I wouldn't be splitting up any groups of three - not everyone will be in one of those groups. Recruits, loners, returning inactives, etc. would fill in the 4th slot. It's a way of adding diversity while still allowing some groups to remain constant. However, FC is a warsim, and playing with all of your friends on events should not be guaranteed. If there's a group larger than three friends, tough cookies. Chances are, that fourth friend actually has a fifth friend, and that fifth friend has a sixth friend, etc. Cyberdyne was full of all my friends back in the day, but 18 of us couldn't play on the same team in battles.
I agree. If WC picks leadership, it's functionally a popularity contest with far fewer voters.I don't think this is strictly true. Popularity is an important part of leadership. What leader is any good if everybody hates him? He is going to have a lot of fun getting a whole lot of nothing done.
There are leadership characteristics that are very important outside of popularity, but since everybody has a different idea or what characteristics they want in a a leader it is very hard to have some sort of arbitrary group of people select a leader that represents what the people of the army want.
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