Templates and Commander Text Chat
Second: please implement some form of Commander only text chat. Not all Commanders get along. Not all Commanders want to jump to and fro, from guild based TS/Mumble/Raidcall/Vent servers to be on a server based VoiP service. And sometimes there are a ton of Commanders and/or players online and when the aforementioned services are used, it can become a bit of a cluster.
Sometimes the Commanders aren’t on the same level of communication and tend to bump heads. Undermine each others decisions and quiet literally confuse all of the WvW players looking for guidance. This small implementation would help the Commanders keep any quarrels undetected, and work things out amongst themselves instead of bumping heads in front of entire servers. They shouldn’t all have to /whisper each other to accomplish this. They’re busy! And for 100G they deserve their own chat lines. Not too many use /team or /squad as it is. Help em out a bit. They deserve it.
No one likes trying to guess who’s really in charge.
I understand the issue you are referring too. I’ve seen people flamed, trash talked and harassed for having a commander pin up. It’s basically multiple guild groups trying to organize but it interferes with those commanders trying to lead the WvW zone.
The easiest solution is simply allow commanders to make their squad /private. Commanders can turn the pin off so only people currently in their squad can see the pin. This would allow guilds or groups of people to fully use the commander and squad system in PvE or WvW without interferring with other commanders leading a zone.
I understand Arenanet wanting to make squads accessible for everyone and grouping people together but it’s not working. It’s actually causing issues and harassment. Give people the flexibility to play their own way.