One of the mission types in Star Trek Online is exploring unexplored sectors — unmapped areas where you find anomolies and either scan them or visit the previously unvisited planets they represent.
Margie and I, duoed, always seem to have problems getting into these planets. If we both show up there, then we end up with each of us having two mission choices — “Explore system,” or “Explore system ([team-mate name]).”
It seemed that no matter which set of options we chose, either only one of us got in, or we ended up at different worlds.
Episode 2 has not improved this any. So we blew it off and did something else (i.e., beat up on a lot of Gorns). But it was irksome. And we couldn’t find any teaming options that might explain what was going on or what we should do differently.
*sigh*
Hrm, well I am not sure why you two are having issues with this since it always works for me.
Step one: Only have on player searching.
Step two: that player enters the system.
Step three: Once the first player is in the system, the rest of the players in the group will have a bar pop up that is the regular explore system text.
Step four: Rinse, lather and repeat.
Bonus info: Exploration missions that involve aiding the planet or helping in some way grant you 10 points to your Diplomacy XP, so that at level 2 you will start getting first contact missions and the such.
So by “searching” do you mean “flying around the cluster trying to find planets to explore”? And the other ship just hangs out at the border?
Correct.
But then I see in the patch notes just now:
•We continue to investigate issues of teams not being able to load into Star Cluster maps together. We have fixed one issue related to this but believe that it will only work for “new” star cluster missions. Trying to continue a previous star cluster mission, where only one team member had the mission to begin with is still problematic.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=2909979#post2909979
So, this is a new problem and the above steps should work except that it seems to be broken right now. :/
Aha!
Cool, thanks.