Originally Posted by
Corocan
I'd argue the onus for CL to become more interesting is on the staff team, but with the way things are right now if you start responding to faxes, you're effectively starting an 'event' which requires, IMO, ludicrous amounts of oversight. Mods, as far as I know, aren't even allowed to engage in minor disruptions to the round. Admins don't want to deal with the fallout of an event going wrong and giving the xenos/marines an "unfair advantage" to which everyone proceeds to boohoo about in dchat/OOC the next round. Even worse, someone goes on the forums and drops a staff complaint about it when in reality the admins don't generally get to handpick and vet the players who are part of these'events' so that means that the admin is clearly automatically responsible for their actions (Which is obviously stupid). As long as the staff member gives someone CLEAR and CONCISE objectives that don't require them to break the rules I genuinely can't see the problem, but the climate of the player base isn't receptive to this kind of thinking because they believe staff is here to ONLY ensure the rules are followed and rounds stay within the prim and proper parameters of most rounds before them.
tl;dr While staff should be responsible for making the CL role an x-variable in the round, the player base, for the most part, does not want an x-variable in the round because it means they might lose due to a rogue variable they could not have predicted and that's bad.