What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
I suggest a complete rework of how the ranger and mayor jobs work on surface, turning them into whitelist jobs.
1. Ranger
Ranger should be made a whitelist job by application on the forums, the forum applications would be reviewed by the mayor, if the application is accepted, the mayor would do a training session ingame teaching the new ranger about the pinewood laws, basic ranger duties, armory usage, etc. No significant loadout changes would be necessary, since they already have all the tools necessary. The application should be on the dificulty level of 096's, since rangers aren't CL4.
Note : Remove the ranger's ability to enter foundation or GOI bases without the mayor's aprooval and a very good reason.
2. Mayor
The mayor wouldn't have an application, but instead be chosen from the current pool of active rangers by server leadership, and would be kicked out of office after a long time of inactivity or resignation. The mayor's primary duties would be to write all the necessary documents for the police department and be the main roleplay lead for pinewood.
3. Discord Changes
First of all, a new channel category, similar to the departmental ones like gensec and research. The category would have 3 channels, pinewood documents like arrest guides, the legal codex, etc, a channel for announcements that can only be made by the mayor, and a channel for general communications.
Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
Recently there has been a surge of surface RP, mainly coming from rangers, and i think it's a good idea to regulate the flow of silliness to this job, making it more RP-focused along with the mayor.
This would be a much needed update to civilians, since they take up a whole character slot but nothing good is really done with them except MC&D which are restricted to XK VIP, i think this would boost activity on surface, and be real fun.
Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
This would take a lot of work and coordination to get everything set up, but i think it's worth it, this suggestion will likely get denied because it's "not needed", but we can't know until it's actually added.
Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
This would get rid of the stereotype that all the rangers are minges that just wanna raid foundation all the time, and would be a well deserved update to civilians. Even the so called "Surface Update" That added GOC, 8854 and missions added nothing to civilians, and surface SCPs most of the time just serve to halt the already little roleplay going on in pinewood and makes everybody focus on capturing them for a drop of samples.
I suggest a complete rework of how the ranger and mayor jobs work on surface, turning them into whitelist jobs.
1. Ranger
Ranger should be made a whitelist job by application on the forums, the forum applications would be reviewed by the mayor, if the application is accepted, the mayor would do a training session ingame teaching the new ranger about the pinewood laws, basic ranger duties, armory usage, etc. No significant loadout changes would be necessary, since they already have all the tools necessary. The application should be on the dificulty level of 096's, since rangers aren't CL4.
Note : Remove the ranger's ability to enter foundation or GOI bases without the mayor's aprooval and a very good reason.
2. Mayor
The mayor wouldn't have an application, but instead be chosen from the current pool of active rangers by server leadership, and would be kicked out of office after a long time of inactivity or resignation. The mayor's primary duties would be to write all the necessary documents for the police department and be the main roleplay lead for pinewood.
3. Discord Changes
First of all, a new channel category, similar to the departmental ones like gensec and research. The category would have 3 channels, pinewood documents like arrest guides, the legal codex, etc, a channel for announcements that can only be made by the mayor, and a channel for general communications.
Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
Recently there has been a surge of surface RP, mainly coming from rangers, and i think it's a good idea to regulate the flow of silliness to this job, making it more RP-focused along with the mayor.
This would be a much needed update to civilians, since they take up a whole character slot but nothing good is really done with them except MC&D which are restricted to XK VIP, i think this would boost activity on surface, and be real fun.
Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
This would take a lot of work and coordination to get everything set up, but i think it's worth it, this suggestion will likely get denied because it's "not needed", but we can't know until it's actually added.
Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
This would get rid of the stereotype that all the rangers are minges that just wanna raid foundation all the time, and would be a well deserved update to civilians. Even the so called "Surface Update" That added GOC, 8854 and missions added nothing to civilians, and surface SCPs most of the time just serve to halt the already little roleplay going on in pinewood and makes everybody focus on capturing them for a drop of samples.
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