Allow Jurisdictional Automated System to autofill some miscellaneous parts of the appeals form.

If you ever played MPs for any prolonged amount of time, or happened to observe someone requesting an appeal, or were brigged yourself, you might have noticed that appeals exist in this weird limbo…

The problem with the appeals.

Appeals take time to fill out: by the defendant, by the Military Police, by the handler. By the time the latter finally showes up in brig, 15 or 20 minutes have passed (if not more). Keep in mind that as stated by the ML, it is the best if Handler goes through and checks everything: Witness testimonies, suspect’s testimony, all the evidence, etc… It takes time, and I never saw anyone actually do that.

I have about 80 MP rounds in total, and I have never seen anyone get their appeal processed in time. People literally get their appeal approved/denied with 30 seconds left on the timer, or not processed at all.

So in the end we have a genuinely well thought out appeal system, which rarely works due to fast-paced nature of the game.

I think there’s isn’t much that can be done to fix the problem, but I think there’s a way to patch it a bit at least, and make appeal process more convenient for everyone in the process.

Make so hitting the cell timer (with an AJS file in it) with an appeal form turn this:

Into this:

What is pictured above is probably the most barebone interpretation of the idea. The Jurisdictional Automated System autofill the defendant’s name & charges. The latter helps when MPs send the appeal to provost and forget to state the charges (happens constantly), which is very important.

The arresting officer part is debatable, since the one putting in the charges is not always the arresting officer. This can be solved by simply adding another field above the “Arresting officer” part, named “Processing officer/Prisoner processed by:” and add a remark of leaving the “arresting officer” part empty if it’s the same as the processing one.

Additionally, Some other things can be filled in as well. For example, the evidence that was logged in, and the witnesses. Usually because the incident report file is inside a runnig timer, the handler can’t look at this info. Maybe even add the incident description as well.

All of this would make filling out an appeal massively easier for the MPs. They’ll need to fill out less, and sometimes, if the incident report is summarised adequately with supporting evidence, nothing at all.

Please, feel free to add your ideas or correct mine. I’m very interested in the topic and what others think.

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would be a good QOL addition good suggestion

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what if we just got rid of the paper appeals form caveat oooh ahhhhh

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Its apparently a thinly hidden ooc admin document.

So they cn find the mp that did the thing.

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As an MP main I am also not a fan of the paperwork system we have now and think the old appeal system was quicker and having the form for a provost appeal has its use. Even when sending the form to provost if your timer isn’t more than 25 minutes then there is almost no point.

Appeals should be an quick process whereby we check if the arresting mp did everything by the book. So anything that will speed up this process will get an plus on my part I think having the JAS fill out the MP part automatic would be great and having an section for the processor and arresting officer is good to have.

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