It has come to my attention that my previous post wasn’t sufficient and lacked transparency. As requested, I waited a week and will be reappealing now (1 week from original posting day). The majority of the appeal will remain the same but I will attempt to explain more in the “Anything else we should know” section
SS14 account: Kyeeell
Character name: George Flourance
Type of Ban: Game Ban
Date of Ban and Duration: Banned 5/26/22 @ 10:27PM EST Permanently
Reason for Ban: “Shooting Spree as HoS, unreachable through ahelp. Banning admin Stealth16. Appeal at forums.ss14.io”
Server you were playing on when banned: Lizard
Your side of the story: So, I’ve never played HoS, and am fairly new to the game. HoS is a low priority job for me so I was surprised to be picked for it. I joined in, tried to get a feel for the area, and then a man in a clown-looking outfit threw a giant sword at me. I killed him in retaliation, as self defense is reasonable here. I was then attacked by a group of people because they felt as if the murder wasn’t justified.
Why you think you should be unbanned: I’m new to the game, it was a one time mistake, I thought it was okay since I was acting in self defense. I didn’t know what the admin help dialog was, I assumed it was someone else asking for help, so I had ignored it and went AFK as someone’s PDA ai.
Anything else we should know: After being able to sit on the issue for a week, I’d like to give some clarification on the roommate situation and be as honest as I’m able. I DO have roomates (4 total including myself), I am willing to prove this if necessary using our signed roommate agreement. Two of us have played SS14 actively together, I believe one other has made an account. Personally, I own Kyeeell and Kraftingkage. Kraftingkage was created on the first day I played because I didn’t understand the game and was killed very fast. I have logged into that account on the day it was created and once or twice after I was banned. If I can leverage any defense here, I was curious if I was account banned or computer banned. I’m an IT professional (and always aspired to be an indie dev) and sometimes stuff like that interests me. I recognize this absolutely f*cked me in my last application, and I want to be honest and upfront about it.
I’m aware one of my roomates has DumpTruck28, I’m not sure if he has any alts, as that’s not my business personally. He had nothing to do with the ban and has sadly been caught in the crossfire of this whole thing. I feel bad that my mistake of not responding in ahelp has caused this.
To hopefully bring some closure to this issue, I’d like to say: I recognize my mistake, and none of it will happen again. I’m sorry for the issues I have caused and I’d like to come back as a better member who can spend time on the game. I now understand what ahelp is. It hadn’t caught my eyes as an important DM, and like I said, I thought it was someone else reaching out for help. I hate to see how far out of control this ban got, and how quickly it got there. Please, if you have any questions do ask, I’d like to answer them in the best way possible and see if we can come to resolution about this issue. Thanks for reading :)