It is beyond ridiculous how botched up your grouping is. Trying to run exploration missions with a friend is a chore. The initiate mission interface is ambiguous to start with, and then using it makes things worse. Team mates end up on different maps, you don't get the right Boffs in the away team, sometimes you end up with completly different missions, the mission dialogs ocassionally cause mutually exclusive missions states. I just love getting fired on with a dialog box in my face because my teammate got done reading first.
How hard can it be to fix this MOST BASIC OF MMO FEATURES? Aren't you capable of fixing it?
This is ludacrous. Seriously.
Not to mention the dialog box you try to pass off as a comms screen is a sorry MFing piece work for a Star Trek 'comms' user interface.
I've never tried to deliberately group with someone, but from what I've heard it's pretty bad.
Just wait until you see what you have to go through to do a fleet action with your fleetmates instead of random strangers.
Yes, it's bad. I've been waiting patiently for almost 2 months without saying much. I figured it was something that didn't require attention BUT, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. This is something that needs fixed YESTERDAY.
I've got a character that I only play in a group. It hasn't been that bad. The exploration mission system did take a bit of getting used to, but we've got it down now. And our officers are always the ones we selected. Could it be improved? Sure. But it isn't as bad as all that.
I feel the grouping the game is almost anti-social. I have yet to talk to anyone in a group. Noone is looking for groups in the zone chat like other games. I feel at the moment this game is like Guild Wars except it has a monthly fee. I for one would love to see in-game voice chat like they have in lord of the rings online. I love that we dont need to eplxain vent 10000 times there we can just all switch to in-game voice.
I think that would make things a little more personal anyways.
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Just wait until you see what you have to go through to do a fleet action with your fleetmates instead of random strangers.
Its pretty bad yeah. And fleets are bad too. Devs are working to make it better, and I hope add in a way to have more then 5 man parties.
Yes, it's bad. I've been waiting patiently for almost 2 months without saying much. I figured it was something that didn't require attention BUT, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. This is something that needs fixed YESTERDAY.
Well, can't say I didnt try.
I don't expect someone from Cryptic to respond to each and every thread.
Having said that, I hope they're working on it. I really really do. Social aspects are the most important part of an MMORPG.
I think that would make things a little more personal anyways.