Pilot Archive

Hello all I am fairly new to the Pilot profession having just Mastered Pilot a few days ago. Our Guild has been thinking of forming a Squadron and we have thus been setting up ranks and chat channels (since a few members don't have or want to get Vent/TS). While its not hard to do this it is VERY time consuming and gets rather annoying since when you log out your chat setup isnt saved. I came up with an idea that combines the way a Guild is setup and how a real life squadron would be run so without further ado here is my idea:

1. Give the guild leader the ability to designate certian members as "Squadron Leaders".

2. The Squad Leaders can then invite 11 other into their squad.

3. These are given ranks which are displayed as their Guild Title. You must also appoint 3 other Flight Leaders who will have two people in their Flights

4. The titles would be something like: Red Leader, Red Two and so on.

5.The Squad Leader can name the squad anything he wants, and this name will only be displayed to the Guild as each persons guild title. This will keep guild from stealing all the names, since it won't matter since the only once who will see it will be the guild.

6. Just as when you form a guild you will get a new chat channel for the Squadron, and also each Flight of 4 persons will get a Flight Chat Channel. This will allow for easier communication.

So basically it just is a sub-component of a Guild, and each guild can have more than one squad.

Also an idea about target calling was thrown around in our guild. If you have played Guild Wars you know what I mean. One person is the "caller" and uses a command (such as CTRL+Space) to call out who they are attacking. Each player has the option of hitting another command (T) to target the called enemy. This also seems like a good idea for space, and mabey even ground combat.

Well that's about it, any suggestions/ideas/comments would be much appreciated. Mabey we can brain storm up something that SOE might actually implement.

Major Rapax Victis - Commando
Time wasted playing MMO's:
Meridian59, Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron's Call 1 & 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, Earth & Beyond, Eve Online, Planetside, Star Wars Galaxies
"I'm really bored."
...has mastered the Pilot profession

I meant for this to be applied to an already existing PA, not a start-up Pilot PA.

An awesome Idea (I think) would be to have a new chat channel pop up as soon as you pass the beginner missions for what ever squadron (i.e, Storm, Smuggler Alliance, Havok) you join.

Expired Dec. 10 2006.
"I'm going on a very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return. In fact I mean not to. " --- paraphrased with apologies