Company

Discussion in 'PlanetSide 2 Gameplay Discussion' started by Marder, Nov 26, 2012.

  1. Marder

    Do we have built in [Company] for outfit Platoons?
    And w about add fireteams(FT) into squad? (example: 1 FT to point, 2 FT camp spanws, now u need to say from 1 to 6 to point, from 7 to 12 to spawns. Make it simple. Make it Right :)

    PS: sorry for my english :]
  2. Marinealver

    Orginization has always been a challenge even amoung more structured civilizations like dictatorships. It is hard to keep people in order because of so many difrent personalities. That is why most militaries have a higerarchy but that higer level orginization is backed up by a more regulatory system.

    What I am trying to say is that it is hard enough to get 6 groups of 12 in one area to work all on the same thing. We basicly got 2 challenges.

    Challenge 1: well the personality diffrence and everyone has their own idea how things are done
    Challenge 2: diffrent times people are logged on due to their livleyhoods and scheduals.

    Back in the days of the first game in a place called idealab there was an concept floating around called alliances. Basicly outfits that worked well togethre will form an alliance of outfits. So while outfits were more of a perminate squad in which made it easier to find a squad, the aliance would be other squads in which you could platoon up. so if you got a infiltraitor/Recon outfit you could ally with an Air outfit and have a great ground-close air support team. Also it would help orginize events and strategy a bit more by having a temporary operational orginization that is tiered (squads/platoons) backed by a more perminate administrative orginization (outfits/alliances) So here is the chain of command.

    Orginizational Player=>Squad=>Platoon=>Empire
    Administrative Player=>Outfit=>Alliance=>Empire.

    As you see the chain of command for both starts with the player and ends with the faction or empire that player has chosen. The Orginizational is the "what is happening now" while the administrative is the persistant orginization in a persistant enviorment.