Asking SL for kit rights

[Menigmand]

I suggest having the squad leader grant "kit rights" to his squad members:

The idea is to stop people from creating lots of fake squads only to get kits, and also to encourage squads to stick and work together. In addition, the idea is to further realism - in real life you get assigned a weapon based on your training and the decisions of your superiors, not because you beat the other lads in a footrace to a big box full of guns.

A side benefit would be to make it easier to assign different roles to squad members, and have them stick to those roles - as SL you don't want to order Jim to lay down cover fire with the AR and find that the kit has been snatched up by Pete and is now lost.

Ideally it would work like this:

You create a squad as normal. 5 people join. They run to nearest crate and request kits as usual. A message pops up on your screen saying "Player 'OMGURMOM' asks to take the sniper kit. Accept/refuse?" You press PageDown and it's refused. The player disconnects in impotent rage and goes to play CoD instead.

Then 'Teamplayer' asks to pick up the AR-kit after telling you in a calm and competent voice on VoIP that he wants to use it to support your squad. You press PageUp and the kit gets issued to him.

Now that you have used your 'AR grant', you cannot issue it again until 'TeamPlayer' either disconnects or loses it somehow.


To prevent abuse, all kits would be pulled back to the common pool if the squad leader disconnects or disbands the squad, in which case the players holding limited kits would immediately be issued basic kits instead.

I'm sure there's something I haven't thought about, but I'm sure the basic idea is good. Comments welcome of course.

[Acemantura]

I am Acemantura and I approve this Message...

minus the being issued basic kits after an SL disconnect.

If this can be implemented, add it as an option in the common python for the server admins that way it isn't mandatory for all servers. However, when Langley can become a serious place for serious gamers, I would love to place a "1" in for the python value.

[Acemantura]

Draakon under what name has this already been suggested in the Assault and Secure? Or Did you mean Already Suggested Suggestions or, yes, ***?

[Menigmand]

Been discussed. Use the AAS thread before you suggest something.

Next time, do a search yourself before telling me it has already been suggested.

I searched that list for the word "kits", and nothing similar came up.

If you found it elsewhere, let me know where..

[Thermis]

Been discussed. Use the AAS thread before you suggest something.

This is why its my job to tell people this and not yours.

Crazy wins as he found out that this was indeed a ressugestion and I lose for not locking it first

This may be hardcoded but that's not my area of expertise.

[killonsight95]

yeah but he still got the kit without you wnating him to thus making him a useless asset to the team and he often makes his own squad anyway and looses the kit

[Bonsai]

I`d say: Give the ability to the Commander. (that might have been discussed already?)

[crazy11]

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f18-pr ... squad.html


Re-suggestion.


Locked.