Amendment to the Regional Officers Act

RO slots serve two main purposes:

  • Visibility
  • Being able to use RO powers

The CRS benefits very little in visibility from simply having more RO slots. It already has three, and adding more won’t make it any more visible. If visibility is the concern, then have a CRS member promoted in the display order so you can see them from the region page.

In terms of RO powers, you technically only need one CRS member to have Comms powers for the body to send regional TGs. BC powers are the only RO power that benefits from more positions as you have more available influence. However, the CRS is not guaranteed those extra slots, they are not a thing that can be relied upon at every single point in time. Additionally in an event where they’re using all available influence of ROs there are bigger problems on the table where it is likely justified to use other powers of the CRS to ensure regional security. Cutting into the excess slots is a minimal effect on the region’s security apparatus.

The RO act doesn’t really specify how the PM’s ability to discretionarily grant RO powers works in regards to allotted slots, and I wanted to clarify that a bit.

I propose this alternate wording for the amendment:


Highlighting other branches of the coalition would be better in the WFE than wasting RO slots on positions that don’t need to utilize RO powers.