Newcomer / Intro I bought the game to play with my friends.

[Deleted member 56127]

Its 4pm, not 4am.

THe problem i have is that i CAN NOT plot a route on the Galaxy Map to my friend, not even CLOSE to halfway. So we are just guessing.

If we could have plotted a route to ANY system of our choice. And start making our way there. Constantly setting new respawn/checkpoints/homesystems then I would have been fine. It could be because I do not know how to do those things. Nothing in game is remotely telling me I can. We have docked in new systems, died and still respawned back at "home" system i was given randomly on character creation.

I hope you guys can see the frustration this is causing. The fact that since I made this post me and my friend have still not been able to meet up. WE are both still jumping and jumping and jumping. IT doesnt feel like we are making any progress.

Most people start off in different systems quite aways from eachother. Your ships will have lesser modules and loaned weapons. With that said your starter ship is only capable of jumping 5ly until you save up for a larger FSD (jump drive) to jump longer distances. Once that is done that will make meeting up easier. The navigation computer will only give you economical and fastest routes based on how far you can jump. At first in the beta stages I was annoyed but I soon appreciated this aspect of the gameplay. Elite Dangerous isn't a game for everybody, it is a space simulator. The navigation computer removes the guesswork.

 

[UKJay]

Try this:

https://cmdr.club/routes/

Its 4pm, not 4am.

THe problem i have is that i CAN NOT plot a route on the Galaxy Map to my friend, not even CLOSE to halfway. So we are just guessing.

If we could have plotted a route to ANY system of our choice. And start making our way there. Constantly setting new respawn/checkpoints/homesystems then I would have been fine. It could be because I do not know how to do those things. Nothing in game is remotely telling me I can. We have docked in new systems, died and still respawned back at "home" system i was given randomly on character creation.

I hope you guys can see the frustration this is causing. The fact that since I made this post me and my friend have still not been able to meet up. WE are both still jumping and jumping and jumping. IT doesnt feel like we are making any progress.

 

[3LDRITCH]

Protip: You cant play with your friends. This is less like WoW, and more like Darksouls. Even if you are in the same location at the same time it's unlikely you will be visable to each other. If you do manage to meet up it will only be for a brief moment. One of you gone forever at the next instance load.

 

[vonFelty]

I gave feed back when they changed the starting point from Azeban City to random as it would be terrible for friends trying to meet up.

But I don't see that changing now unless the complaints make threadnaughts. There needs to be more co-op tools and there needs to be starting points for players who want to play together from the get go.