Server: GTA RP
Character Name: Timmy Abeba
Steam ID: 76561199451256129
Ban ID (just the numbers): 16735
Ban Reason: Decline of roleplay standards/1.6
Why do you think you were banned: I was banned because my role-play had deteriorated from what it once was.
Why should we unban you: Firstly, I want to thank whichever staff decides to take this unban appeal and I hope you are having a good day so far.
First off before I continue with any other part of my appeal, I know I may have acted stupidly by posting on the forum unban, etc, I don't remember exactly what I said but I think it was something about sucking up to staff, honestly this was just an immature and spiteful comment that wasn't needed nor was it smart. I want to apologize for any hassle I may have caused or any time wasted. Honestly, I was acting
immaturely out of spite of being banned for what I thought I didn't deserve to be banned at the time. Now after 6/7 months I look back at how I was as a player and realise that my roleplay had most definitely declined from what it was, If someone were to look into my ban/warning history you would see that I hadn't had any ban/warnings up until around Christmas
time where I got my first and only ban for metagaming. (excluding this one), I know this is still not ideal as most players don't even get banned and that ban was so easily avoidable, but in a gang life it is hard to avoid any bans at all just to miscommunications on the radio, etc, I honestly did always try my best to make it an enjoyable roleplay experience for anyone I interacted with, except for one or two months before my ban.
Following on from that time, I would say it was around that time when my roleplay did start to decline and when I would purposefully try to get myself into more gunfights with police and other gangs. Honestly being as this was a good while ago I cannot point a finger as to why I did this exactly but if I had to hazard a guess I would say that I had honestly
just played the server too much over the past few months leading up to my ban and in a way had just done most of the stuff I wanted to do in the gang side of the server, which led me to just wanting
to have gun fights, which looking back on everything makes me realise there is so much more to offer on the server than just gangs and guns. If I was allowed the chance to
come back to the server I think I would take a very different route to what I did when I was playing before, such as owning a business or joining a faction on the legal side
of things such as Police, EMS or maybe being a park ranger, I highly doubt I would continue the storyline of Timmy as much as I did because that is the reason I'm in the
unban section of the forums, Honestly, I think I had done everything I had wanted to on Timmy in the gang side of things, and since I had been in the gang side of things for a good
a chunk of the time I had been on the server, Being in many gangs such as Grove, Marabunta, Ballas, Aztecas, and Alliance I think I have seen and done most of the things
I had set out to do on the gang side of the server on Timmy.
Onto the reason I am banned from the discord and ultimately 1.6d, The Alliance was posting videos on YouTube of killing people on the server, often mocking RPUK which
I do want to make clear that I had no part in making it, Though I did post a YouTube link to one of the videos into the RPUK discord. This was a stupid and immature decision from
me and I was acting rashly and out of character just because I was angry that I had been banned from a server which I had spent so much time and enjoyed whenever I was online.
I think the 6-month cooldown is something I more than needed, honestly to just realize that I was way too invested in an online server, taking a step back and realizing that
ultimately it is all online and if you are that invested in something online and let it affect how you feel when you're not on the server you do need a break and now that
I have had that break that is something I now realize, I once again want to apologize to any staff that I may have annoyed/affected with any of the unneeded and selfish things I may have done after being banned
I also want to reiterate I did personally have a frag mentality and winning mentality, I do not think I had one the whole time I was on the server but after February/March time I would say that I did, I do not think having a winning mentality is always bad but to the extent that I had one it most defiantly is and I can imagine I ruined a fair few amounts of people's Roleplay stories they may have wanted to continue with me, and I want to apologize to anyone that I may have ruined their roleplay avenues.
Moving onto what I would say was the final straw, I and a few others joined Vagos on second characters. I'll be honest and say it was just to get into more gunfights,
This was mainly because I hadn't explored the other side of roleplay, the legal side. I am more than certain I would have enjoyed that side and I regret never giving it
a proper try, I did make a police character twice but I never played it properly and honestly, I have no idea why because when I did log onto them it was probably some of the most
fun on the server that I had in a long long time. I was honestly just bored of the gang side of RPUK and I didn't even think about trying out the legal side.
I know that my roleplay has dropped a significant amount from what it once was, but I hope you can see that I can roleplay to a very high standard and I have just
forgotten how enjoyable roleplay truly can be and is, I have had many good roleplay stories and I know that for the last 3/4 or months before I was banned it probably did not
seem that way.
I would also like to mention I feel as though I was way too invested in the server, if I were to be let back I think I would not let myself get as invested as I did, I would often find myself spending longer on the server than I
should of to grind to buy a gun just so I would have some sort of advantage in a gunfight, looking back at this now and I realise this is one of the craziest things I could do. The amount of time I was sat selling drugs/taxis I could have been doing many other things in RP which I'm sure I would have enjoyed ten times more, just to get a tiny advantage in a gunfight shows how bad my win mentality was now I look at it and I am not surprised I have ended up on the unban section of the forums.
Honestly, I don't know when or where I started letting my roleplay decline, I can remember I used to make tickets about things that honestly did not need a ticket made but
I just wanted to make sure I would not be breaking any server rules doing any of these things. I did always try my best to uphold a good quality of roleplay. I regret changing
my perspective and letting it drop because when I was on the server and I was roleplaying to a high standard I enjoyed it more than anything else.
If you were to look at even just the reports that were targeted at me, I think I can remember two. I might be wrong in this, one which I was banned for which was rightly so and that was ultimately a dumb decision on my part and the other was denied, I think this report was for ghostpeeking.
what I am trying to say here is that I do honestly try my best to roleplay to the highest of standards, even being told by staff that watching the roleplay scene in which I was lead was very enjoyable. I made a stupid decision to let my roleplay decrease from what it was, I was honestly enjoying the server when I was roleplaying more than I was when I had a ''frag'' mindset.
I have no idea why I did not go back to roleplaying to the best I could.
I would also like to mention that OOC I was never toxic to anyone within the community, I feel as though overall I was liked by the majority of the community, I never brought any IC issue to OOC because I didn't see a reason to, everyone is separate from their character and often people that I didn't get along with within RP I got along with OOC.
The main reason I want to come back to RPUK is that I miss RPUK as a whole, I feel as though there is more to RPUK than just the roleplay. It feels like a quite tight-knit community and you can enjoy it without actually being on the server and you can make honestly very good friends off it.
I would like to be able to come back so I can roleplay with some of the people I haven't talked to in a while because I was banned and was not on my PC as much and also to prove to the staff that I can and will roleplay.
I also want to say whilst I can, I know I wasted staff's time and within my six month plus break I have honestly been thinking about how much time various staff must spend on people doing stupid things, like me. I want to fully apologize to any staff
whose time I may have wasted, I know most people probably do say this to try and say what you guys want to hear, though I actually have been thinking about the way I acted and how stupid and selfish it was. As I said before this six-month break is something that I more than needed.
There is nothing I can do except apologise and say truthfully that I do feel bad for wasting staff time, it was a stupid thing to do at the end of the day and I was just acting stupidly because I was angry that I got banned.
Hand on heart I am not just saying what you want to hear but how I do genuinely feel and I do honestly feel bad about acting how I did. I am sorry. I'm ashamed in myself for letting it get to me as much as it did
Ultimately, I have ended up here because of my own choices/actions, no one else's. I regret behaving the way I did after being banned and not looking at it from a different perspective.
I'm sure this appeal would have gone much smoother if I hadn't acted out of spite and posted the YouTube link into the discord, that was a silly and dumb decision on my part and I regret it massively, once again I do apologize to any staff members time I wasted. To whichever staff member decides to read this lengthy unban appeal I appreciate the time and effort you all go into. I would be more than happy to answer any questions any staff may have.
Please confirm that you have read the unban appeal process and rules: Yes
