Cordinating Attacks in PVP & PVE

praetorniral

Forgive any ignorance on my part if this is actually already well known how to do but if you are playing not as part of any particular team in PVO and especially PVE why does there seem to be (as when engaging the Borg in the daily repeatable mission or the Crystalline Entity) no apparent means of communicating with others to coordinate the attacks and defensive positions?

As in old Captain Picard hailing the fleet in the battle in First Contact and saying: "This is Captain Picard of the Enterprise. I'm taking command of the fleet. Lock your weapons on these coordinates and fire on my signal."

frtoaster

There is a chat window and team, zone, and local chat channels.

f9thaceshigh

there is also a built in VOIP system, not as good as teamspeak, but it works.

praetorniral

Still not 100% sure other than by trial and error how this works. Nothing that just spells it all out so there are no question marks lingering seemingly here. Just focused before on the game itself without it.

trhrangerxml

I miss being able to place a marker on a player or enemy (like fire on his target or at this target), something useful in other games. Even an indicator who is the squad leader, like a star next to their name in game. I have run into some strange birds in this game, not that that is anything unusual for an MMO, but I've disabled my in game VOIP for that vary reason. I've also got a strong suspicion that some people don't use, disable or don't know how to use the chat system in this game. My friend goes in and disables the chat and is only really social when he plays with me and my fleet, otherwise he just comes in, queues SB24 and shoots some stuff.

Since this is a Star Trek game, it tends to also attract people who are fans, but don't necessarily know how to play MMOs, or understand the concept of the ships tier system. You can find Miranda and Connis in Mirror Events and every now and again one of these players stumbles in to an STF (this is my personal favorite). Last night, there was a Scorpion Fighter in the Mirror Event, lets just say the Stadi just sort of glanced at them and they went pop.

Being able to highlight something in game (or paint) is something universally understood, "Oh look, its got a big target over its head and everyone seems to be shooting at it".

praetorniral

trhrangerxml wrote: »

Since this is a Star Trek game, it tends to also attract people who are fans, but don't necessarily know how to play MMOs, or understand the concept of the ships tier system.

Which is EXACTLY the category I come under. So if not by Cryptic itself a rundown of the basic ropes by those more in the know about that side of it would be greatly appreciated.

trhrangerxml

Lots of Fleets out there that are willing to show you the ropes and are not to demanding, may I suggest the Reddit fleet (donno if they are actively recruiting, but I've heard lots of good things about them) and PriorityOne (I think they have 2 fleets now).

glassguitar

praetorniral wrote: »

Forgive any ignorance on my part if this is actually already well known how to do but if you are playing not as part of any particular team in PVO and especially PVE why does there seem to be (as when engaging the Borg in the daily repeatable mission or the Crystalline Entity) no apparent means of communicating with others to coordinate the attacks and defensive positions?

As in old Captain Picard hailing the fleet in the battle in First Contact and saying: "This is Captain Picard of the Enterprise. I'm taking command of the fleet. Lock your weapons on these coordinates and fire on my signal."

http://www.hilbertguide.com will show you how to set up keybinds to do this. Also the default settings will act so that if you target a teammate and then fire weapons you will automatically switch to their target.

frtoaster

praetorniral wrote: »

Still not 100% sure other than by trial and error how this works. Nothing that just spells it all out so there are no question marks lingering seemingly here. Just focused before on the game itself without it.

You can communicate with your teammates through the chat window. The default position of the chat window is in the lower, left-hand corner. Right-click on the input box of the chat window and select [Team]. Then, type something.