Greetings commanders,
If you’re receiving this email it’s because you have registered as part of our player groups. First of all thank you - both for registering with us but more importantly for being a really vital part of our community.
I’m conscious I haven’t been in touch recently regarding player groups and with Gamescom and Elite Dangerous Horizons announcements time has been limited. So I just wanted to send a quick update to keep you informed of where we are.
So the first thing is if you haven’t noticed you’ve been added to the groups register. Which means we will be able to keep you updated with information and events or groups emails – like this one!
Ranks
As we mentioned in the forums we will be setting group ranks. These ranks will change over time but essentially they are our way of being able to offer the right level of support to each group. Once we’ve assigned the ranks we will let you know. This is really just about being able to give the right level of support to each group. Whether that be a regular group skype chat or promotion for a competition or event. This won’t affect your ability to participate in CG’s or establish your minor faction.
In the meantime if you have an event of competition you want to run email
groups@elitedangerous.com
Minor Factions
Very shortly (I was hoping today but time has ran away with me) we would like to be able to inform everyone how they can register for their own official in game minor faction. This will be an email registration process to begin with and a few details.
As a group you will be able to select the name, location and details of your faction and it will be added in game. If you have already adopted a minor faction then you will be able to (for a short period) be able to register that minor faction as your own, with some suitable checks done of course.
You will only be able to have 1 official minor faction.
Becoming a power
More details of this will follow on once we have established the minor factions.
Otherwise I just wanted to say thank you again (I might do that a lot). This time for the patience you’ve shown over the past few weeks while we make sure we have everything we need to be able to support you. As always please do get in touch if there is anything you need at all.
I’m actually away next week but Ed is on hand to pick up any requests you might have. Feel free to keep in touch with myself or Ed if you need anything. However, always do email
groups@elitedangerous.com also so we can make sure someone in the team sees it.
Thanks,
Zac
