AmazingDragons HoS Application!

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Alright! Here's some actual feedback (In the right application this time). Please bear in mind I'm not a regular sec player and this is all just my opinion so you're free to quite reasonably disagree.

So funnily enough I had some time to watch you playing while watching others play to give them feedback, but I also wanted to get some time in watching you play both security specifically and giving you the time. I'll split this into two parts of generalised feedback and then speak about a specific round that I think gives some good case-examples, then summarise at the bottom for anyone who doesn't want to read it all. 

General feedback:

• You in general seem to have good knowledge of the game, which is always going to be useful for a HoS. I saw you involved in a variety of job roles and it seems like your understanding of the game is pretty well rounded. Always an advantage.
  
• You seem to have a pattern of both indulging gimmicks and doing gimmicks which is good! I know I personally appreciate when someone is willing to give me some time if I'm doing a particular gimmick that requires a little audience participation. On the flipside, you ran a gimmick at one point that in my opinion fell a little flat involving being a particularly zealous inspector. It's always a tricky middle ground playing deliberately micromanaging characters for a bit whether you're being entertaining or just an obstruction and that's okay, not every bit is going to land, but this one ended up in a dressing down from the HoS and you cryo'd after. This is not a "Don't do these bits" piece of feedback at all, I think it's perfectly fine to do them, but it seemed like you struggled a bit reading the room this particular time. However, I must point out this was one bit and in the rest you did a really good job with that so I wouldn't read too much into it, more just a "It's okay to spot if a bit is going flat and switch tactics, it'll happen!" thing. 
  
• Good general communication: You seem to be particularly aware of general radio communication which when its busier can be an easy thing to drop. I saw you responding to cries for help both as sec and non sec that can sometimes be missed when its busy. Being able to multi-task the chat and what's happening around you is always a good thing in my books and I personally feel very vital for the HoS who is going to be in a more supervisory position for delegating the team out and leading, but also might sometimes be quite busy and still need to issue orders and rally the team.
  
• You seem willing to "take the bait", if someone sells you a story well RP wise I saw a couple of times you clearly knew what was going on but indulged it. I think that's always a useful skill to have as a security officer and HoS, where you are going to need to be aware of giving people space for gimmicks. But at the same time when lines crossed to something you needed to deal with, you did, so that's good. 
  
• When things were very chaotic you tended to slip into what might just be a character position of yelling and being a little flustered. I don't think that's a bad thing at all, makes sense RP wise too and sometimes you need to be a little more curt in a crisis, but bear in mind as a HoS people might read into that a bit (often unfairly) as being dismissed. It might be good as things calm down to re-touch base with people and pick up old leads. You might already do this and I just got unlucky with what I saw though. Given you were very chill with people 90% of the time I'd buy that if you told me you do this already.
  

Specific round:

• This was a very recent round on Oshan, with a Nuke and their Child for personal context. 
  
• A little on the other foot compared to the general feedback: the HoP was running a gimmick that wasn't quite working out in my personal opinion. I do appreciate you gently indicated that might be so RP wise by offering the logic of "paying people generally keeps them happier and productive" while also not commanding them to stop. A nice, polite suggestion can sometimes work wonders to help steer someone and it's going to be a thing you'll end up doing as HoS sometimes too. So that's good. 
  
• Several times during this round you were aware of a situation, for example the security team accosting one of the syndicates. You were communicative on radio and asked if you were needed, but when you didn't get a response and visually confirmed the situation was in control you let it be and got on with other things. Knowing when not to cluster on a big interesting thing happening (and potentially letting antags have a sliver chance of getting out of it) in my opinion is a vital security skill and an important one for the HoS. It also let you:
  
• Walk in on something else interesting happening: The nuke in the bar. Now, the first instinct of some of your fellow officers was to immediately stuff the nukes in the armory. You didn't do this, negotiated a basic set of house rules with the bar owner, and went with the gimmick. This is a very subjective manner and I accept fully not everyone's going to agree here but in my opinion: this is what I want to see security doing when it can and was very pleased. You let the crew engage with something novel happening even though it was a potential risk, and I think it shows that "I just want to win" mentality isn't there. You also adapted well to plans when security decided they -would- take the nukes in (and after a threat was more established by some syndicates coming by to actively try and steal it) that seems like a really solid balance between "Let a thing happen" and "Okay we need to do our job now" approach and I'd hope to see that from HoSes. It's a REALLY tricky thing to balance and it's not going to always go right, but it did this time and I think your mindset was good here.
  
• You adapted well when the detective silently took one of the nukes and poorly communicated they'd secured it, leading to you briefly being on a wild goose chase trying to find it while they were radio silent, but you didn't lose your cool once you knew. That's always good, communication is sometimes gonna be patchy and not getting riled about it is important for team dynamics.
  
• You in this shift and others mostly seemed to keep to your own independent patrols. That's fine, but I think if that's how you usually work and it seems to be it made it difficult to assess how you do working directly with team members or training security assistants. I didn't see any training going on, which is fine but I'd say it might help your application to make use of these opportunities to show you're great at introducing people to the department and also just making an impression on your team to get some feedback here. 
  

Summary: 

• Things I liked: Your willingness to go with a bit, good general skills and communication
  
• feedback: Make use of training opportunities and maybe pair up a bit more with the team to make a good impression and show off your training chops, and if a bit's falling flat don't be afraid to adapt it.
  

This is a leaning towards but not quite fully +1 in general, I'd need to see a bit more training stuff and I'll keep an eye out during the application period, so hopefully I can come back and more strongly confirm it, but it seems like you have a good general mindset for it.