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unable to find fleets...

tggrinctggrinc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited March 2014 in The Academy
.....I recently went looking for fleets for my alts. I used the "social" button and the fleet list came up, but it only shows me a tiny fraction of the fleets that I know exist. Specifically there were several active fleets in the fleet forums that I could not find.

.....I could not find a search feature that would allow me to search by fleet name. Am I blind? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

Any help would be appreciated!
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  • psychopyro80psychopyro80 Member Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Right above the fleet name column, there is an arrow pointing down, click it and a search bar will come up.

    Keep in mind however not every fleet will be listed, some fleets choose to not be searchable by their own choice.
  • tggrinctggrinc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I am still unable to find fleets that i know exist. I can only assume that they are unsearchable.
  • mightybobcncmightybobcnc Member Posts: 3,354 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    There's an issue with the search feature. It doesn't always return all results. I believe it only searches the database for X amount of milliseconds, and when it hits the timer it returns all the results it found so far which of course excludes anything further down in the database.

    I've found that repeating a search with the same term a few times will return more results.
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  • tggrinctggrinc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I tried checking all of the options in each of the drop downs and that didn't change anything either.

    I'll try ur suggestion also.
  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    It is most likely the case that the fleet in question does not wish to be found. Perhaps they are simply uninterested in having their members bugged by random stalkers, and have thus turned that off. Why are you even looking for them?
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  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Hi doff,

    In this case I've checked the fleet search as well. It's actually pretty darn hard to find my own fleet for heavens sake. I've unchecked most of the time or language boxes and it still only randomly shows (with 5 tries, no changes in search pattern; 3x not, 2x it does).

    It's really quite aggrevating.
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  • captainpirkocaptainpirko Member Posts: 270 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    if trying to find a specific fleet to join, it may be easier to check the forums here for their recruitment thread to either their forum or a contact member. other then that, i dont really know of any reason the search fleet function is necessary. if you really want to search for a particular name, these forums have a search engine for you to check the fleet boards. if you're looking for something specific in a fleet, you can always post a topic in the recruitment forum saying what you're looking for.

    otherwise i dont know what to tell ya. the ingame fleet search has been broken for as long as i've been playing. and i've always found it too awkward to bother with when i have other options available.
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    tggrinc wrote: »
    I am still unable to find fleets that i know exist. I can only assume that they are unsearchable.

    They may well be. There is an option for fleet admirals to exempt their fleet from searches.

    However, that search fleet function is far from...er...fully functional.

    One thing I have noticed is that, if nobody from a fleet is online, the fleet doesnt show up at all.

    Given that this is for your alts, and you clearly know a little about what fleets are like, i think I would actively search out the fleet you want and get an invite.
  • thegalaxy31thegalaxy31 Member Posts: 1,211 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    That glitch has been here for... uhhh... a really long time.
    I would love to visit this star in-game...or maybe this one!
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  • lomax6996lomax6996 Member Posts: 512 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    tggrinc wrote: »
    I am still unable to find fleets that i know exist. I can only assume that they are unsearchable.

    Not necessarily. Our Fleets (Legends of Star Fleet and Legends of Qo'noS) don't show up on the Social list even with a search yet I have everything set so that they SHOULD! I'm told this is a known and old issue that has yet to be addressed... unfortunately. It may have to do with the HUGE number of fleets that exist and limitations in the games search engine.
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  • tggrinctggrinc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Thanks for the replies. I figured it was broken, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't doing something wrong before I blamed craptic coding.
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