Suggestion: Partially Choosing Available Mercs

[vturbot]

Here's just a suggestion from a fan of the game.

I think there should be a combination of mercs that are available and mercs that you can choose to join the mission. Even having the choice to pick one merc team is huge -- especially since you can't freely allocate experience between your mercs. Basically, this allows the players to essentially customize their gameplay style.

Required:
* Helicopter

Randomly Available:
* Merc 1
* Merc 2

Player's Choice:
* Whoever you want
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This allows you to
1. Essentially build up your favorite merc. (Since you use them more, they gain more experience)
2. Choose a merc team that works with the other available mercs.

Maybe you can't choose the same merc team two times in a row (this forces the player to have more than one favorite.

I think this would help with replayability as players choose to beef up X team in a game. Maybe the next time you decide to beef up snipers, instead of artillery, or marines, etc.

[Ziji]

This sounds an awful lot like the Chooser mode... or am I misreading it?

[Franpa]

Chooser lets you choose ALL mercs while this lets you choose a single merc with the rest randomly defined. I'd rather this over the current Chooser mode.

[Boris]

You could also make it so that from the available pool of mercs, some randomly get assigned elsewhere, and you can pick from the remaining team. It would be a nice in-between mode, as I find normal too strict and chooser too loose: I always put my 242nd Suicide Kings infantry in the field. :)