Newcomer / Intro new player, general questions!

[saremun]

Hi everyone!

I bought the game yesterday 2015-03-16 and i have been testing and exploring the interface and the features of the game but i have many questions which requires some answers


1) If you play in "Open play" then that is the MMO version of this game right?


2) How many players can there be in one battle?


3) How do i know which systems are safe and which aren't?


4) Is there a crafting/manfacturing in the game?


5) where can i buy a new spaceship?


6) Is there a guild/Clan/Corporation right now which reqruit's players?


Thank you very much for your time and have a nice day!

 

[Abil Midena]

Hi everyone!

I bought the game yesterday 2015-03-16 and i have been testing and exploring the interface and the features of the game but i have many questions which requires some answers


1) If you play in "Open play" then that is the MMO version of this game right?


2) How many players can there be in one battle?


3) How do i know which systems are safe and which aren't?


4) Is there a crafting/manfacturing in the game?


5) where can i buy a new spaceship?


6) Is there a guild/Clan/Corporation right now which reqruit's players?


Thank you very much for your time and have a nice day!

1. I dunno if I want to touch that one. Open has human players in it. Solo only has you. Also, there are Groups, like Mobius. Only people who join the group will be seen in game (and the AI of course).

2. 4 human players. edit* sorry, 4 in a wing. 16 total.

3. None are safe from human players. As far as AI, Anarchy systems are the least safe.

4. No. Unless you consider refining Ore as a miner to be "crafting/manuf".

5. Look at the System Map. Click on a space port and it say if there is a shipyard or not. Not all shipyards sell all ships.

6. Look in the Groups Forum.

 

[Evyl Minkey]

1) The online mode means you can interact with other people. You are always online and in the same universe. Solo just means you don't see anyone else.
2) There are max 32 players in any 'instance' of the game. Whether it is a battle or anything else.
3) there are no safe systems. Places near the edges have fewer players so are less dangerous.
4) no
5) at space stations
6)we don't do guilds/clans

Good luck out there.

 

[Wyke]

Hi everyone!

I bought the game yesterday 2015-03-16 and i have been testing and exploring the interface and the features of the game but i have many questions which requires some answers


1) If you play in "Open play" then that is the MMO version of this game right?

Yup, but it is still limited. Can't remember the exact numbers but no matter how many players are in a system you will only ever see another 31 max, for some reason each system is divided into instances of 32 players.


2) How many players can there be in one battle?

In theory 32


3) How do i know which systems are safe and which aren't?

Read the forums, get a feel fr the place, but the general rule of thumb is high density systems, systems that give out rare items, or community project systems tend to attract the most PvP action. If you want a quiet game, hang out on the edge of civilization, you can go days without seeing another player


4) Is there a crafting/manfacturing in the game?

No


5) where can i buy a new spaceship?

Most stations sell them, though there is a random element to what is available


6) Is there a guild/Clan/Corporation right now which reqruit's players?

The game does not formally support Guild/Clan/Corp set ups, but that is not to say that they are not there. You just have to use out of game systems to stay in contact, Teamspeak and the like


Thank you very much for your time and have a nice day!

Hope that has been a help

 

[LeetNoob]

1) If you play in open you can meet other human players, if you play in solo you will only see NPC's

2) I believe and 'instance' can support up to 16 human players.

3) If you look at the galaxy map and filter by government types, Anarchy are generally much more dangerous but no systems are completely 'safe'

4) No

5) In any space station but not the small outposts. Which ships are sold can be a bit random but generally large population systems with high tech or industrial economies tend to stock more ships and outfitting components. Again you can find these by using the galaxy map filters.

6) There are no in-game clans but there are a lot of unofficial ones. Check out the groups forum sub section. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=65

And welcome to the game.

 

[bamber]

Open is with Other players, solo is on your own with NPC's only Open and solo use the same simulation.

with 100000 systems with statsions and around 300000 playes it will never be a MMO as you think of it but 300000 people cant impact the galaxy inwhihc you exist

I think currently its around 32 is possible most I have seen is about 15

Anarchies not safe democracies safe. Starter systems, Elite Lore system and well known systems attract human players so can become less safe

No

most stations have shipyards - weathy - large population industrial or high tech tend to have teh best ship yards - tiny poor extraction will have next to none

Not within the game but their are self organised groupings

 

[saremun]

Thanks a lot for the help, appreciate it