Originally Posted by
SGT Rud
With all these faction based events, it is greatly stressed on the importance of teamwork and a strong support core of officers within the faction. The only thing that is lacking is a better leader/officer functionality of the faction menu in game. As officers and Leader, we can only do so much from our groupme/palringo towers of power. Below I’ve made a list of options that would extend the operability of these faction positions.
Co-Leader position
While there is isn’t much that a Faction Leader can do, the things that he can do are sometimes lengthy. Upgrading walls for instance becomes a very tedious task. Having a Co-Leader position on the team can alleviate some of that duty. When removing members or secondary accounts when your faction needs the space, is sometimes difficult also when the Faction Leader isn’t online at that particular moment. Having a Co-Leader would greatly benefit the team in this instance.
While not all improvement into faction menu userability can be solved simply by a new position, there are a few other tweaks that can greatly benefit the team. Even if you don’t use the faction chat anymore and you sit in your lazyboy with Line on your lap, the faction chat is still a useful tool at your disposal as an officer/Leader. Smaller/newer teams still use the normal chat menu in-game. While you may say who cares about some 6 man team made of brand new members of level 6 and 500K stats, I can only remind you that we all started someplace on one time in our gaming career. The faction chat is flooded with who donated what, and who declared what, and some random message from SGT Rud that makes no sense just to see if anyone noticed the message there before its carried away with the billions donated. A separate window within the donation log that records who donated what at what time would be a great value to those factions still trying to manage their faction business through the chat menu. Same with the who declared what, I can only speak for my team, but once you look to see who declared the current battle, you typically never use that data again, so no need to keep a long record of it in the chat window. What you could do is move that info over to the battle screen in either WD of FL. You have the declare button. You push it. Then it says war declared. How about is it says War declared By: *****. Makes sense to me, but again, I can only speak for my team in this example. Another prime feature that needs to be incorporated is the message all function. Android kind of has this already. With their pop-up menu when you boot the game, the left column shows you faction news, normally It’s who donated what. A new feature that could be incorporated into the officer/leader ability is a special function button in the chat menu where when selected, brings up a chat window. You would type in your message, and when you hit enter, it would send that message to every member of the team. That way, whether they are in game or not, whether they are android or ios, they would have a new news icon on their screen. Could be news of them losing billions to an attacker, or it could be an officer giving orders.
Another issue that used to be a fun part of the game, which is now past for lots of teams are faction bonuses. Most of the top teams from top 75+ are maxed on bonuses, or are really close to being maxed. There are a wide assortment of bonuses that you can receive from WD or FL or other events, but only a few from the faction. Wouldn’t it be nice to see a new series of bonuses linked to factions. Energy Regen time bonus, Frontline deploy regen time bonus, stamina regen time bonus, things of this nature can greatly help factions out whether your top 10 or top 40K. The bonuses I listed above are bonuses you don’t really have and can’t really get from anywhere else. Sue the energy and stamina can be received via which nation you pick, but outside of that, they don’t exist. But, your saying to yourself, that you supplied too much cash to the faction already to get the other bonuses, or your saying you bought some hacked faction with maxed bonuses and your new bonuses wouldn’t be maxed now so you need another hacked faction. These bonuses shouldn’t need to be purchased with cash, since valor is still a scarce commodity, it really isn’t a good idea to use valor either. So then what would be the currency needed to buy these new bonuses. Something you all have been collecting already, faction points. Adjust how these points work slightly. Make them so that when an individual earns them, they become permanently attached to that faction they are in, that way if the player jumps out of faction for any reason, their points remain. Make it so that the record of that players points resets to zero, but the points themselves stay.
This concludes my rant of things that Gree will never incorporate to make things easier and better for you players since these are things you want. Now, continue on and enjoy your day. NOTHING TO SEE HERE- MOVE ALONG!!!