It seams to me the solo player gets no breaks , I see little messages about all the goodies you get if you group..?

Also ENOUGH with the ion storms they are a tedious pain at best,I run into 30 ,40 of these in a day.

ion storms only occur on sectors that have roids. if you look for empty sectors to fly over, you will avoid a lot of ion storms.

It's funny. Some people whine about how hard it is to be a solo player. Others whine about how lonely the universe is.

IMHO its pretty balanced, solo players are more than capable of making money, defending themselves and attacking others. Groups (and especially guilds) provide an easier way of doing certain things and create more of a community feel.

You don't really get any goodies if you group in terms of xp or money, group missions a more a way of advanced players helping out newer players, as a more skilled player will destroy far more ships yet get less reward than soloing bots.

In terms of mining, I haven't done it in a group yet, enough good ores are available outside station.

If anything, the guild and group functions need to be expanded. I'd like to see group trade and mining missions, as well as fixing some broken guild functions (like replacing council members that havent re-joined vendetta).

Not to mention that any endeavour becomes easier if you have a gang of people behind you to help you do it.

"Also ENOUGH with the ion storms"

Did you play before they where added? I'm guessing not... It adds to the game, makes trading that little harder and more time consuming... It's too easy without them.

30 or 40 storms a day? That can only be possible if you keep hitting the same ones over and over again. If you hit it once, it's safe to say the storm will be there for the next hour or so, so go around it.

I'm a solo player and I'm doing quite well for myself... mining is a quick easy way to make some credits, and now that licenses don't cost anything you should be able to accumulate wealth quickly enough. The rest is basically player skill, and that takes practice.

Ok I was just asking I saw all those messages and it started me wondering,as for the storms...

I kow about roids and I know about avoiding them..it was everytime I chose to go a short cut it was strom infested 100% of all my short cuts were storms..thats too much,thats my story and I am sticking to it. (wink)

Even in a Guild, I fly solo against bots, as a group for Capture the cargo.

I do a damn good job against both bots and players. I rarely group with anyone.

As for the bonus of grouping, this involves the feeling of battle, if this is not your thing, avoid it, plenty for a solo player to do, but some like teamwork, thats great too. Thats whats great about vendetta, you can do both.

Both mining and fighting (pvp, coordinated fights) I do in groups if possible. Mining due to the profit, Fighting due to coordination.

Botting I do solo, usually I don't want to bother others with my mistakes, and currently the combat missions don't seem very appealing.

I'm more or less a solo player, as I'm too low a level/not skilled enough for the big PvP stuff, and I have to agree on some counts. First: Ion storms, the universe is big enough that these are no longer needed. Why hamper trade when there's squat to use money for? Trading is boring, mining is boring, and the bot combat is frustrating when you can no longer get bonuses for bots just as you're able to take them on. I love this game in principal, but I'm pretty down on it right now. I'll come back and keep trying, but there's a lot of work to be done here.

Wish I could play and complain. I must say I enjoyed group botting because you can compete for who got the most bots. It got boring killing the same bot a few hours by yourself. I didn't even get anything higher than 7 and I ended up spending all my time on convoys or looking for duels. I remember paying 100k+ just to get people to duel me.

As for storms, if you don't go through roid sectors it's not possible to get caught in one.