Bluedrake42 wrote:get rid of teamspeak, just use mumble
You're on crack. Mumble goes down, nobody has any whispers set up, server info, or familiarity with how it works, then if that happens inside of an hour of a battle you're going to see a lot of confusion. This is especially true since you also didn't like the idea of being in the Xfire group which would be the backup way of communicating the last minute changes.
TS is used for its flexibility. You can have more whispers than squads, you can have the CO able to whisper to anybody he wants if he makes the whisper instead of it just being the squad leader. Pretend you want to talk to two different pilots in one squad but you have to squeeze them into one since we have a hard 9 squad limit, well you're out of luck aren't you.
Its not overcomplicating it just because you want the flexibility to make things work effectively. What works for public doesn't necessarily work for tournament, especially with a tourney trying to do more than just 32 player teams. It was a foregone conclusion that somebody would have to merge squads considering the team sizes no matter how we sliced it. Without TS a 32+ team will have a shortage of whispers, not to mention it basically leaves a possible Platoon Leader position utterly without a radio link, and only able to use local.
TS is essential for too many reasons.
MaxBoZ wrote:Actually this happened in PRT a lot, people sign up for NATO, NATO is full, people get assigned to CATA instead. Never weakened any of the teams, bailers are probably just 20% of the people that didn't get their choice, most people actually suck it up.
Yea thats how it works. If I recall it the PRT would be just sometimes unsympathetic to your desire to be on a team if it was full. It was more like you'd have to wait for the next round and hope you got the team you wanted. It never felt like it a 'sure thing' but never like they were working against you.
I'm not bashing clans, I said as much. I was just replying to the guy who said its not an issue at all. It is a potential issue, if its not managed, like anything. People have to be realistic about it, and ensure that the clans are on the same page. Its just the dance of management which has to be proactive about it. Thats all I'm saying. Its more a point about if admins dont manage it, and instead just treat it as laissez-faire, then its more likely to be screwey. Just assuming everyone will naturally balance the teams is foolish. thats what admin are there to do.
New blood would be nice in the officers and commanders and having the tournament start in the fall will definitely improve the likelihood of getting some, instead of the low sign up rate you get in a spring period. What sustains a tournament through the waning months of the spring season when sign ups will start to dry up is the strong core thats established pre-christmas break and into January.
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