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Ok, time to deal with less than pleasant players

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Andika:
The game has a feature called crew formation, where you can assemble your own crew, made up of people whom you invited.  ;) Many people use this function on a daily basis because they don't always want to play with strangers (this is not elitism, some folks just simply happened to find friends in this game, which is actually quite cool, and want to play with them). Why not use this instead of introducing any restrictions/experienced vs. new player zones, whatever? If you do not like playing with strangers (either because you dont trust their abilities or because you just wanna play with people you know), simply invite folks that you like playing with, and try to make the gaming experience fun enough for them so that they would actually join that crew formation lobby and stay for several matches. You can still join public matches with that crew, get to know new folks while playing (match chat, sweathearts!!!) and even invite new people into the crew later on so that you can gather more friends. That function is not only for clans or for competitive team organizations, but for anyone who wants to play with certain people he/she knows or wants to play with.

QKO:
Andika: would I have met you? Or Spud? Or Borg? If I were to confine myself to just my friendslist? Even if you form a crew, how are you going to play if you can't trust the other crew on your team? Just join with a team of 8/12/16? Think rationally here for a second. At some point the line into the open grounds has to be crossed, unless you inhouse. And when public domain is accessible, the point of confining yourself to just your friends or trying to avoid new players becomes much more moot.

Furthermore, I think the current low level situation is a disservice to a lot of new players. I have quite a bit of piloting time because in the newbie games noone piloted. People tend to just stand there in those games and do nothing productive quite frankly. That, no matter how you want me to put it or phrase it has to be dealt with in an agreeable manner.

Swizy:
I can't even anymore :v

Andika:

--- Quote from: QKO on September 03, 2013, 06:56:37 am ---Andika: would I have met you? Or Spud? Or Borg? If I were to confine myself to just my friendslist? Even if you form a crew, how are you going to play if you can't trust the other crew on your team?

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Actually, whenever I go online, I tend to group up with my fellow Cakes (we often fill up whole ships and you can rarely see me in a non-cake lobby when other Cakes are online) and yet my friendlist gets longer day by day...and it isn't just filling up with Cakes, but with anyone whom I had a great time with. Either because we meet in the lobby only (match chat, folks, I'm serious!), or because they joined a half-Cake or 3-Cake-member ship, or because they were our funny, worthy, coolest ever enemies.

Your problem seems to be that you do not enjoy the game with certain types of players (players with certain playing styles, I would say). The solution is to try to find players with whom you do enjoy the game. As many of them as possible. It doesn't mean you will end up with the same 3 people all the time. It means that after a while you'll have lots of "3 people"s in your friendlist with whom you can play. Or even whole teams, for that matter. And I'm not saying that your friend group should be closed to new players. Sure, get to know folks! Teach new people about the game and let them know about the tricks that are not mentioned in the tutorial or the handbook. Not everyone will listen, you are right about that, but most people do want to learn the game and have fun with it.

Also, I feel that your problem with "unpleasant players" is one that many people in-game are already managing quite well by communicating with folks, and by finding people whose playing style fits them, without closing out anyone who is new to their circles or to the entire game.

Sammy B. T.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yV7nK8lF8Q

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