Guild Wars 2

Some ideas about commanders. Pardon duplicates.

- Give commanders special map tools to ping, draw and coordinate attacks. This would include things like setting priority to objectives, and setting up way points.

- Give commanders a war horn, a signal that a push is about to be made in a given area and everyone should rally at that point

- Give commanders he ability to designate sub-commanders for better coordination of multiple groups. IE. Sub group A – Go east. Sub group B – Go west!

- Make commander chat a different colour so it’s easy to track comms

- Allow users to “honor” commanders they like, and ignore commanders the don’t. This would weed out crappy commanders and allow the great ones to be recognized for their efforts. Some good ideas in LoL’s “honor” system (ie if someone does good, or is generally helpful, you can honor them, in a number of sub categories). These honors could be worth Karma or badges, to incentives quality leadership.

- Further to flagging bad commanders: If a certain commander receives enough negative votes, they are stripped of commander for a short period (24 hrs). This would allow someone else to take control, but not prevent them from trying again in the future. Which leads me to…

- Allow commanders to flag themselves as “learning”. To me this is like putting a “new driver” sticker on your car. People may still get behind the wheel with you, but they cut you some slack if you make a mistake. Further to this, perhaps a commander “level” would be helpful. An easy way for the public to know if a commander is rank 1, newbie, or rank 10 and should know better.

- Allow commanders to request siege build sites (could tie into point 1)

- Allow commanders in a given zone request assistance from other commanders in other zones. This could drastically change the dynamic of a battle (though I recognize queues are real)

In the end I agree with most suggestions on the forums about making the commander role a position to be respected.

I’d just like the ability to completely remove commanders from my map in the PvE world.
I really don’t see why I’m forced to look at a cluster of Commando signs on my minimap in Lion’s Arch.

As for all the suggestions, isn’t this sort of already tied into the chat-system? Most players look for commando-icons on the map, quickly get the name of the commander and tunnel-vision reads everything that the commander has to say, and follows it (blindly?)

Well, Rika is right, the commander can do all that stuff through chat “put a cata here” commander jumps up and down, but if there are tools to make that better/easier for them, then I’m all for it.

Actually, I would prefer the commander player to not be in the map at all. Commanders do not go to the front line to fight, they go to command. That way, only people that actually want to “command” will get a commander icon, and activate it. People that want to bash skulls, will not bother with this. Of course, the commander can disable this when he wants to go bash skulls as well.

So a commander should be able to place waypoints, where to build stuff, see the players in his squad (should be easier to join squads as well), direct things in an RTS type interface. You know, actually command… And yeah, they should get Karma, xp, commander levels depending on how good they do, and people should be able to vote for them as good/bad commanders.

I’d like to see the requirements for commander change completely so the title is earned through the completion of certain tiers in actual WvW content titles, instead of players simply buying it.

A nice addition would be that everytime anyone clicks on their icon in map in the open world, they get a red flash on their screen and a loud sound…
Then they’d reconsider annoying everyone and just disable their blue dorito…

Posted something before I noticed your thread but here are some of my suggestions for it:

- Make it possible for players to contribute smaller amounts towards a WvW upgrade.

- Make it possible to view the entire WvW map on the minimap and allow us to make it larger. WvW leaders tend to spend a lot of time switching to the overworld map which isn’t fun.

- WvW voice chat. It must be good quality and should work like an in-game mumble.