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Field ops needs to be redefined as a class that supports the efficacy of the rest of the team. I wrote a large post on this a while ago. In ETQW the Field Ops is too much about gigantic fireworks and not enough about being the backbone of the team. I'm blacking out on what my old ideas were, I'll have to look back in what I said back then.

The elements sound amazing. But it would be even better if we could find a way where everyone could contribute to the overall plan and infrastructure of the team. If next to the usual unlock trees we can also have a 'meta' tree per player where they can contribute resources and building space and whatever to the player(s) in charge of the organisation then there's a lot of flexibility between a unified team and a bunch of individualist. No wrong or right way. This is what happens in Dawn of War2: You can capture energy points across the map. The energy points themselves don't do a lot once captured. However, you can chose to buy generators for these points so they start generating energy which allows you to buy the more interesting toys. The thing is, the energy generated is shared among the entire team. Good practice is to keep things fair and let everyone chip in their share of resources so everyone invests the same from the generated energy. However, that's just an ideal setting. In a team of 3 players, not everyone always has the means to provide for the rest. A player that just suffered a horrible loss, or a player that needs to focus on a crucial fight in the map would better spent his resources on keeping his army strong rather than investing for a long term technology development. This means that within the entire team, all players constantly have to keep an eye on each other's priorities. Last match I took a defending role, my army remained intact and I didn't have to invest in replenishing the squad's numbers. This allowed me to spent my resources on the energy generation, that way I indirectly contributed to the rest of my team who now had a whole lot more resources and means to take a more offending role. A similar thing could be done with a shooter. And having a class specialised in directing these resource streams would be awesome. More players could meddle into this, if you make them pay their own resources for whatever decisions they take there wouldn't be a lot of conflict in leadership. People who care about this layer of strategy can be a shareholder while a player who just wants to focus on fighting or doing objectives can invest in just himself.

Some class(es) not shared on both teams. Like what? Couple examples not meant to be taken as a whole: [LIST] [*]Melee focused soldier versus standard heavy weapons. [*]Wall climbing snipernoobs versus jetpack* snipernoobs. [*]Commander on one faction. [*]Field Ops offensive support versus Smoke, Riot Shield or similar defensive support. [/LIST] [SIZE=1] *Seeing as this is a game, not real life, a jet pack should be something that fires one up and forward very forcefully and for a very short time.[/SIZE]

The 5-Star General Class. Does **** all for everybody else but drinks cognac and bangs nurses whenever he can. Supply Sergeant. Sits on a big cache of weapons and ammo but doesn't want to give it out because then he'd have to request more and the equipment might get broken. And who wants to do that... But seriously. -If you add a commander make sure a bad commander can't screw the game up for everyone else. Personally I think this is a **** game mechanic except for clan play. -The question I would be asking is how to make "hacking" for the covert ops class more fun. And less of a zerg rush. Maybe this should be asked for engineers building stuff (ie bridges) too. Yay, Friday night.

Cool question badman :wink: I would say the fieldops needs a bit of fine tuning for indoor play. Biosnark mentioned a GDF version of a tac shield in another thread, that protects against explosions/spam only. However I would also give it a health bonus ability on revives - if the fieldops lays a tac shield on a incapped team-mate, instead of a half revive they receive a regenerated 3/4 revive. Think of it like a nurse role /cough Another approach - the engie, medic and fieldops work together to create an indoor medcrate in a modular fashion. Medic drops crate supplies, which then allows the engie to build a medic crate. Fieldops drops crate supplies, which then allows the engie to upgrade the existing medic crate with ammo (and vice-versa). Since the balancer in etqw is green smoke which tells the enemy whats up, have the crate shown clearly on the mini-map instead (until destroyed). I would also take away the ability to regen nades from it... This spices up the engies role on attack indoors, which usually only amounts to laying offensive mines that have no impact. Teams have to decide, whether or not a static resource which frees up a medic to be more combat focused, is more important than running an extra medic.