Oh I thought this was about your group.
Are you bored of this game? Nobody to play with? Join a decent squadron! What are you waiting for?
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Oooh, where the burn cream at!Oh I thought this was about your group.
Actually though, it really wasn't meant to be!
No, I hijacked the thread on the 1st page.Oh I thought this was about your group.
Ah well I am at the junkyard as we speak so you had me at hell... oh.
I even triggered a full scale inter-squadron war entirely because I wanted CZ materials from a system with a cool name.
So, the Battle For Helios was my fault, and probably the best war I've ever fought in.
I think a lot of people just want to build a personal empire, and think other people will join because it’s growing.
But choosing a side, getting into politics and joining a superpower team gives better gameplay opportunities. For example, Dark Armada and Communism Interstellar have had a long running war through a number of systems. But Dark Armada are a bit of a one trick pony. They oppose CI fairly well, but they’re not really FOR the Empire in the same way that CI are FOR communist governments. DA have ended up being a bit defined by their opposition to CI.
I guess I’m saying that longevity comes from building something big, rather than opposing something.
Helios was fun, but we did wonder why such a minor system blew up into an all out war.
Do the Tuppeny Uprights exist? And if not, why not?
Now there's a one of my liking.
I sincerely appreciate your ad Aashenfox. It motivated me to see what squadrons were available. I entered no search criteria. I hit search and 12 pages / 100 squadrons popped up. No additional squadrons could be tabbed into. More than 90% of the squadrons had 4 or fewer members.
I selected my time zone (9-7 UTC) to see how many squadrons were available. 56. Again with a tiny number of members in each group.
Is the search function broken - or is the game just not that popular? In my time zone range there are more than 55 million people.
There is no search criteria by squadron size.
This feature of the game is so weird.
I selected my time zone (9-7 UTC) to see how many squadrons were available. 56. Again with a tiny number of members in each group.
Is the search function broken - or is the game just not that popular? In my time zone range there are more than 55 million people.
There is no search criteria by squadron size.
This feature of the game is so weird.
I would guess search function is bobbins.
In my case I've been deemed a faction hopper when the sole reason may be do with clash of opinions/personalities. Or a sjly action carried out by another squadron member which affects all players negatively.
Me personally, I am pretty straight forward when it comes to speaking about whatever the topic of discussion may be, so most times its typical for peeps to assume "Oh this guys clearly a (Word that rhymes with Bunt)." peeps assume I come across as offensive, stuck up when in reality my thoughts on the matter is that being forward and honest achieves better results rather than sugar coating it. XDD
However, if any XBOX players wish to party up or wing up for missions or PVE (due to lack of engineering available for me currently as I need to unlock them) combat then feel free, my Gamertag is my forum name EXE Sasser
Me personally, I am pretty straight forward when it comes to speaking about whatever the topic of discussion may be, so most times its typical for peeps to assume "Oh this guys clearly a (Word that rhymes with Bunt)." peeps assume I come across as offensive, stuck up when in reality my thoughts on the matter is that being forward and honest achieves better results rather than sugar coating it. XDD
However, if any XBOX players wish to party up or wing up for missions or PVE (due to lack of engineering available for me currently as I need to unlock them) combat then feel free, my Gamertag is my forum name EXE Sasser
I was a lone wolf player myself (says so on my avatar), but then I met a squadron leader in the black one day.. in TZ Arietis it was, on a rainy Sunday.. and it kinda draws you in! There are no requirements, but a bunch of people do their thing and it becomes a habit, sometimes even responsibility to join others in their struggle or fun time wasting. Joining a squadron is the best thing that happened to me in Elite after buying enhanced performance thrusters for Viper mk III.
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I started Elite with a friend from a group but they're not active anymore. I have tried to bring others over, but Elite made it a tedious process with locked system and powergap demanding crazy amount ofgrind. We're still having fun in Vermintide 2 tho.
But OPs willingness to share his experience of the game, as he did many times on those very forum with spot on advices, is certainly laudable.
But OPs willingness to share his experience of the game, as he did many times on those very forum with spot on advices, is certainly laudable.
In my part of the world, Elite Dangerous is very sparsely populated in Open, and I'm on PC. Deciat and Shinrarta Dezhra are very quiet, I never see more than about 3 CMDRs parked at Jameson memorial and I might be lucky to see one CMDR at Felicity Farseer's base. I pottered around buying bigger ships, and it wasn't until 6 months in that I saw my first other human player. Since then, I have joined our regional squadron and now I regularly meet with and randomly interact with people from my time zone and geographical region. Also, we get up to shenanigans. It's fun in a group, I have found.
No thanks to squadrons, I fundamentally see Elite as a single-player game with a connected universe and have little interest interacting with others beyond the occasional bit of winging up when one of my IRL friends are online.
Basically, I don't want to try to use human interaction to compensate for the game's shortcomings. Lack of goals? Politics too shallow? No real connections? That's nothing to do with not dealing with human players, those are legitimate problem areas in the game with or without squadrons and squadrons simply mark those problems. When more of the game becomes meta, it places less importance on the game itself; I'm here to play Elite, not hang out on discord and discuss collaborative fanfiction.
Even further, I'd argue that going out of your way to compensate for these in-game shortcomings using squadrons and player groups promotes unhealthy game development. If players are finding workarounds to compensate for problems in the game, then it reduces the priority of improving those parts of the game. After all, why would we need persistent NPCs when some players just hang out in open to meet other players? It encourages the game development to go down the path of space social simulator 2020 rather than a proper game in its own right. I want persistent NPCs, flavourful factions and generally a vibrant lived-in galaxy full of the buzz of a variety of activities and personalities; increasing player-player social interactions is a threat to that goal in terms of development as it can be used as a low cost substitute for a subset of the player base.
Basically, I don't want to try to use human interaction to compensate for the game's shortcomings. Lack of goals? Politics too shallow? No real connections? That's nothing to do with not dealing with human players, those are legitimate problem areas in the game with or without squadrons and squadrons simply mark those problems. When more of the game becomes meta, it places less importance on the game itself; I'm here to play Elite, not hang out on discord and discuss collaborative fanfiction.
Even further, I'd argue that going out of your way to compensate for these in-game shortcomings using squadrons and player groups promotes unhealthy game development. If players are finding workarounds to compensate for problems in the game, then it reduces the priority of improving those parts of the game. After all, why would we need persistent NPCs when some players just hang out in open to meet other players? It encourages the game development to go down the path of space social simulator 2020 rather than a proper game in its own right. I want persistent NPCs, flavourful factions and generally a vibrant lived-in galaxy full of the buzz of a variety of activities and personalities; increasing player-player social interactions is a threat to that goal in terms of development as it can be used as a low cost substitute for a subset of the player base.
I can't really say that I'm bored yet, PvE wise. But unfortunately I haven't been interested in PvP since the alpha, and even back then I thought it was rather dull — which is the result of having primarily played large scale combined arms PvP games since 2003. I just haven't found even an 8 vs. 8 fight to be interesting for around 14 years.
As I mentioned today in another thread, there really isn't anything in elite's PvE that requires communication or any kind of coordination with other players — so I don't particularly see the need to join a squadron at the moment. Also, I tend to listen to long 2-3 hour podcasts while playing.
That being said, I am always intrigued by laidback (almost
) drama free guilds — and if there's anything specific in this thread that has additionally piqued by interest, it's the shipbuilding theorycrafting. I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Edshipyard and Coriolis tweaking my favorite ships. I don't actually fly min/maxed loadouts, but rather use the numbers as a baseline for outfitting choices.
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