Squad Leader Archive

Well, I am not going to wait for SOE to give us feedback. I am going to present my top 5 issues early this week, in order of what I think is important:

1. Grouping in SWG is not enticing.Unless you are a SL, groupexperience is not great and needs to be improved. Content is fairly generic and simplistic. What is the point of being a group leader if most people are not all that interested in grouping in the first place. All of the group functionality needs to be debugged and streamlined for efficiency.

2. The Squad Leaders profession has abilities that are marginally functional and mostly usesless to a group. We need a total rework of the skill tree for SL. We will set aside the following week to deal exclusively with our skill tree. Fornow, if it doesn't work don't bother fixing it as its probably just a waste of everyones time.

3. Chat channels/communications are bugged and inefficient. One of the main skills for being a group leader is your ability to communicate with your team, but we don't have the tools to do this. SysCommand is worthwhile primarily because the rest of the chat system is not. Plus, we need to hear our team mates in order to make intelligent decisions which is near impossible with a large group and no chat filters.

4. Squad Leader Experience is based on dammage done by the SL, instead of the value the SL brings to the table. Healers should get SL experience if they heal while in a fight. Marksman should get experience for using their specials to help in a fight, which includes doing crowd control, etc...

5. Thectrl P Pop menu forsearching characters needs to be improved. Why can't I find someone on another planet? If they are a healer, and wantto join oneof my raids, they can geton a starship and join us. Make it easy for us, please. Plus,I need to be able to locate eveyonein my PA, not just on planet. How can Isetup a PA raid when I can't even find out who is online? The PA chat lines arethe worst, andmy friends list takes up to much space andI miss new recruits.

PS. Void, We need to sticky all of our weekly top 5's so we can keep track of what we are telling the developers. Its been so long ago that I can't remember half of what we said.

Hi, Shuyunh , thanks for posting!

I have discontinued the Top 5 list at SOE's request until they respond to the first one. Feel free to correlate issues here, though, so we can make a concrete one for the next time we have to.