Arete wrote:Most heads can use their departmental tools without asking other people for permission first.
Not when they affect other departments. If the RD decides he wants to use the Engineering construction site as a new area to test bombs, he sure better ask first.
If the CE decides he wants to route his tube rollercoaster through the HoP's office, he better ask first.
Why should the HoP using his identification console to add his assistants to other people's departments be any different?
People are saying the HoP should get a bump in authority if we're going to add restrictions to him, but as it currently stands most people already assume he has that increased authority and he has the least amount of restrictions of any head. The only person with more authority on the station is the Captain. Do we need two Captains?
It's circular, you see? If we gave him more authority then it wouldn't make sense for him to ask the other heads for authority to add people to their departments in the first place. If we actually put him above everyone else, we end up right back where we started and the actual gameplay problem that sparked this entire conversation remains.
Oldman Robustin wrote:I don't like polls like this because the poll choices are very leading...
Choice 1) MAKE THE STATION A BETTER PLACE
2) HOP SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO KILL PEOPLE ON A WHIM
But option 2 of the poll is exactly how it currently works. He doesn't need to confirm access with anyone, and unless he's giving the clown all access every round it's not an actionable happening.
He is currently completely free to do whatever he wants with that console unless it results in something so game-breakingly bad it invokes Rule 1. Eg. giving everyone in the line all access in a single round. And even then, it's unlikely the people he gave access to would complain.
If the CE fucks off at roundstart and doesn't setup the engine, we all know that he'll get yelled at.
If the HoS permabrigs everyone, or orders his Sec force to ignore the station's problems to hang out in the brig playing D&D, he'll get yelled at.
Is it not apparent that the HoP has similar methods available to them to plunge the station into chaos "just cuz", and some of them even use it fairly regularly, yet there's no precedent or expectation of an OOC response?
Does that not strike you as a problem that ought to be fixed?