Is this ideal worth exploring more.

[Evil Spock]

We have a number of new players who state they enjoy flying but do not like the aspect of filling our orders form for their ships. These folks show less interest in campaign events in general, etc.

This ideal came to mind for a future game. Include these folks as Captains of fleets and let them just fly in combat.

A middleman, Fleet Admiral, fills out orders for his stuff and the other players under his wing.

Currently we have a two tier setup of Front Line Commanders, and a Race Leader.

This new system would have 3 roles, Race Leaders, Fleet Admirals, and Captains. Captains just fly ships and nothing else.

Thoughts?

[Da Brain]

There lack of involvement might cause them to be no shows at battles?

If we change the way the Sub Flyer system is set up,.... it could still work.

[Commander Abel]

I would love to worry about the map and less on flying. Someday when I get a decent connection, that might change, but right now all I do is cause problems everytime I join a battle.

[Maximus Plasma]

Possible soultion i agree.
Problems i can see with this.
#1. Player no shows for battles.
#2. Player who want to be fleet admrial but not enough slots to go around.
#3. Pepole like me who enjoy doing both orders and flying.
#4. Longer turn resoultion because of the added layers to the game.
{IE} Would certain captians be under certain admrial?Or just one pool for the whole team? If players only fly under cetain admirals , then the subsitue rule needs to be redefined.
#5 would only work for Team games.
Pros of the system
#1 Allows for a more cohesive approach for the teams race leader.
#2 could lead to faster order turn in . Offsetting any delays in battle resoution.
#3. could actually speed up battle resoultion, as ther may be several piliots avaible on given nights.
#5 Easier on the referee,Less emails needed.
Well those are my quick thoughts anyway. over all i think i like the idea.

[Evil Spock]

Yes it would likely only be good for team games. I like how this is and see others eventually coming.