This thread is about a suggestion that would make balancing maps easier for the mappers.

Right now we have such balancing features as the KT on Godwood to help a weak German team fight its way out of a surrounded main base. However, if the German team still can't get out due to a too strong Allied team there isn't much they can do.
What I propose is a more elaborate system that would keep giving more and more reinforcements until a certain criteria is met.
Example: The Germans get slaughtered at Brest and pushed back to the last main base. If this goes on for more than say three minutes another PZIV spawns (or more pick up STGs or something). Five more minutes and still no progress --> More reinforcements arrive. This would go on until the team actually manages to get out of the main base and capture a flag.
This leaves the German team quite strong so they would probably continue to advance quite far before the extra reinforcements they got are knocked out. If it continues so far that the Allies get pushed back all the way to their main base they would also get reinforcements after a set period of time and so the fighting would move towards the harbor again.

This can of course be implemented to any map and does not have to be just for main bases.

By using this slightly more elaborate reinforcements system you get benefits such as:

-Getting stuck and raped in the main base for half the round would simply not happen (more fun for both teams).

-A more fluid battlefield that moves back and forth a lot more than before (more fun and historically correct).

-More variety in the game play (more fun).


So basically, this is a safeguard that prevents maps to be too unbalanced and therefore perhaps the mappers/devs would be able to release maps with less amount of testing (more frequent releases).

Being a good SL means that you stay out of the fighting as much as you can and let the "disposables" do the work for you. Howerver, staying out of the fight doens't mean that the SL don't stay near the fight.
This means that if you're doing your job as an Sl in a good way you're not going to get a good score even though your actions are contributing to the overall success of your team.
To remedy this problem I suggest that the SL does get points when squadmembers spawn on him/her. Of course there shouldn't be one point per spawn but perhaps one point per ten spawns.
This would incentivize the SL to stay in an attractvie place for his squadmembers. An attractive place is of course a place where the soldiers can cause the most mayhem such as near enemy flags.
This would deal with the problem of SLs going rambo to score points which means that they die a lot and the squadmembers can't spawn on him --> Not good for the team, you fail.
I think that anything that incentivizes players (foremost public players) to teamwork is good. This suggestion does incentivize teamowork since the SL will be near the action and so a lot of people will spawn on the SL.
What are your thoughts and comments to this suggestion?

If this is not possible on the game engine please just kill this thread.

Is it only me or does anybody else think it looks unrealistic when you fire a weapon (hand-held) and the whole surrounding lights up like you have a strobe light on you?
As far as I know, hand-held weapons such as rifles and SMGs don't produce much of a flame when fired, and even if they do the amount of light created is not much, not even at night.
As it is now it looks tres cool but a bit arcadey.
I realise that my experience comes mostly from more modern weapons but I find it hard to believe that the difference would be that huge.

So what do you guys think?

I noticed that when using the lafette (both deployable and stationary), you can't duck and take cover like you can with the other fixed MGs. It is quite irritating when someone fires at you and your only options are to exit the lafette or hope that you spot the enemy and kill him before he kills you.
Maybe there is some kind of engine limitation that makes it impossible to do this on the deployable version but on the stationary?
I know you guys are going to say the lafette would become too powerful but is it not supposed to be very powerful?

Comments?

Oh, and thanks again for a great mod (can't be said too often)!