VON Channel & Fireteam suggestion

[terox 316]

Scenario,

• squad of 8 to 10 men
• at least 2 fireteams (RED & BLUE) + Squad leader (Or something similar)
• Teamspeak in use but not an addon server, so no TFAR, ACRE etc
• Public server

This is a typical public server, which are the first servers newcomers are introduced to in the ArmA world and are the gateway for newcomers, without these, the new blood dries up quite quickly

 

There are 2 elements missing that would nicely tie up both the VON channels and the roleplaying of fireteams

1) Fireteam VON Channel

2) Fireteam leader indicator (Much like the Squad leader 3d indicator, but specific to a fireteam colour

 

As of right now, the role of a fireteam leader is not fully supported. In a VON environment it is not possible for them to only communicate with their fireteam. Group chat is the only option and in the case of the example scenario I described at the start of this post, group comms gets very confusing as the 2 fireteam leaders try and coordinate the players in their fireteam over the same von channel at the same time.

 

The solution to this is to have a "Fireteam" channel. The player would automatically belong to this channel once the squad leader has assigned him a fireteam colour.

Meaning within a group, anyone in "RED" fireteam could speak to anyone else in "RED" fireteam and only them

This would also mean that up to 4 "Sub" groups within a squad could have 4 conversations at the same time without interrupting the other fireteams.

 

Before anyone comes up with "Direct Chat channel can be used for that....... Then No not really, it doesn't solve the problem and adds to the spam

 

This would be immensley useful in both PVP and PVE where fireteams are working independantly of one and other or have different tasks.

 

 

And to polish this up even more, ideally the Fireteam Colour leader should be selectable by the Squad Leader via the GUI interface and that fireteam leader should have some form of 3D indicator viewable by his fireteam, similar to the 3D squad indicator. This would allow the Fireteam to be more cohesive as they have a fairly distinctive icon to follow or form up on.

 

As it stands right now, the fire-team leader's role is diminished from what it should be and made more difficult that it could be.

 

It would be very well appreciated by a lot of communities that do not rely on 3rd party addons on some of their server (I.E their public server) to help create immersion, cohesion and control if you could see your way to implementing such functionality. 

That would polish up the VON and group set up perfectly.

[john111 76]

Set this up automatically.A+1 from me.We need more options for comms.