Squad Leader Archive

"Over the advance professions, the most common ones, a lot of people (and this is something we didn't forsee and think about, 'cause we were stupid), was a lot of unpowered up architects in order to get their guildhalls. So architects is one of the commonly advanced Masters. Weaponsmith, because the market for weaponsmiths is huge. But when you're talking Squad Leaders or Commandos, there is one Master Commando in the entire game right now. One!"

Squad Leader was actually mentioned in the same line as Commando, as though we are supposed to be powerful or something! Boy, old Ralph really is clueless isn't he?

I think that makes it sound as though he has a clue. Commandos are in the process of being fixed from a state that was as sorry as ours (hence only one master). The fact that he recognizes we're in such a similar position hints that he understands our issues and that perhaps we could be fixed as well.

If he understood our issues one would think that in well over a month we would've heard one peep about our profession.

Have you heard something I haven't?

No I haven't, and I'm still waiting to hear. Though I think that hearing that abovequote(and reading the interview overall) brightened my spirits a tad (not to say they're still not dark).

I just personally think that cynically pointing out a dev's cluelessness (when it appears quite the opposite) doesn't get us any further either. Though I suppose that misunderstandings or misjudgments of things like that make the world go round.

At least we know that someone somewhere has to be working on us (I mean we did submit a list of issues that need to be addressed by some dev at SOE). The timeliness of that response, and when it comes, the response's worth can be debated, but I think that even though we get no dev posting, the simple thought that there has to be work (even if it turns out crappy) can be comforting when you need it.

I read that as saying "commandos and squad leaders are really rare" which is pretty true

Wow, that link was almost depressing. . . I knew I was getting hosed as a Rifleman/Squad Leader but I didn't realize how badly until just now.

/hangself