Ajaks
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Unban Appeal for Ajaks
In-game Name: Lucas DaVinci
Server: GTA RP
Steam ID: 76561198171212496
Ban ID: !!rpuk7730!!
Reason given for your ban: C1.4 G2.4
In your own words, please type why you think you were banned.: I was banned for both NVL and community violation C1.3
The NVL ban was over a report made about a month back about a misunderstanding where I was brought to a business meeting to talk about organising an event and was held at gunpoint. At the time I wasn't too clear about the rules involved with no value of life, I see in the rules it states that you must always value my life and if i'm at a "clear disadvantage" I must comply with requests and to the most part I would always abide by this rule thats why there hasn't been any reports of NVL from me before this event. However at the time I thought that valueing my life meant also to protect my life if I had the appropriate self defence at hand which is why I chose to always walk around and carry a pistol and whenever going to any meeting bring a friend who is also armed. I have been held hostage multiple times by 6-8 people and have always complied when clearly outnumbered but I thought NVL was situational depending on how many peoplea re there. Due to this I always saw certain situations as a battle where I would decide in the moment based on the amount of people and the weaponry involved whether or not it was a winnable situation. In the event mentioned I saw there was 2 of us against 3 of them. 2 of us both having pistols and 3 of them havign 1 pistol and 2 knives. I then decided in my head that it was a winnable situation if I took out the gunner first and my friend could shoot the other 2 knifemen. After reading over the thread I realised from the admin that this isn't what the server is about. It's about roleplay and not the outcome or the items or the respect thats involved, its about the storyline and the plot of the city. Creating events like this where you're setup and held hostage is a necessity to keep things interesting for yourself and everyone in this city and only when looking back on this I start to realise what I was doing with NVL was selfish and inconsiderate and I can see now why I wold have been reported for that as it wouldn't have made an enjoyable experience for someone else.
The second report is where I was involved with a small but petty dispute with someone over discord that I had known for a couple weeks that was harassing, threatening and antagonising members of my group and myself which led to a massive fall out. It lasted numerous days and led me to become increasingly frustrated and so angry that we had a raging fight on discord and stupidly without thinking what i was saying was still representing the community I lashed out by saying the most offensive and vulgar thing I could think of at the time which was really out of character for myself. As soon as I said it I felt disgusted with myself as I had taken it too far so I decided to delete the comment immediately as I instantly regreted my actions. Unfortunately he had screenshotted the messages and posted it on the forums as a revenge report after I reported him for NVL. These comments could have definitely been classified as a violation of the C1.2 or C1.3 rules as it was a racist comment. I will admit I didn't think about the severity of my actions at that moment because it was outside ot the city and I just said the first most offensive thing I could possibly think of at the time as I was in a fit of anger but even tho I immediately retracted it by deleting it and apologising I realised it was too late and sometimes even mistakes are inexecusable. This was originally the reason that I was banned because I never admitted to making these comments when brought into teamspeak with an admin like I should have done, and instead wasted everyones time by lying as I was fearful that I would be permanently banned from the community that I really enjoyed being a part of because of such a stupid mistake that I had made in a couple careless seconds.
Why should we unban you ?:
To be honest after taking this break for the last several weeks to look back over my actions, not just the actions before I got banned but the actions over the entirety of the time I have spent on this server I can honestly say that this was a justifiable and inevitable ban. I'm honestly dissapointed in how I've acted in this city since I've joined and I'm starting to see that I have not been a good representation of what the community should be. Like many other games I played as its over the internet its easy to disconnect from the reality that you are influencing other peoples emotions and experiences with how you act and the attitude you bring which caused me to act with disregard to the community expectations and the standard of respect that I should bring. I guess this ban served me well as it allowed me to stop and think that although it is a game I'm not going to get away with acting however I want and and actions rightfully have consequences.
Regarding the comments I made I would just like to say that I absolutely understand how unnaceptable this type of behaviour is and I understand how irresponsible, childish and dangerous this is for the community and what I said is never excusable. I hope you can understand that unfortunately I failed to control my emotions at the time and instead of being the bigger man I lashed out like a petty child. I understand there is a level of expectation of the attitude and respect we should all show each other as a member of this community. I often spot myself failing to control my emotions sometimes and after spending more time away from the server it helped remind me how its just a game and I should never get so emotionally invested and over the couple of weeks I've taken away I've absolutely improved my attitude. I'm more patient, reasonable, sensible and mature to realise when I should turn around and let things go when I'm becoming emotional and unfortunately it had to take stupid actions like this to realise how to improve my behaviour. If let back into the server I will absolutely guarantee an improvement in my behaviour and if anything like this ever happened again I would respectfully take a permanent ban without a chance of appeal.
In regards to the NVL after being banned from this server I spent the last 4 weeks on other servers where I realised that it's not just about me and I shouldn't focus about myself and trying to win every outcome based on what items I can obtain but more on the actual roleplay I'm contributing to the server. I shouldn't just act in any way that can benefit me as it can damage the high quality roleplay that the community has built. I understand as it's a free server there is always going to be a continuous stream of players entering the city which means there will also always be people that will ruin things for other people by breaking the rules or being offensive and although I contributed great roleplay scenarios, making people laugh by creating funny characters, roleplaying out injuries in funny ways, hosting events and organising crime syndicates to the best of my ability I can see how my bad roleplay and rulebreaks can ruin all of that for myself.
Although I can understand that it would be safer not to let someone with a bad record back into the city I can honestly say I would really appreciate you to consider unbanning me because although I broke community and NVL rules I have definitely improved on my roleplay recently and was planning on creating great roleplay events instead of just trying to win all the time and unfortunately this was overshadowed by immature arguments that ruined everything. I will admit I was far from perfect at times however I was starting to understand how this community works and was definitely improving and aiming to be a valuable roleplayer in the community that contributes great amounts of rolepaly in the city similar to the singh family. I hope you can consider giving me a second chance to prove this to staff team and to myself that I can improve and learn from my mistakes as just like everyone I can get very emotionally involved in the game sometimes and tempers can get flared which can cause me to act irrationally and say things without thinking. If i do return to the city I will maintain my new attitude as I have experienced what it is like to be banned while everyone is enjoying themself I can see that being permanetly banned is definitely not worth the small temporary benefits I get at the time.
I think that getting banned was a positive and necessary period for myself to take a break, and get an honest look at myself and how I was acting. After being banned I have practiced on alot of other servers to improve my roleplay abilities and my own personality and attitude rather than focusing on winning in the game and I found that I matured alot, had more fun and became a more likeable and considerate person. I would really appreciate just one last chance to prove myself and hopefully you'll see me around the city again no longer for negative reasons but for positive reasons.
Please confirm that you have read the unban appeal process and rules: Yes
In-game Name: Lucas DaVinci
Server: GTA RP
Steam ID: 76561198171212496
Ban ID: !!rpuk7730!!
Reason given for your ban: C1.4 G2.4
In your own words, please type why you think you were banned.: I was banned for both NVL and community violation C1.3
The NVL ban was over a report made about a month back about a misunderstanding where I was brought to a business meeting to talk about organising an event and was held at gunpoint. At the time I wasn't too clear about the rules involved with no value of life, I see in the rules it states that you must always value my life and if i'm at a "clear disadvantage" I must comply with requests and to the most part I would always abide by this rule thats why there hasn't been any reports of NVL from me before this event. However at the time I thought that valueing my life meant also to protect my life if I had the appropriate self defence at hand which is why I chose to always walk around and carry a pistol and whenever going to any meeting bring a friend who is also armed. I have been held hostage multiple times by 6-8 people and have always complied when clearly outnumbered but I thought NVL was situational depending on how many peoplea re there. Due to this I always saw certain situations as a battle where I would decide in the moment based on the amount of people and the weaponry involved whether or not it was a winnable situation. In the event mentioned I saw there was 2 of us against 3 of them. 2 of us both having pistols and 3 of them havign 1 pistol and 2 knives. I then decided in my head that it was a winnable situation if I took out the gunner first and my friend could shoot the other 2 knifemen. After reading over the thread I realised from the admin that this isn't what the server is about. It's about roleplay and not the outcome or the items or the respect thats involved, its about the storyline and the plot of the city. Creating events like this where you're setup and held hostage is a necessity to keep things interesting for yourself and everyone in this city and only when looking back on this I start to realise what I was doing with NVL was selfish and inconsiderate and I can see now why I wold have been reported for that as it wouldn't have made an enjoyable experience for someone else.
The second report is where I was involved with a small but petty dispute with someone over discord that I had known for a couple weeks that was harassing, threatening and antagonising members of my group and myself which led to a massive fall out. It lasted numerous days and led me to become increasingly frustrated and so angry that we had a raging fight on discord and stupidly without thinking what i was saying was still representing the community I lashed out by saying the most offensive and vulgar thing I could think of at the time which was really out of character for myself. As soon as I said it I felt disgusted with myself as I had taken it too far so I decided to delete the comment immediately as I instantly regreted my actions. Unfortunately he had screenshotted the messages and posted it on the forums as a revenge report after I reported him for NVL. These comments could have definitely been classified as a violation of the C1.2 or C1.3 rules as it was a racist comment. I will admit I didn't think about the severity of my actions at that moment because it was outside ot the city and I just said the first most offensive thing I could possibly think of at the time as I was in a fit of anger but even tho I immediately retracted it by deleting it and apologising I realised it was too late and sometimes even mistakes are inexecusable. This was originally the reason that I was banned because I never admitted to making these comments when brought into teamspeak with an admin like I should have done, and instead wasted everyones time by lying as I was fearful that I would be permanently banned from the community that I really enjoyed being a part of because of such a stupid mistake that I had made in a couple careless seconds.
Why should we unban you ?:
To be honest after taking this break for the last several weeks to look back over my actions, not just the actions before I got banned but the actions over the entirety of the time I have spent on this server I can honestly say that this was a justifiable and inevitable ban. I'm honestly dissapointed in how I've acted in this city since I've joined and I'm starting to see that I have not been a good representation of what the community should be. Like many other games I played as its over the internet its easy to disconnect from the reality that you are influencing other peoples emotions and experiences with how you act and the attitude you bring which caused me to act with disregard to the community expectations and the standard of respect that I should bring. I guess this ban served me well as it allowed me to stop and think that although it is a game I'm not going to get away with acting however I want and and actions rightfully have consequences.
Regarding the comments I made I would just like to say that I absolutely understand how unnaceptable this type of behaviour is and I understand how irresponsible, childish and dangerous this is for the community and what I said is never excusable. I hope you can understand that unfortunately I failed to control my emotions at the time and instead of being the bigger man I lashed out like a petty child. I understand there is a level of expectation of the attitude and respect we should all show each other as a member of this community. I often spot myself failing to control my emotions sometimes and after spending more time away from the server it helped remind me how its just a game and I should never get so emotionally invested and over the couple of weeks I've taken away I've absolutely improved my attitude. I'm more patient, reasonable, sensible and mature to realise when I should turn around and let things go when I'm becoming emotional and unfortunately it had to take stupid actions like this to realise how to improve my behaviour. If let back into the server I will absolutely guarantee an improvement in my behaviour and if anything like this ever happened again I would respectfully take a permanent ban without a chance of appeal.
In regards to the NVL after being banned from this server I spent the last 4 weeks on other servers where I realised that it's not just about me and I shouldn't focus about myself and trying to win every outcome based on what items I can obtain but more on the actual roleplay I'm contributing to the server. I shouldn't just act in any way that can benefit me as it can damage the high quality roleplay that the community has built. I understand as it's a free server there is always going to be a continuous stream of players entering the city which means there will also always be people that will ruin things for other people by breaking the rules or being offensive and although I contributed great roleplay scenarios, making people laugh by creating funny characters, roleplaying out injuries in funny ways, hosting events and organising crime syndicates to the best of my ability I can see how my bad roleplay and rulebreaks can ruin all of that for myself.
Although I can understand that it would be safer not to let someone with a bad record back into the city I can honestly say I would really appreciate you to consider unbanning me because although I broke community and NVL rules I have definitely improved on my roleplay recently and was planning on creating great roleplay events instead of just trying to win all the time and unfortunately this was overshadowed by immature arguments that ruined everything. I will admit I was far from perfect at times however I was starting to understand how this community works and was definitely improving and aiming to be a valuable roleplayer in the community that contributes great amounts of rolepaly in the city similar to the singh family. I hope you can consider giving me a second chance to prove this to staff team and to myself that I can improve and learn from my mistakes as just like everyone I can get very emotionally involved in the game sometimes and tempers can get flared which can cause me to act irrationally and say things without thinking. If i do return to the city I will maintain my new attitude as I have experienced what it is like to be banned while everyone is enjoying themself I can see that being permanetly banned is definitely not worth the small temporary benefits I get at the time.
I think that getting banned was a positive and necessary period for myself to take a break, and get an honest look at myself and how I was acting. After being banned I have practiced on alot of other servers to improve my roleplay abilities and my own personality and attitude rather than focusing on winning in the game and I found that I matured alot, had more fun and became a more likeable and considerate person. I would really appreciate just one last chance to prove myself and hopefully you'll see me around the city again no longer for negative reasons but for positive reasons.
Please confirm that you have read the unban appeal process and rules: Yes
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