elevator?
This hasn't happened too often, but has happened a couple of times where I ended up losing 10 energy right before I either prefer to wait for other party members or I can't inspect the party before deciding to move forward with them. It could be on purpose that they make us spawn on the elevator too. Couldn't there be an update for this? It usually loads the mission that we don't have enough time to return to haven.
I suggest playing with people who you know, your guildies or your friends.
I played with random people, and they bossed, begged to me, etc.
Wanna know a story?
So one time I was playing with random people because my party was opened, of course. I did the IMF and I played with 3 people. They were about the same rank as me. At the second depth near the death, I said I would call the switches and they said "NO I WILL. YOU STAY IN THE GENERATOR -_-" So I was so god damn annoyed that I did not listen and they said "STOP OR I WILL REPORT AND BAN YOU", so I said "Go ahead noob". So he reported me and nothing happened to me at all. LOL! So he thinked he was the king and leader and said "PROTECT ME". So I let him died and he called us all noobs. I left him dead and did the switches. The whole party went down and the person bossing us got no heat. So I told him to "stfu" and he kept telling us to not hit the switches. I never listened, left him dead for the whole time and he was raging that we wasn't getting revived or getting heat. Hopefully that teached him a listen and I booted him. That's a lesson the bossy noob gets.
That's why, I only play with people that I actually know. I sometimes play with the forumers.
When the elevator appears on the minimap for the party, the party is possible to join, but there is a pop-up warning that the party has already reached the elevator. Only problem with this, is that sometimes parties find the elevator way before reaching the end of the map.
There could be proximity detector: if party leader is within area of elevator, add a warning whenever one wants to join a party.
Possibly party leader name could be provided to have a brief whisper talk whether or not to join now or later, etc.
Off Topic:
@Benightz: I personally tend to play with random people. I like the changes and different people I meet, new friends to make, and the exciting failz. However, I generally play missions n' stuff now, so I don't run into too many crappy players (only low* friend joiners).
Foreign players are interesting. Not only do they generally start lagging (which adds to the challenge) (I has good connection) but they don't play that badly (most of the time). I like having the challenge of communicating with dutch, spanish, portuguese, etc. players. Some know English, I try to infer what they are spouting out, and it's so interesting. I do not understand why one just does the same runs with the same buddies all the time, there is no change and fun in that. At least when I'm grinding, I have variety.
Benightz, you made a person (not just a noob knight) really, really angry and probably ruined other people's experiences (what comes around, goes around, not necessarily directly back to you) by treating him with complete disrespect and then kicking him away. I guess you believe that is all over because you kicked him.
Avoidance and retaliation doesn't make the problem go away.
There's soemthing called friends, guilds and talking before going.
If you do things by random, beware the risks.