Guild Wars 2

WvW should implement a Lieutenant Commander Tag.

Lieutenant Commanders would be useful for leading smaller squads for havoc roaming, and perhaps new ruins of power squads.

The problem is that the need for smaller squads is growing and these squads need to be defined more on world basis. Implementing another rank tag would allow players to partition themselves easier to these smaller squads all over the map while Commanders lead the larger zergs.

Now players can choose how they want to lead and also who they want to follow. People who want to be a part of a large main zerg and take towers can follow commanders, but people who want to be a part of a smaller squad can now follow these new Lieutenant Commanders.

Lieutenant Commanders can have as many followers that want to follow, but large zergs are not there purpose and Lieutenant Commanders should be aware of this and divide players accordingly.

The Tag could be bought for 100 gold as is the current Commander Tag or perhaps even bought with wxp experience.

Here is an example of what the new tag could look like. It could be anything but I thought a purple diamond for some reason.

hmmm no
I understand what your saying, but practical you are assuming people will act as you wish. This is however an MMO and human nature will dictate that this will be just a cheaper version off the commander tag, but wont change a thing bout the zerg size. Zergs are as big as the amount of people that want to follow. A commander doesnt have a lot of influence either. If he feels a zerg is too big he can only dismantle the zerg by taking the commander icon off, wait atleast 15 minutes and then start with a fresh zerg.

So a lt. Commander wont have much influence on the size either.

I understand your unhappyness with the zerg, but this wont solve it.

mercury ranique.2170:

hmmm no
I understand what your saying, but practical you are assuming people will act as you wish. This is however an MMO and human nature will dictate that this will be just a cheaper version off the commander tag, but wont change a thing bout the zerg size. Zergs are as big as the amount of people that want to follow. A commander doesnt have a lot of influence either. If he feels a zerg is too big he can only dismantle the zerg by taking the commander icon off, wait atleast 15 minutes and then start with a fresh zerg.

So a lt. Commander wont have much influence on the size either.

I understand your unhappyness with the zerg, but this wont solve it.

You are assuming that control of other players following you is outside of your servers control and guild control which is only the case some of the time with unorganized players. My guild commanders all communicate what there objective is and our guild follows their lead. Our commanders also communicate with all other commanders from other guilds on map, so everyone that plays wvw on a nightly basis knows what they are supposed to be doing.

This is simply a structural implementation that betters already existing guild structures to be used for defining our squads. If human nature can dictate that it will be an abuse than these players simply won’t be catered to by the serious players. Thats how it is in my guild and my world anyway.

Anet has also said that this kind of update is in the works, just no due date.

Another option would be to simply allow commanders to change color of their tag. This way guilds and worlds can on a need to basis create purpose and objective of colors.

Greyalis.2309:

Another option would be to simply allow commanders to change color of their tag. This way guilds and worlds can on a need to basis create purpose and objective of colors.

This.

In many servers there is only one large zerg, but in the more competitive and organized ones it would be nice to have the option to easily distinguish between two groups on the world map to help coordinate roles.

I would argue that what needs to be done is changing the little blue fly pug zapper of a tag which only allows zerg mentality to something which allows strategy and allows the zerg to separate so as to take the most objectives with the least effort while still being controlled effectively by the commander. In other words a watered down feeling of a real time strategy game.

I have posted many threads
Regarding this. Though I intend to make a longer and more detailed thread. Perhaps in the next 2 weeks.