BF2S Forums Question about the Special Forces ADD ON???

Adding platoon leaders would probably make communications very complicated...

Actually the commander IS platoon leader as on a 64map you can only have 32men on each side...

(An armoured "platoon" in Denmark is 32 soldiers + a sergeant with a supply job)

1x Platoon leader (Officer - 2nd or 1st leutenant) + assistent - (lower rank - typical from private to corporal)
3x Squad leaders - (typical sergeants and higher)
3x Secondary squad leaders (typical privates)
24 Soldiers (incl. 6 crewmembers on 3 designated vehicle) - privates...

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The main reason I thought of this,   I have about 9 friends that play BF2.   But you can only have a max of 6 people in a squad.   So we are forced into 2 squads.   I would like to beable to talk to other squad members.

B = talks to everyone in platoon(2-3 squads) per platoon
V = talks to squad leader if your a squad member,  talks to platoon commander if your a squad leader, talks to Commanding Officer if your a platoon commander,  talks to  everyone if your Commander.


Crypto_420

instead of talking to 6 people,  I want to talk to 12!!!!  And I want the 12 all in green names so they stand out!!!  is that so hard to understand.


I can tell no one has a clue about chain of command.....

CO=COMMANDING OFFICER(Battalion Commander)
XO=EXECUTIVE OFFICER(or in this case Company Commander)
PL=PLATOON LEADER
SL=SQUAD LEADERS
M=SQUAD MEMBERS



                        SL  M  M  M  M  M           SL  M  M  M  M  M          SL  M  M  M  M  M               
                        SL  M  M  M  M  M           SL  M  M  M  M  M          SL  M  M  M  M  M
                        SL  M  M  M  M  M           SL  M  M  M  M  M          SL  M  M  M  M  M

                                   PL                                PL                                 PL


                                                                      XO

                                                                      CO
                   

                               


Crypto_420

Last edited by Crypto_420 (2005-10-06 04:29:11)

I have team speak,  but the main part is being able to see them with a different color name.

This way we all can find each other.    Plus it adds realistic postions that could all have a uniq(typo)  roll.

I guess it would  work better if there where 64 people per side. 128 total player maps.


9 squads equals a company,  3 squads per platoon,  I would like to see everyone one in a platoon,  give like 1 min after game starts to be able to pick what you want,  then your auto assigned, or the commander can assign you to a platoon.


some of the abilities could be,  If you kill an platoon commander, it 3 points.  Platoon commanders could call in artly, supply, etc when ever the CO is dead,   Im just thinking,   any other ideas??

Force a serten rank requirement on each postion.   Squad leader, E5 or higher,   Platoon commander E6,  Company commander Gunny or higher...


Crypto_420

Last edited by Crypto_420 (2005-10-06 23:51:48)

chuyskywalker wrote:

Won't happen. Not on this engine, anyway.

Sadly, the BF2 engine (for what ever crack induced reason) doesn't support multi-threading, thus you're stuck to a server running on whatever the beefiest single process you can get is. This locks it to soemthing like 3-4 GHZ. These 3-4GHZ machines can handle a 64 player game -- but you introduce any other sort of midly intensive operations onto the server and you immediately see a obvious degredation of the game play. (This is what causes "lag" despite having a ping of less than 50!)

I HIGHLY doubt we'll see anything above 64 until BF3.

Even though it doesn't run on the same engine as BF2, Planetside is a game where hundreds of people or on at any given time. And Planetside doesn't support multi-threading either. Not to mention, the game has been out for over two years now. So to say that it's not possible isn't exactly correct. Perhaps the hardware requirements would be greater in order to draw all the extra bodies, but it's certainly do-able. Then again, PS is an MMOFPS, and the servers are run by Sony. So, it would take a huge farm of servers to accomodate the players.

Is it possible? Yeah. Feasible? Nope.