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Jarkko Niemi
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I have been played here 3 years, and about 3000 hours.
Most probably I have hosted 100+ scouts.
And quite a many times group had to be splitted, because 20 car limit hitted.
And of course several dozen of Return At Gates have happened during my game time here.

And I don't never seen anyone to have total Rage of how Scout Split had done. Actually most have been just observations, and messages along the way: "Oh, I got worst cars to this group, so I run to gates"

I found guides how to attend and arrange the Scout from Wiki, and these forums. But nowhere has any suggested strategy how to select cars to that second group.

I have now scouts with 130+ and 110+ skills in my current setup, and if split happens I keep my primary scout in main group, and put that car where the second best scout is, to Split Scout. Idea is to minimise getting Return combat.
Otherwise I have selected pretty much randomly what car goes to where - it is just quickest way to do it.

Last time I received total Rage from one player, because what cars were on that player at Return scenario. According that player: I was Idi*t, A**hole, J*rk, and I intentionally made Splitting so that it would be disaster.
Because of that never ending Rage were any tactical communication during that scenario, and I just drove my cars to gates and exited and went to sleep. I did told to try Truce (they were Somerset Militia), but I did not got any response what was result, maybe player didn't saw that message.
One info-bit I got from that incident. According that player, only sensible way to do Scout Split is to keep all cars of one gang together.
That was not obvious to me (and it is a bit slow to go through every car to check the gang) and I didn't found any info about that recommendation in Wiki or forum messages.
Okay, I did one mistake - I did not remembered to tell at lobby chat that Split must be done, There the player might have been (theoretically) have opportunity to react and give instructions how split should be done.

Anyway .... to prevent that kind of things happening again, I suggest to establish standard protocol for doing Scout Splits - and that should be documented at least on Wiki (perhaps on section where Scout Hosting is explained).

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Loot phase is over, and you find out that there is more than maximum amount of cars per Scout, and Scout splitting must be done.

Announce Split at at Game Lobby.
At least "Have to do Split" or something similar is sufficient.

Tell to players that if they have any wishes how to do split, then it is now time to tell about those.
for example "How to split your cars: Random / Gang / Specific"
Random = Player doesn't care what car goes to what group - just do the split.
Gang = Player wants that all gangs cars are together.
Specific = Mixture of those two above, then that player Specifies the names of the cars cars what must go to Split Group

When Scout Leader gets answer from every involved gang, the actual splitting can be done.

......................... vet wv
Posted Jan 12, 2020, 11:56 am