I'm sure this must've been mentioned many times previously, but as a new player to STO I have found the fleet forming to be quite a frustration.
#1 - requires 5 team mates to form a fleet.
Is this *really* necessary? Since one can form a fleet with 4 random people and then afterwards those 4 randoms leave anyway, does it really serve much of a purpose? I can understand that the most likely reason is/was to stop a single player forming a fleet in order to have the extra fleet bank space all to himself, and obviously an ideal fleet should be larger than 5 players, however based off a limited time in spacedock watching zone chat, I can safely say there's quite a few players forming fleets with less than 5 since there's almost always someone in chat paying people to help form them...
I have struggled to create a fleet since it's very seldom all my friends (who have just started STO too) are all online at the same time.
#2 - team must be together to form it...
This is my biggest gripe. So I finally get a team of 5 together, go to form fleet - and can't. All team members must be on same map... fine. So I get them all to spacedock. Nope, not enough. They can't just be on spacedock, no that would be tooo easy. They have to be on the same instance too. Well 30min later, we finally manage to get everyone on the same instance (the instance list is so broekn it deserves a seperate topic), and I realise the 1 alt I made since there aren't 5 of us yet, has to wait another 18 hrs before it can be used for a fleet...
Overall, my initial impression has been very low of this game mechanic... It makes it very hard to actually form a fleet in order to keep friends together. throughout this game I've actually felt like thay've tried to make an MMO without the second M...
I would love to see the "same instance" requirement removed, would make fleet forming a MUCH smoother/easier experience. I also think the number requirement should be dropped, perhaps to 2 or 3, but that's less of an issue.
Are you a F2P player then you are limited too making a fleet you have too make sure you got 20hours of playing time too pretty much do any thing. http://startrekonline.com/f2p_features
As you pointed the fleet limitations are in place to stop those just wanting the extra bank space. I think the reason for them being in the same place is so that player can automatically accept any request that are given, which can be difficult if people are in a mission. That said I have never created fleet, what i've staid just seems logical to me.
to your problem - why dont u just ask in zone chat? im sure there will be someone to help you.
AND - perhaps it would be a good idea to join some bigger existing fleet, as the members can answer your questions, help you out.. etc till u become a veteran :cool:
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http://startrekonline.com/f2p_features
to your problem - why dont u just ask in zone chat? im sure there will be someone to help you.
AND - perhaps it would be a good idea to join some bigger existing fleet, as the members can answer your questions, help you out.. etc till u become a veteran :cool: