Okay, so in my experience playing Empire Defence as KDF, and exploration clusters as Fed and KDF, I've found both to be overly solitary. It's very hard to get a PUG going for them. So my proposal? Use a variant of the current PvP system to provide PUG teams for the existing content.
So, you'd warp into a particular expanse and see a Federation or Klingon space station. Contacting it [or beaming down - perhaps a vendor could be placed here?] brings up an option to join a queue to be auto-placed in a team mission. You'd still be able to solo the same old way, but now there's a much easier way to get into teams. When there are 5 people ready or a set amount of time has passed the group is then sent off into the mission.
Anyone else want to see this? Would really help remove the loneliness a lot of the content suffers from.
Seconded, making Empire Defense open team missions would really help.
They could really do with some variety in them too - same map, same ships, same tactics, and same spawn points for half a rank gets really boring....
Could be done by having the sector block item for the Kahless [etc] Expanse go straight into an instanced encounter rather than giving the player this big block to fly around in and find solo instances. That way you funnel people into multi-player environments.
Could be done by having the sector block item for the Kahless [etc] Expanse go straight into an instanced encounter rather than giving the player this big block to fly around in and find solo instances. That way you funnel people into multi-player environments.
Agreed - the Empire Defense missions would be better even if you changed nothing but switching them to open missions
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They could really do with some variety in them too - same map, same ships, same tactics, and same spawn points for half a rank gets really boring....
Could be done by having the sector block item for the Kahless [etc] Expanse go straight into an instanced encounter rather than giving the player this big block to fly around in and find solo instances. That way you funnel people into multi-player environments.
Agreed - the Empire Defense missions would be better even if you changed nothing but switching them to open missions