[Suggestion] Bring back Orders/Global chat messages as Squad Leadership directive reward.

Discussion in 'PlanetSide 2 Gameplay Discussion' started by Kristan, Oct 9, 2018.

  1. Kristan

    Ever since the Planetside 1 era some players had access to the Global broadcast messages that every player could see on the continent. Those were mostly used to direct zerg or minor squads in the proper direction or call for reinforcements of crucial facilities. But in order to achieve this privilege one must have gone through the hardships of squad leadership, because every player had not only Battle Rank (BR), but also Command Rank (CR). Those who have reached the max level CR5 gained access to the Global Chat messages. So the player has some understanding of leadership and strategy and use it to guide their faction.

    What we had in Planetside 2 was just a simple upgrade that costs like... 100 certs? No wonder it was used by those, who had no bloody idea of what's going on, and not in the way is it should have been. So unfortunately it was removed. Since then things went pretty bad. Those factions who have no backbone zergfits to coordinate masses of players at once now end their alerts with less than 20% of their territory. Random players are disorganized, often stuck in the fights they should not fight in the first place. And /sitrep doesn't do any justice.

    We need Orders/Global chat to return, but make players work for it. We don't have Command Ranks from PS1, but we have directives that provide rewards upon completion. So those who complete the Squad Leadership directive should get access to the Global chat.
  2. Armcross

    We need order
  3. PlanetBound

    Shouldn't Command comms be restricted to the continent of origin? I was a squalid leader yesterday on Hossin and it sounded like I was hearing an argument on Indar.
  4. Blam320

    No. Because at least on Connery it was only ever used to advertise Harasser squads or by TWC, who would basically ask people to join their mega-zergs purely because they no longer had 70% pop at a base.