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General Questions - Squads

Anonymous - Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:19 am
Post subject: Squads

As we know, there's tons of squads that are created by a user and in many chases the owner is in another squad. Many users also owns many squads, but don't know it, because they think as I first did, that if you join or create a new one, the old will be dissolved. But this is not. If u create or join a new squad u'll still own the old ones. That's why, making a new squad isn't so easy. I'm posting this because I want to do a new squad, but the name(s) I'd want it to be is already taken, and in all the squad names that are taken, the user is in another squad. So here comes an idea:
How about, making squads active in 1) Whole Subspace (all servers) or zone-specific? Most squads are based in just one zone.
Also, how about dissolving a squad if it haven't got any members active in let's say a month? That'll dissolve many inactive squads.
So think about this. I hope this makes any sence so I can get the squadname that I want (and that's one who's inactive right now).

-Ken the Great

Maverick - Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:36 am
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SSC biller / SSC biller development / SSC Council stuff which are known to not change stuff like this that should be changed.
I would suggest a ?listsquads aswell (see the squads you own)

Purge - Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:49 pm
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Maverick wrote:

SSC biller / SSC biller development / SSC Council stuff which are known to not change stuff like this that should be changed.
I would suggest a ?listsquads aswell (see the squads you own)

Well, apart from the SSC biller, SSR has ?squadownlist which lists the squads that you currently own.

Smong - Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:13 pm
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Why doesn't SSR biller force you to dissolve a squad before creating or joining a new one?

D1st0rt - Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:25 pm
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What if it just did it automatically?

Purge - Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:09 pm
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Smong wrote:

Why doesn't SSR biller force you to dissolve a squad before creating or joining a new one?

That wouldn't be fun now, would it?

Ken the Great - Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:47 am
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Purge+ wrote:

That wouldn't be fun now, would it?

well, some squads have a "training squad" like having a squad that u can test if guys r good or not wether they can join the squad, then it will be a problem to force u to dissolve the old squad. I think it'd be better if they dissolve squads who have been inactive for a set time, i.e. 2 weeks. Then it'd give a chance for new squads to come and it would clean the old not-used ones.
(btw, I'm registered now as u see

)

Purge - Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:54 pm
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True, but some people actually prefer to have their old squad not dissolved.

SamHughes - Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:01 pm
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It's not as if we're running out of possible squad names *. Having a squadname get grabbed by a new owner and used for a different squad would be confusing.

* (Except for those people who validate their leetness by having a squadname that is a short word from a dictionary or pokémon deck.)

Oer The Dragon - Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:20 pm
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?squadowner ''squadname''

?find ''squadowner'' : ''squadowner'' is in ''zonename'' - :''squadowner'':I need to talk to you about a squadname.
/ ''squadowner'' is offline - : try another day.

Maverick - Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:01 am
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"squadowner" Not online, last seen more than 10 days ago - : Keep trying, he will never come online, his name won't expire for 5 years and keep owning a whole line of 30 squadnames?
This is the scenario what happens the most.
Also, if the squadowner is online, most of the time he wouldn't want to give you the squad simply because you want it.

Thats the reason behind Ken's post.

Ken the Great - Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:28 am
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Maverick wrote:

correct, that's why I want someone to do something to this.

Oer The Dragon - Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:57 am
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I was just trying to help