Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Publish 8.2 Feedback: Group Enhancements
Thunderheart wrote:
We added two enhancements to groups in this morning's hotfix:
Groups
- When in a group, a waypoint to the nearest group mission is displayed. The nearest mission is the mission closest to the most people in the group.
- Group member status bars will continue to report position information, even if the player is on the other side of the world. If the group member is on another planet, the planet name is displayed in the status bar.
Have you been able to take advantage of these items yet? What have been your experiences?
Good features, finally we have this mission waypoint for the group, as it is stated in the manual 
And the group members even very far away, works fine, updates fine, is useful.
My opinion: good point adding these features for groups. 
We have experienced numerous problems with the group display:
a) Names being lost. Sometimes only planet shows up.
b) Wrong planets - very common to show up the planet incorrectly
c) Player race instead of player name
d) All possible combinations of the above.
Additionaly, we had a case when our group (around 10 people) got split, so the leader was left grouped with 2 LD players (that should be auto-removed around that moment) while others got into two separate groups.
Last night was my first time in a group for ages, just to try out these new things.
I found that the yellow waypoint for nearest mission worked correctly, and correctly updated after every mission our group did. We also got the full reward for each mission and all missions appeared.
The range thing worked, I can't remember if the name stayed but when our leader went away for a few mins it showed the exact distance and location that he was from us. However no one ventured off planet so dont know if that works yet.
Thunderheart wrote:
We added two enhancements to groups in this morning's hotfix:
Groups
- When in a group, a waypoint to the nearest group mission is displayed. The nearest mission is the mission closest to the most people in the group.
- Group member status bars will continue to report position information, even if the player is on the other side of the world. If the group member is on another planet, the planet name is displayed in the status bar.
Have you been able to take advantage of these items yet? What have been your experiences?
When players in group go out of range, they, more often than not, no longer show their names on the group bar. Last night we had over 15 people in group, I saw only 4 actual names, the rest were just distances and arrows. I also have not seen any group members show what planet they're on, even though I went to several other planets while grouped.
There needs to be a way to turn off the next closest mission. I found it to be rather annoying when I was taking a break from doing missions with the group.
I'm sure there are a thousand bugs in this thing, but the overall addition is really great!
PVP last night was well coordinated with me getting people rez'd must faster and no one got the timer hit.
Good job. Good addition devs.
Cafa Asia
I loved this on TC so I'm pleased to see it in live now.
The mission updates are working well, but there is an inconsistency of member information where members (even the leader) fall off different people's lists at times, but then come back when near each other.
These are 2 of the nice feature I have seen added in a long time. Now no one needs to ask who has closest mission we just travel to it. Its also nice if your group leave you behind while looting/ harvesting. I think it will good in PVP the group directional update make it easier to find the doctors.
Thunderheart wrote:
We added two enhancements to groups in this morning's hotfix:
Groups
- When in a group, a waypoint to the nearest group mission is displayed. The nearest mission is the mission closest to the most people in the group.
- Group member status bars will continue to report position information, even if the player is on the other side of the world. If the group member is on another planet, the planet name is displayed in the status bar.
Have you been able to take advantage of these items yet? What have been your experiences?
I love both of these additions.
One possible bug to note:
PETS in a group with you still disappear when you go out of range. Was this intentional?