Making a new fleet... or not

wargibbon

What has happened to making a new fleet? It's broken. Tried to create one tonight to be told a new account cannot create one. We had 5 members all outside the office. One of the other guys tried to create one, told the same story that a new account cannot make one. None of us have new accounts, all with at least 4 level 50 chars and gold membership.

Can someone shed light on this please?

anazonda

Was it the team leader?

wargibbon

Team leader in each case, all level 50. Even tried it with different team leaders, in all cases the same error was given that we all had new accounts which is rubbish as we've been playing the game for ages

darkenzedd

It only usually stops new accounts from making a fleet and it does not matter if they are leader or not...

Me and one of my fellow leaders made a alt fleet to overcome the 500 member limit at the weekend with no trouble, so I am not sure why you cannot right now.

thecosmic1

The Fleet restrictions are that each Silver player must have 20 /played hours or must have gotten Zen. While it seems unlikely, it is possible that one of the 50s has not met the 20 /played hours requirement - they power-leveled to 50 in less then 20 /played hours. That would bounce the entire team from making a Fleet. I don't know that's the case. That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head.

I helped someone make a Fleet on Sunday afternoon without incident, so I know it was working fine then.

starkaos

Try getting the new accounts earn some dilithium and convert it to Zen. I heard that if new accounts have a Zen balance over 0 Zen, then they can make fleets. Otherwise, it is a matter of playing the game enough.

hrisvalar

Yeah, if that's working as intended and not some bug affecting only you, and one member of your team being below the fleet creation criteria is keeping you from forming a fleet, then that's still a bug, and needs to get fixed, cause Cryptic didn't think through it's intentions.

This check should be run on the teamleader/person who's interacting with the fleet officer only, really, since the matrix only specifies early silvers can't create a fleet. It does not say that you can't join a fleet at all. So now teammember number 5 is going to have to be kicked from the team, a random stranger picked up, the fleet made, stranger may or may not stay, and team member 5 can/may/will be invited to join it anyway. That's a needlessly roundabout way of doing things, unless Cryptic means to lock early silvers out from fleet membership entirely.

Which I'm pretty sure they don't.

cloudinfinity

It's the game's way of subtly telling you that there are enough 'small fleets' lol

intrepiduk

What happened to the lifting of the need for a 5 person team requirement to get a fleet started?

wargibbon

Thanks for the replies guys. Still unsure as to why i'm having this issue, we did have a low level 5th, but the other four including me are all gold members, but i happen to agree that the person creating the fleet should be the only one being checked. Anyway, i sent in a ticket, so curious if i get a reply or not

markhawkman

Why not just join an existing fleet? Unless you're a group of friends?

wargibbon

Group of friends so makes sense to do that from our point of view