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Commander auto-promotion

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krait:
When the existing commander leaves (and their auto-reconnect option times out), I propose that the first person on helm gets auto-promoted to commander (and the commander slot would be once again filled when viewed from the lobby). I've had a few annoying cases where players jump into the commander slot, and steal the helm -- most recently it was a powdermonkey, who clearly had not picked up any skill yet, stole the helm in the middle of a tied-score fight against a then-disadvantaged enemy, and logged out as soon as our team lost the battle.

N-Sunderland:
Changes to Quick Join are going to limit this problem soon, but it would definitely be nice if this could happen too.

Pickle:
Fully agree.. as long as the original Captain can jump back into the slot under the resume option.

krait:

--- Quote from: N-Sunderland on March 24, 2013, 04:52:59 pm ---Changes to Quick Join are going to limit this problem soon, but it would definitely be nice if this could happen too.

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To be clear, my problem wasn't so much that somebody jumped in as commander, but that because they were commander, they were able to force me off the helm (even if they weren't pilot-classed). Since I wasn't officially commander, I wasn't able to communicate with allied commanders anyway -- I just want to have some way to limit this kind of rudeness/bad-teamspiritedness (which in this case, easily cost our team the battle).

Another way of going about it would be to prevent anyone but a pilot (whether or not they're the commander) from being able to force someone off the helm, and preventing any pilot from forcing a higher level pilot off the helm (while preventing anyone from forcing the original commander-pilot off the helm). Of course, this is all more complicated than auto-promotion.

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