CZs in open

[jnTracks]

Do they ever work right when there are multiple CMDRs around?

Trying to do the thing and participate in what's going on in the game but I enter the CZ to find 2 CMDRs and 1 NPC. I join the CG side and find that we are split. The CMDR on my side is sitting apparently AFK, the enemy CMDR and the NPC light me up and with no other ships in the instance I quickly have to bail.

(Another CMDR decided to interdict and finish off a ship with no shields while I was going to wait for them to recharge... but that's a different story)

I went back and found the same thing. A CMDR sitting, waiting for any ships to arrive and nothing else. We decided to take the fight to the compromised NAV beacon where there was much hunting. But not on the higher level of a CZ and it totally doesn't count toward the community goal.

So what's up with this crap? I remember the last time there was a CG with conflict zones it was the same crap. Couldn't get them in instance properly no matter what we tried.
How can it be that a community goal is only really playable in solo because the battles don't instance in open when other CMDRs are present?
It's so discouraging. I was feeling like so many people were down about the game lately and I was one of the rare people still having fun, but I'm not feeling great that I can't get events to work.

 

[CMDR Big Mike]

Do they ever work right when there are multiple CMDRs around?

Trying to do the thing and participate in what's going on in the game but I enter the CZ to find 2 CMDRs and 1 NPC. I join the CG side and find that we are split. The CMDR on my side is sitting apparently AFK, the enemy CMDR and the NPC light me up and with no other ships in the instance I quickly have to bail.

(Another CMDR decided to interdict and finish off a ship with no shields while I was going to wait for them to recharge... but that's a different story)

I went back and found the same thing. A CMDR sitting, waiting for any ships to arrive and nothing else. We decided to take the fight to the compromised NAV beacon where there was much hunting. But not on the higher level of a CZ and it totally doesn't count toward the community goal.

So what's up with this crap? I remember the last time there was a CG with conflict zones it was the same crap. Couldn't get them in instance properly no matter what we tried.
How can it be that a community goal is only really playable in solo because the battles don't instance in open when other CMDRs are present?
It's so discouraging. I was feeling like so many people were down about the game lately and I was one of the rare people still having fun, but I'm not feeling great that I can't get events to work.

i found them to be really empty and slow to refil. However today the nearby medium one seemed to never end. To the point where I managed to get 700k in bonds before bugging out

 

[jnTracks]

i found them to be really empty and slow to refil. However today the nearby medium one seemed to never end. To the point where I managed to get 700k in bonds before bugging out

In open, with humans present? I feel like they work fine in solo or when nobody is on. When other CMDRs are zooming around it's like whoever gets to it first gets a battle, and then nothing instances after that, if they leave or not.

 

[CMDR Big Mike]

In open, with humans present? I feel like they work fine in solo or when nobody is on. When other CMDRs are zooming around it's like whoever gets to it first gets a battle, and then nothing instances after that, if they leave or not.

Yes in open. There was only one other CMDR in my instance. When it was really bad, there were like 4 or more. I think everyone needs to clear out in order for it to reset, but some people will just sit in there

 

[Alone Wulff]

It seems CZs can't handle more than one player in the same instance.

I've given up and gone back to my home system. Unlike many (I suppose...) I personally joined the CG to fight WITH other players, or against them - I imagined that was the point of the Community part of Community Goal.

Oh well, maybe the next combat one will be back to bounty hunting.

 

[jnTracks]

It seems CZs can't handle more than one player in the same instance.

I've given up and gone back to my home system. Unlike many (I suppose...) I personally joined the CG to fight WITH other players, or against them - I imagined that was the point of the Community part of Community Goal.

Oh well, maybe the next combat one will be back to bounty hunting.

Yeah. This.

It should be very embarassing for the devs... And I feel bad that I have this complaint, in a time of many complaints... but it's been, as far as I can tell, years since this hasn't worked right and nobody has been quiet about it.