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I had an idea I thought might be good to toss around for SL. Being able to setyour group's formation. Just to be able to make use of the tacitcalness of everyones abilities and so on. You would be able to place ranged people in back with melee/tanks up front, and of course you and medics between them all...and its not like others wouldnt be able to move around, you would setup a formation in a window (possibilities include a type of football chalk board and dragging a players 'circle' with name around until they are in a specific area in relation to the SL in the center) or going even more basic, just a formation of say rows/columns for greater 'feel' of the SL as the leader and in charge...that might fit more into that other thread of the group terrain skills, such as when a group moves with a SL having group movement bonuses, they all make a 2x# column to signify the bonus. But standard circle formations or wedge, etc? what do you think? let the SL be able to choose the place of certain membersin a specified formation...at a certaindistance away from theleaderfor tactical use? Even have a group menu for the SL to not have to make the SL ask everytime in a group "what class is everyone?" and allow the SL a menu to see the professions of the players...that would save some time, but perhaps it is more roleplay to let the leader ask it.

I have many ideas...and pray that SL gets more in the future...butI reached the burst of my bubble and had to post a ramble of ideas I would like the idea of a squad leader in a PA that would 'teach' other people by grouping with them how to fight tactically (not a skill mind you, but tell them how to use thier own skills and let them realize what other players can do as well to aid the group as a whole, to make everyone a smarter player and better combat stratigest.

ok thats all for now...comments/questions/thoughts/all the above please

In beta there was a Formation screen you could look at and change the available formations. I've noticed that this seems to be disabled in the live version. I'm guessing that they never got formations working correctly so they were removed.

yeh they did remove it, same can be said about ship to ship docking for players too. that would be an ideal way to trade goods in space or board multi player ships.