Newcomer / Intro Playing with friends

poo417

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I played the original game and have watched closely and pre ordered this game with the promise of play with your friends. Now that we have the game what we actually do is spend the night simply looking for each other. We have a mumble server so it makes it fairly easy to we are here go to the nav beacon. The we scan make sure we are all there. Sadly as soon as someone wanders off to scan a ship they are simply lost as the vanish from contacts. You are then trying to explain what way u went. Hide and seek is not fun. The if we do all get locked on the shared target only one person gets the bounty??? Hello shared loot??? It must be worse for people with cargo ships and some mates as escorts.

Please tell me this not how it's going to be. You hade a wonderful recreation of the original game but have completely missed the target for an MMO multiplayer game.
 

Suicidal Tendencies

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Hi there,

Hang tight. FD have said that "Wings" will be introduced early next year. This is exactly what we need: Jump together, hunt together, share bounty together (and share fines; together). Playing with friends is not great at the moment, what I tend to do is use the ability to look at a commodities market in one station, whilst my friends look at the markets in other stations - saves hunting around for the best trade deal
 

Muthax

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Yes, like ST said in early 2015 (probably january) they'll introduce the full grouping package (wings)
And more stuff will follow
 

poo417

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Thats a huge relief. Guess we just need to work on making money now so we can get rolling when they sort it out.

Hopefully the the devs deliver so many game companies nowadays don't give a monkeys once they have the money.
 

Muthax

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poo417 said:
Thats a huge relief. Guess we just need to work on making money now so we can get rolling when they sort it out.

Hopefully the the devs deliver so many game companies nowadays don't give a monkeys once they have the money.
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This isn't a game like others, it's a crowfounded effort to make a game that both FD and the users WANTED to play. Missing manuals and features aside, what you see is the product of fans and devs working together. If you are interested in the various design choices and why they were taken, you can read here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=36

So yeah, I wouldn't worry

have fun Commander!
 

Juvecu

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I'm really looking forward to when wings get added, games like these I want to enjoy with a group of friends. For now we join a group (set up through the game menu) and then everyone has to hyperjump at least once before we get to see each other if we are in the same area. If one of us drops out at a USS or somewhere the others have to drop out on their Low Energy FSD wake. If you're on a Mumble server then this should be easy to coordinate. Wings will make it all a lot easier and the loot sharing will be ace.
 
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