Pro gamer Strat is to tattle to the company how your bodyguard isn’t loyal and request a replacement
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If that happens, send a report to the Directorate. If the bodyguard isn’t respecting your authority, then they aren’t doing their job and the Directorate should know. As a reminder, while there is now a role to respond to faxes, that is still something I’ve seen administrators do from time to time when there isn’t a responder. Of course, if the bodygaurd is egregiously and intentionally messing up your plans for no roleplay reason, you could probably ahelp it.
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My answer is to assert your authority as their boss. You go with the plan or you do not have a job.
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It is worth a try, but it requires a bit of patience and a lot of roleplay to get anything meaningfully done.
A lot of the time as well you’ll be left to your own devices with no fax responder, so you have to make your own fun. In these cases I usually just assign myself an objective that I think the Company would be happy with.
The best CL rounds though in my experience have a Fax Responder. I’ve had plenty of rounds where a lot of correspondence result in my supervisor actually coming to the Almayer to speak with me in person so we could plan an objective.
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honestly I don’t get why people play like that, my stance when playing the role is to only speak when spoken to, speak idly to others when CL is preoccupied with something or when the CL is leaning into doing something against the company. otherwise I stay quiet and follow them around, keep myself out of the way of others or sit at reception while they are in their office.
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Had a good CL round couple weeks back where I told XO that we would need the incident to be covered as CLF infiltration, in exchange I would sponsor him to be a Major of his own ship or even higher ranks.
Also CL is a good role to see if a CO applicant is capable of multitasking and be calm under pressure.
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I like this PR. It addresses some of the issues.
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CLs should be either clean corpo types or greasy corpo types. Some act really oddly and actually disrupt CIC if you are in CIC funnily enough.
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John Liaison here.
Fundamentally, a lot of people misunderstand the role because of a constant cycle of bad interactions, bad rp, and a million things in between.
There is no such thing as constant good CL rp. There is no consistent dos and don’ts (except for not getting on CIC’s bad side.) - things may work with somebody, but not with another. It’s all about your style of rp.
The only 100% consistent way to get good CL rp is to find good roleplayers to compliment your style. Most people will hate you, many more don’t even bother talking to you because of a bad experience they had with a junior exec. Yet even with this, a good CL should persist. It’s like being a good salesman, some people got it, some people don’t. But a good salesman can find their customers, continue making those cold calls, and that’s when you’ll get those gems of a round when everything falls into place, and those consistent good roleplayers that compliment the CL’s.
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At the very least they should have to request command comms rather than starting with it.
Too many guards thinking they’re just the CL with firearms training.
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The fact that guards need 25hrs as CL means they’re the CLs that want to have a gun.
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Do guards have any authority? My most memorable interaction with a guard was when I had to beat one with a baton and a riot shield; I forgot why, but the CL was acting dumb, and the guards didn’t stop the dumbness.
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I just checked and bodyguard not updated on wiki yet, so in respect of ML treat them as another CL that can carry their rifle inside their office. They are CL underling so they should follow CL’s orders.
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To be a good CL, seek out the shipside crew or crew that are shipside and try to interact with them.
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It got merged, this is a dark day for corporate bodyguards everywhere…
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I consider it a good day!