jools wrote:
Well, as said above, 'one' does not mean 'every'... But I agree with you, there's lot of people who only play commander to get the badge or ribbons, so they actually are commander but play normal (to rake in kills as well). Or they play commander trying to be commander but are total morons.
On the other side, playing commander ain't as easy as it seems. 90% of the times squads just don't give a fuck about orders, people doesn't watch the fucking map so dropping UAV or spotting out enemies is useless (I had to get to the point of shouting, all caps 'HEY PLAYERNAME, BEHIND YOU MAN!!!!'... of course it didn't help either).
Then there's like 200 different people asking for supplies at different locations, and 198 of those people are 1-man-squads. And people running straight toward the red artillery icon. Those are just hilarious.
The worst happens when some of the assets get damaged/destroyed: first, nobody ever repairs them, even if kindly asked to via orders and chat. Secondly, they'll keep asking for that asset's service, ie if the artillery is destroyed, the commander will receive like 10 artillery strike requests... At that point, commander explains that artillery is broken and can't fire until someone repairs it. Next, some of those cocksuckers just calls a mutiny vote, which fails miserably as ever.
I don't want to defend those cheap-ass commanders out there, but sometimes I have to say it's quite frustrating to play commander.
ill agree with you on that. i hate the people that start a mutiny for rediculous reasons. like if i can't insta-drop them something: mutiny..... if i TK them with arty: insta-mutiny.... on that note, i have never dropped arty where friendlies where, people just dont look at the giant red arty strike sign on their maps.....
however, i will have to agree that there are some commanders who dont do anything, and they always seem to be on servers where the mutiny option is disabled.... they are too busy fighting to get you anything, so fuck off to me! (thats what i imagine they are saying).
as long as a commander spots enemies, drops arty on the right spots, and fulfills requests for items if available, while staying out of the battle yourself.... well, thats about all the commander can and should do, and id be happy if they all did just that, win or lose.