@evning
All over the place?
I don't want to join solo parties. It's that simple. There's not enough groups of two or more playing Elite difficulty.
Why are all the parties still solo?
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 14:04
#52
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 14:24
#53
?
What is a party finder?
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 16:20
#54
You know how there'd be more groups of two?
If more people joined solo parties.
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 17:08
#55
Zeddy... You be blowing my mind man
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 20:24
#56
Zeddy you're missing the point. There's far more solo parties than there are 2 or 3-person parties. I'm not going solo, so I'm not contributing to the problem.
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 21:55
#57
@Batabii
Yes, there may be more solo parties than two or three person parties, but you aren't willing to contribute to the remedy: joining some of the solo parties.
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 03:15
#58
Meh.
You know the saying "you are not in traffic, you are traffic?"
You are solo.
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 17:04
#59
I'm not willing to "contribute to the problem" because it means being saddled with the problem.
It's like saying, would you clean out sewage? If you say no, you're "not contributing to the solution".
I don't play solo, so I'm not making the problem worse by making another solo party.
EDIT: Also I can see half of the problem is that people just ditch the party for no reason. I went down the elevator with 2 other players. A minute later, I was all alone.
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 17:22
#60
Oh Batabii
I see what you are saying, and I see what the others are saying. I'm going to try and rephrase for everyone, because Zeddy and yourself are, I think, arguing on the same side of things.
What Zeddy is saying: You generally see solo parties in the party finder not because people want to play solo, but because they are all waiting for someone to join. When someone joins, most times other people join quickly, and the party fills up. Hence, you seem to only see solo players.
Batabii is saying he feels that he only ever sees solo parties. It seems that way to me too, until i join a party, then others join in.
Now, the party finder is far from perfect. You should be able to select the party difficulty you are looking for, and not see a ton of normal runs waiting. you should be able to select the tier you are searching for.
Also, Batabii, I feel like it's worth noting, some people are just difficult. Those who leave randomly without saying anything are knobs. Lastly, you asked why people start a game when you know you may have to leave suddenly. Well, some of us have medical issues that cause us to run to the bathroom, and stay there for long periods of time. Some people have parents who can randomly call you down, and they aren't all growed up like us. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 18:27
#61
About the "random medical issues"...
Why don't they just lock the party?
Everything else you said I agree with.
Also for the record, I've been playing solo for the past 4 floors and never did anyone join me. I only kept going because I needed the mats, and as per several people's suggestions, I expected a ton of people to join...
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 19:52
#62
"Also for the record, I've been playing solo for the past 4 floors and never did anyone join me. I only kept going because I needed the mats, and as per several people's suggestions, I expected a ton of people to join..."
Not a single person told you to do that, Larry. They told you to join one of the solo parties. When you do, people are going to dogpile onto your party. This is because you are not the only person who desires to join a party with more than one player in it.
Want proof? I just did it. I chose an elite party with only a single knight in it from the party finder. Before I'd even loaded, a third knight had alreayd joined. Within 30 seconds, a fourth one had joined and the party was full.
Full parties don't show up in the party finder, this is why parties with two or more knights are so hard to come by: they fill up quick.
Don't believe me? I recorded it. I didn't cherry-pick this recording or anything. It was my first try and I had honestly expected to have to go through a stage or two before knights started joining.
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 23:56
#63
And really, why would joining
And really, why would joining a solo party have to be awkward? You're probably not going to say anything other than "Hi" in the first place, since both of you would want to be, y'know, actually playing the game instead of standing around talking. And as several people have noted, if there's a party of two people, it tends to attract a third and fourth fairly quickly.
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 00:14
#64
I didn't say it was awkward, I said it was boring. And if anyone actually had voice chat enabled, I could play the game AND talk instead of "standing around".
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 00:30
#65
@Batabii
You can always pop me a friend request in game, we run fairly often, and random things. Also, we use mumble for our guild, so you could always join that. Fair warning though, the mumble server convo topics can get rated R fast.
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 00:48
#66
I'm not installing YET ANOTHER chat client when the game already has one built in.
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 04:56
#67
From experience, I can say that SK's voice chat pales horribly in comparison to Mumble. It really is worth a try, and gimping yourself out of spite is silly.
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 10:00
#68
I'm not gimping myself. It works just fine for me, and installing, registering an account for, and running another program (that most players don't have nor want to install) when i already have one that works just fine, just because people refuse to use steam, or because OOO refuses to give SK voice support for ALL players, is a huge waste of time and effort.
Mon, 09/09/2013 - 12:18
#69
I use Steam, but one of the
I use Steam, but one of the first things I did was disable in-game voice chat, because apparently 90% of the people who use it have not figured out the existence of push-to-talk, so I got to listen to the lovely sounds of people breathing or coughing or clicking their mice.
Mon, 09/09/2013 - 16:29
#70
That's a bad reason to block out all voice chat entirely.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face...That's like closing down your email account just because you get some junk mail.
Mon, 09/09/2013 - 14:54
#71
because people have brains to figure out what's better
Mon, 09/09/2013 - 15:09
#72
@ Batabii
When it happened literally every other party I joined, I decided enough was enough. I have no problems at all with people talking, but only if they know what they're doing. Which they apparently don't.
Mon, 09/09/2013 - 16:32
#73
I don't know where you play, but only like 5% of the people I join (or join me) even use a mic to begin with, and of those, only about 1/3 to 1/4 are worth hitting the mute button on. Heck, 85% of players I've met seem do have voice chat disabled entirely, either intentionally like you, or they just don't have steam for some reason.
@Batabii not sure, maybe they forget? Idk :/