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Thread: Open Letter to all Squad Leaders (petition)

Aztherifle
Sun May 02, 2004 8:45 pm
#1

Hello,


I recently picked up the Squad leader profession, and immediately noticed that a side effect of using any squad leader commands is that you MUST yell something out in spatial. It can be literally anything you specify, but it MUST be something. I immediately was wary about the fact that if I wrote a macro that used SL commands every second, that it would look as if I was "spamming," a practice that is not allowed in the game.


I tried many ways to make sure that I did not interfere with anyones gameplay. I made the mandatory spatial message a simple " . " for all my commands. That means adot appears in the jagged bubble (yell bubble) every second above me. I encouraged other people to add me to their ignore list. I also made it a point to stay away from my group and other groups of large people in order to prevent distrubing anyones gameplay.


I have seen other SL's running the same macro yelling things like "/addignore <persons name>", etc. They obviously are trying to deal with the same problem too.


Earlier today a CSR gave me a tell saying that I was reported for spamming and a warning had been placed on my account. I immediately informed the CSR of the situation, and they did not provide any solution other than to yell the commands in group chat. As we all know, this is impossible. The CSR then informed me that I should yell commands every 15 seconds. As well all know this would be ridiculous for the profession of Squad Leaders. Other professions can spam special attacks and such endlessly, but because SOE will not allow you to turn off the SL mandatory spatial command how are Sqaud Leaders supposed to play this game?


I can not believe that I am being warned and might end up being banned for playing the game adhereing to all rules and regulations.


For your information, here is the screen shots of the entire conversation at http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=68488&poll_id=0&warned=y





I implore all Squad Leaders to help me have the situation resloved. SOE needs to either fix or form a policy outlining what SL's can do with their abilities.
ablueduck
Sun May 02, 2004 9:40 pm
#2
/sign



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NaKitNa
Sun May 02, 2004 11:03 pm
#3

/sign



I wsa going to follow this profession for my guilds sake, but this is enough to turn me away. Hope they get on this.



NarCranor
Mon May 03, 2004 3:26 am
#4
/sign



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devcha
Mon May 03, 2004 4:44 am
#5
/sign



Devcha... no relation
InquisitorPayne
Mon May 03, 2004 5:27 am
#6

/sign



All they need to do, is to prevent a Yell bubble to appear for 15 seconds after the first. This way the specials could still be used, the charactersitic commands would still be yelled, the flair would persist and the spam would end.



But that would be a logic solution. So i guess we would not see it before next year, if ever.



Dogg






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rapacov
Mon May 03, 2004 8:32 am
#7
/sign



Lt. Emay Aether
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irott
Mon May 03, 2004 9:14 am
#8
Best thing for you to do is speak to another CSR... this situation has come up before and was resolved after the CSR realized their error.


The SOE Forumsare not viewed by customer service so this petition is pointless. I don't remember who posted about this before but you should be able to do an advanced search in just the SL forums for "CSR" and "Spamming".


Good luck.



[irott and the full effect]
Master Squad Leader
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DiLune
Mon May 03, 2004 9:51 am
#9

You know who is hitting you with poison or disease. You can see the CMs, Docs and Medics heal their targets. You know who is hitting you for what damage. What I'm saying is that in PVP everyone has a chance to observe the battlefield and pick their targets. You figure out who the squad leader is by identifying who keeps yelling out stupid sayings (granted many SL use a command that sounds like a CH command.) I don't think they can remove the yell spam completely.


They need to make their CS staff aware of how SL commands work and that we have no choice but to shout something when we activate the ability. Although, I'd love to see TKA have to yell "Hiiiyahhh!" When they use their combat moves. Heh.


Telakyte
Mon May 03, 2004 10:34 am
#10
/Sign times 10


Yeah....I'm tired of seeing my own commands. It hurts the eyes and my chat bar lol



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neodare
Tue May 04, 2004 12:20 am
#11

Oh my God, I guess CSR's really don't play the game!!!


/sign

Message Edited by neodare on 05-03-2004 12:21 PM



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Curxcha
Tue May 04, 2004 4:28 pm
#12

I was just browsing SL forums as I thought i'd be an interesting profession to try on.


Reading that ss first stunned me, then OMG, then i just got sad. Whats this? Bleh, this is just ridiculous you got my sympathy, for whats its worth


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InfluenzaSWTA
Tue May 04, 2004 6:51 pm
#13
Absolutely ridiculous. Shouldn't an understanding of the game be a prerequisite for being a CSR?



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