Your Outfit: Specialized or Generalist?

[Airlift]

Given that there are so many potential ways to play this game, I wonder what kinds of permanent outfits everyone will put together. I'd imagine that there will be everything from huge "jack-of-all-trades" units to specialist groups in everything from artillery squads to mash units.

So what kind of Outfit will you look for?

[Flashingfish]

Well I don't need to look for one seeing as I created one =]

And as we have over 40 members, we will be mostly generalised and adaptable to any situation, but we will have small specialised squads such as an air force and a tank hunter squad.

[Tobias]

Genralest with specilized squads i hope, being a snipers cool but when you fight in big battles....well a buncha snipers would be pwned

[Hamma]

If you were a specialised squad you would have to team up with other outfits/squads

which may be possible, they mentioned the ability to form temp outfits

"squad for hire" :D

[Ginzue]

Mine is gonna be a brute force by day, stelth by night Outfit, gonna be pretty good... oh and by the way, JOIN THE CHAOS WARRORS! hehe.

[Ginzue]

spelled it wrong, its CHAOS WARRIORS!

[Airlift]

I'm leaning towards a pilot-specialized outfit. Something that provides some opportunity for ground conflict but specializes in transport, air support, and air to air combat. What it really depends on for me is how easy it will be to fill my passenger bay with infantry and vehicles from other outfits.

I'm a bit suprised that everyone so far is leaning towards large generalist units. I half expected to see at least a couple dedicated armor columns or long range patrol groups and such.

[Lexington_Steele]

I am with airlift. For more notoriety, an outfit might want to specialize.

(I was under the impression that squads were a very temporary things and it was Outfits that were more permanant. I also thought that platoons were merely temporary combinations of squads)

When a battle commander is accepting people into his squad for a mission, I would imagine that he would think:

"Alright, I need someone to play role a, role b, and role c. I also need to be sure they are competant at playing that role.
I need some good pilots so I'll try to invite some members of the Outfit 'flyboys' they always give quality air support.
I need some medics so I'll invite some people from 'MedicsRUs', they actually heal people instead of just running off to fight and only healing themselves.
And I need some quality snipers so I'll invite people from the outfit 'SharpShooters', everyone thinks that they are an awesome sniper but these guys are the real deal."

It is one thing to accept someone in the squad to fill a role, another to know that they will actually play that role effectively.

I think it would be sweet if commanders were looking for people fill a specific role and come to your Outfitting looking for them.

[Airlift]

No wait, I'm with lex.

[Unregistered]

Personally I'd rather be in an all around out-fit.

[Airlift]

Do you plan to fill a specific role in that outfit or just fill in where you're needed? What size do you imagine it would be?

[Hamma]

Squads are small teams with their own commander, within an outfit who are set out on specific missions.

[Shiver]

New Dawn

Tis an all round outfit who will take on any class and make sure they are carefully placed withing a specific division/chapter that best suits the role you wish to fulflil.

I'm hoping that it'll feel like a number of pecialised outfits within a much larger, happy outfit family. It'll be easier to get the job done that way :)

[Lexington_Steele]

Originally posted by Hamma
Squads are small teams with their own commander, within an outfit who are set out on specific missions.

Is that the case? I thought that you were a permanent member of an outfit (if you wanted to be in an outfit), but when you logged on you would join a squad to go out and fight.

A good comparison, to how I thought it worked, is in EQ. You could be a member of a guild (like an outfit), but you could join a party to go out and fight with (like a squad). A party could be made exclusively by members of one guild, but would usually be a mix of people who were going to the same place to fight.

I thought a squad didn't have to be outfit specific.

Correct me if I am wrong.

[Ginzue]

Your right :)

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/content.php?p=sdOutfitInfo

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Airlift
Do you plan to fill a specific role in that outfit or just fill in where you're needed? What size do you imagine it would be?

The outfit I am with has about 30 or so players in it now, but we are spread out over a few diffrent games right now. There really is no telling weather or not the Outfit will grow larger then that, or if it will shrink because not everyone comes over to PS when it comes out.

For my outfit I plan to be specialized. Right now I am really leaning twords the MAX, but I have given the Tank some thought too. Not 100% sure what I will like doing more.

The way I see it is that you will see Outfits that have are Genral, but have Specialized Units. For instance you might have 10 medics, 10 Piolets, 10 MAX's, and 10 Tanks in your outfit. Each of the smaller devisions is lead by a Field Commander, and the whole thing led by a Genral or something.

The only thing that I can see an outfit truely specializing in is Offence, or Defence.