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Would there be any way to make it possible for squad members to vote out a crappy squad leader and squad leaders to vote out a bad commander?

I ask because I had an amazingly bad commander that I had to deal with earlier today on Qwai River. My team was doing well enough without a commander getting the docks and were pushing towards the government flag by the time the game loaded up for me. As all the squads were full I made my own and decided to push south towards the warehouses while we were doing well. While camping out I got an order, an insane one. Me, along with every other squad was ordered to the back base for no reason. I told the commander no and he told me he'd kill us all if we didn't listen.

He was obviously just dicking around so I told him to not be commander if he just wanted to mess around and that thankfully I didn't have to follow his orders. He then started spamming the radio telling all squads to kill me and members of my squad as well as to order artillery on each other. More insane orders followed and I further ignored them. When we finally captured and secured the warehouses. And after being forced to coordinate via team chat with other squad leaders me and my squad moved out. As I walked I started taking fire. I turned and guess who it was, that's right the commander. He then followed me and my squad firing at us though I don't think he meant to kill us. I got tired of it and started coming at him with a knife so he took me out. The guy also blindly accepted any artillery and he killed quite a few people with them.

Anyways, my point is there are occasionally jackasses who become commanders and there is no way to get rid of them. Even if we had the regular vote system it never works because there almost always not enough votes. It would be nice if the squad leaders were able to vote out commanders. I figured it would also be a good idea to have squadmates able to vote out crappy/afk squad leaders rather than having to form whole new squads because of one player.

Amen, but sadly, I highly doubt its possible. Great if it is though!

There's already the option to commit "mutiny" against the commander. Unless somehow the function has been disabled by the server. Though kick votes and things of that nature seem to hardly ever work on BF2 for some reason. It's almost like you need 100% of the players to vote against the person in order to make it happen.

Anyhow, the issue you described seems like something an admin should have taken care of. If it was as bad as it was, that player should have been kicked or banned from the server.

Yep, I already said that the current system doesn't work. Also, unfortunately relying on an admin is sketchy at best since they're not there most of the time.

Verbal insults via VOIP have worked 100% of the time for me personally against idiot commanders, either they shape up or leave, but that's just my expirience.

Guess I'll have to try that though honestly, if I wanted to intentionally be a jackass insults would do little to hurt me.

A new mutiny thing would be nice, anyone ever got the arabic commander that screams everything and doesnt speak a lick of english on a US or Euro server? That's frickin annoying. I finally started reciting random stuff from Team America and he finally left lol.

I hate stupid or whiny commanders. Or commanders who go AFK and stay commander.

I don't really see a need to be able to kick a bad SL. If you don't like your SL you can just leave the squad and make a new one or join another one.
As for kicking a commander, yeah there should be some way. But why is mutiny thingy not working? Was it removed?

While it would be unfair to kick from a server, it would be neat to have the ability to mutiny a commander (60% vote yes) or squad leader (unanimous desicion)

If it can be done, IF.. then I won't go for unanimous decision to kick an SL, since many users have turn "opt out of voting" turned on. I recon 60-70% will be enough.

Has this happened to you more than ten times?