Guilds in Elite Dangerous
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Has this thread moved on from being about guilds? Last couple of pages seem to be about PvP v PvE.
Me, too!
Inb4 merge ?
Wow, the ranting, bile-spitting and demands from some members here insisting Elite wont survive without guilds seems to perfectly demonstrate why they shouldn't be in the game.
I'm so glad the Frontier are making the game Frontier want to play not the one the guildies demand they make.
I'm so glad the Frontier are making the game Frontier want to play not the one the guildies demand they make.
Because apparently Solo and Pvt are not enough for some players, the want Open to be made safe for them also, and they conflate this idea with guilds for some reason.
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It is clear that emotions are running high here, so before you post consider how your words will be read. You could, of course, go and enjoy yourselves playing the game rather than attacking each other on the forums causing you to get angry and upset.
Take this as due notice that infractions will follow for insulting, baiting, sniping etc.
It is clear that emotions are running high here, so before you post consider how your words will be read. You could, of course, go and enjoy yourselves playing the game rather than attacking each other on the forums causing you to get angry and upset.
Take this as due notice that infractions will follow for insulting, baiting, sniping etc.
Excellent troll post. Given that frontier seem to be supporting player groups on galnet, and they are giving us more social functions and grouping options with each update, I think you will find the game they want to make is in line with the game us "guildies" want to play. Sad day for you
Its a very good point.
No one claimed the game would fail without better group support.
There is a separate thread for the open v solo arguments. No need to derail this one.
But how can we "enjoy the game" when it is so dangerous out there in Open?
Can I write this down and poster it in my dining room ?
Ugh... I've been out for few hours and this threadnaught grew 20 new pages. Where was I? Ah, yes... bring us guilds and guild mechanics, FDEV!
Productive we were! Answers given, were not!
If this was about the mechanical support for a simple guild framework in the Elite universe, this thread would be much shorter. This is about features bundled with guilds elsewhere, and as such never meant to work for this title as it stands. This is bound to grow in all directions, for the roots have been buried long ago...
Okay, so it's a massively multiplayer game without being a massively multiplayer online game. That's quite a departure. I wonder how they do that?
Actually it says MMO (pointing upwards) on the Steam page but I'm pretty sure that Steam categorised it that way not FD because it isn't an MMO (or even massively multiplayer) and I'll come back to that. I can't find any mention of "multiplayer" on ED's website can you show me the context of what it says please? I also think we should just step past the Kickstarter now. It's been kickstarted and now it's released.
It is a multiplayer game, of course, but it's not a "massively" multiplayer game in any real sense. The numbers of players in any one instance are very limited.
I would like better organisation of groups in Group mode, but not in Open mode. There is no conflict there, Open and Group are two different things. I would like Mobius (to choose a well-known example) to be able allow others control of his group or even separate the group from Mobius entirely so that if Mobius stopped playing that group could continue. Players could join without having to friend Mobius (that must be a pain in the backside for him and his comms panel must be permanently lit up like a Christmas tree). That is not the same as having tools to organised groups in Open play.
Yes, I think they do, in concept, precisely because they are limited in scope and power by the lack of organisational tools in the game.
Good for you.
My sole reason for opposing the feature(s) proposed here is that I don't believe they fit into the world of Elite.
Yeah, well was misquoting the argument on purpose. However, this game is what it is. It isn't a MMO by the ideas of the genre, but many thousands of people 'fighting' over a star system, yeah that has happened. In anyone's books that Massively Multiplayer. It just happened in instances of no more than 32 players. It also happened across Open, Solo, and Private Group. It would have been a lot easier if there were even temporary ways to manage this vast group of people in game. Whether through social guild mechanisms, or some other wizardry within the game. That's my whole point within this discussion.
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