Squads Show Up On Crew Manifest

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Squads Show Up On Crew Manifest

Post by Anewbe » 05 Dec 2015, 01:46

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Changing the way the crew manifest in game and maybe in lobby works for the Marine Roles, so that it separates the squads into distinct visual blocks

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): It will make checking squad size and composition much easier for command staff, hopefully lessening the instances of squads being sent to do missions for which they lack the correct squad member. Biggest example is a squad with no engineers being sent to set up power or the FOB. Also might help Bridge Officers keep track of stray marines screaming for help over general comms

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): I imagine this as separating the four squads into "departments", in the same way that all medical staff, engineering staff, or requisitions staff show up under their departmental labels. Alpha squad members would be listed under an Alpha label, Bravo under another, and so on. I think this would be an improvement over opening the crew manifest and seeing a slew of Squad Marines with no indication of which squad they belong to.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): I feel like I layed out the idea in the details section, and it doesn't seem like a hugely difficult thing to code

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Re: Squads Show Up On Crew Manifest

Post by Wesmas » 05 Dec 2015, 03:21

+1 from me, would allow you to print a manifest to hand to someone in breifing to check everyone is there. Sounds like it would be very useful from BOs, XOs and CO.
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Re: Squads Show Up On Crew Manifest

Post by apophis775 » 05 Dec 2015, 19:11

Pretty much impossible because of how squads are assigned and how the processes work.

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Re: Squads Show Up On Crew Manifest

Post by Anewbe » 05 Dec 2015, 20:37

Oh well, it was worth a shot.

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Re: Squads Show Up On Crew Manifest

Post by apophis775 » 07 Dec 2015, 17:03

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