What about adding some sort of promotion system (especially useful in lowpop)? Let me explain. Typically on lowpop you get understaffed if not even empty departments but then on some occasions you get like 1 doctor for entire medbay but no CMO/research. What about after reaching specific playtime (silver or gold+ service medal) you can choose to promote yourself along with your skills to for example to research or even CMO, or CT to QM, SO to XO, MP to CMP/Warden and etc instead of waiting for one to wake up. Ofcourse you should also have the necessary playtime to have that role unlocked first too along with service medal.
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If people wanted to play CMP/CMO, they would have selected it, we also already have an aCO system so why would we promote an SO to now be above a CMP
Additionally, this basically bypasses timelocks that might exist for a role.
Also, CMP has additional powers that regular MPs do not, do you want Sgt John McBald ordering your execution because you broke a window, or arresting the XO for half the op because they smoked in the medbay one time? Marine Law already has a hierarchy for roles, there is no issue there.
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Reason for not selecting certain role is that people sometimes roll for roles that they want for example SO, MP, Doc but end up without any head of department. That’s the reasoning behind it but I do get what you mean that it can be meme’d or abused. and like i mentioned above that they couldn’t promote themselves if they dont have timelock requirements met.
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As far as I know, rarely would any of those cases benefit from somebody being a higher rank. A CT can do just about everything a QM can short of having the stamp and even then they can just break in and take it. An MP can rely on faxes or the XO/CO for the necessary authority to carry out what the CMP might do, there already is the chain of command to mandate SO to XO and other promotions in regards to the Commander, etc.
The only one I could really think of would be doctors/nurses getting given access to research. And it’s hard to justify that when intel, a similarly important mechanic, is reliant on the ASO and IOs and maybe some guy who gets given an intel kit with no clear line of promotion for who would take over that department.
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A mechanical way to get heads of staff would be nice.
You get niche cases like a XO doesn’t wake up but a SO does and they want to be XO (and they have the time already to be it they just did not choose XO).
Or a XO / QM / whatever needs to cryo round start so allowing living players to be “field promoted” to said role to fill it instead of a random person who is in the lobby screen would be nice.
In cases like this I usually just ahelp and a staff member sends me back to lobby so I can get said role and fill it so the game doesn’t suck for marines.
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Ive tried to ahelp such cases too but ive been told its IC issue and/or just ticket closed so yeah. 
but good to know some actually do help, ill try it if some round needs it desperately
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