A standalone program for PG, squad, friends management, and comms

[Han Zulu]

Right now, just to maintain friends, PG, and squad, you have to log in and wait for texture rendering preparations and whatnots. Just to check if someone signed up and approve them, especially if you have multiple accounts and you can't run them simultaneous, it's just a lot of time lost.

How about having a standalone tool/app, maybe even for phone, where those things can be done without starting the game itself. And if the comms with friends and squad could be done there as well. It's rather annoying to finally log in, and the person you wanted to send message to is logged off and the message can go through.

(On a sidenote, there are a few bugs to the comms in game. It's not always working properly. And if you turn on tabbed views it's even more buggy.)

 

[Randalph Roddleton]

I wholeheartedly endorse this suggestion.

To manage our group's Private Group, I make use of a second account which I cannot easily use concurrently with my main account - to accept any new invites, I have to log out of my main account, and back into the PG account. Similarly, if I want to do any kind of management - such as removing players that have left our group, then this has to all be done in-game.

Squadron management is slightly better, but only by virtue of you being able to assign squadron management roles to other squadron members. However, there is still that need to be in-game to manage it. Given that the rest of our group management can take place outside of the game - e.g. websites, Discord - there should be an aspiration that they same is true for the in-game group features.