Recently in a 1st Texas event with the Union, a skirmish battle, I witnessed the Union starting to spam officers and basically go full Rambo and charge our lines and doing whatever in groups of at least 8 officers, and sometimes even more. Now you can say, "Oh this is combat, stuff can happen.", true, but neither the Union nor the Confederacy sent their entire officer corps to charge the enemy line over and over until they drained us of tickets. This was extraordinarily frustrating, but we continued on and I still had fun in the event.
Post event this got me thinking, my very wise 2 am logic started to kick in and I thought, "How could they prevent this?". And I'm sure, just like the other greatest theories and speeches were voiced, I voiced it on Teamspeak, and some thought it wasn't that bad so after fixing my account I decided to make a post about it on the first game forums I know the Devs are actually active!
So, the idea. Well, after asking if the Developers plan to incorporate the whole company system from the main work page, such as if you are a Sergeant in the Company tool, that's the insignia you get when you go NCO, or if you are a Captain that's the insignia you get but it would be very low priority becaus it is so minor. Or instead of just changing your steam name for the Company, you actually -join- it in the game and make the grouping a lot easier, and for the officers that don't use mics or don't speak english well, they can use a company specific text chat. But I am getting way off track, the main idea is this. A max officer system for companies.
Example;
Let's take my company, 1st Texas H Company. We have two Officers that are very important, the CO and the XO, so the minimum would be -two- officers of the Captain and the First Lieutenant (both are slots that would be filled in the Company Tool. Now, we have 3 platoons, each platoon would have a Second Lieutenant and each platoon must have a minimum of 15 people so there is some sort of way to prevent people from just spreading out a tiny company to get a ton of officers ,or, you can set a limit of like four platoons for a company (and if you wanted to properly command more than four in combat, it's gonna be a total mess so four may be a good limit) but they can have as many people as they wanted past 15 people in a platoon for whatever organizational reasons, like at this point some companies put all beta backers or people who just aren't able to play the game in a different platoon and active people in the First Platoon, etc. Anyways, the main idea is to limit the amount of officers to either 6 in total (Captain, First Lieutenant, then 4 Second/First Lieutenants, or however many platoons they would have) to prevent a losing team that really wants to win/bad sport winning team, trying to spam officers to drain tickets or take a point then immediately switch back.
I hope this makes sense to a degree, if anyone reads this and has questions you can ask and I know this may not be the best explanation of what I wanna get across, but you should get it to a degree.
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Originally Posted by A. P. Hill
