Find a new squad

Roll on your own

Roll with your clan/friends

Options use em

Just play with corp mates?

I know about that, But you know what i'm saying right?

Sometimes when no one's around and you are on a team full of people like that... When are they gonna use them?

I play alot as a random.... nobody has a MIC.... on the right channel.

CCP needs to have the training mode for Leadership that we all wanted for MAG. They should only be SL after completing it. Force a player to set a rally, capture, defend, attack order and then give them the precison strike to call down. Then again only groups seem to follow orders, the randoms do whatever it is randoms do that gets them killed so much.

The worst was when I had my best game, hacked close to 18 installations (capture points for the null cannons, resupply points, and cru's and maybe a turret or 2) and the squad I was on had gotten the SL 2 precision strikes that they failed to call in... which might have helped us hold a letter long enough to win... the game came down to 1 bar on their MCC and they only had 10 clones left.

We could also reassign squad leaders to someone with a more appropriate role.

I noticed dropship pilots and snipers seem to be the most effective at coordinating squads, mostly because they have a bird's eye view of the whole place.

I know until recently I did not know how to pull up the commands other than through the map and that is such a pain. My corp mates showed me how but until then I always passed squad leadership to another. What should happen is a leader vote for radomes or self nomination followed by radome choose among ties or if no one votes.

That's kind of a horrible idea. Sometimes there is no command to give out except fight. Maybe you can put a defend order but it doesn't make it complete.

You can do it without the map???

When friendly fire is turned on you will be able to kill him

This is the biggest problem with most blueberries. They think the only thing to do is charge directly at the biggest clump of reds they can find.

Squad leaders can at least use the rally command to try telling their squad where to attack from
An example of this was an ashland ambush where my team was getting slaughtered; I set the rally point on one of the ladders to give my squad the hint that we should attack from above instead of charging the supply depot.
Ofc, the blueberries never listened to me, but I sat up there for the rest of the game racking up kills while never even getting shot.

*Shrugs* I find no need to really get that deep in tactical thinking when we're fighting in pubs with random spawn points (Yes we can have droplinks but 80 percent of the team will use the default spawning system) and no symbol objectives for blueberries/randoms to rally together for. :I Even then those newbs don't know how to listen. Sure, if you're practicing with your corporation or group of friends, you can pull together smooth tactics that will help dominate but other than these terms really plotting and thinking can be kinda useless.

The best you can do in Ambush with randoms is rally them together but like i said before newbs don't know how to listen.

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After giving some thought to it we could fix this in two ways:

1. Keep the choosing of squad leaders random in pubs and add in an option for the other subordinates to vote for someone else in the squad to take the place of the leader if they're incompetent.

2. Take out the random pick for squad leader and instead do a system where the players with the most WP is chosen to be squad leader. I believe WP is a good indicator of the tactical know-how of a player or in some cases their dedication to their team, making this a good way of choosing a leader. Also add in the option to appoint another leader for the subordinates if they're incompetent.

Giving the subordinates the ability to choose their leader promotes critical thinking for the battlefield. If a newbie see's that there is a vote going on for squad leader they'll assume that this position actually holds some power. When they're squad leader one day they'll try to do a good job so that they don't get kicked out and hold this position.

It'll be a very simple voting system with a player only needing TWO votes for the switching of rankings to happen.

What happens when there is only one other player in your squad? There is no ability to vote for leader. The voting ability goes active when there are two or more subordinates.

I play alot as a random.... nobody has a MIC.... on the right channel.

CCP needs to have the training mode for Leadership that we all wanted for MAG. They should only be SL after completing it. Force a player to set a rally, capture, defend, attack order and then give them the precison strike to call down. Then again only groups seem to follow orders, the randoms do whatever it is randoms do that gets them killed so much.

The worst was when I had my best game, hacked close to 18 installations (capture points for the null cannons, resupply points, and cru's and maybe a turret or 2) and the squad I was on had gotten the SL 2 precision strikes that they failed to call in... which might have helped us hold a letter long enough to win... the game came down to 1 bar on their MCC and they only had 10 clones left.

Find a new squad

Roll on your own

Roll with your clan/friends

Options use em

What if someone in your corp accidentally takes the squad leader control and went afk in the middle of a fight due to real life issues? A mechanism should be in place to remove the sqd leader.

High WP =/= Good leadership capabilities

1- WP doesn't indicate anything about someones abilities as a squatleader. Most people with high WP are directly engaged i close combat... and therefor actually have NO vision whatsoever about what is happening on the rest of the battlefield. Yes they have more experience playing the game, but that's it. Also being good at shooting someone doesn't make you a good strategist/leader...


2- A voting-system is proned to be abused if multiple corpmembers get in a squat with some random blue (public match). A voting system could only be incorporated if there would be some sort of 'veto' option by the SL. (as in a timer for initial command, a second timer when '1' is outdated/objective hacked or 'player' died. And only after the 3rd ignored/exceeded timer (s)he should be removed from his duties after a squat vote.




In my opinion there should be a "request objective" option for the rest of the squat. If this is ignored by the SL then there should be a 2nd "request objective" after an decent amount of time (1-2 minutes). Only when these 2 requests are ignored there should be an option to vote out a SL. (the 1-2 minute cooldown is so SL can actually get to safety if (s)he is in combat and gets chance to "put out the objective" without actually dying. (there should probably even be an option for SL to instore a longer time delai if he is in combat to extend his timelimit for the 'objective'; but with a drawback... if he ignores/exceeds this extended timelimit he can immediately be voted out.)


I know this is for from perfect...but it is imo a way better system then simply voting someone of. It gives a fair chance to the SL to pick up his role, and it sortoff counters abusive outvoting.