Reason why CR5 / TR on Emerald (long)

[GammA]

Today im going to offer a personal explaination on why i believe CR5's on Emerald / TR were *not* taking an initiative in commanding / doing globals for organization for the empire. This should really be on the emerald specific forum but alot of people who dont check that board or even not on emerald are curious, so i intend to address this issue here.

I have been CR5 since the end of the 3rd week of the game release. I was the 4th one on TR emerald to reach that rank and i am also outfit leader of the 7th Legion. I never rely on other people other than my outfit when a specific target / objective has to be met, simply because most of the TR on emerald (not all) are not worth my time. Am I all that great? no i am not, im simply trying to get people to play the game like its suppose to be played; organized, well coordinated, and people working as a team. I run my outfit pretty strictly, we have outfit training everynight at 8:30pm and all our members are required to use Teamspeak, and all platoon leaders present are required to file a report after each nights training.

We don't run a friendly community on emeral to say the least. There are a number of reasons:

#1 uncooperative people. everytime some cr5 does a global asking help on a specific location, there are people who say: " STFU we dont care", or "OMG you idiots are over there when you should be *insert here*. Or even "YOUR ABUSING GLOBAL!"

answer: after getting acouple of those from simply just using 1 or 2 after the first 2 days of getting CR5 and actually trying to get people to work together, i didnt give a hell on what the idiots wanted to do. ANd i realized that if i wanted to do something i had to do it myself, and my outfit were the people i could rely on and had direct control over. and everyone worked together.

#2 envious lower ranked commanders. Some times you get some cr4 soon to be 5 commanders who act like they are the shit and know everything. so they have an attitude like they dont have to follow anyone since they will get high rank soon. And because of that they dont want to help you, and they want to continue XP whoring on amerish so they can get their last couple of bubbles. THey dont care if you organized or not, they just want 10 slots filled so they can get full XP when base hack goes through. * i personally have not had this problem * but several people on command chat other cr5 get that alot and been telling us about it.

answer: gj if you can get to cr5 soon, you've worked hard. BUt its pathetic and useless if you cant cooperate and you get CR5, wtf is the point? Inorder to lead you have to be able to follow first.

#3 XP whores. they dont care where needs help, they dont care if we are loosing our own continents, and they dont care if we have only one base left. the only thing they care about is sitting in the shitty SOI of a base when the hack goes through so they can get the next battle rank. They do that until they get to their BR, and then they get bored leave, come on the forum complain on how the game sux and is repetitive and is no point in playing.

answer: yes good bye we dont want you here. you havent even played the game like its suppose to be played and you waisted your money. If i played the game just to get more kills than anyone else or brag how i fragged more people and i would rather go play UT (i have for 2 years). and more whats importantly, especially when people are trying to actually do their job on the continent and there is a population lock because idiots like these jam up the place and sit in a ALREADY secured base waiting for hack to go through instead of assisting another base which is about to fall.

#4 DEVs inability to implement teamwork features. THey were suppose to have alliance chat features, in game voice features, platoon combination squads, and yet i see no features implemented on how to improve teamwork, but rather bullshit nonsense on "hey guys lets add CTF!, yay!" or wait "lets change the script alittle so that bases wont be able to be hacked this way and itll seem like we did alot! yea nice marketing strategy!".

answer: out of our power to control. we can complain and flame them but they still do what they think will get them money and not care on the game play's value for people who want to work as a team. for that, alot of people arent keeping the game beyond their game cards, i for one am in doubt.

#5 (everyones favorite) moronic n00bs that just get CR5 and like to annoy people. I have 4 CR5s in my outfit, and YES i have one of them in my outfit, and i've seen another 1-2 or them that do it just for fun sake. you just gotta break some damn sense into them

answer: YES i know you just got cr5 and you want to use acouple of globals, everyone likes to play with their new toy. BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS. if you do a global that prevents other people from concentrating/ playing especially if you say something thats off topic, your going to expect flames and you deserve to be. When i am on i tell everyone on /c to keep their mouths shut unless its strictly important and related to something that needs to be accomplished. But im not going to babysit/ teach all the CR5s how to use their globals.

Conclusion: as you can see here, i have personally not tried to organize TR using globals or continent alls very often. I do however coordinate offensives by contacting other outfit leaders, other officers of squadrons using via /tells or ventrillo/teamspeak in organizing assaults. Yes its sad that this game meant to be played as a team game does not have the features built to be treated that way. The most blame can be put on the DEVs/SOE for their incompetence, but also for the individual players inability to use self-judgement on cooperating.

Lately i have been organizing more and more outfits and people who want to do coordinated attacks and organization. but its sorta behind the scenes to most people since its not at all related to using global chat or CR5 abilitys. The only reason i have CR5 now is because i get to have that cool looking backpack that doesnt do anything.

WEll those are my reasons in not taking an initiative in attempting to use my *powers* to organize TR, and if you want want to do some massive scaled offensives during the night or coordinate send tell to me.

/t GammArkantis