Staff spawning NPCs at a police raid

[Whathe12]

Your Steam Name: Drew
Your Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:23894491
Your Character Name (If Applicable): John Hoffman

Admin being reported( Tag by writing @ before their forum name): @gm1003 ツ

Reason for Report: Spawning NPCs at a police raid, abusing SA powers - The PD was clearly gearing up for a raid on a house at sater bay, we were staging outside. The people inside shot at a cop so then we went ahead and proceeded to raid. All of a sudden, combines were spawned after we started raiding and they were shooting and throwing grenades at players & cops at this raid. I then appear to get killed by an NPC combine officer in the window shown in the video as well as got flash banged by the floating NPC which resulted in me having to waste ammo to kill it.

Multiple people were complaining in OOC, telling saying the NPCs are causing lag and the NPCs are doing damage to players in the raid. When asked why there are NPCs in the raid, GM just brushes it off like it's no problem and continued to spawn more NPCs.

These 2 screenshots are from the videos.

There was no announcement of an "Event" or "RP enhancements", this was just something GM decided to do that messed with our RP.

As someone who pays for a premium membership, it makes me rethink purchasing when there's senior staff who abuse their powers for their own enjoyment, and take away from the players who pay to enjoy the server.

Time of Occurrence: Around 11:07- 11:15 PM PST on 8/2/2020

Evidence to support your claim: 1st video - https://streamable.com/lo9ujm - This is the beginning of the raid, at around the 50 second mark is when you can start to hear the combine shooting their guns. There were no NPCs spawned in before we begun raiding this building.

2nd video - https://streamable.com/f6kimo Combine are shooting at the building and one of them throws a grenade at me, distracting and damaging me. I'm then flashed by the NPC floating thing and I have to kill it or else it's going to continue messing with us. Then I look up into the window and see a combine officer that shoots and I'm pretty sure it kills me.

Additional members involved/witnessing: N/A
Read, understood and followed staff report rules?: Yes

 

[itz_coffee]

I asked other staff if we should spawn some NPC's to create some interesting RP and they agreed. In order to balance things out I spawned them pretty far away (near the entrance from the main road leading to Evo Ln.). Neither the criminals or the police had an advantage as they shot at both sides initially,. But things became unbalanced when the criminals hid inside, so I removed most if not all and spawned some combine props to keep the "immersion"; another aspect I closely monitored is that they didn't become too overwhelming by directing their fire to me in no clip, that way not every NPC shot at the players

this was just something GM decided to do that messed with our RP.

My intention was to help enhance RP, not hurt it. I apologize that you felt that way

As a side note, I can't help but think you have a personal vendetta on me as you frequently talk to me in a sarcastic and disrespectful attitude, saying I do not deserve to keep my senior admin position (in forum posts that I saw before they were deleted). This anger seemed to carry over in roleplay today by giving me harsh punishments as a police officer. I'm not sure if it's because I denied your report earlier today but I hope we can come to an understanding instead of making frivolous staff reports

 

[Whathe12]

EDIT: Upon further view of video footage before we raided the building, I found that THREE of GM1003's steam friends were involved in defending the property. This looks like to me he spawned these NPCs to help his friends during the raid. (As I was killed by an NPC inside the building)

https://imgur.com/a/GqvU8ZA

"I'm not sure if it's because I denied your report earlier today but I hope we can come to an understanding instead of making frivolous staff reports "
You denied a player report I made against one of your steam friends. There's clearly a bias involved and of all people to take forum player reports, you shouldn't be the decision maker when your friend is involved.

Since you brought up something about me saying I don't think you deserve to keep your SA position, I'll address that. I'm going off of the fact you've previously been caught abusing staff powers to gain an ingame advantage. As shown in this staff report: https://monolithservers.com/forums/threads/gm1003-abuse-of-power-report.23311/

EDIT2: From spawning NPCs to help your friends in a raid, to denying forum player reports against your steam friends and using admin powers to fix your car while in a police chase, it honestly looks like you use your SA powers to help yourself gain an IG advantage or to help your steam friends.

I've stated what happened and I won't be replying (unless prompted to) anymore to this thread.

 

[itz_coffee]

I was fixing his player model as the wardrobe caused him to become an error sign. Even on your "evidence" you can see that for yourself. There were no NPC's inside the house


I've taken numerous forum player reports for about a year now and followed our internal staff guidelines for all of them, being ex-staff you should know them but I suppose you do not remember

 

[Whathe12]

I was fixing his player model as the wardrobe caused him to become an error sign. Even on your "evidence" you can see that for yourself. There were no NPC's inside the house
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I've taken numerous forum player reports for about a year now and followed our internal staff guidelines for all of them, being ex-staff you should know them but I suppose you do not remember

You’ve missed my point entirely.
I don’t care that his player model was an error sign.

I’m pointing out that him, along with two other players defending that property, making it THREE Total, are friends with you on steam. It seems ABSURD that of all natural (non-event planned) raids that ever happen on monolith, the one that has NPCs spawned in for an “RP enhancement” (with no announcement being made) has three of your steam friends defending the property you spawn the NPCs on.

“There were no NPC's inside the house”
You very clearly missed the ending of the second video where I’m blasted by a COMBINE NPC INSIDE THE WINDOW.

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Watch this video on Streamable.

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“I've taken numerous forum player reports for about a year now and followed our internal staff guidelines for all of them, being ex-staff you should know them but I suppose you do not remember”


If there’s one stating you can accept or deny forum reports for your steam FRIEND’s( edit* even when there’s a whole report team and other SA+’s that are NOT friends with them) then that’s one I’m not aware of.

EDIT: More or less, the principle still stands that you’re clearly biased in your discipline decisions since you take on forums reports involving your steam friends.

While it may or may not be against internal staff guidelines, you still chose to be biased in your decision making as a senior administrator because the internal guidelines may or may not allow that and if you can get away with it, you chose to in order benefit your friends (or yourself since you like to help your friends) with your SA priviledges and is surely unethical.

 

[Melody]

Under review.

 

[Melody]

Hello,

Thank you for your report. The events detailed have been discussed with @gm1003 ツ, and he understands that this was an inappropriate use of his administrative powers. The only time that interfering with gameplay mechanics is allowed to this extent is during a predetermined and announced RP enhancement/event. In normal player driver gameplay such as this, interference outside of a rulebreak is not allowed.
As for the claim of personal bias, after speaking with gm, there is not enough evidence to support this. His friends list is extensive and he has most of the active players on the server added, so some overlap would be expected. His intention was to create a fun scenario, and although it was executed poorly, I do not believe his intention was to create an unfair advantage to either side of the raid.

Gm understands that this was too far, not allowed, and will be more careful and considerate of keeping normal gameplay and enhancements separate in the future.

Concluded.