-Support
This was changed recently because of how much ISD and Assistants were stepping into IA's role - ISD has had a huge amount of powercreep, and in this aspect it was one of many things that were badly fucking IA over. I genuinely don't see much of a need for them to be able to do this that can't just be done properly via IA - allowing them to do it themselves just seems like an RP shortcut, and the part that it's cutting out is IA's RP.
ISD are there to protect their respective Site Command and to carry out their orders, not to enforce the FLC, that is entirely IA's job, and neither of these two roles should be actively going around essentially LARPing as IA and taking away from IA's RP. That ISD and Assistants could previously do this, and previously often did, was simply powercreep and not how those roles are supposed to work.
With any concerns around IA, I feel like they can mostly be addressed with good IA leadership, potentially an IC overhaul of IA (similar to what UK is going through right now), and the upcoming (sometime in the nebulous future) CT rework of IA. If you can't even get a single person to flag on IA Agent, then either USA's IA is completely dead, or it's like 5am and you need to reconsider how much the server content should be centered around that experience.
Alpha 1 and Omega 1, same as both types of Assistant are trusted roles, if they are unproffesinal and powertrippy on the job they just simply get striked or removed from the job if they powertrip
adding to this a lot more minges can hop onto IA because it doesnt need so much time to enter
so +support i guess
So let me get this straight:
- ISD and Assistants, which are MTF and junior CL4 roles, don't have any noticeable amount of powertripping? Have you ever played on Civil Networks?
- Minges being able to go on IA does not affect the outcome of the problem the thread is attempting to address - if there were more IA on at all, that would solve the issue, and if there were mingey IA on, that doesn't make any difference because their power isn't being affected here
+Support only for Assistants and even then it should only be used if no IA are on
Again, if you can't even get a single person to flag on IA, either your IA is dead or you're playing at like 5am.