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RINON114
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Posted - 2013.03.08 16:41:00 -
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It can be quite a pain to get into a squad at the moment if you're a random player as so many people don't seem to make them. Is it possible that we can get some kind of automatic squad system where the squad leader could boot players or make slots private for friends? |
RINON114
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Posted - 2013.03.09 00:21:00 -
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Garrett Blacknova wrote:The game used to automatically assign everyone into squads.
Now you have squad-limited Uplinks, and if you're in no squad, EVERY other player without a squad can use your Uplnks.
In a squad, you get a maximum of 4 players able to use the spawn point you deployed, and one of them (you) earns you no points for doing so. When you're operating without a squad, you can have anything up to 16 (in a squad-free team) players able to spawn on your Uplink.
So you're saying: "No, because WP" ?
Perhaps then another suggestion is in order: Droplink variants. Squad based gets 75 WP per spawn and regular gets 10?
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RINON114
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Posted - 2013.03.09 09:40:00 -
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The dark cloud wrote:Who needs automatically made squads in the lobby? if you want a squad, make 1 and invite your friends. That simple. And to avoid that people join "my squad" i lock it and nobody is allowed to join except the people that i invite.
To answer your question: everyone.
You personally can make your squad before a match and then join it, but for all the blues in the game it would be massively beneficial for them to be in squads.
More WP's are the most glaring advantage for the majority but the best advantage is that you might find people banding together more. I find that when I play in a squad I try and get to the teal coloured dot to help out and stick with them because you feel more of a bond in a small group. |
RINON114
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Posted - 2013.03.09 15:31:00 -
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Jetteh22 wrote:Instead of auto squads... Somebody in my corp mentioned this while we were waiting for somebody who was LFS. It would be cool if players could 'mark' themselves as looking for a squad via some setting and squad leaders could 'mark' themselves as looking for additional players in a squad and it would automatically add the people who are LFS to squads. It would further be better if it would automatically look for corp mates who are LFS, then alliance mates and then just random individuals - so you'll always be playing with people in your corp or alliance if at all possible.
Even if there was a whole separate menu for this (under social or battle?), I think it would be a great way to do it. This way people who are LFS will automatically get paired to a squad that is looking for additional players and people who want to stay solo are still able to stay solo.
No more "LFS" messages in chat, either!
I agree that this would be good but I think it makes it too hard for people to just jump into the game and get squadded up ASAP. Apparently people already have trouble finding the mic options so this could just make it far too "complex" for people. We have to cater sometimes to the lowest common denominator unfortunately... |
RINON114
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Posted - 2013.03.13 09:17:00 -
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KEROSIINI-TERO wrote:RINON114 wrote:
To answer your question: everyone.
You personally can make your squad before a match and then join it, but for all the blues in the game it would be massively beneficial for them to be in squads.
More WP's are the most glaring advantage for the majority but the best advantage is that you might find people banding together more. I find that when I play in a squad I try and get to the teal coloured dot to help out and stick with them because you feel more of a bond in a small group.
@Rinon: No, it doesn't really help the blues. The only advantage are the OBs - but as everyone, you included, knows that random blue sq leaders rarely realise they are sq leaders let alone use OBs. Having all the randoms in one large 'no squad -squad' is a great help as you get to use everyone's uplinks. That really reduces random skirmish redlining as now more than 3 of teammates can use your breakaway link. Which do you think benefits random teams more - having some juniors possibly get OB or let them use uplinks provided by at least one single user?
That's a fair point, so how about we have automatic squadding as an option for ambush, but auto for skirmish. Skirmish should mostly be run by squads IMO, but let me know what you think. |
RINON114
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Posted - 2013.03.14 07:07:00 -
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Django Quik wrote:I'm still a little bemused by the uplinks thing because I am certain that I've been in squads before with no one putting down uplinks but I've been able to spawn on uplinks someone else must have put down.
I have thought that two once or twice but we just must have missed it!
@Fox Gaden (because I can't quote twice on my phone)
There are supposes to be advantages to being part of a squad. +35 WP for squad spawn and +25 for regular seems fine but what if you don't want randoms spawning on your uplink? I can think of a few tactics that involve stealth where you wouldn't want all the blues ever spawning on you and your super elite stealth scout squad, which is why I suggest squad and team variants so you could suit tactics to match your needs. |
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