The lonely truth!

Cmdr K19 Jupiter

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I have been left out in the black by myself Although I recognizee this is some times the very nature of the game.
It turns the Excitement & wonder of the game in to a jaded mess of FSD jumps, Combat & mission while searching the depths of space for Friend.
Every encounter of a stranger ends by being completely Ignored or the customary 07 these encounter leave you a little colder everytime because commanders have become nothing more than intelligent npc's going A to B to complete their task. Then you have the commanders who have been turned by the blackness of space the darkness seeping into their very souls they attack on sight & like a shark smelling blood in the water.
Sadly these encounter have more emotion & thought behind them than a friendly commander simply passing with the customary 07!

Next time you see A fellow commander help restore their faith, Ask them where they are off to, Ask them what their goal is have a light conversation they might just help you out with some useful information About pirates couple systems over or need a hand completing a difficult task. The possibility's are endless but so are the potential rewards.

I helped someone few days ago with completing a kill mission, Ran into him Again to night he was flying a shinny new Diamond back Scout An proceeded to tell me he was close to giving up because he wasn't getting very far in the game he was struggling for money he had hit a wall and just couldn't get by it. So I took him bounty hunting in my python as a gunner we made a good chunk of change (for him) was About 3.4mil was so happy he could play the game the way he wanted now. So he upgraded his DBS an took off for the stars & to explore
 

Docjas18

Docjas18
Well played o7. I love the positive interaction with random cmdrs I meet in game. Unless I can get them on voice communication it is hard for me to have a conversation. No chat pad or keyboard so I rely on the controller and virtual keyboard. Makes messages short and to the point. Maybe I'll just buy a USB keyboard.
 

dreampage

dreampage
I think the main problem is that on Xbox One communication is slow. It often takes more time to type in a sentence than for the other pilot to jump somewhere else. Hence the quick o7's these days. I use a Chatpad and it's still very hard to keep a conversation going, with the ship needing control and everything. So it's not necessarily the commanders' fault.
 

GODofDUTY83

GODofDUTY83
Lets be fair. Chatting on xbox to strangers aint to great. The xbox community has never really been all that friendly to each other. Most times you engage in voice communication with someone its more often than not because they want hurl abuse your way because your play style doesnt conform to what ever is going on in their head. Or its just another mute.
If you dont accept the comms request, it's an act of aggression, open fire.
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
There are plenty of times when I'm playing that I just want to be left alone to do my own thing, but typically I play Solo then. When I'm in the mood for some interaction then yeah - it can be fantastic to have a dialog with commanders. There are always going to be unfriendly types, but my experience in Open has been largely positive and I've met some nice people that way. :)
 

Godnamedthor

Godnamedthor
I don't like voice comms very much, I have a very bad accent. Been in a Xbox party with some scotchmen, a frenchman and some guys from Poland.
Dude.... Noone had any idea what was the topic. I like text messages, had nice chats with few cmdrs, mostly out at Colonia where things go slow and easy. In the bubble there's too much suspiciousness. Sometimes they log just because you dared to greet them. But there are friendly folks too.
I met some nice guys at Nav Beacons lately while doing some combat rank progress.
 

Ohiodigijo

Ohiodigijo
Heh, i often do communicate with random commanders. However questions like "got shiny cargo?" or "cut your engines and let me scan you" sometimes leads to rude behaviour by the chosen communication partners. Looks like most of them are not interested in social interaction? My fellow colleges often talk about the same experience. Don't know what's possibly going wrong there.
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Ohiodigijo said:
Heh, i often do communicate with random commanders. However questions like "got shiny cargo?" or "cut your engines and let me scan you" sometimes leads to rude behaviour by the chosen communication partners. Looks like most of them are not interested in social interaction? My fellow colleges often talk about the same experience. Don't know what's possibly going wrong there.
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At least you communicate! I would not mind getting pirated by someone who bothered to make demands. :)
 

tafkabb

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The last person I spoke to was outside the Thargoid base. "I'd love to see inside," he said, "but I have no idea where to get the artefacts from."
Well I'd just been in and there's no way I was going to spend another three hours looking for an unknown probe for him, so I left.
It's a harsh galaxy out there.
 

oflow

oflow
What the game needs for more immersion is area voice chat that you can opt into. And make it function like an actual CB radio where you click talk and release you cant just talk all you want. Sort of like all the radio chatter you hear around a station. You could have say system wide, a police channel, a trucker channel, etc.

More people would be inclined to talk if it was as simple as say setting your comms to a channel and clicking to talk and everyone on that frequency in the vicinity could hear it. Also could be used to put something like Lave radio in the game itself.

It could even be used to have hidden missions and messages. You're sitting at the nav beacon flipping thru channels and you hear that MAYDAY distress call. Or it could be used as a way for the players themselves to actually call the police.

Or out in the black exploring you intercept that Thargoid, "Tora Tora Tora' message lol....and you have to get to a point to transmit it back before its too late.
 
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Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
BongoBaggins said:
The last person I spoke to was outside the Thargoid base. "I'd love to see inside," he said, "but I have no idea where to get the artefacts from."
Well I'd just been in and there's no way I was going to spend another three hours looking for an unknown probe for him, so I left.
It's a harsh galaxy out there.
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You're a gentleman and a scholar. :p
 

Alucard6679

Alucard6679
Docjas18 said:
Well played o7. I love the positive interaction with random cmdrs I meet in game. Unless I can get them on voice communication it is hard for me to have a conversation. No chat pad or keyboard so I rely on the controller and virtual keyboard. Makes messages short and to the point. Maybe I'll just buy a USB keyboard.
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I dug an old usb keyboard out of my closet and it makes a BIG difference lol well, worth it as I think the controller is probably the main thing holding a lot if people back from interaction. Usually all you really have time for is an o7, at least for me because I was super slow with the controller. Also makes proper piracy much more feasible.
 

Alucard6679

Alucard6679
oflow said:
What the game needs for more immersion is area voice chat that you can opt into. And make it function like an actual CB radio where you click talk and release you cant just talk all you want. Sort of like all the radio chatter you hear around a station. You could have say system wide, a police channel, a trucker channel, etc.

More people would be inclined to talk if it was as simple as say setting your comms to a channel and clicking to talk and everyone on that frequency in the vicinity could hear it. Also could be used to put something like Lave radio in the game itself.

It could even be used to have hidden missions and messages. You're sitting at the nav beacon flipping thru channels and you hear that MAYDAY distress call. Or it could be used as a way for the players themselves to actually call the police.

Or out in the black exploring you intercept that Thargoid, "Tora Tora Tora' message lol....and you have to get to a point to transmit it back before its too late.
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Something like this would be fantastic and I would imagine not that difficult for Frontier to implement

Jenner said:
At least you communicate! I would not mind getting pirated by someone who bothered to make demands. :)
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Piracy should definitely be more a role play experience than anything else (especially considering the payout)
 

Alucard6679

Alucard6679
dreampage said:
I think the main problem is that on Xbox One communication is slow. It often takes more time to type in a sentence than for the other pilot to jump somewhere else. Hence the quick o7's these days. I use a Chatpad and it's still very hard to keep a conversation going, with the ship needing control and everything. So it's not necessarily the commanders' fault.
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A cheap USB keyboard is a great alternative
 

Requiem Mortis

Requiem Mortis
oflow said:
What the game needs for more immersion is area voice chat that you can opt into. And make it function like an actual CB radio where you click talk and release you cant just talk all you want. Sort of like all the radio chatter you hear around a station. You could have say system wide, a police channel, a trucker channel, etc.

More people would be inclined to talk if it was as simple as say setting your comms to a channel and clicking to talk and everyone on that frequency in the vicinity could hear it. Also could be used to put something like Lave radio in the game itself.

It could even be used to have hidden missions and messages. You're sitting at the nav beacon flipping thru channels and you hear that MAYDAY distress call. Or it could be used as a way for the players themselves to actually call the police.

Or out in the black exploring you intercept that Thargoid, "Tora Tora Tora' message lol....and you have to get to a point to transmit it back before its too late.
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Excellent suggestion rep given.
 

NewBlacksmurf

NewBlacksmurf
Sorry but there are a lot of UI and development changes that will have to occur for me to start communicating like this. Basically Fdevs need to work with Xbox and other companies for new accessories....maybe if they partnered with Thrustmaster and Xbox/win10 it would be more feasible.

Maybe if voice comms actually worked it would help but even with a chatpad, I'm not going to intentionally go into typing as the UI design often times doesn't even show the text.

I see it when I go to save and exit but that's often 30 mins to an hour o more later.
 
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