The team Lead should have the option to configure the team, so that team members cannot request cells through the lab. This way they would have to look in the team chat to read the team's policy on cell donations.

Thanks to @Bruce-Hamilton for this idea.

@Kaiju Probably my lack of the English language but I dont understand what you mean

@Marianne-van-Es Thanks for asking, because it might also be confusing for others.

Currently the Team Lead can set things for the team, like minimum MP to join, whether its open or private.

Bruce and I would like to add a switch on that page so the lead can turn off the ability to request cells through the lab. This way team players would have to go the team chat window and click on the Request Cells button there.

We always post in the team chat when new people join that should not request any cells till they have fought their first battle in a war. If they make the request through the lab, they might not ever see the policy in the chat.

Doing this would help us as a team a lot more. It might also help other teams.

Alternatively, they could give us other options, like the game prevents new players them from requesting cells till some event has passed: 1) first battle in a war, 2) first war is over, 3) X number of wars are over.

I hope that is clearer.

Meh...Really I don't think this is very important.

People can see who has given what in the Top contributors section, if newbies come in a team and request, they should give first. I don't see what requesting through the team chat would change, didn't even know it was possible to request through the lab actually. I don't think many people do that. A lot of people also may read the team chat while paying no attention to what is being said

Just inform your team of policies regarding cell donations and if the newbie doesn't stick around then that's on him.

Lol same here I didnt know you could request cells via Lab. Dont know if thats the solution to force people to use the chat. It would be nice if you could ping people as a lead or co and that they have to react before they could request cells so you could "force" some kind of communication

I don't see how this would help. Seeing how new players go about asking for cells is actually a good way of judging new players. New players that go straight for top legendary cells without talking to the team or doing any contributions are generally no good....

...what would be more useful is a message telling you who filled your request. We usually post in-game something like X5 Player1 & Player2. But not everybody posts, so you don't always know!

@tintum said in Allow Team Lead to force cell requests to go through Team Chat:

Just inform your team of policies regarding cell donations and if the newbie doesn't stick around then that's on him.

We do that, but they don't read it. We recently had a member ask for cells before fighting, and it has been mentioned in chat no less than seven times between his joining and asking.

@Kaiju said in Allow Team Lead to force cell requests to go through Team Chat:

Doing this would help us as a team a lot more. It might also help other teams.

Definitely love your idea, about half of new members in my team i encounter request cells but does not really help in wars and leave if they don't get any cell.

The request cooldown should be replaced by request lock until specific requirements are meant depending on the lead and/or co leads such as "Enable Request after:"
*X number of attacks in war and/or
*X number of cells donated and/or
*X number of days in the team
Etc.

Most who ask for cells right away don't bother to read anything so even if you had an option for it I highly doubt it would do any good. An old team I was on had it in the description but they would come in and ask for cells. There is a restriction at least when they first join now they have to wait several hours. It did stop some of the join, request, grab cells and leave issue.

Really if you have a rule in place maybe the best thing to do if you want to force communication is if they don't reply to welcome, our rules are blah blah blah and still post for cells boot them.

@Suzznee said in Allow Team Lead to force cell requests to go through Team Chat:

Really if you have a rule in place maybe the best thing to do if you want to force communication is if they don't reply to welcome, our rules are blah blah blah and still post for cells boot them.

Well assuming that SP does nothing to deal with this, our only option is to boot. We will probably allow them one warning and then boot. If they don't read the team chat,that is not my problem.

@Suzznee said in Allow Team Lead to force cell requests to go through Team Chat:

...if they don't reply to welcome, our rules are blah blah blah and still post for cells boot them.

My personal policy is anyone who is an observer and asks gets the boot. Those that are involved, I'll shame them a little with "If you have time to thump cells, you have time for an attack", and many will actually get one or two in that way. Those who don't attack will be kicked if they ask again.

@Bruce-Hamilton LOL, those that don't attack get booted no matter what they do!!!

@David-ML said in Allow Team Lead to force cell requests to go through Team Chat:

LOL, those that don't attack get booted no matter what they do!!!

LOL

I meant those who ask for cells a second time during war, but yeah... those that don't attack at all are gone.