You will be typing just as much if we have a "squad" chat system so it seems just as immersion breaking to me. Also most of this shit is immersion breaking. Clones can't see other people's health in lore, if they shoot another clone in lore is would hurt them, pretty confident x-ray doesn't exist in this sort of fashion.
The system you propose is fundamentally un-immersive
TS can be used for both, this parallel system seems clunky at most and just not going to be used at the least. Private channels are always OOC because there's no one there to shame you for going out of character. A lot of the time voice chat in game is out of character cause people don't wanna maintain that all the time. Having a dedicated chat isn't an insurance that people are gonna use it for non-OOC shit. if you need to call smth out TS is just easier.
you can do small squad operations in different channels so yes it is a substitute for TS
Most interbattalion comms is literally just RP to show off how cool your batt is, it's pretty much never important info. There is no reason to make it literally private.
cause x-ray is kinda just like cheating and anti immersive
yeah that does suck, I guess you just have to be extra careful. Most of the time such damage is either negligible or it's so much that it's definitely your fault. Most people tend not to RDM all the time during events and most of the time we have 60+ player events so I really don't see how this is a problem we need friendly fire to solve
It's seen as negative because it's just removing more aspects or RP. If I don't need to talk to my squad for their health why will I talk to them at all. ACE reports aren't done outside of TS, not that I've seen. So this would make those pretty redundant aswell. It's immersion breaking just seeing people's stats cause that's not how it worked at all. It's really easy to ask for a report, why get rid of that for such a lazy system.
The "don't use if you don't want it" idea is kicking the can down the road to inevitable universal acceptance. It'll become standard due to pure utility alone, not for RP or immersion factors but because you're automatically at a disadvantage by not using it.
I think the server should be a universal experience and everyone should get the same bucket of shit. this isn't freedom of RP, don't sell it like that. It's to help people avoid RP and be lazy. I don't want other people to use it cause if one person uses it their experience is gonna be easier than the rest. I'll shout "what's your health" and someone else will be like "just enable squads, dumbass" that's how this shit spreads. It'll become a requirement in some places and eventually an begrudgingly accepted part of the server. I don't want that, that's why I'm against it.