Frontier Ranks - Player Group Rankings

[Cmdr Kharma]

Now that is a scenario I can relate too......

Although mine was Floyd lyrics.....

Comfortably numb....I think....

[Loriath]

Can I point out my idea from the FD Forums? Rocketship Relay.

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The Rocketship Relay is a relay race that is performed by a wing of 4 players. 2 Teams of 2.

How to play:

1) 4 Players get together and agree upon a ship that all 4 players will use.
2) Ships must have shields, A rated FSD, and at least 2 (or more per team agreement) Cargo space minimum. All ships must be the same type and loadout.
3) The teams will be chosen by the players, 2 on 2.
4) A start System and End system must be chosen. The System must be no Less than 2 Jumps apart.
5) A Halfway point must be agreed upon by both teams.
6) The Start point and End point must both be stations.
7) Cargo will be purchased (amount and type as agreed upon by the teams).
8) Start players must be in the station on the landing pad (returned to surface) and ready to launch at any time.
9) The other players must be waiting at the Halfway point (earlier agreed upon) in Normal Space at the Nav Beacon.
10) One of the players (elected by the group or chosen by coin toss) at the Nav Beacon will then call a start, either by voice comms or text comms to the wing. (An Agreed upon Third Party may be used)
11) Players will launch and race to the halfway point. They must enter the system, proceed to the Nav Beacon, Exit to normals space and Abandon (Must not be marked stolen) their cargo so that their team mate can pick it up.
12) Once the team mate has picked up the cargo, they then must race to the end system.
13) The winner is the first player to land with their cargo.
14) Losers must then transfer their cargo (Abandoned) to the winners team (Divided equally of course) as the reward for winning.

Variations: Double Runs (two way runs can be done by landing and end station, launching again and returning to same Nav Beacon, then Transfer cargo and back to Start Station), Ridge Runners Moonshiner Edition (having backup to interdict/steal cargo/destroy), Wild And Crazy (FA Off in Normal space), Blinders Edition (All manoeuvrings in Normal space must be done in Reverse using compass for tracking positions), Rares Run (Cargo is Rares), Kiss of Death Run (Trying to kill the other team while in the race by Ramming, remember, no weapons), Deathwish Edition (Running Rares and no shields in areas of Open play where other Factions have declared Low-downs).

Come up with your own variations!

Any thoughts?

[Cmdr Kharma]

I thought ANY cargo you picked up in space was always marked as stolen......

[TorTorden]

If you eject cargo via the systems tab as abandoned it will be considered legal salvage, it's only something players can do so 99.999% of the time salvage is illegal.

[Walter]

It's good that they are trying to give more to groups, but the cynical part of me can't help but think they are also trying to use groups to make up for some of the inherent lack of content.

And the top rated rank seems strangely designed to make the largest group ineligible (although it might be possible that no group can join the top rank).
Or is my cynicism showing too?

[UnmarkedBoxcar]

Forget flying sober...does Kharma do ANYTHING sober?

[Mobius]

have been doing some thinking on our group and if indeed we was to become a group then I would have to push for being a faction within the pilots federation, being in that group would mean that as a group we are not aligned to any powerplay faction but are a group that is aligned to the core power, as you know NPC players are not part of the pilots federation and as such can be our enemys this keeps with our factions ideals that its us vs the environment.

[Cmdr Kharma]

Forget flying sober...does Kharma do ANYTHING sober?

Yep......

Masturbation.....

Gotta keep a clear focused mind on that one........

Don't want thoughts straying.......

[Xebeth]

have been doing some thinking on our group and if indeed we was to become a group then I would have to push for being a faction within the pilots federation, being in that group would mean that as a group we are not aligned to any powerplay faction but are a group that is aligned to the core power, as you know NPC players are not part of the pilots federation and as such can be our enemys this keeps with our factions ideals that its us vs the environment.

Whilst I am currently 'aligned' to a power, I have no special love for them and only tend to keep my rank up for the bounty bonus, so far PP has been somewhat meh.

This however sounds interesting, FD would have to give us something to make it feel like we were a real faction, a system (or station) of our own, faction specific missions, and faction CGs.

If only a percentage of the group got on board we could easily keep a faction going, with the whole 10,000 who knows we could even be a power.

What I like about this idea is that it provides a meaningful goal, rather than just being another faceless pilot we would be taking on a role that means something to us as a group, activities that we could all get behind and benefit from.

I'm for one on-board with this idea, and as Emperor I'm sure Mobius that you will look kindly on you loyal servants

[Mobius]

well there are plenty of systems with stations named Mobius, 14 infact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny0HFHGiEEg