Finding other players on the map?

[nebukadneccar]

Hello there,

I found it very frustrating to find my friend on the map. We waste so much time to do it that when the game starts we usually just die trying to do so. I know that there is an option in the base to make a mark, but I got nervous before I even build the base. It would be much easier to get the spawn at the same location when the game starts not a random place...

Thanks!

[D[n]A]

Press M to open the map. You will see your self and the location of your friends.

You could always make a landmark and use that as a meeting place ? Maybe.

Or you could even use the compass and say OK i spawned north near a big lake and ask your friends to head north or to another way point?.

[nebukadneccar]

It's easy to say but harder to do when you plauy for the first time. When I spawn and press "M" I see nothing but the closest area of my location. No marks, no nothing. Just me and the compass. I tried to travel at the same direction, but sometimes we meet sometimes we don't, dying in the middle. I understad that after building the base and making beds it is better to deal with it but before? We made it to find ourselves. Now we have beacons that help us find the base after death. But spawn is total random. It's faster to let something kill you and repeat the process over and over untill you get spawned nearby the base then walking by foot as this, in most cases, end up with death by temperature or being killed by animals.

I bealive the spawn system is way too hard at the beginning. Or maybe I don't know about something and there actually is something that let me spawn myself closer to the base.

[D[n]A]

You have to make a effort to explore more of the map every single day you can travel quite some distance in one day and imaging how much of the map you would uncover in 7 in game days or in 30 game days.

Put in the effort. Get the reward. its that simple.

[CMDRDean]

new to the game and honest my experience mirrors that of Valariar var Sky .... I see nothing but a small patch around me and find no way to place a marker on the map co-op should be Just that! a group setting. as for the base being a marker, that provides someone lives long enough to make a base. this really dose need to be reconsidered.

[Akeel]

Pros:
In Co-Op, you can use the map to find and track your Co-players.
A blue icon will show for the local player, and Co-Op players that share a base will show as white icons (only after they are added to the player list in the BCU).
Cons:
If players decide to build their own base, and are listed on someone else's BCU, their own BCU will not auto-generate power and mass and must be charged, using generators, solar panels and/or wind turbines.
It's a trade-off that I don't understand.