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S8 battlezone - was I in there alone?

ovinspaceovinspace Member Posts: 310
edited November 2013 in Reputation System
Didn't see anyone else, some bits were blue but saw no players in the park area to which I'd been assigned by the mission. Whilst we're learning how to do these levels having a higher player density would help.
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    futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    (edit) Tl;dr: if you're not teamed with people you know, you may as well be alone.

    I headed for a red zone in the park, saw someone fighting, and went in to help them. We were doing pretty well... and then they just left. Ran away and left me there. Surrounded by a manageable number of Voth for two competent players and too many for one. Maybe they thought I could handle it? Maybe they didn't want to share any rewards? Bathroom emergency? I'll never know.

    When I respawned, there was a V-Rex circling the spawn point. Getting spawncamped by a boss didn't seem appealing so I left.

    This is not good. This is not fun. When members of my fleet and our channel put together teams to do battlezone together, I'll join them, but I will never go there solo again. Being forced to rely on pug morons who can't be trusted to help? No thanks.

    And the space zone is basically the same deal. Half the people in it seemed to be floating around doing nothing, most of the rest were off... doing nothing, I guess, since they weren't capturing points.

    I discovered that I can take on two battleships and their escorts to capture a point solo (and I actually got help a couple of times!), but what's the point (no pun) when no one is capturing the other areas? I got nothing for doing this. By the time I could impulse over to another point to capture it, the one I had left was back under Voth control. So the territory control aspect, the most vaunted feature of the space zone, is totally unrewarding.

    I saw a guy in a rainbow DBB Sovereign struggling against three frigates :/ But at least he was trying, unlike the people I saw floating around.

    How about applying an AFK penalty to the space zone? If you don't either complete a mini-mission or engage in combat for five minutes, you get booted from the zone for an hour.

    There are little missions scattered all over, that take a couple of minutes and reward a few marks. I'd like to find and do all of them, just to read the dialog once, but with such a low reward for so much flying around they have no replayability.

    I'm sorry, this started as a short reply and turned into venting. All of the new content is so beautiful, but so frustrating to actually play.
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