They're not reinventing terminology, they're just using English... but this appears to have confused some people.![]()
Hopefully that wasn't aimed at myself as I understand perfectly what FD are doing. With English being my native tongue I still think they could have used better terms as whilst what they selected was technically correct (from an English point of view) it goes against gaming terminology used in the past that only serves to confuse those that don't read the DDF archives.
To prove the point:
This is not correct.All Players Group (I called it group) = The multi-player server.
Private Group ( or Alliance) = A "private group" on the server (see above)
Solo Group ( or Solo) = Single-player with the ability to still communicate with "friends" if the "soloist" has that enabled.
An alliance is not a private group, it's a subset of players within the group united temporarily together.
- Who you play with online forms part of your "group" - that can be everyone (all pilots); a subset (friends) or solo.
- Within that group you can form an alliance to team up with people to complete a common goal.
For example: Kroy is currently setting up a "guild" that consists of Alpha backers. Once the game goes live he could if he wanted to set up a Group that consisted of only these people. When the pilots start the game and join that group they will enter the game and only see these pilots. Whilst playing a group of say 4 of them could set up a temporary alliance and go kick in some pirate base together. Alliance is a subset of the group.
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