Elite: Dangerous - Team Play Ideas

[BrotherTobious]

So lads.... how about we try and get enough players online to run 2 4 man wings (or 2 3 man) and go some serious damage at a resource point?

You might even see me boost my FDL into an asteroid.

I suggest Wednesday, 7.45pm GMT for 8 in TS having met at Zeta Trianguli Australis - Guest City - Private Group.

We find an Anarchy system with low security and go do some damage!

Of course a few of us have been online each evening doing this exact thing and anyone is free to join us.

SOunds good but cant make Wed but hope we can do more soon

[albert]

Let's agree a day that suits. Any day is fine for me apart from tonight.

[Carr0t]

I am easy. I have to admit I launch Elite from Steam, so a Steam 'event' like the CS:GO ones would go a long way to reminding me to turn up for dMw organised stuff Either way though, i'm not so reliable in what days I can make, but there's no days I can *never* make. As such as long as I know in advance that something will be on i'll try to make it

*Makes note to check forums more often*.

[albert]

I'll ask Blunt to setup steam events. Good idea.

[albert]

I know we're right into the hot season in Europe and it's quite a struggle to sit at a hot computer each night.

Powerplay has also been rather disappointing and hasn't encouraged more team engagement.

I'm open to suggestions on how we could orgaise our team play better and get people feeling they are working together.

What we do well already is welcome new commanders and help them get into the game.
We trade together well and flight at RES points well.
We help eachother out in the community goals.

Do YOU have an idea on how we can play as a team better?

Please post anything that springs to mind

[Ranualf]

Yeah, lets hope for the best.

In the mean time, I have a nice suggestion for teamwork:
Mining!

What if one guy have the laser and big power supply. The other one have big cargo, big refinery and big power supply. After each run the refinery abandon half the cargo and both go sell their part.
The point being that the refinery could be almost still scooping the ore.
Possible?

This is totally possible.
As i have said before, and will again i am more than willing to assist people in getting a better ship.
The mining nodes do not belong to anyone, thus the quickest limpet to the node wins
But seriously, if you want to go mine, thats fine by me, i`ll just drag my python into a RES, and blast away at the rocks, its got enough guns to look after itself, and protect the valuable cargo. As well as team mates. It also has a KWS (Kill Warrent Scanner)on it so if any pirates turn up, we can scan them for extra bounty.

Go have a read about the benefits of mining in powerplay in my post about it.

If we need bigger protection i`ll bring the Anaconda and sit there menacingly to keep the riff raff away. I`ll just drop off the belly cannon for a big refund and slap a type 2 mining laser on it and blast rocks all night long for you- A big power supply + a A7 power distributer will ensure rock die swiftly.

As for days- Wednesday is out for me as i`m raiding (in WoW) until 10pm GMT usually, maybe 10:30 if we get involved in a discussion about stuff after the raid.
Other than that, i`m able to be online most days.

[Gorion]

I think we should have Elite night/s, as most of the games around here.

The game feels very grindy, and without company to chit-chat, it gets boring fast.  So, we should have some kind of non-powerplay oriented goal/s.

Example: wing up and travel to unknown space, discover new systems.


Unfortunately the game lacks content, even if there are billions of systems to explore/trade/mine/kill stuff in.

[albert]

We voted Tuesdays a while back. So lets start next week? Maybe we can create a story or a wing goal to attempt to achieve.

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[ArithonUK]

There is/was a station under construction that was the object of  a community goal on the outer rim of civilised space.

While those of us with monster ships can jump vast distances, it would be a challenger to take the smaller ships along with.

Fuel limpets and an extra fuel tank or two to do the job. Treat this as a practice run for a deep space mission.

Once there, maybe undertake a group-exploration mission to find and scan a black hole. Or... there is an active community goal for exploration running right now that finishes on Thursday.

This would be a commitment of days, but would have to be a team effort.

Any takers?

[Gorion]

I'm currently still working on the metals of creation mission.  I was planning to keep working at it, as the big payout in the end will be quite the boost.

Is that the station you mentioned? (Antal)

[ArithonUK]

No, the system was New Yembo.

I was in Antal last night, but flew to Lave to hang with the Lave Radio crowd, as nobody else was online. There were some server issues last night.

[ArithonUK]

Useful thread here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=156428 for mining locations (pristine resource areas).

Maybe we could go mining as group at one of there?

[Gorion]

Sounds interesting as well.

[Ranualf]

I also have a mining group, although they operate out of a system that is about 220lyrs away from our home system.

Alternatively there are RES`s in Disci, inc a low res one (better ore), this is where i take the python out to mine, i`m thinking of changing the load out to only 1 mining laser, due to the pirate infestation.. although i suspect the server may have glitched out as i had about 5 "waves" of pirates attacking me and other mining ships in the area, which lead to a interesting 15 min or so  fight. bearing in mind i took off 2 of the weapons to make way for the mining lasers.. meaning i "only" had 1 type 3 pulse, and 2x type 2 beams lasers (fry time), but they are kind of power hungry, and can cause heat issue when used a lot...something to think about.
Also if we changed faction (i know) and got the "combat mining laser" things would be easier...just throwing that thought out as a alternative solution for the miners.


Fly safe

[albert]

I'm interested in knowing what happens to your faction weapons and kit when we defect. If we keep them or can freely buy them after wards then I think spying on the opposition could be an honourable reason to defect ;-)

Although I think Frontier decided we need a ways to keep everyone interest for a other year so have 12 factions each with a different prize and a 4 week loyalty requirement!