Squad Leader Archive

Various Professions have their own specific items that only work for that Profession. Bounty Hunters have lightningrifle and tracking droids, Commandos have rocket launchers and flame throwers, and of course Jedi have lightsabers. Do you think Squad Leaders should have some sort of special item that only they can use? If so, any ideas? A couple I've thought of are:

IlluminationGun - When fired at a target, their character glows and everyone in the Squad can see them glowing. This could be used to quickly point out an enemy or target toyour Squad, when you don't necessarily want to Volley Fire them. Whether it does damage, or simply illuminates the target is debatable. Color of glow effect could be configurable (see below).

Flares- Grenade-like objects that are thrown, but inflict no damage. When they hit the ground, they release sparks, or smoke (or both) of a predesignated color. Similar in purpose to the Illumination Gun, flares allow a Squad Leader to easily point out a location to his Squad.

Multiple colors allow for Team-specific designation. For instance, if you just want Team Blue or Team A or Team 1 or whatever you name it, to go to a specific location, you throw a Blue Flare. If you just want Team Green/B/2 to do something to a specific target, you shoot the target with a green Illumination Gun (or an Illumination Gun with a green add-on filter).

Please list any and all of your ideas for Squad Leader-specific items!

Orodias Des'sett

therere are traps for the gun. and the marking thing won't work in the game engine I believe. No way to target ground.

interesting ideas. I think your squad should be able to see whoever you are targeting. But anyways some ideas for items.

-sensor beacon- makes a waypoint that everyone in the squad gets and is activated. This could coincide with whats below

-shuttle- squad leaders can buy a ticket or something that allows emergency pickup for the entire squad. requires sensor beacon in place

-force field- makes a protective shield around say a 5 meter area around the SL, allows a short 20 second invincibilty time period. But you cant shoot while inside of it.

-mercs- can hire mercs, use them like pets but you can have more than one out at a time.

-night vision goggles-only an SL can make these but they let you see further and give bonuses to night fighting.

-mines- if an enemy runs within 2 meters of these they explode and casue damage. Come in fragmentation,area/ claymore,only hit the target/and nerve gas, attack mind

For battle fields SL also can place certain things

-sentry guns- like laser cannons but have to be manned by players which make them fire faster and more accuratley

-trenches- can build trenches that improve hit bonuses and defense bonuses when inside of them

-suicide- not really an item but allows the squad leader to make every enemy target itself onto the SL, but once dead the enemy cant fire for 20 seconds. Kills self so the team can kill the enemy

-the SL should also give passive bonuses to recharge rates.

I kno alot of these sound dumb but they more we put the more DEV's might listen to

Great ideas! It's good to brainstorm. There's no such thing as a stupid idea, because even a so-called "stupid idea" can lead to really cool ideas! What does everyone else think?

Orodias Des'sett

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MadBarbarian wrote:

man there are so few of us it doesnt even matter.

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There may be more than you think. I got reluctantly got novice SL last night and there were several folks at the Dearic Starport with SL titles.

I just hope Im not wasting my time as my general feeling about SL from reading the forums is that SL is useless.

Oops Didnt mean to hijack the thread.

The sensor beacon would be coolest!

I realy like the bonus to recharge rates. It seems reasonable too, a squad with a leader will be more efficient and motivated to do more in less time.

Passive skill that decreases each group members ROF instead of /volley fire.

man there are so few of us it doesnt even matter. But one last one.

-SL can make this and it acts as a weapon powerup.

TRIPOD- increases accuracy immensely and makes damge higher. Only works while prone.

An off-topic note--has anyone noticed that all of a sudden all of the posts on this board have been rated a one? I didn't feel this was starting a new thread, but thought it deserved mention.

yeah we need more passive skills more than anything, i dont know about you but in most battles they are short and deadly, unless you are fighting big game like krayts or kimogilas, but even then rally makes docs unable to revive so that is out of the question, i know that if there was a passive increas to attack speed, accuracy, and defenses i would go up that line forst.

this might sound cheesy... but it fits in very well with the SW universe...

Squad Leaders could give group members a "Badge of Honor". Think about it... what happened at the end of Star Wars 4? George is a big fan of rewarding the little guys for their courage under fire.

So then the question is... do the badges give the person who recieves them any bonuses? If so, how could they make this not exploitable? (but just think about the spam you'll get from powergamers as a SL if they DID give bonuses... "hey man! I was the most uber in your group tonight! GIVE ME A BADGE U LAMER!!!!")

Perhaps the badge would only provide a bonus to the person if they are grouped with YOU (the SL)?

The Badge would also have to come at a considerable cost to the SL so that it couldn't just be given out without actual thought or deserving it... and couldn't be given out too often. A badge like this wouldn't mean squat if you could give EVERYONE one. Maybe it would be time related... like you could only give out 1 badge every 10 hours of playtime as a leader in a group (cumulative).

And maybe... if the person you gave it to later loses faith in your command abilities, they could destroy the badge which would reflect poorly on you (which would motivate YOU to not just give it to just anyone). They would only be able to have one SL Badge at a time as well.

Not very fleshed out, but there might be something here to work with. Although it would indeed be nice to have a SL specific item that only we could use, even though that would be a bit more selfish than what SLs usually are hehe.