Pool of REQ Points for your Spartan Company

Anyone wish there was a pool of REQ points for your Spartan Company? Anyone from your group can donate to the pool, and the leaders or lieutenants can award individual members (i.e. if they contributed more towards commendations compared to others, you can give them a bonus). Alternatively, if you require more REQ points to obtain new armor, you can request REQ points from your leaders and maybe they’ll help you out.

In addition to the pool of REQ points, I also hope 343 will allow players to trade REQ weapons, boosts, and vehicles with each other from within a spartan company.

These days, a lot of people (including me) already finished unlocking all emblems/armor/weapons, and have millions of spare REQ points sitting there, doing nothing. Personally, I would gladly donate over a million REQ points to help my spartan company with their progress towards unlocking more customization.

Any thoughts?

That would be kinda cool… I’m all for it.

Love this idea. 10/10.

Seems very helpful and cool.

Honestly, I’d take anything that expands the use of Spartan Companies at this point.

Probably get abused in some way

LOLOLOLOLOLOL no… well… ok maybe. Now before you throw your Pitchforks and torches at me, hear me out:

Alt accounts - I personally have a dummy account I use to play infected for fun (just infected though, no I’m not a dirty smurfer.)
Lets say I never opened those packs given to me at the start. I could just open them, sell my reqs from that account, and add it to the req pool.

End result? Infinite moneys. Even if you aren’t playing on these alt accounts, you can still easily stockpile Hannibal scorpions using spartan company trading, rendering REQ packs useless.

Scamming - Self explanatory. While you could make your company have a “buy in” with REQ points, or host a huge giveaway, it doesn’t take rocket science to find that this also opens the doors for REQ point/REQ card related scams. We don’t need to beat a dead horse with outdated phishing tactics.

Exclusivity - again, since you can’t refund your REQ points once you put them in, this easily allows the Leaders/Lieutenants to just pocket the req points for themselves. A more direct donation of req points between users would be a better option for spartan companies. (But again, this brings up the problem with alt accounts, so if this happens, there needs to be a limit on how many REQ related trades you can make/accept per day.)

TL;DR - While this idea seems cool, it has/brings up a lot of problems that can’t really be solved. As of now, the option is either to not have it at all, or have it, but put extremely strict limits on who you can trade with, and how many trades you can do per day with the spartan company you’re in. Preferably, my suggestion would be that you can’t trade with someone that plays on the exact same xbox (so you can’t just sign out of an account, make an alt, and transfer reqs to your main account), and you can only do 2-3 trades per day.

In other words, yes, it has potential, but the traffic of trading needs to be EXTREMELY limited/monitored to prevent abuse.

Yeah, I agree we should set limits on the number of trades (probably maximum of once per week). Infinite money can be prevented by allowing only people with ranks of SR 100+ to trade, so that your smurf accounts can’t break the system.

Another good rule is to disable trading between members until they have been in the spartan company for at least 3 months, so that people get to know each better, and scamming becomes less common. After all, who is willing to contribute to the REQ pool anyways? Only to people you trust.