Squad formation, HOT BREAKING NEWS! (happy Afex.. I am good)

[MrVicchio]

Author Topic: Squads and missions
TheTetrisL
Station Member
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 12-18-2002 11:46 AM user search report post
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Okay, we've been told that the mission generator has been removed. But ... isn't a mission what defines a squad? So with no missions, how are squads set up?
Or are all missions generated by players now (instead of automatic)? Is there kinda like a "black board" where people can advertise missions?


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Looking for members for a squad
Commanding Officer: Tetris L (CEP Rank 5)
Mission Objective: Attack Kaang Amp Station on continent Cyssor
Latest mission start: 8:30 pm CET

Currently signed up (click for details):
Tetris L, SomeVeteran, SomeNewbie, SomeOtherGuy

Looking for:
1 Pilot (Galaxy), 1 Tank Driver (Lightning), 1 Gunner, 2 MAX, 2 Hackers, 1 Infiltrator / Scout, 5 various Infantry


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Will there be a "black board" where you can offer your services?

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For hire:
Tetris L
BEP rank: 8
CEP rank: 3
Certificates: Heavy assault, Anti-Vehicular, MAX, Lightning, Prowler, Sunderer, Combat Engineering
Implants: Darklight Vision
Looking for job as tank driver or MAX in an attack mission.



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SmokeJumperPS
Station Admin
Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-18-2002 01:55 PM user search report post
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It's better than that actually.
If you're a squad leader, you can do a search for any certification you desire. All players that have their LFG (looking for group) flag set will be available as a potential result in that search. So...squad leaders can do a quick search for all (for example) dropship pilots and select from a list to give a /tell to.

If you're a player, you can advertise all your certs, or only the ones that you REALLY want someone to utilize you for. In otherwords, if I have Bolt Driver and Combat Engineering, I may advertise one cert one day, and the other on the next day, depending on whether I want to play as a Sniper that day or as a Defensive Combat Engineer.

You see?

Power on both sides of the equation, so finding groups and fitting in should be pretty easy.

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/p...ML/000901.html

[afex]

afex2win
Station Member
Registered: Nov 2002 posted 12-18-2002 02:05 PM user search report post
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sounds cool.

[MrVicchio]

Rofl, I cant include EVERY rply on a thread, just the noteworthy.. or funny ones :P

[Sandtaco]

*drool* So say a squad is looking for a new member, it can just look on this list and its like a damn meat market? How cool is that!

[Marsman]

Darn clever those Dev's

[afex]

Originally posted by Marsman
Darn clever those Dev's

yup, the EQ devs that thought of this a long time ago sure were bright.

actually the EQ players asked for it =)

Dev's decided to stop nerfing classes and agree with us for once =p

oh.. and in EQ this was added ~2-3 years into the game, so was too late, very few people used it... I hope more people on planetside use it (and probably will have to since not everyone can broadcast)---the fact it's going in at the start will really help make everyone aware of it

[afex]

i agree, barely anybody used /lfg when i played

[diluted]

interesting. i wish there was a 'blackboard' - as he said - type deal though. once you choose everything you want for squad/outfit then you go to the drawing board to coordinate the idea of the attack.

[Zarparchior]

I know where that is coming from... It seems things started to stop being neferd as soon as that PR guy left and was replaced with the new guy... Cripes, it's been too long. I've even forgotten the new guys name.

alan vancourvering

[Hamma]

Nice news.

[Jinxmasta]

A question though:
Will it show the skills of each player on the list or will it just be the name? Like will it be something like this:

Jinxmasta
Advanced Hacking
X BEP
X CEP
XXX kills
XXX deaths

I think this would be cool so commanders could choose between newbie people and veteran people. So if it is a hard mission, they might want better guys. However, sometimes it's nice to help a newbie out too so you can look for newbies.

[diluted]

damn i cant wait until the open beta. i have ten quadri-ramillion questions hehe especially since new confusing / intersting news comes out every day.