My Aurora will blot out the Aurora's blotting out the sun!
Aurora sun blotting prep! 3pm EST Sat 9th Feb
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SoloFlyer
Grand Admiral
Alas, I will probably still be at work by the time this goes down
Get your handle added and add party leaders handle. It will take some time to get everything organized, so if you are a little bit later, you still will be able to join up.
Cat decided to sit on my PC power button as I finally reached the drug lab so calling it a night.
Next time I hope to have my mic set up. Getting invited without that was difficult. But I look forward to the next event!
We learned a lot; I do think that although we don’t have a plan we should still have some command / control groups or it just takes too long to get everyone moving.
What they get moving to do is not really the point.
What they get moving to do is not really the point.
We had a good start, got everybody lined up, had them organized.
We got on a Valkyrie, had some explosion problems.
When we respawned, we had problems all getting back onto a server.
After about 4 tries, we started giving up all getting back into a server together.
About 15 remaining members all headed to JT, we had some ground combat, DirectorGunner killed his entire team with a railgun, then I had to leave to go feed the kids.
I would say it was a success!
We got on a Valkyrie, had some explosion problems.
When we respawned, we had problems all getting back onto a server.
After about 4 tries, we started giving up all getting back into a server together.
About 15 remaining members all headed to JT, we had some ground combat, DirectorGunner killed his entire team with a railgun, then I had to leave to go feed the kids.
I would say it was a success!
Phantomoftruth
Space Marshal
That was fun! I enjoyed being useful and doing a bit of path-finding.
Looking forward to next time now I know how to get into games with everyone - for anyone feeling a little daunted thinking it may be too technical for them I thought that too and got on fine.
This is how it goes:
1) Go to your account on the RSI site, you will see the word CONTACTS. Use the text-box to put in the name of the group leader (On this occasion @Printimus and @Montoya were group leaders so I had both of them added). Tell the group leader you have done this and they will put your name in their contacts too.
2) Go on the TEST discord and listen out for whats going on, and also have a mic to answer back if you can too. Super helpful but you can get by in General chat but it's not as easy as people are, understandably, mostly playing the game - once you are all in game there is the in-game chat too but don't give away any operational secrets if you can help it
3) The group leader will do everything else, all you have to do now is start up the game and sit on the main menu screen, when the blue boxes appear accept the party invite and accept the server invite using the "[" key. Two button presses.
Hope this helps people who are feeling a little scared of joining, I found everyone was very friendly and kind while I was getting to grips with it (Shout out to @Shive and another TESTie who were also very friendly and patient when I was trying to get my mic to work while blabbering nonsense on Discord).
Remember: If NaffNaff can do it, you can do it too! I litterally blundered through the whole thing and got on fine with the wonderful support of TESTies!
Hope to see you all in the next one
Looking forward to next time now I know how to get into games with everyone - for anyone feeling a little daunted thinking it may be too technical for them I thought that too and got on fine.
This is how it goes:
1) Go to your account on the RSI site, you will see the word CONTACTS. Use the text-box to put in the name of the group leader (On this occasion @Printimus and @Montoya were group leaders so I had both of them added). Tell the group leader you have done this and they will put your name in their contacts too.
2) Go on the TEST discord and listen out for whats going on, and also have a mic to answer back if you can too. Super helpful but you can get by in General chat but it's not as easy as people are, understandably, mostly playing the game - once you are all in game there is the in-game chat too but don't give away any operational secrets if you can help it
3) The group leader will do everything else, all you have to do now is start up the game and sit on the main menu screen, when the blue boxes appear accept the party invite and accept the server invite using the "[" key. Two button presses.
Hope this helps people who are feeling a little scared of joining, I found everyone was very friendly and kind while I was getting to grips with it (Shout out to @Shive and another TESTie who were also very friendly and patient when I was trying to get my mic to work while blabbering nonsense on Discord).
Remember: If NaffNaff can do it, you can do it too! I litterally blundered through the whole thing and got on fine with the wonderful support of TESTies!
Hope to see you all in the next one
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Apparantly my discord push to talk button on my mouse is also max throttle so sorry for headbutting the valkyre with my vanguard
The reties were killing. It is hard to keep a band of people together when everybody keeps crashing. Next time make sure that everybody has fixed his contacts before the event, reserve 30 minutes to get everything fixed.
When servers start crashing, completely dissolve the party, let everybody close SC and launcher and start from scratch. That works faster then a few server crashes in a row.
Also, when dividing a big group into a fighter / escort squad and a boarding squad, select a staging point, other then PO. Let the fighters group up at the staging point, when they are away from PO, gather the boarding squad and jump to the staging point. Somehow a lot people, ships and Port Olisar can cause some server instabilities.
When servers start crashing, completely dissolve the party, let everybody close SC and launcher and start from scratch. That works faster then a few server crashes in a row.
Also, when dividing a big group into a fighter / escort squad and a boarding squad, select a staging point, other then PO. Let the fighters group up at the staging point, when they are away from PO, gather the boarding squad and jump to the staging point. Somehow a lot people, ships and Port Olisar can cause some server instabilities.
Let everybody get the Medallion II flight suit and helmet. It isn't expensive. When lining up, only torso armor, that would look really awesome, yellow arms, legs and helmet.
After briefing everybody can add arm, leg armor and helmet as he sees fit.
After briefing everybody can add arm, leg armor and helmet as he sees fit.
We did succeed to crash the server four times in a row, hopefully those crash reports are useful to CIG.
Swizzle_TV
Admiral
Damm i planned for it then missed it cause i got sick that day. I wont be starting the day dehydrated a bit then start mixing drinks it spells doom the next day, that or i'm just getting old.....
Printimus has very shiny armour.