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Name: Sock Monkey RP Rank: Bacara Suggestion: Remove faces & formations from the CC training & CC Exam Implementation: Delete the two props that provide information on faces and formations and adjust the questions on the CC exam to reflect the removal. The following questions will be removed from the CC exam: If a commanding officer calls face formations " L R A R F" Where would you be facing when completed? If a commanding officer calls for a single column formation where would you line up? If a commanding officer calls for a firing line what would you do? Lore: sometimes Other: Below is the pros and cons I believe the faces and formations provide to the community Pros: Enhances RP Standardized formations/faces all players know Cons: Prolongs the CC trainings/exam Makes tryouts miserably boring While there are lots of good things faces and formations bring, nobody actually uses them other than in trainings and tryouts. Afterward it's back to running around and shooting. Not all of the formations are even useful formations, the VIP and Prisoner diamond are taught, but who the hell would actually call those, its way easier to say “hey surround and protect the vip/surround and detain the enemy”. If battalions want to be unique and start utilizing formations they could easily create the RP through formation trainings in combat situations/simulations etc. There are ways these callouts can be utilized, but it doesn’t need to be taught to new players, and will speed up the training process and get them in the game faster, hopefully increasing our player population to users who would otherwise disconnect from the long training and make it so our trainers don't have to spend as much time and can get back to their battalions.

Probably a hot take but this would make sense so long that specialisation tryouts also get yeeted.. having a tryout to become a heavy for example is so stupid.

strange that you'd sight battalions tryouts as a reason we should change CC training itself. personally I believe formations and faces are a pretty regular skill utilised at least a small amount, I know it's not that common to see it used but that's cause people are lazy and they're not very well incentivised cause working as a team isn't as fun as going run and gun solo style. I think removing this from CC training literally turns it into "don't RDM, don't break PTS, here's how you sit down" I mean realistically why don't we just have battalions teach CTs everything, cause that's sort of what we're asking for here. Battalions should take on the duties as educators for CTs to do basic shit. Then what's the point in CC training at all, yeah they're sort of annoying to learn but they're pretty essential to a lot of the military RP. Should battalions teach PTS too? What about how to set their name? Battalions don't wanna annoy their SGTs (who already do a bulk of annoying battalion work) with even more pointless drivel. this sort of cutting down on all things CCs have to learn basically brings in a larger wave of people with literally no idea what they're doing and more hassle for battalions to drill annoying shit into their heads all day. Faces & Formations are shown to be a pretty universal thing that everyone can use. But by removing this from CC training HC should be forced to not call upon them in any situation, since it's no longer classed as basic training. I think this will seriously detract from RP. Also a separation from universal rules will means different battalions might develop all sorts of different ways of organising formations, sure this is great for each individual battalion but what happens when Palpatine wants a prisoner diamond? oh yeah, no one is gonna know what the fuck he means. If we think the server will just keep using the same faces and formations in every battalion why force more work onto NCOs, TRs are there to teach all encompassing rules and policy, why are battalions being handed this random responsibility of educating on basics? These universal rules allow everyone to communicate in a basic common strategy, just because they aren't used doesn't mean we should just completely dump them. The server has a big issue with dumping shit we think is useless because we just don't choose to use it, I think we sort of need to rethink the way we deal with specific parts of the server and reconsider whether these things are actually useless or whether the community is too lazy to use them so we'll get rid of it to prevent it being a bothersome reminder that we are fucking lazy. people already do this? this is pretty common policy in battalions as far as I'm aware. I also have no idea how removing basic and server-wide agreed standard formations would promote this at all? if anything it's just reducing battalion inter dependency as each focuses on doing only things that suit their exact batt. I'm all for personalised formations but it can't be the only thing we have otherwise batts will all be working off completely different basics this also sorta feels like just another jump to cutting down on TR work even more, like what would we even class as the basic needs to function within the server? -1

Man I can't wait for CTs to know even less than before!

-1, you are an RP character. Your regimental power is RPing as a character!!! Most troopers were normal and non-specialised. Seems like a sorta weird way to try and make these characters feel "equal" to the rest of the squad. People are losing interest in the character and roleplaying as a member of the squad, TC is cool to join cause it's the top dogs in 501st: that close brotherhood who work directly with Rex that's what you should be promoting, the RP. Maybe instead of using regiments as a crutch you should focus more on promoting the RP aspects since it's a thing the server seems to struggle with especially on the clone side. People wanna lore character cause it looks cool and free kit not because ya know it's the said lore character with a personality they like or wanna put into action.