Do you see players often?

[RipYouApart]

Do you see players often ingame? Or does you feel playing alone?

[Narukami]

Ive seen 20 real players in 680 hours. Then again, I am playing on Legacy or I was as For the entire week I have had disconnects - Cant connect to server issues. Unsure what is going on this week. Just about to uninstall and find something else to play,

[UNBREAKABLE]

Too far away from civilization to even do so. I think I played open once at the start and immediately got fired upon on by a random, so never doing that again.

[malorob]

everyday every hour , just got to know where everyone hangs out.
and most of all the time zones on when it is quite and when it is busy.

[prdtr]

Originally posted by RipYouApart:

Do you see players often ingame? Or does you feel playing alone?

I don't usually see players online and I just love to play alone. I mean the whole reason why I play this game is because this game has something more to offer other than just the multiplayer thing. But still, though I usually play alone, I always play in open mode.

[FryaDuck]

There are three common play modes, Open (where you can and will be ganked), Private Group (Where you play with friends), and Solo (where all you see is NPCs basically PvE). Recommend you do training first, then build a bank account (never fly without a rebuy), explore, engineer (ship and on foot), use community tools (player made additions that run outside of the game like EDMC and EDOMH {both recommended}). Odyssey includes "on foot" Legacy does not. We are currently in a fight for our species against the Thargoids so you can do that (not straight away as you'll get destroyed quickly).

I've been playing since 2016 and still haven't done everything although I have discovered 5 systems (my name is on them). We've only explored 0.59% of our galaxy (yes the galaxy you live in) so there is plenty to do. The game is graphically stunning. BTW go check out twitch streamers as they all are very happy to help new players, even their viewers are happy to help.

[Antaiir]

No, and no.

[Planewalker]

Originally posted by Narukami:

Cant connect to server issues.

Just fyi, it's always a good idea to check ingame that the network options is set to the correct network; options - network - connection. (make sure it's not hamachi or somesuch)

Originally posted by RipYouApart:

Do you see players often ingame? Or does you feel playing alone?

Really depends where you hang out: in the void it's really only you and in the bubble doing the thargoid or CG stuff, there are plenty of players.

[McGargoyle]

As a member of a fairly large Squadron:
Yes, several, all the time.

[malorob]

start new and hang out at the newbie area on the weekends you will more people in your history than most people in this post so it seems.

thargoid war going on always plenty of people.

and anywhere people are exploiting the game to make lots of money.

ceos and sithos is still great places seeing people as everyone needs to grind for fed rank.

but remember this many people stay away from open as gankers dont leave a great impression on people.
So you will see people only on radar as a hollow square cube.

haz rez zones are great to see many other players
also CZ zones .

if your still struggling to find people you could try Rackams peak or hitch a Ride on a FC taxi.

or how bout find a squad.

[ThatIdiotMonro]

No, mainly because A) I'm way out of the bubble, and B) I'm playing on Solo for screenshot purposes ;)

[Talby]

If you participate in the community events, you will see a lot more player traffic at said stations (at least in the beginning days, prepare for long wait times in the docking queue)...

[XG99]

Inara has a Traffic Report, which tells you where most Cmdrs in the game are (top 10 systems)

11% of all Cmdrs in the game (who are also registered with Inara) are in Tavgi, which is the current CG system.

4.4% are in Imeut, which is the highest priority war system.

https://inara.cz/elite/reports-traffic/

[malorob]

just in the last 2 hours i have seen more than 40 new players in dawsons system in legacy

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by RipYouApart:

Do you see players often ingame? Or does you feel playing alone?

You won't get to see many players, depending on context.

Keep in mind that space is huge, so even if you're in the same system as another player then there are no guarantees that you'll ever meet. I mean, they could be taking off from a space station while you're in supercruise heading towards said station.

A good way to check for this is your comms panel (button 2). It has a history tab which will show you which players you've encountered.

These days I solely play within Moebius (an international group of players devoted to pve), but when I played in open all the time I'd only meet players when I went to public sites like an engineer or Jamesons Memorial. Otherwise it would normally be weeks, sometimes months, before I met up with anyone.

Note: with "met" I'm merely referring to the same session: so them popping up in my history tab.

So yah, it can definitely feel like you're playing alone, even if you're not.

[Veeshan]

250 hours, zero players encountered. But I don''t go wherever people hang out.