Re: Can we INCREASE the setup timer?

**Zoraster** · 01-15-2007, 05:03 PM

2 minutes is good with me. 3 minutes and i think even TGs will start to get bored. Especially on the round change.

**Revark** · 01-15-2007, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by experiment626

because Bommando with a slow connection is still able to join, become CO, and issue orders to squads in that amount of time. I'll bring it up to the other admins and see what the say.

We have a guy in the 9th that takes about 1 minute to load in on map change. I am not overstating either. We love for him to lead 9th squads but is difficult to get setup etc.

I say if anything we start at 2:00 and see how it feels.

**Lorax74** · 01-15-2007, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Zoraster

2 minutes is good with me. 3 minutes and i think even TGs will start to get bored. Especially on the round change.

I'm probably a member of this crowd...

**Pfeil22** · 01-15-2007, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Wimpinator

Why do we empty the squads at the end of a round? It makes it very hard for new players like myself to get into the game. Everytime I finally get in a squad with someone willing to help it changes the next round.

In my experience, forming and joining squads does seem to take up a lot of the initial delay period before each round. If it is at all possible, making squads persistent from one round to the next might help make this time a bit more productive for everyone. It might also allow squads formed in-game to work more cohesively as a unit.

**Lyramion** · 01-15-2007, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by Wimpinator

Why do we empty the squads at the end of a round? It makes it very hard for new players like myself to get into the game. Everytime I finally get in a squad with someone willing to help it changes the next round.

There is no intentional clearing of the Squads - the Teamswitch function clears them and there is no known possibility to prevent that.

...unless you want to play 2 Round on the PAC side of Berlin in a row!

**Nikolas** · 01-15-2007, 08:06 PM

It is not possible to maintain continuity with squads from round to round with our current server setup. I kind of like the lack of squad continuity though; it helps keep squad leaders and squad composition rotating.

**Zoraster** · 01-15-2007, 09:27 PM

it doesn't take much time to form and join a squad, but a lot of times people playing what i kind of think of as a game of "squad leader chicken." as the timer counts down, people see which person flinches and makes the squad.

Even when i know i'm going to SL, i try and wait a little bit to let the slow loaders to join. Plus, the pubbies tend to join a squad right away, and if you wait, you get regulars and TGs.

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