- May 23, 2011
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This is honestly wasn't what I wanted to start out my HL2RP experience with. I was having a great time roleplaying and discovering until this incident happened. It angers me deeply this has happened, and I am seeking something to be done about this.
I was passive rp'ing with a few people in the center of victory city on rp_apocalypse today, when a new player with a quite obvious non-rp name showed up.
This new player arrived, and I began to help him. I informed him politely through LOOC that his name was not proper for a serious roleplay server. I could sort of tell that he wasn't really aware what this type of server was, most players with names like his think it is some sort of dark-rp / semi-serious server (I still try my best to educate them anyway). I began to collect my thoughts to attempt to teach him about the serious side of roleplay, and what TnB was all about, when he ran away from my area towards another group.
I began to type to him to come back over in /pm. I had planned to take him somewhere secluded so I could educate him. As I was typing, he ran into a building that the player "jerkbox" (apparently this is oocly toast, unconfirmed) was using for roleplay to give people tattoo's. It was called "Stik n' poke" or something like that.
I was still typing to the player in /pm when shots ring out. I knew exactly what was happening, as it had happened to me the day prior.
The day prior... The door to the building jerkbox owned was stuck, so I was attempting to move some props around to attempt to get it to close. Jerkbox instantly assumed I was trying to fuck with his stuff with malicious intent, and decided to deal with the situation by shooting me with his script weapon. I was quite upset at this, but he soon realised his mistake, and apologized. I let it go at the time, it wasn't a big deal to me then. I don't have proof for this, but I have a witness. Levinx can confirm this happened, he was with me at the time. http://steamcommunity.com/id/zombie1012/
Back to today, my suspicions were correct when I looked at the console. According to jerkbox, this new player was physing his stuff, though it was all welded and he really couldn't of done any damage to it at all. Instead of dealing with the situation by calling an admin, or attempting to talk to him to try and get him to stop, he decided to rdm him with his swep. This happend three separate times, within a span of two minutes.
I myself attempted to call an admin to the situation, as I knew it was going to get out of hand very quickly. Apparently Bennet was the only administrator on. Unsurprisngly, !a yielded no results. I went to Bennet on SF personally to report the issue, yet still nothing was done, except to ban the player for 60 minutes after he had become greatly agitated from being killed by jerkbox. He was spamming props.
I have logs below:
In this first picture, I will admit my choice of words probably did not help the situation. I was rather upset after he had done it a second time, and the fact no administrator was assisting.
Sometime before this, the player was banned for 60 minutes after I told Bennet to ban him for prop spamming. It was a lost cause, nothing really could of been done to calm him.
I proceeded to talk to jerkbox through PM, expressing my frustration. I did my best to be polite to him, not wanting to cause an argument.
My responses are indicated in red.
This next part leaves me scratching my head. Apparently i'm a bad person because I listen to electronic music. I only use ventrilo to socialize with my friends there, I avoid using it to metagame. I often sit by myself anyway in the TRP channel. Idk about my RP though, I don't know what he really means.
I decided to leave the argument here, nothing constructive was going to be made from what had already been stated.
My responses are indicated in red.
First of all, the way this entire situation was handled by jerkbox leaves me very disappointed. People have reacted this way to new players consistently over the years within TnB, and it doesn't improve TnB's image one bit. As I said earlier, I've worked very hard over the years in TRP to try and make the new player, even if they have an unserious name, try to feel welcome. If I feel that serious roleplay is not for them, I will inform them of that politely, and recommend another server that they might instead enjoy. I frown greatly upon any form of RDM'ing or banning of a player without having to at least try to welcome them/educate them. It infuriates me deeply.
I also wish that RDM, especially towards the new player, is taken more seriously within the administration. I respect Bennet very much, I have known him for nearly five years, but his lack of action (at least that I could see on the surface) towards jerkbox left me un-impressed.
I wish to see jerkbox punished. Not for flaming me, but for RDM'ing a new player. As I said before, and in the screenshots, I did not want to have to make a CCC/ban request over this matter. I like to resolve conflicts without making a big fuss or shout about it, but I feel that justice was not delivered today.
Testimony from a witness, Xeanos:
I was passive rp'ing with a few people in the center of victory city on rp_apocalypse today, when a new player with a quite obvious non-rp name showed up.
This new player arrived, and I began to help him. I informed him politely through LOOC that his name was not proper for a serious roleplay server. I could sort of tell that he wasn't really aware what this type of server was, most players with names like his think it is some sort of dark-rp / semi-serious server (I still try my best to educate them anyway). I began to collect my thoughts to attempt to teach him about the serious side of roleplay, and what TnB was all about, when he ran away from my area towards another group.
I began to type to him to come back over in /pm. I had planned to take him somewhere secluded so I could educate him. As I was typing, he ran into a building that the player "jerkbox" (apparently this is oocly toast, unconfirmed) was using for roleplay to give people tattoo's. It was called "Stik n' poke" or something like that.
I was still typing to the player in /pm when shots ring out. I knew exactly what was happening, as it had happened to me the day prior.
The day prior... The door to the building jerkbox owned was stuck, so I was attempting to move some props around to attempt to get it to close. Jerkbox instantly assumed I was trying to fuck with his stuff with malicious intent, and decided to deal with the situation by shooting me with his script weapon. I was quite upset at this, but he soon realised his mistake, and apologized. I let it go at the time, it wasn't a big deal to me then. I don't have proof for this, but I have a witness. Levinx can confirm this happened, he was with me at the time. http://steamcommunity.com/id/zombie1012/
Back to today, my suspicions were correct when I looked at the console. According to jerkbox, this new player was physing his stuff, though it was all welded and he really couldn't of done any damage to it at all. Instead of dealing with the situation by calling an admin, or attempting to talk to him to try and get him to stop, he decided to rdm him with his swep. This happend three separate times, within a span of two minutes.
I myself attempted to call an admin to the situation, as I knew it was going to get out of hand very quickly. Apparently Bennet was the only administrator on. Unsurprisngly, !a yielded no results. I went to Bennet on SF personally to report the issue, yet still nothing was done, except to ban the player for 60 minutes after he had become greatly agitated from being killed by jerkbox. He was spamming props.
I have logs below:
In this first picture, I will admit my choice of words probably did not help the situation. I was rather upset after he had done it a second time, and the fact no administrator was assisting.
Sometime before this, the player was banned for 60 minutes after I told Bennet to ban him for prop spamming. It was a lost cause, nothing really could of been done to calm him.
I proceeded to talk to jerkbox through PM, expressing my frustration. I did my best to be polite to him, not wanting to cause an argument.
My responses are indicated in red.
This next part leaves me scratching my head. Apparently i'm a bad person because I listen to electronic music. I only use ventrilo to socialize with my friends there, I avoid using it to metagame. I often sit by myself anyway in the TRP channel. Idk about my RP though, I don't know what he really means.
I decided to leave the argument here, nothing constructive was going to be made from what had already been stated.
My responses are indicated in red.
First of all, the way this entire situation was handled by jerkbox leaves me very disappointed. People have reacted this way to new players consistently over the years within TnB, and it doesn't improve TnB's image one bit. As I said earlier, I've worked very hard over the years in TRP to try and make the new player, even if they have an unserious name, try to feel welcome. If I feel that serious roleplay is not for them, I will inform them of that politely, and recommend another server that they might instead enjoy. I frown greatly upon any form of RDM'ing or banning of a player without having to at least try to welcome them/educate them. It infuriates me deeply.
I also wish that RDM, especially towards the new player, is taken more seriously within the administration. I respect Bennet very much, I have known him for nearly five years, but his lack of action (at least that I could see on the surface) towards jerkbox left me un-impressed.
I wish to see jerkbox punished. Not for flaming me, but for RDM'ing a new player. As I said before, and in the screenshots, I did not want to have to make a CCC/ban request over this matter. I like to resolve conflicts without making a big fuss or shout about it, but I feel that justice was not delivered today.
Testimony from a witness, Xeanos:
