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[Snowcaller]

I was thinking...
We need some easily typed conventions for typing to your team if you're Pugging.

Naturally if the Catty on the hill is LRM-ing you, or you run into a pair of lights, your hand are kinda tied. But pugging is how newbies are introduced and the dispossessed vets find groups.
I have some ideas to offer and think it needs discussion, hence i opened this thread.

On the battlefield, we have needs and a way to communicate them is vital for anyone not on voice comms. A concise way of sharing information, i.e. an acronymical convention is required.

Here's my suggestions, but i'm asking for discussion.

R[space]: Request
CS: Close support (i.e. intimate backup)
FS: Fire Support (i.e. many LRMs from catty who wants a target)
W: Wingman/Men/Lady/Ladies: as in to offer that you got a plan and need help.
R{BR]: Request Brawler. Maybe to help with locks or as wingman...
FB: Fall Back
FM: Fast Mover.
RF: Right Flank
LF:Left Flank

I could go on, but i think i illustrate a point.
We puggers aren't going to have the immediacy of a team on Voice, but we can make up some of the gap with creativity. It's not my intent to flood a new wave of welcome newbies with tmi, but we can't just all rely completely on instinct against guys in perpetual voice contact.

Just a thought.

Excuse me if i've wasted time

GLHF.

SC

[Krazy Kat]

So far so good. I like it.

I would like to see scripted chat messages like some games have.

Or the ability to pre-write our own messages and bind them to keys.

[Kiiyor]

Krazy Kat, on 04 December 2012 - 04:58 PM, said:

So far so good. I like it.

I would like to see scripted chat messages like some games have.

Or the ability to pre-write our own messages and bind them to keys.

AutoHotkey is a nice little program that can do exactly that. I have some chat macros set up in it myself.

You can google search for it and give it a go. There even used to be a few guides on setting it up for MWO floating around, but I'm not sure they made it past the 'great closed beta' forum slaughter of 012'.

I may just edit this later if I can dredge anything up with my woefully inadequate search-fu skills.