I would be interested in a scouting channel

[Xoceac 103]

Yeah yeah, another channel, but hear me out.

There are a lot of advantages of having a seperate channel for scouting. The reason I want it personally is because I want to help the fleet with scouting, but I sometimes have no character or ship available. Knowing where the other fleets are is half the battle, the other battle is figuring out when a spawn can happen. Everyone in the fleet can do this. The MOTD will have some information from my scouting guide (What to tag, 7 minute respawn time etc) and there are maybe 1 to 3 people (that are also in the MOTD) that are actually scouting, the rest can just call out spawn times. This will also make more people enthused about scouting, more people will be eager to help out with actual scouting.

Everyone can help out and no need for private chats. Thoughts?

[Imelda Virpio 179]

A semi-public channel would work tolerably well. Wouldn't want the entire fleet in it because people need to pay attention to their own grid and spamming the channel with despawn notifications makes it useless,  but two or three line pilots plus whatever commanders were around would be fine. If I can remember :), I'll set one up next time I have fleet and see how it goes.

[Malcolm Galora 374]

But private convos are so intimate 

[Margaret Kennedy 43]

Usually we use a private chat channel. I've been known to give that thing a name even You can drag more people in it.

Also I'll usually add who's site went down next to the timer so if I missed one, I can just guesstimate.

The benefit of a private channel is that you don't need to mess with permissions and it's not a big deal if somebody forgets to leave at the end of the fleet.

Edited December 19, 2020 by Margaret Kennedy

[niki lasvegas 537]

PC works better imo. Channel has the chance to have a spy in it. Or just ppl who spam unnecessarily. Even my scout PMs are spammed sometimes, lol. Also if anything a channel needs to be permed. a PC doesnt. If someone wants to scout that bad, should just ask the FC if they need one. I never said no to anyone so far.

Edited December 19, 2020 by niki lasvegas

[Xoceac 103]

In my opinion, permissions, spies or spam are irrelevant. We have perfectly working Scimi, Basi and Nightmare chat and this can work as well. I think the positives outweigh the negatives. This means guessing becomes a thing of the past, you get 100% guaranteed information, as there is always someone who knows where they are or what the respawn times are. You have all information in 1 place. It's not like the Windicator channel, where everyone can join, it's a dedicated fleet channel.

As I am unable to make proposals anyway and I know private convos work well enough and it's also more work for fleet commanders. Anyway, it's just an idea or suggestion.

Edited December 19, 2020 by Xoceac

[darkstriker01 31]

If people want this i could set it up, we could also put some advance scouting things in it like if you see x they are at Y position in their site?

[jj2yo 3]

Having a basic guide as to what wrecks mean what wave in the MOTD would be great for anyone new to scouting, as well as a mini tagging guide

[niki lasvegas 537]

Guide is fine, teaching people is fine. Actively using it as scouting information while fleet is running is not fine at all.

Edited December 19, 2020 by niki lasvegas

[Docz Gotcha 28]

Here's a guide,  includes wreck info.  

 

[Malcolm Galora 374]

We don't need a dedicated channel. There's no reason for one. 

[Xoceac 103]

On 20-12-2020 at 11:44 AM, Malcolm Galora said:

We don't need a dedicated channel. There's no reason for one. 

My reasons aren't good enough?

[Malcolm Galora 374]

1 minute ago, Xoceac said:

My reasons aren't good enough?

In my personal opinion, no.