Squad Leader Archive

Let's be realist, a 50 playersgroup is impossible to handle. We don't need more people, we need skill to makes them better.

The lag with a 20 people group is awefull in big cities, and a little guerilla squad is by far more efficient in my opinion.

how long you been playing Kuudark?

Ive led groups larger than 20, split into 2 seperate units, and it isnt impossible to handle.

Problem:

One major problem with PvP is that there is no structure set up in SWG to handle organization.A grouping system of having 2-20 players just mass cause most used tactics to be guerilla. I was thinking about this after seeing a large battle. I think that the SL's should have added structure to handle organized combat with a chain of command. Here are several ideas.

Command Squads:

SL's leaders should be able to have special command squads where they have only other SL's and an XO in the squad (the lead SL and XO would be allowed in any other group). The other SL's in the squad would have there own squad and a seperate command chat channel where they can hear their commander. The head SL would have the ability to system message just his squad and themembers of his squad's SL's. I'm not sure how abilities would work here. Maybe when the head SL uses one the affect is an average of his and each of the member SL's effectiveness.

Combat Squads:

I think as a SL levels up his abilities should be able to be used on more members. This would encourage SL's to form small groups and then join a better SL's squad to be part of a larger force. For example, use something close to the US military system as a base. Asyou go up in SL, you get to control more troops:

Anyone not a SL: Fireteam 2-4 players
Novice:Squad4-8 consisting ofthe leaders of 2 fireteams
Skill tree level 2:Platoon 8-32consisting of the SLs of 2-4 squads
Skill tree level 4: Company 20-128 consisting of the SL's 2-4 platoons
Master SL: Army 50-(no limit) consisting of the SL's of a company

This would hopefully result in squads acting more objective based and less likely for each idivisual to hit and run. This way fireteams would hit and run together and their SL's would get orders on where to attack. Also this will make larger PvP battles awesome. In large battles several PA's could join and make an army so that the commanders of the battles havein-game and RPcommunication.

I have other things regarding squads in general that can be applied to this idea.

Medical Squads:

At some level Doctors or Combat Medics can make a medical squad. In this squad they get a seperate list of members of the other squads in there army that are within a distanace of say 50m of them so they can heal everyone near them in the army efficiently.

I have other far out ideas that rely on this system. I want to see how this is recieved. I think it's greatest effect will be in PvP and RP of command.