Content Suggestion Department of Research - CL3.5

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What does this suggestion change/add/remove:

Give the Department of Research a “senior CL3” role, much like ISD/DEA have with Investigators and Senior Agents, that is a CL3 role which you can get an ingame whitelist for which does not need a forum application. This role would sit in-between Senior Researcher and Executive Researcher in the Chain of Command.
The only name I could really come up with was Specialist Researcher.
The new CoC would become:
Director of Research (CL4 forum application)
Executive Researcher (CL4 forum application)
Specialist Researcher (CL3.5 ingame whitelist)
Sr, CL2, Jr. (CL3,2,1 levels)

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:

Not to my knowledge.

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):

  • Gives a better ranking structure to RSD
  • Lets RSD Command give certain people more responsibility and authority without instantly making them CL4

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:

  • Dev time
  • Job bloat possibly

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:

Currently, the Department of Research has quite a lot of very talented and trustworthy seniors who get grouped in with all the… less worthy seniors. Due to Sr. Researcher being the highest rank you can get in RSD without becoming a CL4, you end up getting every single player who isnt an Exec or DoR grouped up into a massive pool of seniors.
Letting RSD Command promote people internally to Specialist Researcher would signify that this person is trusted and allowed to do more. The exact procedures and extra permissions would be decided on by RSD Command, of course.
 
If it has anything extra to it like override access or whatever, then sure. If it's just a duplicate of Sr. Researcher with a different name, then that's even less helpful than a CL3 tech expert that has been suggested a million times and rejected - at least that would have a different clearance level. If it doesn't have any other changes it can be done IC and that'd be less restrictive, but if it has other changes then those should actually be listed in the suggestion.
 
If it has anything extra to it like override access or whatever, then sure. If it's just a duplicate of Sr. Researcher with a different name, then that's even less helpful than a CL3 tech expert that has been suggested a million times and rejected - at least that would have a different clearance level. If it doesn't have any other changes it can be done IC and that'd be less restrictive, but if it has other changes then those should actually be listed in the suggestion.
Can you please fucking reply to any suggestion without mentioning fucking E&TS oh my GOD bro
 
Can you please fucking reply to any suggestion without mentioning fucking E&TS oh my GOD bro
Oh no, it's okay, common mistake. Zen here is talking about the other department with Tech Experts, ET&S (Engineering, Technical & Services)

The confusion is understandable, though


Anyway, the whole discourse about the job itself IMO lends more towards what I said before about it being handled the same way that the Assistant slot increase.