I'll start off by reposting this.
Please, try to keep this thread on topic. I don't want this to spiral out of control, if you have supporting evidence or have experience similar abuses at the hands of Rowtree, here is the chance to speak up.
The first part considerably so. Now, onwards to my defence.
Article One - 26th October.
The canals issue regarding whatever kidnapping happened.
It happened. There. I ain't gonna gloss over it. It was the reason I took the four day LOA and sobered myself up. I'd come on Teamspeak to say good nights to a few people when I'm battered with 'SHOTCOP HAPPENING GET ON COAST WE NEED YOUR SHOTCOP MUSIC'. Begrudgingly I joined the server to see that some people had been kidnapped, or something. I don't remember too good. Keep in mind that it's about 6:00am GMT, and I'd been up all the night, and I had a lecture at 12pm that day.
And I fucked up. I even admitted it in those logs Spartan kindly posted. I fucked up, and I admitted it, and I took time off that week to focus on sobering myself up. (Despite the story I like to spin in teamspeak about smoking a joint straight after saying that, I actually did not touch much substance during that week.)
I came back on the Friday that week to help with something on the city. I'd actually turned steam friends off and was roleplaying on a new character for the most part of that time, until I came back 'officially' later that night and resumed work on plot.
Yes, I fucked up. I took a 4 day LOA, calmed my head and decided I'd rather just focus on story than actually getting involved in anything. And you know what? Since then, the only things I've actually roleplayed on my resistance characters is handing out beer at a bar on City 8 at 3am before heading off to sleep, and that was yesterday.
Truth is, I just have little reason to roleplay my characters outside of events, I don't find it interesting, I dislike playing on the coast, and the City is dead most of the time when I'm playing. (During the day, GMT.)
Article Two
10:42 PM - Rowtree: I know and it's a problem because it's just this shit like
10:42 PM - Rowtree: if you have the tools to metagame it'll happen
You claim this is an admission to metagame, yet isn't it a simple truth? Give a man power and he will abuse that power, yadda yadda. You've heard the quote before, and likely presented better than I could.
If you have the tools to metagame, it'll happen, that's just a fact. It's not about metagaming, but acting on that information. Everyone's gonna know something they shouldn't know, it's acting on that information that becomes the issue, and while I've admitted to the earlier article, the next few accusations, I'll defend entirely.
A few weeks prior, I was conducting some operation stuff with the CCA, planning to sell out Crenshaw to buy some respite and we'd organized this elaborate meeting, isolating who was where with OUR folks in the city monitoring the hand-off and conversation subsequent with god knows how many intel operatives also shadowing my people or being shadowed by the OUR. What followed was an incredibly tense exchange regarding Crenshaw and Poincare because their actions impact the resistance et al and Crow was done dealing with the Brotherhood so he was gonna sell em out and move on.
I will say this straight up:
I have never dealt with Crow.
Ever.
I have dealt with your boys, and often brought them on my events, but direct actually roleplay between you and my? Not in the immediate past. Maybe back when the coast first started.
I have never dealt with you. The brotherhood has never dealt with you. The brotherhood is an event faction designed to provide hostilities to the Union on a far grander scale than City 17, a reminder that the world outside the servers we provide is still ticking on and still happening. In fact, just last Saturday I did a small plot event with Kestrel and Sid, where I basically gave them both access to the entire interior of the Brotherhood, how and where to strike at them and how to deal with them. In short: I gave Overwatch details and plot on how to combat them, when to combat them, and was even planning events where that would happen.
I have not ever dealt with Crow on the Brotherhood, or to go one step further, on Poincaré or even Crenshaw. Neither of them have ever interacted with Crow, nor have any reason to. Crenshaw stays in the City, and Louis is far too busy dealing with more important issues than a trumped up Resistance who thinks they're too big for their boots.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but- Considering the Brotherhood is an event faction, I.E. Only come up on events and have no further impact to the coast other than the overall plotline of the Air Exchange which they even gave to OUR and the City 17 Resistance to deal with on their own terms, wouldn't it be vital that I know your plans to attack an event faction so I can plot around that and assist you in your actions?
The Brotherhood is
not, and will
not ever be a player faction. It is not something that exists in the coast in an active role. They provide storyline to the Resistance and to the CCA.
I found out about your events through simply being in observe at the time. I was not involved in anything on the server. I did not break any roleplay to come straight to watching over you.
I was watching you in observe. And hey, guess what?
You're not the only person I watched. You're not the only person the administration team watch.
9 times out of 10, we are not roleplaying on the City, we're watching over the playerbase and sitting invisibly in that one dark corner watching your deepest, darkest ERPs.
Infact, thinking back over that event, I was half AFK in observe half the time watching youtube videos. I simply do not care what you do on this server, who you fight, who you try to sell out or anything.
What does not change is the fact that Crenshaw has never actually dealt with Crow, and the Brotherhood even less so.
So how can you be sick of a faction, and try to sell out two characters that have barely, (if ever) interacted with your specific character?
I don't know why we've allowed this kind of thing to continue but almost immediately after that, Rowtree's characters immediately changed their ways, never meeting with Crow, refusing to talk to Crow and only working with people tied to Crow when I wasn't online or around.
Also, to go back t the timezone points. You're PST, I'm GMT. That's an 8 hour difference. Not only that, but I'm at University, my time is spent socialising with friends and snorting lines of coke going to gigs in Camden.
I'm an entertainer, I'm at Uni to study theatre and story telling, it's what I do, it's a hobby.
I'm sorry I can't be on to interact with you all the time, Spartan, but your associates are on far more often than you are. I 'work' with them because Jules and ItsTheEnd are tied to my storylines, and it would be absolutely ridiculous (and not to mention entirely metagaming) for me to cast them out of my events because of your dislike of me.
My characters never changed their ways to 'meet with you', Spartan.
It's because they never met you.
part two: electric boogaloo
Gravelord Smaug, on 09 Nov 2015 - 8:44 PM, said:
I don't hate you at all Miharu, and while we've disagree'd on East Wind in the past, I have the fortunate ability to forget why I dislike people the day after I fight.
For the interests of all who read, I'm gonna split up your post into parts to better explain my positioning.
i'm talking in general. his attitude has been far too toxic to his peers for somebody that should be a rolemodel and representative of the server, somebody attempting to elevate it to a higher plane.
it even came to a point where he willy-nilly started using combine assets, that should only be deployed with the permission of high command, for "events". when he was questioned about why the fuck he's doing something he's not authorized to do, like "scare people with a chopper", that he doesn't know how to roleplay, he outright refused to even communicate with HC and argued the point ad infinitum. logs of that can be provided if anybody wishes for it. there are countless examples of this, to put it boldly, idiotic behaviour. once every two or three weeks, during regular conversation with my steam friends, i get notified of this type of shit happening over and over again. alcohol is most definitely not an excuse, and mistakes such as these, that happened so many times in the past, simply showcase a pattern that's not going to stop any time soon.
my attitude has been about as 'toxic' as yours. We've both had our share of disagreements in the playerbase.
Let me share you a screencap with my playtime.
48 hours in the past two weeks. I simply have barely been getting on. I'd actually like you to post times when I've been, as you claim 'toxic to his peers'. If you're referring to the Administration team, then please do say.
This argument about using a hunter-chopper on the coast, right.
For clarification, let me tell you the current ruling.
"No Combine Assets are allowed to be used on the Coast without the permission of High Command'
I'm sure you're scrolling through the Combine forum to see this posted, well, hard luck. I just wrote that.
Let me state this for you Miharu; I, and several other admins were not aware of this ruling at the time when I did the event, which even then was a response to the fact that some idiot pushed the alarm button in NLO and build ridiculously obvious barricades that needed to be destroyed.
Had I been aware of the ruling at the time, I wouldn't have done it. But this wasn't written anywhere, certainly not in the administration board, where you'd think such information would be very important.
I argued with High Command because it's a dumb rule and I disagree'd with it.
Am I not entitled to argue my points? Or am I supposed to sit down, shut up, and agree with the ruling classes? Regardless of my own opinion on it, I'd like you to find proof that after this discussion with Spartan that I've spawned any others. I haven't. After that event, I have not spawned a single combine asset on the coast. The 'law' is the law, regardless of how much I disagree with it.
there are countless examples of this, to put it boldly, idiotic behaviour. once every two or three weeks, during regular conversation with my steam friends, i get notified of this type of shit happening over and over again. alcohol is most definitely not an excuse, and mistakes such as these, that happened so many times in the past, simply showcase a pattern that's not going to stop any time soon.
I'm asking for these logs, please, do share.
his punishment for the metagame shown in the OP, because nobody called him out on it until now, was banning himself for a week -- as if "self harm" in that sense is somehow ample for breaking a roleplaying ruleset as holy as metagaming, as an admin even.
>holy rules
what the fuck is this nonsense. Players break rules all the time, admins break rules all the time.
You claim that I banned myself for my own self pity, to garner support, when in reality I pretty much did what I said on the tin. (No, I didn't go to rehab, I went to my lectures and stopped partying as hard as I did in the first three weeks of uni. And anyone who's been to uni will vouch for the three weeks of partying.)
i concur with the request in the OP, for his admin to be permanently removed and him being given a break from the server to think about his attitude and hopefully rectify his mistakes. now, i've got my own faults and have fucked things up before, but god damn it happens every few months, not every week or two. and i'm sure that applies to most, if not all the other administrators.
Again, the burden of proof is not on me, but on you. I do not have to defend myself from accusations that you haven't backed up with evidence.
as a player, he's got more than most to offer to the server i'd imagine. but as an admin he simply has to go. i'm sorry rowtree, this really isn't personal, i know we don't like each other, but i'm simply stating what's best for the server.
and now's the part where my story comes in.
No, I don't have anything to offer the server as a player.
I sit in a bar on Jonathan Crenshaw playing my radio tunes and sitting AFK watching youtube videos.
The last time I roleplayed on the Coast was when SealGunman was still an admin.
I'm not here to sit around on my characters talking about when times were good. I'm here to tell a story, I'm here to provide conflict and something for the players to go away from my events saying 'What can I take away from that to further my character?'
To refer to what I said earlier, I'm a storyteller. I dedicate a few hours of my time a day to get on and further a story on a roleplay server on Garry's Mod.
This is a hobby, not a job. I enjoy telling stories and inviting people in to involve themselves in and further the stories themselves. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy actually roleplaying, but I have so little time nowadays that to sit down for three-four hours roleplaying is simply impossible, thus I have to make do with my few hours a day after Uni to get on and do events for people, where if I'm called away, I don't have to make my partner sit around and wait for thirty minutes while I cook food on a shitty old stove.
tl;dr,