Squad Leaders

I know we have created a ranking system based off Starcraft's Protoss. This pleases me

For all the fellow members discussing the different types of group tactics (such as air squads/galaxy drop squads) I do find making up these groups and assigning people to them can be very tough to manage and coordinate.

I propose, using our current ranking system of course, that we create some permanent squad leaders who specialize in running on the fly squads dedicated to said specialization.

I for one, know a few members who love to jump in sunderer's and pile 9 people head first into "A". This is good. It would be awesome to recognize these dedicated players and give them the responsibility of leading a squad, in this case a ground assault squad, within the platoon(s).

These specialist squad leaders will be allowed to create a dedicated group on the fly with a blend of NNG and qualified pubs (mics, teamwork) to focus and saturate certain areas of the battlefield.

If a platoon leader see's more and more ESF's and liberators than they can find a known Air Squad Leader and promote them or instruct them to create a small air wing squad that they can command. This will also keep platoon chatter down eliminating the need for "can anyone in the platoon fly a scythe please" platoon spam

Edit: I foresee a certain refinement period early on in this system as the Outfit leaders figure out how many active squad leaders we'll need. Having 15 people on who all have this "title" would be just as confusing.

Time zone's and certain play times would be part of the criteria for when and where we could place these usher's of destruction.

Of course other thing's will influence choice's as well. Those with stock magrider's with 0 certs into spawn timer probably won't be heading the armor charge for very long before having to do something else whilst on cooldown. At launch this will be tough because of course, we all start fresh.

I have my alpha. Where mah dalton gunners

 

(Realised what I said was what was said above)

Wow I just had a weird moment..

Supporting the idea above.

I believe it's just all about cracking down on squads specifically, and having the leaders focus on just their squad, so that each of our squads is running it's own, independant goal that brings us to the general goal of the platoon as a whole, which is to cap a point.

In short, rather than a platoon leader saying "Capture Hex A" and we all just swarm in anyway we can think of, when the Platoon leader tells us what to take, we have each Squad leader then giving more specific orders to his/her squad, such as "Delta squad, sneak in and bust the generators" while Alpha is running a frontal assault, and Bravo perhaps running a rear assault.

 

Well I thought we should always use a specific squad for the divisions. Like Delta Squad should always be our infiltrators/LA that go scout first instead of having our infiltrators spread out in the platoon. That way the Delta Squad waypoint indicates where we gonna go first, so we know we have to make our way there, specially if we hit 2 places at the same time or we wanna get a quick cap , you only have 1 platoon waypoint.

 

This goal is also realized much easier when the platoon leader and squad leaders have unlocked the extra channel. This channel lets the 4 members of a platoon that are in charge converse without everyone else hearing. This helps eliminate the random zerg as everyone just catches a name over chatter....

Having large scale meeting and organizational groups will be very hard. With some select squad leaders I think we will be better off. This is not to say we can't have a non named leader take control of a squad (provided TS or something of the sort) but as I posted before all of these leaders need to communicate with one another properly. Having a meeting of 10-15 squad/platoon leaders is so much easier.

Trickle down economics applied to our chain of command.

 

I thought I posted this yesterday, but in all the work going on in the forums it was lost (or maybe deleted?).

In my experience with the Beta, Squad Leader Voice Chat isn't locked. What you can unlock with cert points in the Squad Leader cert tree is the "Command Channel".

This got changed in the last few days of beta from "Region Chat" which I had unlocked - yet Command Chat remained locked away from me. I assume Command Chat is going to be text-based and will be either continent-wide or empire-wide for strategists to work together on where to try and steer the zerg as a whole.

 

Command chat is a voip channel to squad leaders and platoon leaders who have the cert. Not certain if you can type in command channel

 

Interesting. I could have sworn I had access to that voice channel well before I got the 1000-cert bonus to unlock it. Requiring that to be unlocked seems. . . . well. . . like shooting themselves in the foot. If only one leader in a platoon has the unlocked it becomes pointless. . . :/

I don't approve of that (not that SOE much cares about my opinion. )

 

Haha, well that is how it was on the last day of the beta, so we will just have to wait now.

Disco- so can anyother squad leaders who have command channel, so they could be doing the same thing btwn 5 ppl, thus creating the same issue.

 

I'll be happy to help test/experiment with this at launch. And to write e-mails/posts to SOE about the ludicrousness of that system if it holds true.

 

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