I'm really glad you bit the bullet on this Merne, I know a lot of people have been considering it for a while but have had their own reasons for holding off.
I'm going to echo a few sentiments I've seen here right off the bat, the first of which is how they seem to go out of their way to annoy people with their gimmick. I know the whole "snooty french jerk" thing is a trope that they may be trying to play straight, but
shit the teacups I fully understand and sympathise with the people his behaviour makes actually, legitimately annoyed behind the screen, because it hits me the same way.
I sometimes think he perceives himself as the protagonist of a james bond film, some suave, classy, refined, elegant gentlemen gliding around the halls of his domain, flirting with all the "Cute ones" and "Shutting out those haters who can't handle my swag". In actuality, he comes off as an unbearably smug
absolute prick who believes all else to be beneath his majesty, even when he's in the middle of yet another catastrophic fuck-up of entirely his own making that could have been avoided with the slightest shred of magnanimity, the faintest hint of humbleness, the barest touch of the class and sophistication he appears to
believe, and act like, he actually has. He gives off the impression of thinking himself the king of the entire station and that all around him need to suck his ass, and by god it's one of the most infuriating things I've dealt with in my entire history with SS13.
I appreciate that "unpopular" isn't inherently a very good reason to give someone the donger, nor necessarily is even "being an asshole", but as with all things there's a limit, there's got to be an element of common sense involved somewhere along the line. When either you're such an asshole or you do such a convincing job of playing one that large chunks of the playerbase don't want to be around you, and in some cases even refuse to play when you're present, you need to reign it the hell in. And if they're going to refuse to do that, which they seem to be, I don't think it's unfair to say that it becomes staff's job to do it for them.
There's also the times that I'm aware of that I've seen them just be straight up incompetent in their role, even leaving aside the fact that they're more painfully abrasive than a pair of shark-skin underpants. I've got one incident in particular that really got stuck in my craw to which I was a direct witness and a number of others that I didn't see in person, so I'll cover the one I witnessed for myself and should I recall anything else, I'll post about it later.
There's a line in the SoP (Accessible from this link:
https://wiki.vore-station.net/Standard_ ... _Procedure ) which reads as follows:
"The returning crew are not to leave the gateway room or shuttle hangar until allowed to do so by the Research Director, or if the research director is absent, then by the team leader, or next in command. During this time, participants should be screened for contraband, health, and mental well-being before returning to the rest of the station."
Ooooooooooor, if you're Akram,
darrrrrrrrling, it instead reads:
"The HoS is well within their rights to
storm the hangar bay, order the silcons to
bolt down every exit from the hangar, and demand the explorers surrender to be searched or they'll be searched by force. The HoS is then permitted to execute the task of searching all of the explo team by force, and furthermore is actively encouraged to threaten to arrest anyone who takes umbridge with their enforcement of this policy. The HoS is also actively encouraged to totally and utterly ignore anyone, in character or out, who raises the slightest hint or suggestion that they may be acting improperly, and furthermore are required to then get taken down and handcuffed by a lone, unarmed explorer without making the slightest effort to defend themselves, as is expected from the
Head of Security for the entire station. Finally, the HoS is then requred to wander off to their office and attempt to get his prick wet, and is then well within their rights to treat the resultant summoning to explain themselves as a minor inconvenience from all those other pesky command staff who "Just don't understand how cool and badass they are! rather than a serious breach of personal and professional ethics, a major abuse of their power, a
disgusting showing of personal incompetence and unfitness for duty and a shockingly poor grasp of what Security as a department are actually for."
I'd also like to stop being sarcastic for long enough to note that Akram made absolutely no effort to check on the mental or physical health of the crew, ask about the mission, generally act like he gave a damn about any part of that reg aside from the bit he could misinterpret to pretend he was playing SWAT 4, at
everyone else's expense.
There's one final note I'd like to raise. We've been promised dozens of times by staff that there'll be a crackdown on shitters, incompetent or malicious command will be dealt with, bad security will be regulated more tightly, that our frustrations are understood. We've also been told that no matter how much we complain in discord, no matter how much we call terrible behaviour out in deadchat or adminhelp, that our only real recourse is to make a player complaint on the forums. I've even had
server staff agreeing with me some of the times I've grumped about him IC, which they oversaw through the magic of observing, for god's sake!
Here we are, doing exactly that, and Akram is the prime example of both of those things. He's a grotesquely incompetent commander who I'd accuse of going out of his way to make the shittest possible decisions if I believed for a second he had the brains to do it, and his sole contribution to the command staff of any given round is to act as ballast, and prevent them being an effective team by sucking up all their time, attention and blood pressure in dealing with him.
This is a player whose IC behaviour has pissed off so many people that he's
running out of fresh people to piss off. What else would it take to have his ability to play HoS or CD removed, not even banned from the server itself, just removed from those roles? What more can he
do short of stereotypical toxins abuse to bomb the place, or OOC racism, or strangling a prisoner to death?
C'mon, lads. You've proven you can handle toxic people/characters when you gave Xyel the boot, right in the fruit. What's stopping you here? I don't think anyone's looking for him to get thrown off the server, just for him to get busted down to mallcop or maybe out of sec altogether.