Role playing and Chief Engineering

[Zergspower]

As someone who has done tons of rounds as CE:

1. Should I even run Chief Engineer considering Engineering runs itself most of the time?
   - CE's more important than you'd think, we just get a LOT of bad ones.  If X fails and engineering isnt' responding, the CE is the one who it falls on to make it done.

2. Should I try to play more of a La Forge style CE, where I am mostly interacting with the crew and jumping between engineering and everything else or should I try and be more of a actual Chief of engineer, and contrate mostly on what they are doing and tune out the ship aside from damage Control requests, mentions of my name, and mechanic shenanigans'?
   - Play who you want - My CE style is, get power up to maintaining mode then ensure all my sub departments are running smoothly.

3. What are some tips to try and stay IC and to stop some automatic OOC responses? (I luckily only know much about engineering and am laughably horrible at everything else besides running and AI law writing) Also, what ingame engineering phrases are considered IC. Should I be calling things a hellburn, Charburn, and referring to the singulo going loose as a singuloose?
   - Honestly phrases are common enough to be IC

4. I usually try and "check up" on ship systems along with doing paper work, is there anyway I could improve that?
   - eh

5. At what point should I be putting my foot down with engineers doing hellburns, Mechanics making "fun" things such as the Voices of Manta , and goofing around in my department?
    - Put your foot down if they seem incompetent, if they dont listen then fire them.

6. How could I try and build more of a common bond between engineers, there by hopefully having some retention at the beginning of each new shift?
    - Between Engineers is easy, between Engineering departments is a nightmare just on how each section functions.  Regarding just engineers, greet them as if you were starting an actual days work, My style is that, I'll greet the whole crew, take status of how many are in each area, Say i'll be by X Soon to check on them after i finish Y task.  I play mine as a boss trying to manage my workers.  It's how i got such a rapport in the engineering section under Jacoby

7. What ways could I try and express sounds and emotions over radio comms that would be picked up on a radio in real life?
   - Think in your head what it says and act it out,  you can always over-act