So basically, my homie Boovin catches a ban for using a suivest to wipe out the entire APD, whom he is rightfully engaged with as he has a tagged gangmate and dashing gentleman known as vigi punisher in restraints.
Boovin and another scout it out from a climbable vantage point to scout the apd.
From there they can see he's generally either in pillboxes or buyhut area. Picture not from situation, but for context, TNM fights cops from here a lot so it's normal behavior for them.
Houses in the area, he swaps gear and grabs a vest. His intention is to kill every last cop and reset the entire situation. He knows a cop is not in the large group of cops as his friend isn't present, and he watched him take his friend off, in that direction, and there is one not present in the group. So determined to kill every last cop he charges in. He makes it past the cops who ARE ENGAGED WITH HIM AS THEY HAVE HIS GANGMATE (once again, the dashing Vigi Punisher).
The police had every right and reason to engage on or shoot at a man charging into APD with a suivest but they hold their fire! WHY? Because for some reason, Karma mistakenly believes that someone has to engage separately to use a suivest, so he was yelling at the entire APD to not engage him, and to let him pass. So instead of tazing him and seizing his suivest, they let him waltz right up to the final cop because of HIS MISTAKE and come in physical contact with the only cop in a protected pillbox. Once in contact with the final cop, he detonates and kills every cop in the group.
Karma, embarrassed by this blunder, got him banned under the grounds of 'he ran past the big group of cops' which isn't surprising at all if he wanted to kill EVERY COP. You can see he managed to not only kill the cop in the pillbox but all the cops behind him in the group. His tactics were silly but they worked because Karma didn't understand a rule. His goal was accomplished in totality.
Staff, however, interpreted this as a rulebreak because of an apparent ability to read Boovins mind and extract the information that the final cop is not the target, but the man in restraints, in a room he never even completely physically entered, choosing to physically hold the cop in place instead. It is uncertain if this psychic is related to Olympus Entertainments infamous '13th Floor,' where they are alleged to have teams of psychics bringing their abilities together to prove their friends aren't hackers, and to convince people Strafe's memes are funny... but I digress.
What we have here is simple. Couldn't get him with one rule imagined by Karma that didn't exist, so they got him with a rule based on his intentions. But those presumptions to know his intentions are completely destroyed by one simple fact, the cop processing him would have survived to continue processing his friend if he didn't make his way to the back. That in NO WAY impeded his ability to kill the people he already passed up.
Unban him if he's still banned. Re-review this situation. Clear the ban from his record please. This whole situation sets an extremely gray area precedent that is going to punish and discourage people from using expensive weapons in the future. This stretch of the rules banned a guy over a handful of cops who immediately respawn and lose nothing, and a guy with 100k bounty dying in restraints and it's frankly, fucking ridiculous.
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POV'S
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Karmas point of view. Note that HE ordered everyone to let him pass, thus giving him opportunity to position himself to kill ALL the cops.
He doesn't even get into the room, he just jams up doofy at the door with his closest physical contact being a cop.
@ Grandma Gary For the good of Olympus rule precedent, and for the boys, I'm asking for your help to prevent gray area rules based on presumed motivation to not become the future of rules like this. Collateral damage happens with explosives, it's part of the fun, and he accomplished his task in totality and therefore did nothing wrong.
I have the POV of TNM's side of things, but won't drop it publicly due to potential leaking of civilian assets, but I would share it with staff that care to review it.
I can confidently say this was not a metagaming situation. Comms and GPS were respected and he acquired his gangmates and the cop processing him's general location from scouting, and tracked him down with sound and eyes. In his own video hes following the sound of his gangmate being processed, while panning all the different windows until he sees a blue tag through a pillbox.