Yeah, just as I feared. So apparently there is some hidden, unwritten rule that once you become a whitelisted CO you must always act like it and adhere to it's fifty zillion rulings, even if you are not playing CO. Just... awful.The main issue is we had CO Whitelist players go XO so they could avoid WL standards for Commanding Officer and part of that was briefing.
Sheeesh this boy LRP as hell!
Unhinged retiree boomer man
Get off my lawn you kids
I still did briefings pretty much 90-95% of time I played XO, and as CO I preferred to do it in the hangar because it was much more comfortable to talk to marines there, give orders and such. Easier to dodge smoke grenades too etc etc. And you know back when I was a moderator I usually played at time periods where there were no MPs and I was the sole staff online but that's besides the point.
But regardless I'm hopeful that the gitlabbed/proposed changes to the briefing area, adding smoke grenades to the antigrief system and the upcoming maturity removal would pretty much remove most if not all problems and gripes surrounding holding briefings.
Sheeesh this boy LRP as hell!
Also here are alternatives if you don’t want to do an actual briefing in the room
-Hold it in conference room/canteen/basketball court
-Meet with the tank crew, squad leaders, specialist if you want in the conference room or CIC.
Now if you actually want to line people up and want to roleplay that’s fine, if you wanna just give some orders and let the marines do their thing, meet with the SLs
Unhinged retiree boomer man
Get off my lawn you kids
But... why is it an issue to do the Briefing in the Hangar?
There is no issue it’s just a knee jerk reaction. You can do briefing anywhere but the hanger, so I guess it’s time to do briefing in the gym or maybe the hallway leading to the hanger.
Problem with briefings is people are extremely LRP as Rem mentioned, this needs to be done to help with that
https://gitlab.com/cmdevs/ColonialMa...-/issues/12501
Remember when people would get arrested en masse for sitting quietly on the drop ship and being a good noodle rather then causing briefing havoc.