I hope I can explain this right... here goes:

In our crew we're putting together street gangs (capos/bosses who lead smaller groups of crew members under them - helping mentor them, lead them in crew contests etc) this is a way to help them train up new leaders for the game and to help make it so all the weight of keeping the crew feeling connected doesn't fall on a single (or three) people's shoulders.

These street gang leaders are made sponsors in the group so folks can see the people 'under them' or 'in their gang' on their profiles, which is GREAT except I can't do that with everyone in the crew.  People who are already in the crew can't be linked to their gang leader in the same way as people they recruit into the crew after becoming sponsors. 

I know it's a small thing & really it's not NEEDED cause I can assign people to each other all day long and not NEED it to show on the site - but would be really neat and help street gang leaders and their 'gangs' feel like they have an identity and connectivity that is visual on the site as well as in our notes.

So - is there any way that we could set up our back end to allow a CL to assign crew members under a sponsor/gang leader?

What is your idea?

Allow CLs to assign members of the crew to 'sponsors' or 'gang leaders' as we call them in our crew.
 

Has your idea already been suggested in some form or another before?

I do not believe this has come up before but keeping it 100% real I may not have searched the right terms.
 

What does your idea entail?

Some sort of alteration to code to allow CLs to assign members to a sponsor in their crew.
 

How can your idea be successfully implemented into the game as it stands?

I would think this would be a lot of work for the coders (perhaps) but otherwise it shouldn't be a major change to game function... it could allow for people to use a similar system to the one I described above where we try to encourage people to teach leadership skills and what goes into trying to organize and lead a small group.
 

What major changes would be needed to make your idea work?

Code changes.  I do not know if this is even possible.
 

What is the positive impact of your idea?

Hope that people will train up new leaders in the game!
 

What is the negative impact of your idea?

Not sure ... maybe gang leaders being saddled with someone they don't like, but that's the situation for most leaders in the game (there is always someone who drive you crazy!)  So even learning positive ways to work with those you don't like, is a good thing.
 

How may your idea affect the rest of the userbase?

No clue.  I'm sure someone will reply with input on it though.
 

Wow thank you!  :)

Is this still happening?

I made this mockup on how it'd look on profiles.

https://i.imgur.com/rYnXWco.png?1

Having had a few CL runs under my belt now, I still think this would be a useful and fun addition to the game.

Comes in to +1 having his own rocket...........Dammit. But like the initial idea that was posted. I remember these being used loads in the old times. 

We need subcrews

We do NOT need sub crews! Try getting your shit off elsewhere Tommy