Pilot Archive
Thread: Grouping with POB's in space.
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Hendi
Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:22 pm
#1
Today my guild tried to have some fun in space with 2 masters taking up POB's, Nova and YT.
We had trouble getting everyone in the groups cause we had to have crew in groups on each POB and then would be full.
Nova and YT need 4 each so that is a full group of 8 :-(
Earlier today we had a group of 5 on the nova and 4 more ships and everything was ok but later tonight with 2 groups didn't work.
Is there a known bug with grouping in space? I have been looking for the grouping rules for a long time and can't see anything.
Thanks for your help
Ryaak
Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:34 pm
#2
I don't use the POB ships yet but I believe you don't need to group to invite people about your ship. Give it a try, the peope just need to be close by the starport terminal to invite them. Just group with the other master pilot so when you launch you can still see each other in space. If you all want to speak to each other with the lack of the group chat because only you and the other pilot is group you can just create a chat channel of your own.
Hendi
Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:37 pm
#3
THe problem is they can't enter turrets or seats if they aren't in a group with me.
seems bugged.. but not sure
MachXXV
Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:01 am
#4
What i have done in the past is first have each ship's crew form seperate groups on the ground and launch, gunner get in the turrets, and the pilot disbands the group, then all the pilots form a group, that way you can have 8 ships total in the group. Just make sure your gunners pee before they get in the turret, since they wont be getting out until you land 
TomoRainer
Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:11 am
#5
Heh, that's innovative. The only other solution I know of is just to create a chat channel and have everybody hang out in there. That's how we run our 20-person-per-side PVP stuff on Starsider these days, with squadron leaders commanding their groups from groupchat. It's not as efficient as having everyone in the same group, but it works well enough.
Hendi
Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:00 pm
#6
Thanks all for the info.
The chat isn't the problem as we are all same guild, we had 19 people wanting to have a good time in space and so formed up this event for the group.
What I was interesting was that earlier in the day we had 9 people grouped and it let us, but when we exceeded 10 it was error message all the time.
I wish they would make the space group a per ship system where you can have 8 ships as a group that disbands on landing.
Anyway happy flying!!
TomoRainer
Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:02 pm
#7
I actually suggested we be able to form larger groups in space that would automatically disband when you landed, but was told there were no plans for anything like that at this time.
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