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fovrel
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Or a one-man/one player fleet. I have one and I love it. One of my characters was in a small fleet and at first it was rather disorganised. This guy was leader, left, that guy became leader, promoted somebody else to leader etc. Everybody seems to have lost interest and at the end nobody was active anymore.
Then I hyjacked the fleet, kicked the rest of the members and put my alts in it. Since I am a hardcore soloplayer, I keep the fleet for myself. The good things are the the fleetbank, a tremendous capacity for inventory space. That alone gives anybody with a lot of alts a good reason to have his own fleet.
Next, you can handle everything on your own terms at your own pace. I can distribute my characters resources to the fleet as I like.
The downside is that it takes forever to get upgrades for your fleet since you have to do everything on your own. However this is not as bad as it seems. Fleets are in the end group projects and are not designed for soloplay. As a soloplayer I do not experience this as an obstruction. And, this game is very solo friendly, very grind friendly, I started with a death fleet with no finished projects. I have finished about 4 projects in each tier. I am about 60% in the first level and expect to have a level 1 starbase within two or three weeks. All my alts will have lots of fleetmarks.
It would be great if we could create fleets as a single player. What about you? Solo play, solo fleet, do you like it or do you think it has no purpose in an MMO?
Then I hyjacked the fleet, kicked the rest of the members and put my alts in it. Since I am a hardcore soloplayer, I keep the fleet for myself. The good things are the the fleetbank, a tremendous capacity for inventory space. That alone gives anybody with a lot of alts a good reason to have his own fleet.
Next, you can handle everything on your own terms at your own pace. I can distribute my characters resources to the fleet as I like.
The downside is that it takes forever to get upgrades for your fleet since you have to do everything on your own. However this is not as bad as it seems. Fleets are in the end group projects and are not designed for soloplay. As a soloplayer I do not experience this as an obstruction. And, this game is very solo friendly, very grind friendly, I started with a death fleet with no finished projects. I have finished about 4 projects in each tier. I am about 60% in the first level and expect to have a level 1 starbase within two or three weeks. All my alts will have lots of fleetmarks.
It would be great if we could create fleets as a single player. What about you? Solo play, solo fleet, do you like it or do you think it has no purpose in an MMO?
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Normally i solo play, but unusually I joined a fleet.*
As for your 1 man fleet idea, i dont really support it, while for some people its a challenge for others its just an exploit for x amount of bank spaces.
Also what worries me a little is that you say you hijacked the fleet you are in, while it was in a shambles/disarray according to you, its still a no-no in my books.
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My normal reasons for not joining clans/fleets/guilds is that in the past I've found people suck. They dont pull their weight but want the rewards, and steal, so i dont normally bother. However the fleet that invited me to join their ranks is very kind, so fleets are good and bad in their own ways. Its just down to the people.
i disagree, while a fleet of one is pritty bad i have a fleet of 3 with each having a couple of alts as well. its basically a family fleet and whats wrong with that. at least we're active. theres fleet filled with inactive characters
I find people's objections to solo fleets ridiculous, the alternative would be a whole bunch of solo players who still wouldn't have anything to do with you or your fleet.
p.s. I agree with other posters, that's its not the best way to obtain a fleet. There are people out there (including me) who would help you start a solo fleet with the intention of leaving it to you afterwards.
Have you ever considert that maybe that person started the fleet, that he puts lots of money in it, and you ripping them off ?
Sorry but i think you should be banned ( For Ever )
The other members hadn't been active for more than a month. It was a death fleet. When I took over leadership, I sent a message to the other members that they would be kicked if they didn't show up within a weak. I also made it so that they could take from the fleetbank what they want. However none did show up.
It was a roleplaying fleet and the concept was a bunch of marauders that scavenged the universe. For the character that I play, it was a business opportunity.
Salvaged is more in line what actually is the case. The word hyjacked is more in line with the (roleplaying) concept of the fleet and its members. But again, it is not something I am proud of. It was leaving and creating a fleet of my own, for wich I need 4 team members or take control and do things my way.
Anyway, this is not about how to get a single-player fleet, but what you can do with it as a solo player, which, I think, is not bad at all.
Yes, you can have a lot of fun with a solo fleet, i certainly do. I don't like raids so I don't participate in STFs and i've never enjoyed PvP so there's not a lot of end game left for a player like me. Building a Star Base and the Foundry are what keep me playing STO and fill my free time. With patience, i'll one day have a full tier 5 starbase, even if it takes years, and you can too.
Enjoy the game, that's why they make them.
can't wait to start an embassy :P
Are you schzio? At the begining of the 2nd line you used the term "We" have a T1 base - does that "we" mean you? or do you think your alts are different people/players?
just checking:eek:
It's a multiplayer game. There are going to be things in it you can't do, or can't do well, without grouping. If you want to only experience the one-player things, that's fine; but don't complain that the MMORPG you're playing has "M"s in the description.
You read that right
and i might be
I have no complaints myself, and frankly the game wouldn't be much fun without the other players around. You guys say some of the funniest things in chat
You'll just have to except that there are reasons for doing so.
p.s. alt fleet then if you don't like solo fleet
Our fleet is now more then a hundred strong and slowly but surely we are making progress on our holdings that we never did with the old leadership.
I know many of you would say that I was should be banned for what I did, but I honestly believe I've done nothing wrong and that my actions were in the best interest of the fleet.
(Several of the original leaders did return to the game shortly after LoR went active and demanded I re-instate them. I did not and they started to cause trouble so I was eventually forced to kick them.)
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
I like the way you think sir.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
Months later two of the prodigal fleet ex-leaders returned and sent a whiny mail. I'd reached a dead-end growth-wise with such a tiny fleet so I happily left it to them (did not rob the bank - dammit Jim, I'm a hospital ship captain not a salvager) and coincidentally got invited to a sensible, international T5 fleet half an hour later.
I came away knowing how fleets run (mechanically) and with my own badge design on my ship. It made it easy to digest the 400,000 fleet credit "promotion fee" at my new fleet, since T5 is seriously a lot of work. I just wish I could continue to play with my insignia. It is a waste of cool tools to restrict that to the 1 in 100 fleet leaders. Perhaps a second emblem for the other shoulder could be done, rationalized as a fleet subdivision...
Anyway, a one-active-member fleet made perfect sense for me, more options to play with and more secure than a 5 active-member fleet.
I say this everyday to my fleet,
"You need play in group, you are playing a mmo... Not a single player online":D:D
Me and 1 RL friend started our own fleet couple months back. Its great, we have full Tier 3 Starbase, Tier 2 Embassy almost tier 3 and first tracks of Dil Mine completed as well. I like the 2 man fleets because we have access to as many fleet credits as we want, and dont have to worry about being shot out of project donations due to the volume of people contributing in large fleets. I own all the Tier 5 fleet gear already from purchasing access from another fleet so reaching that point is not something we are going for with this 2 man fleet. We wanted Tier 3 and got their farily easily.
I guess that ridiculous banner belies your ridiculous answer. I'm going to make a forum banner and put my resume on it, my bank account info, and all the girls I dated so I can attempt to impress people as I troll them for no reason. I have an idea mr ex-moderator/beta player/Arc janitor, if you got nothing good to add, don't.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I've had my Alt Fleet since about a month after the game started in 2010 (March).
12 toons in it now.
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