It had been suggested many times that commander should be able to write on map for example where is the hive and where are alien RT:s and OC:s etc. And there had been many other commander suggestion too as u all have probably seen. Many of u who have been comm and has probably noticed that its VERY hard to tell ur teammates what u want them to do. So I want to tell u about mine suggestion:

Add "commander buttons". (Trying to explain them with bad english skills)
-Well when you select a soldier and then give him a waypoint, there is a sign that shows that person where he should go but it doesnt tell what he should do when he gets there and then commander has to write what he should do, and at first time he maybe doesnt even notice what comm is telling him to do.

There are other signs too like "Weld target at waypoint" , "Guard this building/marine" , "Pick up gun at waypoint", "Attack enemy at waypoint", "Build structure at waypoint". There might be others, I dont remember. So how many of u, who has been comm, has ever used these ? Its very difficult to put those signs as u might have noticed (Many of u hasnt probably even seen all of those).

So my suggestion is that add those Signs as buttons in the commander console. There could also be "Build RT at waypoint" "Take ammo at waypoint" "Take med at waypoint" "Enemy approaching at waypoint" and "Custom sign", so you could write your own text on it. These could work like this: Select marine, click the button, select sign, click where he should go. So simple.

I dont mean that the buttons would all be on the screen, that would be stupid, but its only 1 button needed. When clicking that button, there would be opened "box" or whatever it is, where the signs are. Then you could just select the sign u want from there and then the "box" would disapperear.

EDIT: There could also be signs on commanders minimap. When Marine is saying Waiting for orders or med pack or ammo, there could be sign on commanders minimap that shows where the player is. I know that there are those little buttons whitch would take u straight to where the player is, but there are players who flood this system and its annoying to press many times that button to get at marine who really needs med or ammo. Also when comming, u dont always even see those buttons if u r doing something else so little signs in commanders minimap would be noticed more quicklier

So what you think? Did I explained it clear enough so u r able to understand it? Sry my English

Normally when you want to be clear the best way to go about it is by correctly typing out every word (Other than NS abbreviations such as OC, RT, etc.) and properly formating. Your suggestion is poorly formated, being a giant lump of text that strains the eyes to read clearly...

A better way for this to work would be to have a "Custom Waypoint" button, which when placed, would open up a text box and allow a commander to type what he wanted the marine to do there. (To a maximum of x alpha-numeric characters, where x is a value the dev team finds to be a good maximum)

That was what I was saying :I
But there would definetely need to be max chars so the text wont be so big that u cant even see aliens
I hope you others try to read my text too

Last bump :I
Someone else please reply :/

bah.. writing sucks.. use mics

A diverse # of different wapoints is a good idea. Why hasn't this been implemented?