Squad Leader Archive

The idea seems interesting but would it only work after the first death or continue to work until the buffs where off?

Depends on balance. I'm tempted to say always, not only to give us a nice perk, but also because it would be by far the easiest to implement.

eeh, I'm a little hesitant to sign this.. It sounds good, but then it leaves us with absolutely no penalties in PvP. Decay is already gone, so buffs/wounds is all that's left. This would make SL Zerg-Cloning a bit ridiculous.

But to offset it, it's not like we're Combat Medics or anything... Maybe if our buffs came back at 80% every time we cloned.. So after 5 deaths, our buffs are only 20% of their former self (a 2400 point buff is down to a 480point buff).

This doesn't seem like that bad of an idea to me - also long as it is for MSL and it takes about 20% off each time. That would make it so we are not uber and so that we won't have flocks or people coming to be a SL, although there would be more coming, but that will happen anyway with the revamp. If they added another after-affect on it too that would make it perfect. Such as you're gorggie for 2 minutes or only your mind buff stays.

Allready too many buffs anyways, I'm all for that. Only work while grouped just like everything else. No kidding about the extra HAM as well...

I'd have to disagree with this idea.As good as as this sounds, I think that killing a Squad Leader first is a good goal in combat, and effectively doing it should have some reward, other than lowering the buffs by, say, 20%.

Instead, SLs should have to balance being at the forefront of the attack with effective defenses to ensure that they aren't killed right away.

See, targeting the SL is an effective tactic but think, it wasn't as easy as it sounds. Officers in the field were some of the best combatents making them tough to kill. Squad leaders should have MUCH better defenses AT MASTER (prevent dabblers) so the goal to destroying the group is still taking down the SL but making it tougher than it is now.

Message Edited by fletcherreed on 05-19-2004 10:06 PM

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fletcherreed wrote:

See, targeting the SL is an effective tactic but think, it wasn't as easy as it sounds. Officers in the field were some of the best combatents making them tough to kill. Squad leaders should have MUCH better defenses AT MASTER (prevent dabblers) so the goal to destroying the group is still taking down the SL but making it tougher than it is now.

Message Edited by fletcherreed on 05-19-2004 10:06 PM

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They were good combatants because their tactics made them good, not because they were tougher at all. I might be up for another way of doing this, I just don't like the idea of keeping buffs after death.

Leaving buffs on after death is something they should just implement anyways.Perhaps onlyif you were ressed.

How about an actual "group toughness" ability that works like the melee toughness skills

Or I liked what someone said about the group mitigation, though would would need to have both melee and ranged to be very useful, or at least go over the effect of mit. 3.

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-Myrick- wrote:

Leaving buffs on after death is something they should just implement anyways.Perhaps onlyif you were ressed.

How about an actual "group toughness" ability that works like the melee toughness skills

Or I liked what someone said about the group mitigation, though would would need to have both melee and ranged to be very useful, or at least go over the effect of mit. 3.

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That I disagree with. Buffs are too rampant asis. Take a break after shoving 2 brandies down your throat.