processed. The guy I was playing with has lots of time on the server and never knew anything about being banned so I truly did not have any bad intent. The admin that spoke to us kept saying I had that character since November however, I had only hopped on the server one time to see how it is. I also never switched to a different character during my 3 days of playtime, and this was truly my first time putting hours into the server and really wanted to keep playing and add value to the server. I truly hope we can reach an agreement solve this issue.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Very sorry for messing up the first post, this is my first time.

Edited 1 hour ago by Sonny Luciano

[vel0city]

Hello, PKing admin here!

I began this investigation after another staff member alerted me through staff chat that they may have witnessed a rule violation. After thoroughly reviewing the logs, I confirmed that you and your accomplice processed your own faction’s racket and placed the drugs into the trunk of a vehicle. Your friend then switched to a civilian character in order to sell those drugs to the vendor, and afterward transferred the full amount of money back to you.

This is a direct violation of Character Rule 7, which states:

"Likewise, you may not transfer money or items between any of your characters in any way. Nor are you allowed to act as the middleman for someone else's item or money transfer. Transferring items or money between two of your characters is not permitted under any circumstance."

As both of your friend’s characters were directly involved in this transfer, both were issued a PK. Your other character was not involved in this incident and therefore was not PKed. In addition, both you and your friend were banned from the server for a duration of 5 days.

Best of luck with your character appeal.

Edited 42 minutes ago by vel0city

[Sonny Luciano]

To start there is zero bad blood on my side, 

 

The rule you are posting is stating that I am transferring items between MY characters OR acting like a middleman is just factually incorrect. I never switched characters and grabbed items, and I did not act as a middleman by picking up items and giving them to someone else. I understand how this is trying to be painted as me knowingly or maliciously trying to cheat some system, but I am genuinely new in terms of actually trying to join factions and play the game, not just hop on, talk to people and get off the game. I am very confused on how I had a partner who has played this for years also did not know about some rule that I'm being painted of doing is even a thing. I truly was having a great time; we won a comedy night we were getting recognition and playing the game safely. During that run I had some of the best times I've had on gmod and was getting ready to spend the whole duration of my broken foot grinding this out. Also to point out the response I am replying to from the admin is literally a copy and paste from my partners. I truly hope this can be resolved because I have a lot of grinding I was hoping on doing!

[Sonny Luciano]

I am also being spammed with negative comments and rep by some donor because this is my first time having to be here. I wish there was not a permanent -2 on my account because a random person thinks my mistake typing in the wrong section is "negative" and "dumb"