heres a quick idea for how to encourage people to take on many different roles, including the less glamorous ones, but without FORCING them, which would be bad:
hand out "badges" much like the cub scouts do.
you could earn a badge by successfully performing a certain task for the entire map, during which you must meet certain standards and your team must win.
so, for example you might earn a farmer's badge by keeping, say 70% of the deployable turrets up and running for 70% of the map. for the HoF badge you'd have to be damn close to the flag in heavy armor for, say, 80% of the time that the flag was on the stand, and you'd have to keep the number of grabs low enough.
maybe there could be various levels of the badges, earned either by performing the job to a higher standard, or by performing it repeatedly.
obviously it would be difficult to hand out badges for some positions, like a midfielder discing incoming heavies once - but i'll bet plenty of people would play a certain position for the purpose of earning a badge, just like they'll play the same course over and over in coolboarders to earn the gold medal.
hand out "badges" much like the cub scouts do.
you could earn a badge by successfully performing a certain task for the entire map, during which you must meet certain standards and your team must win.
so, for example you might earn a farmer's badge by keeping, say 70% of the deployable turrets up and running for 70% of the map. for the HoF badge you'd have to be damn close to the flag in heavy armor for, say, 80% of the time that the flag was on the stand, and you'd have to keep the number of grabs low enough.
maybe there could be various levels of the badges, earned either by performing the job to a higher standard, or by performing it repeatedly.
obviously it would be difficult to hand out badges for some positions, like a midfielder discing incoming heavies once - but i'll bet plenty of people would play a certain position for the purpose of earning a badge, just like they'll play the same course over and over in coolboarders to earn the gold medal.