I made a whole thread about this, that apparently almost nobody bothered to read
So I will just copy what I wrote for this thread into here:
Loosen Requirements for Deputizing
While this is a side of CM that almost nobody gives a shit about, enforcing ML can get seriously difficult on the twice nightly occurrence when pop dips below 80, and we have no CO, and not a single MP for an hour and a half.
Are you the XO? Did someone M2C the req line? Would you like to arrest them?
Well that sucks, doesnt it??
According to this section of ML, there is quite literally nothing anyone besides staff can do to enforce the law until/if a CO wakes up.
On top of that, OOC situations can quickly develop in such an unnecessarily lawless environment, where street rules are often used to deal with troublemakers, exposing well meaning players to a possible player report for acting on behalf of an absent MP department, and illegally arresting obvious violent criminals.
This is an unbelievably pointless restriction on lowpop CM, that serves only to make everyones round a whole lot worse on the extremely common occasion where MPs cant be bothered to wake.
I am fully convinced that lowering the requirements of deputizing to a Commanders provision, with the Duty Officer being EXCLUDED from this ability, will just serve to avoid several million headaches for staff and players combined