I'm thinking of the following scenario:
You're a medic. You've got a nice skill that needs a lot of supply pips (the revive nade?), so you want to keep your supply bar pretty filled up in case you need that skill.
Then, a teammate spends all his pips in armoring and buffing the team, for example, and starts asking you for your supply pips while you insist you're saving them for something else.

Do you think this could lead to "bad feelings" and loss of team coherence?

Well if he is team playing (buffing the teams armor) you should give him the pips. If you don't give him the pips, yes there will be less teamwork so just help eachother out

Bad feelings I don't think so. I mean If you are saving them for soomething useful that is your choice don't you think. But If there is a dying teammate on the ground, I would use some of those pips to revive them.

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could someone explain pips to me?

I don't under stand the question? What are supply pips?

afaik, the individual points of the supply bar, which is the bar that depletes when you use skills.

But I could be very wrong, of course.

first i have heard of a skill bar wat depeletes this exactly

I think it would depend on how well you get on with your team.
if i just started playing with a new/random team i would not give out any pips first game unless i see a skilled player who seems to know what hes doing. so it would be down to your judgment if that player deserves your pips.

Have you ever read the http://www.fragworld.org/frag/brink/the-fragworld-brink-compendium.html?
If not, you should do that.

I think I'd do the opposite, to a similar result. I'd start by giving out supply pips to anyone who seems to be using them in any useful way and save them for grander things only if the team is either very incoherent or good enough to not really need so much supply.

Anyway, a medic should still give healthbuffs, revives, etc. I'm only worried about the possibility of constantly being requested supply.

I could've made the same question about soldiers being constantly asked for ammo by a gatling maniac and not having enough supply for his own abilities.

i have but i must have missed that spot

yeah true but again its down to your personel preference.

This kinda goes against the mindset Brink is trying to cultivate. The game rewards you for helping other players in any way -- it promotes selflessness. If you have ample pips, why not boost your teammates? If you're saving pips for a "pro," then you're depriving the rest of your team of some much-needed edge against your foes.

SD hopes everyone will help each other, and that everyone will help each other have fun -- not just the most "pro" player and his pocket medic.

And what if you've decided to save the pips for a different boost and disagree with a teammate about that decision?

Or maybe you're a soldier saving pips for a molotov because you know some people are coming in a tight group at any moment, while a teammate constantly repeats "I need ammo! ammo! ammo!".

I'm not really worried because I've played other similar games and people learn that if they're not getting ammo of buffs is probably for a good reason, but I ask myself how much the devs took into account these negative "social" consequences of team related skills. i.e.: did they, for example, put limits in how fast a medic can give a certain buff, so he's "forced" to save something for his other abilities? (a classic solution)

Right, I can understand conserving pips for tactical situations like that. I guess I was debating the concept of people having to prove their skills to the medic in order to get his buffs.

As for ability cooldowns, they have put some big constraints on certain abilities. But the speed at which they regenerate pips is, as far as I know, the only limiting factor in their buffing discretion.

not a pro, a decent player thats different. i do get your point but its not about selflessly giving your pips to the guy who needs to replace his turret for the third time cause hes put it in a stupid place. plus we dont know every ability yet there might be some thing that will give the medic a faster recharge and then i will fire them pips out left right and center. oh and by the way i aint no ones pocket medic. :nono:

If I'm out of pips myself and being asked for supplies (Medic) or ammo (Soldier), OR if I know I need what I have (about to use Lazarus/Molotov), I'll say "I'm out" and carry on (possibly proving seconds later that I lied - but "I'm out" is faster than "I need to save everyone" or "I'm about to take out the entire enemy team").

If I don't have a direct indication that I'll need those supplies, then I'll buff you. If you ran away from teammates who you knew were incapped, and they die before I can get enough supplies for a Lazarus, it's your fault - and guess who's not getting healed ever again? And if I'm a soldier, and you demand ammo while you're being chased (and don't warn me enemies are close before asking), then guess who's not getting any more ammo ever again?

That's right, I'm a good team player, but I hold a grudge. (I'll explain at the end of the match in voice chat or a private message, and forgive you if it doesn't happen again. But a second time, and you're blacklisted from my team spirit for as long as I remember your name)

Might be? I thought that one was confirmed.

The ability to give supplies is not one medics start with. Also it seems they would need their pips for life buffing.