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Hi folks, new to Squad leader, but have been giving it a great deal of thought. This may have been touched on, but to be honest, its kind ofa messy forum so i didnt see anything on this.

Squad Leaders to me are those that control a battlefield. Both directly involving themselves, and also partially removed from direct fire. What seems to be missing to me is the partially removed aspect.

Currently in the game is a great overlay map(ctrl-m), which could be used more, but sadly is not.

I would like to propose a new skill to Squad Leaders that allow them to interact with that overlay map and place coordinates for multiple groups. What this requires for new abilities or mechanics is the following.

1. Ability to form up groups within a group. So label a. b. c. can be 5 member "teams" all within one group. Can be similar to how raids eventually evolved in EQ.

2. An interface to drop waypoints and rally points onto the Map Overlay for each and or all of the teams within the group. Color coordinated WP's would allow for easy recognition to targets or rally points.

3. Ability to see labels of buildings from the Map Overlay in order to properly assault a base. In these times I would find it hard pressed to believe that Sat photos, to allow that type of knowledge, is unavailable.

I am sure there are other areas to this that I have overlooked, but I believe the foundation for a very nice tool is here. Personally, working a battle field like a tactician is what would excite me and I am sure many others, while many more want to be the soldiers.

Gil Webtoes

Squid Leader

Hey Gil, its great to see a fellow Lowcanite take up the bars and become a Squad Leader - especially another Rebel. I think me and Kandhar were getting lonely =P

At any rate, very many of the things you suggested have been proposed in coordination with the Squad Leader update but don't specifically involve the Overlay Map, or doesn't involve it anymore than it normally would. I think there is some merit to your idea and I would be interested in hearing what everyone else has tosay about it.

Some popular and similar suggestions include the ability for the Squad Leader to broadcast his waypoints toeveryone on his team, the SL being able to see all of his team's mission waypoints, and the ability to designate platoons within groups. Someideas are more popular than others, but there you have it.

See you around.

Glad to have you Gil, hehe "Squid" Leader,I like it!

To your points...

1)The propsed new changes to squad leader allow for dividing the group into 3 small sub-groups. It would be nice to have more, but it's a start (first message in here lists the proposed changes: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=squad_leader&message.id=3079&page=1)

2. This would be very, very nice to have. just about everyone here isasking for it. As a side note, has anyone noticed the splash screen when loading that is labeled "Waypoints" I swear theres a line in it that says a group should be able to automatically see the group leader's active waypoints. Clearly this isn't the case at the moment, but shows at least that it's been though about (if only by the art department )

3. Some buildings are labeled, but it's mostly just starports and cantina types. I think you may be onto something, if a SL could interface with the overlay map and put titles on buildings and targets (similar to how player vendors show up when they get enough Merchant skill) it would totally keep everyone on the same page. I don't believe I've seen that suggested.

There's lots more great ideas in these forums too, just takes a little bit to find em

Thansk,

-Psquire