Nyartholatep - Vulture 74000. Metacommunications with JoeyImpasta. You may appeal this on the forums

[Nyartholatep]

Username: Nyartholatep

Ban reason: Vulture 74000. Metacommunications with JoeyImpasta. You may appeal this on the forums.
Length of ban: Indefinite
Ban Issue:
I did what I was banned for, but the ban is unreasonably harsh

Vote Opt-Out: false

Events leading to the ban

Me and my friend Joey joined wizards den, Joey only had a little experience and I just wanted to introduce him to the game. He picked med intern, and I was research assistant. We didn’t plan on speaking about the game or acting on metaknowledge, I was just telling him to follow me since he needed to go to medical to learn the job. The space station was confusing and we got separated so when I got back to him I was admin frozen and I missed the admin message. After relogging I saw the admin message and responded affirmatively, but my friend gave up and left (ssd) since we weren’t on the station for even 10minutes and I followed him out.

Reason the ban should be removed

I would like to play on the server when the others are full and be apart of the community. I would like to form a story on the station, one that I can enjoy.

Alternate Accounts

[JIP_Dawg]

Accepting and quoting an ex-admin that had a good post on the subject of metacomming. You’re friend will however need to make a separate appeal to get unbanned.

@Stealth16

Accepting this on the basis that you’re still a relatively new player.

A note on why we treat metacomming so harshly:

Space Station 14 fundamentally has a lot of similar qualities to other deception games like Among Us or Werewolf/Mafia. All three games get ruined if someone uses external communication to share information they shouldn’t be able to.

Unlike the other two, which have rather quick rounds, shifts on the space station regularly take over an hour. The games are longer and the stakes are higher. Which means that if a player’s round gets ruined by cheating, its a bigger deal, because they’re dead or out of the game for an hour, sometimes longer.

If we catch you metacomming, we can’t confirm whether or not you had good intentions. We fundamentally don’t have access to any way you communicate outside of the game. We have to treat it with a strong hand.

Do I think you were using this for an advantage? No. I don’t think you had any malicious intent. But the ban has to be placed regardless because, even if you didn’t have malicious intent, you might have shared information that ruined someone’s round. And that isn’t OK.

Your friend is welcome to appeal separately, and you are welcome to play alongside each other- but not necessarily together- if that distinction makes sense.