The current limit is at 8 which limits some activities. I believe that this had been removed and at some point was put back. If there was a reason for putting back, then that's fine. But it seems like it may the case that this was accidentally put back into place.

+1, especially for events!

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Join the dead pool of threads (over 20) that have been made about this. Incarnate stated some technical reason for not being able to do so, and it probably won't change any time soon.

"I believe that this had been removed and at some point was put back"

I'm not aware of it ever being temporarily removed. It is possible to have groups of more than eight members when you get a large escort mission, but those are NPCs, not human players. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

No, I remember specifically having events with like 12 people on one team and they were able to group up. Now that is no longer the case. It definitely was possible for players at one point.

It was definitely temporarily changed, and then we discovered a whole bunch of orthogonal issues and code assumptions, and we didn't have time to fix them, so we switched it back to a limit of 8.

It was my plan to re-approach things later in a hierarchical fashion. So like squads of 8 that could be joined together into platoons of up to 32, or something, and that would also feed into the handling of voice chat.

Darn. Breaks my heart to hear.

Any possibility that this could happen now? Like maybe some updates that have occurred since then have made it possible now? Just figured I'd ask again since it's been a while and still somewhat of a problem.

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Well, it'd sure make the upcoming CSR easier; I'd rather not pull out a bunch of androids just to make sure no one home-cheats their way to the finish line. Other events would benefit too.

Its just normal groups that dont often find large amounts of people yet [afaik], making this a somewhat niche suggestion. Even so, it'd be a nice feature for managing stuff in the future.

At anytime in my guild we have more players on than groups can hold..
+1 join groups into platoons!

Yes, i have encountered this barrier a lot recently.