What are PR strategy lessons and how they can be teached in the most efficient way possible (so they are not one-on-one intimate sessions, but rather a public event that would be really useful even for those people who are spending their lives without that much of an interest in the grand strategy aspect of this mod.
My vision. A lesson basically is a recorded match that has been cut up in editor or just left unedited (for more in-depth analysis or more patient audience) with a knowledgeable player commenting on the happenings in the recorded match. And the manner of his comments are gonna be the key to success, I mean, learning, but, yeah, you can throw in success as well.
I'll come out clean - this is NOT my idea. I stole this idea from TF2 match reviews that are done by TF2 pro gamers like b4nny. Here's an example how it would look:
Of course, to pull it off in PR is much more different as the maxcount of players aren't 10, but almost 10 times larger. And that's because I think the commentator should concentrate more on the grand strategy aspect of the match - and he can do that by answering such questions as:
I have many, many more questions where these came from. But the main question I have - IS IT WORTH IT? Is it worth the hassle, the video editing, the commenting and in the end - possibly a really qualitative material that's enjoyable for watching for everyone - from newbie, to an experienced player as it's always, ALWAYS healthy to double check the facts (more chance you will do the right thing automatically, without thinking when the shit hits the fan)."Why are the teams moving like that [while looking at a map where both teams can be seen]: at the beginning, when all of neutral flags have been capped by both teams - what are the possible direction for a successful push after the situation has calmed down a bit?", "What are the best possible flanking positions in the current map and the situation the squad's in and why?", "Why did asset X or squad Y fail their mission and what could have prevented them from doing that?"
And most important question before we even attempt to start "wasting time" - know that almost every "lesson" is meant for newer players, the lecturers should first find out the consent within the newbie hoard. It's not that I've totally have lost my faith in humanity (of PR newbies), but, yeah, my faith isn't as strong as it has been over the years as I haven't seen a newbie that isn't openly afraid to admit that he's a newbie and needs help. People are frigged up with the whole "internet is so serious so I must carefully guard the facts that ANYONE might want to know, like, for example, that I've only been playing for a few months and therefore I'm new to this game, but I will never admit that [the funny thing is that people who "come out" online saying the truth about their experience, they are the ones who usually get real experience fast and quickly become the part from the "better side of the community".
Talking about seriousness about game related facts... I remember that in '00s, before facebook (and before everyone could see one another and keep bombarding one another wth shitty pics of themselves) and before when everyone was online all the time, internet was a considerably less serious place to be, and it's a bit sad that nowadays people can get so mind boggingly serious about such things as "status in a virtual world" - I mean wtf, 'tis all virtual after all! Mark my words, the end of the world is coming, muhahaha!)
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