Playing with friends/group needs improvement and fast

We have waited this game for long time and had numerous chats how amazing it will be to take down bigger ships with strength in numbers but there are few problems…

1.
It seems to be really hard to get into same instance with your friends.
For example when we were trying to get on same station, we never found each others from there.
Same thing happened with belt clusters when we tried to go check if there were any pirates trying to take down miners.

We have tried to log out and check that we are on the same server and log in same time etc. but it doesn't help.
Only thing is to do is to jump on super cruise, cross your fingers and go back. Sometimes it works, mostly not.
And when we finally got there (all 4 of us). We saw different players / NPCs which makes it impossible to coop. In fact it looks really stupid when your friend is chasing “nothing”.
Once we were actually shooting the same NPC but when it exploded and I was cheering, one of my friends said its still alive in his screen with like 50% hp.

2.
When you accidentally shoot your friend in fight, it markers him as a enemy and there is no option to forgive it.

3.
Why you can't see your friends in radar in different color or different symbol? Would make it easier to spot them rather than cycling through all targets.

4.
How do you escort your friend with cargo? When someone pulls him out of super cruise there is nothing you can do but wish him luck. No FSD signal or anything to jump in. So there goes point of escorting.


Travel safe
 
Aye, I'm really hoping for some Co-Op... But isn't there a way to organise groups from the start menu? I haven't tried it as yet as I have no friends who play Elite as yet.
 
I couldn't agree more here, the mechanics to play with friends are pretty much non existent. I play on TS with a few people and we have had no reason to meet up yet because there is either no need to (No mission sharing, escorting is pointless because of what has been stated etc) or we know how much of a headache it will be. Grouping needs to be implemented as soon as possible. As does a way to share cash from missions.

I love this game so far and I just hope these changes, among others, are coming fast.
 
It's a shame that ED has shipped with such poor co-op capability. It will come, sure; nevertheless, a shame.
 
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