Give XO's deputize ability

[DukeofCagliostro]

I want the Official Low Pop CO’s opinion on this. I am summoning @Spy23.

[Spy23]

@DukeofCagliostro

I want the Official Low Pop CO’s opinion on this. I am summoning @Spy23.

I made a whole thread about this, that apparently almost nobody bothered to read

Loosen deuptizing requirements, standardize ML changes, and clarify MP field arrest procedures

Hi guys, the name’s Steve, and I’d like to give my thoughts on some points of ML that I feel could do with improvement, without this post becoming an essay. [Screenshot 2024-08-29 164543] As the greatest legal mind CM has ever known, I am going to separate this post into three distinct sections, for ease of reading, and ease of writing. Each of these topics are aspects of ML that, while good in theory, often find themselves the becoming devils in the details during a Provost appeal.

Loosen R…

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

[DukeofCagliostro]

Agreed. The Low Pop CO is speaking the truth.

[BasilHerb]

On lowpop there is fuckall MPs half the time, or no MPs whatsoever. On these rounds, marines can do whatever the hell they want and all the XO can do is stare and mew out “p-p-pwease stawp ”.

I’ve seen people get set on fire, literally murdered, and total riots in briefing, and since there’s no MPs to deal with it, there’s not a whole lot CIC can do (CIC in lowpop refers to the single XO awake).

I would say it’s enough of an issue on lowpop that letting XOs deputise would be an idea that’s more good than bad. Besides as said before, people who abuse it can just be ahelped, just like well… every other abuse of power.

[efzapa]

this being said
lets increase the XO timelock to 10 MP hours

that or give MPs actual content (never going to happen lol)