Ban premade parties in Frontline please

[PGuin]

The proposed changes are unlikely to happen. I wouldn't be in favor of them, but realistically:

1. A premade only queue is unlikely to fill a full 72 in a timely fashion. If games are allowed to begin with significantly less than the full 72, balance becomes an issue because tank damage modifiers are designed with a large number of players in mind. The only realistic solution I could see SE implementing is maybe fairly dividing premades among solo q players.

2. In the English forums, we do not see a lot of representation from Japanese players. I do not play much on JP but have watched a fair amount of JP frontline. JP commanders utilize sound effects, waymarks, and marks to an extreme extent, and the best commanders seem quite well-respected by the community. They will use these tools even as solo queue commanders without a premade. I don't forsee SE catering to folks on other data centers over allowing JP to keep what it likes.

[Exmo]

The proposed changes are unlikely to happen. I wouldn't be in favor of them, but realistically:

1. A premade only queue is unlikely to fill a full 72 in a timely fashion. If games are allowed to begin with significantly less than the full 72, balance becomes an issue because tank damage modifiers are designed with a large number of players in mind. The only realistic solution I could see SE implementing is maybe fairly dividing premades among solo q players.

2. In the English forums, we do not see a lot of representation from Japanese players. I do not play much on JP but have watched a fair amount of JP frontline. JP commanders utilize sound effects, waymarks, and marks to an extreme extent, and the best commanders seem quite well-respected by the community. They will use these tools even as solo queue commanders without a premade. I don't forsee SE catering to folks on other data centers over allowing JP to keep what it likes.

I wouldn't mind as much keeping sound effects in chat so long as premades were sequestered and/or waymark macros done away with. As it is however with the whole shebang, it makes premades insufferable to match with and against.

That being said, I agree with your final point -_-

[Mawlzy]

The proposed changes are unlikely to happen. I wouldn't be in favor of them, but realistically:

1. A premade only queue is unlikely to fill a full 72 in a timely fashion. If games are allowed to begin without the full 72, balance becomes an issue because tank damage modifiers are designed with a large number of players in mind. The only realistic solution I could see SE implementing is maybe fairly dividing premades among solo q players.
2. In the English forums, we do not see a lot of representation from Japanese players. I do not play much on JP but have watched a fair amount of JP frontline. JP commanders utilize sound effects, waymarks, and marks to an extreme extent, and the best commanders seem quite well-respected by the community. They will use these tools even as solo queue commanders without a premade. I don't forsee SE catering to folks on other data centers over allowing JP to keep what it likes.

Yeah that's a great point. So the solution is for NA/EU shot-callers to develop a style that better suits their foot soldiers.

IMO this would include:

Not using coordinates to indicate new nodes;

Not directing the team to a node just because it has popped (this is simply bad commanding but is common);

Not spamming chat with SFX (some are fine, but the overuse by some is obnoxious), same for unnecessary text.

I still find matches far more interesting when a handful of players make occasional suggestions, rather than the follow-the-leader deathball approach.

[Olskul]

Yeah that's a great point. So the solution is for NA/EU shot-callers to develop a style that better suits their foot soldiers.

IMO this would include:

Not using coordinates to indicate new nodes;

Not directing the team to a node just because it has popped (this is simply bad commanding but is common);

Not spamming chat with SFX (some are fine, but the overuse by some is obnoxious), same for unnecessary text.

I still find matches far more interesting when a handful of players make occasional suggestions, rather than the follow-the-leader deathball approach.

I'm yelling at you. Why do you decide for others what they need?

[Mawlzy]

I'm yelling at you. Why do you decide for others what they need?

I'm making suggestions based on my experience of matches on NA. People are free to point out what is wrong with them.

[Exmo]

Yeah that's a great point. So the solution is for NA/EU shot-callers to develop a style that better suits their foot soldiers.

IMO this would include:

Not using coordinates to indicate new nodes;

Not directing the team to a node just because it has popped (this is simply bad commanding but is common);

Not spamming chat with SFX (some are fine, but the overuse by some is obnoxious), same for unnecessary text.

I still find matches far more interesting when a handful of players make occasional suggestions, rather than the follow-the-leader deathball approach.

Agreed on all accounts. (I still think premades are children of Satan.)