I myself don’t have commander, but I feel so frustrated for those that do. It may (or may not) just be the server I play on, but there’s so many people who don’t listen to the commander. I know they aren’t forced to, but I feel there should be improvements made to the commanders to allow them better control over the server.
I’ll continue to list any other ideas I/you can think of. Here’s a couple so far;
Siege placed by Commanders
When siege is placed by a commander it should have a special icon floating above it to let all the allied units nearby know that it was placed by said commander, rather than people spending supplies on a piece of siege equipment in a bad location.
To add to this idea, I’d like for the commanders to be able to “promote” people on that piece of siege.
Commander A places siege.
Commander A promotes Player A on that piece of siege.
Player B uses that piece of siege.
Player A has higher priority over Player B and is able to use the piece of siege and thus force Player B off.
I feel this addition would give commanders better control over the way they want their siege equipment to be used.
A further option would be to add a ‘lock’ to siege also. I’ve seen countless times where someone would join a Borderland and jump in one of the golems and move them away from where the commander wants them. Of course this should only be usable for siege that YOU have created, otherwise it could -and probably would- be abused.
Commanders able to draw on map
I would like for commanders to have the option to draw on map and highlight certain objectives. Players should have an option created to turn this off if they wish. If you are in a Borderland, you can only see nearby towers/camps etc. Commanders should be able to highlight certain towers/camps etc which would stay on the mini-map of all players (who have it toggled on). This will allow commanders to communicate better with their allies within the Borderland.
Cross Borderland chat channel and Commander tag in chat.
This is fairly self explanatory. A chat channel that spreads across all Borderlands. This will further communication and allow people to call for help if needed in the respective Borderland. A further addition would be to add the commander tag next to said commanders name when they speak in chatbox. This would allow players to see commanders orders easier.
The above suggestions regarding Commanders should require their Commanders tags active to use these features
I would totally troll REALLY hard if these changes were implemented. Hehehehe.
How so? the only one I think you could do anything along those lines would be the map one. Though, all you’d be able to do is send people to the wrong location.
The rest are all pretty safe as far as I can tell, to troll you’d have to waste your own cash/resources/time.