What makes a good HOP gimmick?

[SkinChanger]

So the issues with paperwork is that the paperwork just fails to save sometimes. I don't know why, the last I heard it may have been an issue related to BYOND 515 -> 516 compatibility, but people cannot physically fill out the paperwork. Paperwork isn't super elegant as a system. Instead, I'd suggest just handing them a stamp and have them stamp their name, shift time, and approval. Stamps tend to be much quicker and don't have as many issues.

Some other gimmick ideas you could try:

- Team building exercises. Can science do a trust fall with medical?
- Contests. Who can make the best pizza? Strangest pizza? You have cash at your disposal, give that out instead of All Access.

At the end of the day there's a specific meme about HoPs, that they do their job for 20 minutes then go fuck off into space to never be seen again. Are they dead? Alive? Trapped in a pocket dimension? No one but Space god Knows. Playing HoP long term, for a 90 minute round, requires that you think of something or find something to do.

I think Bureaucracy CAN work, but you have to be fair about it and be willing to drop it the second things aren't working. It sounds like you were giving people access that didn't require it, much to the ire of the heads of those departments who never knew you were doing it. If someone wants Maintenance Access, make them prove how resourceful they are. Medical access? show me how a health scanner works, etc. Annoyance that doesn't go TOO far should be more helpful.

It wasn't that I was giving people access that they weren't supposed to have, it's that I did give one person an ID, and because of that some issue with secmate couldn't be resolved.