Hello everyone,
I am here to discuss and propose a more interesting system of leadership and communication in Guild Wars 2.
So the dev team made a beautifull work on the WvWvW, but I fear that this will not keep players playing it for a long time as it is too mutch causual oriented, witch is good, but no options are in for players who want to invest more time in it.
WvWvW is a strategy oriented war game, keeping dongeons under your control, taking towers to the ennemy, not falling into the trap of attaking an easy target as you won’t be able to keep it for a time. All this needs leadership and communication.
So the GW2 groups are 5 people groups… Great for small ambushes but not for real war stuff. So comes into play the Commander book and the squad system. Seriously? This is the stuff that you put into game to make WvW be a war game and not just a big pvp map? A small symbol above the head of the commander and a squad that nobody heard of it nor joins it? A map that displays only people that are around you even if you are a commander? There is like what, 100 people on the same side in a WvW map, and the communication system is done by the “map” chat?
I will stop whining and start proposing ideas, as I have a good experience in leading as well as IRL or in other games like EVE Online, which Arenanet dev team should learn.
The Ideas, an overview:
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? The hierarchy system :
As the grouping in Gw2 is 5 people like said over, the Squad system should work like an assemblage of those said groups into a bigger, but not just for beautifull purposes but also for communication. Every group having his own orders system, as the leader (and there should be a group leader in PVP as even the communist army has a general) can distribute them to his group, lock his group from the squad/division commander and give a group name. Then comes the squad leader (let’s say a 50gc book for being it should be good) that can make 5 people groups assemble under his orders, I think 3 groups should be good, he then can give orders to the group leaders, communicate to all groups in squad chat as the commander, move members from one group to another and give a squad name. Then comes the commender, that can assemble a division that would be consisted of let’s say 3 squads, making like this a 9 groups division. The commander can then: give orders to squad leaders, move members in the division to another part (group or squad), talk in the division chat as the commander and give a division name.
So here is the tree of the new hierarchy grouping:
1. Division Commander
1.1 Squad Commander
1.1.1 Group Leader
1.1.1.1 Group Member
1.1.1.2 Group Member
1.1.1.3 Group Member
1.1.1.4 Group Member
1.1.2 Group Leader
1.1.2.1 Group Member
1.1.2.2 Group Member
1.1.2.3 Group Member
1.1.2.4 Group Member
1.1.3 Group Leader
1.1.3.1 Group Member
1.1.3.2 Group Member
1.1.3.3 Group Member
1.1.3.4 Group Member
1.2 Squad Commander
1.2.1 Group Leader
1.2.1.1 Group Member
1.2.1.2 Group Member
1.2.1.3 Group Member
1.2.1.4 Group Member
1.2.2 Group Leader
1.2.2.1 Group Member
1.2.2.2 Group Member
1.2.2.3 Group Member
1.2.2.4 Group Member
1.2.3 Group Leader
1.2.3.1 Group Member
1.2.3.2 Group Member
1.2.3.3 Group Member
1.2.3.4 Group Member
1.3 Squad Commander
1.3.1 Group Leader
1.3.1.1 Group Member
1.3.1.2 Group Member
1.3.1.3 Group Member
1.3.1.4 Group Member
1.3.2 Group Leader
1.3.2.1 Group Member
1.3.2.2 Group Member
1.3.2.3 Group Member
1.3.2.4 Group Member
1.3.3 Group Leader
1.3.3.1 Group Member
1.3.3.2 Group Member
1.3.3.3 Group Member
1.3.3.4 Group Member