I just wanted to make this post because the amount of hoops you have to go through in order to do C.L. 3 tests as a researcher are just so boring and prohibitive research rarely happens these days. To the point where many people just dont do research anymore because its such a faff to actually get approval to do things without getting in trouble. When RP becomes bureaucratic hell it stops being fun and starts being a chore, so people stop doing it.
It used to be that you could make some sort of research proposal (written up well using the given templates) and that would be good enough to do a test or get some samples from pretty much any CL3 SCP (obviously there are exceptions like requiring E-11 for certain SCPs) pretty much. Perhaps you might need verbal approval from some Executive researcher but that was pretty much it.
But now you have to get things signed by an executive which means you have to first hope theres 1 online, then try and find them or harass them into signing it and every single Executive researcher has there own opinions on what is or isnt a good document so 1 might think its fine to sign but then you try and do the same test again and no no no this Executive requires you to rewrite it because the proposal doesnt make sense to them. Then finally once you have managed to get someone to sign the bloody thing you might get killed while showing it or someone steals your brief case or someone runs off with the signed proposal etc. etc.
But the main problem I see with this nonsense is that new players rarely get to experience doing any actual tests to the point where people will join, wait in line for 30 minutes and then get bored and leave because researchers rarely do any tests anymore because of the amount of dumb hoops you have to jump through in order to do a test with approval.
So the Research-DClass-GSD intro loop basically doesnt exist anymore, putting off new players.
I understand the RP elements are fun, and realism is part of RP; but this level of bureaucratic nonsense is hurting the server and the community and the RP in my opinion.
Feel free to tell me I'm wrong but I used to love being a researcher, writing documents, having them reviewed and then feeling confident that was enough for me to be allowed to do tests on CL3 SCPs. Not anymore though, I just dont see the point in putting in so much effort and jumping through so many hoops and honestly I think the level of research happening has dropped dramatically.
CI raids and SCP breaches now feel like the most common RP events. Not interesting research with semi-dangerous SCPs.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
It used to be that you could make some sort of research proposal (written up well using the given templates) and that would be good enough to do a test or get some samples from pretty much any CL3 SCP (obviously there are exceptions like requiring E-11 for certain SCPs) pretty much. Perhaps you might need verbal approval from some Executive researcher but that was pretty much it.
But now you have to get things signed by an executive which means you have to first hope theres 1 online, then try and find them or harass them into signing it and every single Executive researcher has there own opinions on what is or isnt a good document so 1 might think its fine to sign but then you try and do the same test again and no no no this Executive requires you to rewrite it because the proposal doesnt make sense to them. Then finally once you have managed to get someone to sign the bloody thing you might get killed while showing it or someone steals your brief case or someone runs off with the signed proposal etc. etc.
But the main problem I see with this nonsense is that new players rarely get to experience doing any actual tests to the point where people will join, wait in line for 30 minutes and then get bored and leave because researchers rarely do any tests anymore because of the amount of dumb hoops you have to jump through in order to do a test with approval.
So the Research-DClass-GSD intro loop basically doesnt exist anymore, putting off new players.
I understand the RP elements are fun, and realism is part of RP; but this level of bureaucratic nonsense is hurting the server and the community and the RP in my opinion.
Feel free to tell me I'm wrong but I used to love being a researcher, writing documents, having them reviewed and then feeling confident that was enough for me to be allowed to do tests on CL3 SCPs. Not anymore though, I just dont see the point in putting in so much effort and jumping through so many hoops and honestly I think the level of research happening has dropped dramatically.
CI raids and SCP breaches now feel like the most common RP events. Not interesting research with semi-dangerous SCPs.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
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