Suggestion: Set Priority Speaker levels

[Tarun80]

After looking over the wiki entry for MMORPG permission setups, several of us discussed that having multiple Priority Speakers with different levels of Priority would be beneficial and helpful.

One such example would be:

• Guild Leader (Priority - Highest) (or Priority - 1)
• Guild Officer (Priority - Medium) (or Priority - 5)
• Guild Member (Priority - Lowest) (or Priority - 9)

Basing this a bit off how GW2 raids go:

• Raid Leader (Tank) (Priority - Highest) (or Priority - 1) - Having to call out certain telegraphs for when to move, CC, stack, etc.
• Raid Ranged (Priority - Medium) (or Priority - 5) - Having to call out ranged telegraphs, stacks for ranged people, etc.
• Raid Healer (Priority - Lowest) (or Priority - 9) - Calling out heal fields that need to be blasted, etc.

[Kissaki]

I practically never used the priority speaker. Is this actually a useful thing? Overpowering others in a discussion?

I can see myself listening to a discussion, and then having to intervene, at which point I can assign myself priority speaker and intervene. On the other hand, if I want to take part in the discussion, I don't want to overpower the others. I'll have to wait until its my turn.

So, is constantly being a priority speaker even a thing? If so, I guess this becomes more useful - but I still don't get how all the overpowering would be a good idea. Be it in discussions, or teamcommunications. Shouldn't the team be able to self-organize in terms of who gives the commands? And you being able to identify that person? If not, do we really need two or more levels of overpowering in that case?

[Tarun80]

I'm sure many would find this useful in a raid scenario setup. (My original example was poor, and I edited the post.)

When I raid in GW2, at the first boss I have to call out the critical melee area telegraphs and blue circles (which teleport people halfway across the boss arena) that can drastically lower DPS if people are caught in them. I fall under the raid leader section.

Next person would be the Raid Ranged, who calls out for green circles. If you don't have four or five ranged people stacked it can risk wiping a raid run.

Lastly would be the healer who puts out special combo fields that can be blasted to give AoE heals to raid players.

I'm sure others may be able to give examples of how it would go in their games having this kind of setup.

[hacst]

What you can already setup is to only enable shouting "up" a hierarchy. However you have to separate players into a corresponding hierarchical channel structure to do so. Basically you link the channels in your hierarchies but apply ACL filters to who can actually transmit to those channels. Used that for the BF2 stuff and it seemed to match the military command structure the PR ppl. wanted to model. Just throwing this in there in case someone googles this wanting to do something similar. It's not really a replacement for what this FR is asking for.