The Gold Standard Commander Fix

I like this idea. It reminds me of how Trickster commands. He likes commanding but normally wants someone else in the CV. He makes the decisions as a field commander and who ever is in the CV just does what Trickster says.

 

Clearly I do not have whatever level of comprehension the rest of the community has about this.

Everybody is all excited/enraged about how this enables the 'commander' to not be in the command vehicle and boss around whatever unlucky sap gets stuck with the CV - which as far as I can tell is obviously retarded.

I thought the intention was to make the situations where the commander is killed outside the cv/otherwise occupied and somebody else takes the opportunity to get in less frustrating and prone to griefing.

Then again, I actually enjoy commanding so I clearly cannot relate to the rest of the community

 

And you DARE call yourself one of us.

 

Give the commander a laptop that can be used to enter commandview, figure out a better win condition (or just let the comm remotely control the CV from their laptop).

 

Lol! That would actually be pretty cool! :p

Then you could get the the laptop stolen and have to retrieve it quickly, giving new meaning to an APC rush

 

This requires 1 really knowledgeable players and 1 knowledgeable player. so 2 players in total.

Thats 1 more than we need right now. And most of the time we cant find those.

 

Your idea is good if empires was populated and every game was 20v20 with tons of vets. But it isnt thus your idea is useless.

 

That would generally be the most common scenario on com maps.

 

I swear to god, there has to be a term for this. As far as I'm concerned, this idea is great except one little line confused everybody:

Which goes to show how well this would perform in game - while it is a perfectly reasonable suggestion, since there is a fundamental misunderstanding it appears to be a terrible idea.

THE COMMANDER AND THE PERSON IN THE CV ARE THE SAME. IF THE COMMANDER LEAVES THE CV AND ANOTHER PERSON TAKES OVER THE CV FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD, THE COMMANDER MUST BE KICKED/OTHERWISE DETHRONED.

The advantage is exactly as Spartacus described in his original post - two simple bullet points.

The disadvantage is apparently the concept of the commander remaining the commander outside of his vehicle remains beyond this community. Obviously, if he's the commander outside of the command vehicle then some other person must be in the command vehicle doing all the work while the commander lollygags/pussyfoots/dawdles/meanders/otherwise wastes everybody's goddamn time.

/thread

 

interesting idea but I don't like putting all of the power on a particular player. it might be useful to decentralize the CV by allowing command-style controls from an additional outlet, like you can use CV view from the radar with multiple commanders on a team if that's necessary to diorect people at a micro level

 

Dump the CV all together. Commander troop gets backpack with antenna and a laptop.
Commander who gets in a tank the tank gets an extra antenna attached to it to make it somewhat noticeable. Death of commander is no longer the end of the round UNLESS there are no more spawn points.

Can we agree to something at least?

 

Err...well that idea might be good except as is discussed in other threads, the CV being a win condition is actually fairly good - even if it does come with a whole host of detractors.

You'd have to map out the change to the win condition if you wanted the CV-less version to work. And no spawns is not something that happens often at all.