Cimarb, on 23 February 2015 - 08:50 AM, said:
Anyways, what I mean is that there is a lot of information to base your choices on now. Look at the numbers dropping on the planet. Look at the "Queue Info" tab, not the "Planet Info" tab (which is the default, for some reason). See how many spots are open, and then drop on the parent that is going to be most useful to your size group (even if it is a group of 1). Do NOT just blindly click on the first call to arms that pops up!
Or.......just join a unit, lol
I didn't know about the queue info tab. That is interesting and I will try and make sense of that. I was talking about the "Planet Finder." Just now I am looking at some planets that show a lot of attackers/defenders, but the queue info shows no one queued. I guess that means everyone is already fighting, which is probably what you mean. If all of the possible fights on the planet are already happening there would be no queue for another one until at least one match was over. THAT would account for a significant chunk of waiting time.
As far as joining a unit goes, maybe that's a question for another thread, but I'd actually like to do that if I could find the right one. Particularly one that is friendly to newbies and has people in it willing to help people learn. Or a casual one, or both. Problem is, from all the research I have tried to do I still haven't the foggiest clue how to find and join one. In other games you have searches to find clans/guilds/whatever you might want to join based on criteria, and guilds will have websites telling you who's in them, what they are about, and how to apply. You can talk to people and friend them while you are playing with them.
Here, you can't friend in the actual game. That's a separate interface you can only enter while not playing. You have no memory of who you played with so you have to write their names down quick. No one talks so you know nothing about them. What I have done so far is write down names of people whose names I thought were funny or interesting or who seemed friendly for some reason. Like this one guy liked an SSRM Kit Fox build I was running because he had something similar and we friended each other. We talked about it a bit but you can only talk to people in the friend chat when they are not playing yet have the game loaded. No in-game email - if the guy doesn't notice your message it's gone for good. The first several messages I was sent I never received because I couldn't figure out how. The interface is backwards. You have to tell it you want to SEND a message to read a received message. Kind of silly.
The faction chat, as I said, never has a single character of text, EVER. Does anyone even try it? I kind of thought that was something people were looking forward to as a way to meet people. So my problem remains finding out how to find out who people are and what units I can group with. I've only randomly stumbled on a few that had websites by looking at people's posts and signatures and chatspams.
No worries on sounding derogatory. I thought maybe I would sound too whinging when really what I am trying to find is information. I mean some people are obviously doing something right. I should learn what that is. And it's not easy developing software like this - I have some inkling of how hard that is as well. So, you know, I don't mean to sound ungrateful. I was happy as hell to find out there was a Battletech game in the modern era AT ALL. I actually found this game while searching for a manual to
the 1989 game I played as a teenager. That and Crescent Hawks were the only games I remember playing. My computer wasn't good enough for Mechwarrior 2 when it came out. I was jealous.
Edited by Anachronda, 23 February 2015 - 06:08 PM.
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