Oh oh oh. And my harder to do wish list that woukd make the commanders job even more exciting. Not only have birds eye view. But let them scroll through first person shooter mode of their players! See what they see. It'd be like your soldiers wearing go pros

1st Step make the table in the WB usable with the ability to position your mercenaries vehicles etc.

2nd give everyone in the WB on your team a number, next give them all roles Tank, ADs, Logi, Heavy, Assault, Scout etc. These roles will be represented by shapes Diamond = Logi; circle = scout; Square = Sentinel etc. While in the warbarge map their should be the ability to save deployment arrangements so if you want to use the same deployment because your re-up'ing with the largely the same team or want to use the same squad set ups and deployment but different people it takes less time.

3rd make it obvious to the viewer where they are and the location of their squad so their Shape is color coded gold their squad green and the rest blue.

4th restrict use of it only to FC, SL's, and a few select people who have roles for it. Everyone can view it but only certain people can alter it.

5th Assigning FC, Their will be a new assignable role by either Director/CEO or CEO only and then a preference after that so if 2 people in the same battle have the FC role the one with the preference of 1 will get it over the preference of 2. The FC will still have the ability to transfer that role temporarily to anyone he choses in the warbarge. If their are no FC's in the battle it will be auto assigned by who has the next highest role FC, Director, TLO, TCO, Corp, SL and in the event of a "tie" alphabetically.

6th The FC will have the ability to drop OB's from all squads pools of OB's, he will also be able to set up initial rally points for all squads that will eventually expire. He will be identified by a triple chevron.

I made this post a while ago regarding the war barge table and the FC and I've expanded it a little. I still think the FC should be on the ground but I'm not against an FC in the sky and most of what I said in the post would work with the FC only observing.



In the event of an observing FC they should get full vision of all scanners passive or active on the team.

Have you shown this to Zatara, Ben?

Hey all. I have been discussing some ideas given all of the changes being proposed. I have one of my own and the feed back from other fcs has all been in support.

When we field command a battle. We are making a lot of very fast paced decisions. To make those decisions I always find myself either hiding in a corner on the map screen. Or dead and waiting longer to re spawn so I can check out what's happening on the map.

After all. It's our job to command the bigger picture not just the area we are standing in.

This is the huge concern of all FCS. Knowing at all times where your players are without cluttering comms asking....who's that on Bravo. Or who the heck is that spinning circles in the MCC

My proposal would be a simple solution. Can you please add a number to people's dots on the mini map and the large map. And with that on the side a legend of the map. With people's names beside numbers.

That way the fc has total command and control. And we all have players who listen on mic. But chose not to speak. Somone we only know they in the game because of the kill feed. This will help us follow up on their compliance with orders.

Another option. Can we have a zoom in and out of our mini map. So I don't always have to go look at the detailed map.

I always get killed on that map screen lol.

those are my short term simple solutions to command and control.

Long term. I would love to add a 17th member to the planetary conquest mode. The commander. He isn't on the ground. He is in the mcc. He has total birds eye view and an extended zoom.

He can give squad objective points...and team objective points. He can see all squads scores and war points and scans and can drop the teams orbitals. This. Would make this game amazing and strategic.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

The issue I have with this is that that 17th person wouldn't really get anything. He could lead a squad and all, but he wouldn't get points or money... Bring back squad leader commission?

Which part to keep dreaming about. It is a very realistic request that would greatly enhance the command and control aspect of pc.

Hey all. I have been discussing some ideas given all of the changes being proposed. I have one of my own and the feed back from other fcs has all been in support.

When we field command a battle. We are making a lot of very fast paced decisions. To make those decisions I always find myself either hiding in a corner on the map screen. Or dead and waiting longer to re spawn so I can check out what's happening on the map.

After all. It's our job to command the bigger picture not just the area we are standing in.

This is the huge concern of all FCS. Knowing at all times where your players are without cluttering comms asking....who's that on Bravo. Or who the heck is that spinning circles in the MCC

My proposal would be a simple solution. Can you please add a number to people's dots on the mini map and the large map. And with that on the side a legend of the map. With people's names beside numbers.

That way the fc has total command and control. And we all have players who listen on mic. But chose not to speak. Somone we only know they in the game because of the kill feed. This will help us follow up on their compliance with orders.

Another option. Can we have a zoom in and out of our mini map. So I don't always have to go look at the detailed map.

I always get killed on that map screen lol.

those are my short term simple solutions to command and control.

Long term. I would love to add a 17th member to the planetary conquest mode. The commander. He isn't on the ground. He is in the mcc. He has total birds eye view and an extended zoom.

He can give squad objective points...and team objective points. He can see all squads scores and war points and scans and can drop the teams orbitals. This. Would make this game amazing and strategic.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Were you not in STB? If so my memory recalls every time I went against you in pubs (pre-forge range and splash and pre- SR range nerf) I would find you always on the highest ground with a forge. I would keep you pinned back and dramatically reducing your kills from 100m or less in a scout sniper combo. You never could kill me, And I never you. Though it helped that you always had a logistics healer staying out of sight on you.

It is hard for me to take you seriously because of these early encounters, but I do see the wisdom in what you say. That said, I prefer Benjamin Ciscko post over yours, because he is less scrubby, but I personally must digress due to having no argument over your lack of ability and that type of behavior is not forum savvy. GL in your endeavors none the less and pushing threw this agenda as it seems to benifit the community.