What would be cool is if the Commander could use the mouse to highlight something on his screen, and then after a several second delay (to approximate the time it would take to inform the gunner), that highlight appears on the gunner's screen. So as a Commander you could be constantly scanning for enemies and objects to destroy and highlighting them for your gunner, who would focus on getting good, accurate shots on all of them, and who could be focusing his entire time on shooting rather than having to switch out into a Commander role.
Of course, if there is no one currently occupying a slot, you should be able to toggle which open position you are using at any time. So if it's just you and the driver, you should indeed have to switch between Commander and Gunner.
As for the Loader, to me that's just gratuitous. There's no way you could make that fun enough to warrant the player slot it would take up from the server; I'd rather the player who would be thusly employed mindlessly shoving shells into the gun be elsewhere on the server, providing a more meaningful interaction with the ongoing battle, be it by operating other tanks or just contributing to the ground forces at large.
Perhaps gratuitious to make people play loader from the start, but people SHOULD be able to play loader if they want, or take over from the dead AI loader.
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