Routine inspections are something I've never seen written and would actually rather like to see. Patrols are canon, and presumably someone has to arrange a rota/schedule for that. Not sure about keeping watches. The Autobots seem to be lacking in vigilance at times.
Like paperwork itself, I've used all of these things as backdrop for RP, but I do that a lot more than fic.
why shouldn't the workflow be massively streamlined?
Well, I gave at least one excuse for not having it streamlined below. Not a good excuse, but it's still one I could easily see the character doing.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be *any* 'paperwork', I'm just saying it seems silly for there to be truckloads of it, and none of it on computer.
See, even when I'm using paperwork as RP backdrop, I tend to assume it's done on computer, or at least 'datapad' (which are rarer in canon than they show up in fic, but do, at least, exist in canon; Spinister has one), unless there's a good reason not to assume it. I can see getting tired of it in fic, but these days, I do more RP than fic, and it's as useful a tool as any others for my purposes.
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Date: 2007-10-22 06:52 pm (UTC)Like paperwork itself, I've used all of these things as backdrop for RP, but I do that a lot more than fic.
why shouldn't the workflow be massively streamlined?
Well, I gave at least one excuse for not having it streamlined below. Not a good excuse, but it's still one I could easily see the character doing.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be *any* 'paperwork', I'm just saying it seems silly for there to be truckloads of it, and none of it on computer.
See, even when I'm using paperwork as RP backdrop, I tend to assume it's done on computer, or at least 'datapad' (which are rarer in canon than they show up in fic, but do, at least, exist in canon; Spinister has one), unless there's a good reason not to assume it. I can see getting tired of it in fic, but these days, I do more RP than fic, and it's as useful a tool as any others for my purposes.