I'd like to see maximum group sizes increased; is there a reason that maximum group sizes are so small? I'm under the impression group sizes are restricted to 8 members.

I've been working on a racetrack plugin (which Luxen is currently testing) ... it uses groups to monitor track location, deaths, kills, etc. The plugin will likely be made publicly available once it's out of testing.

The feature I'm currently working on is to allow master/slave relationships between two group managers, sending messages back and forth to allow racer groups that are larger than allowable groups. The complexity of messaging and monitoring two groups and tracking times breaks down when you have photo-finishes that cross two groups. It also introduces delays and announcement issues.

8 - the race monitor = 7 max racers per race. :-(

Bigger groups, please?

Thanks!

Iiirc the limit is 10 but, , +1 to increasing it.
Double at least seems like it would nice

oh, it may be 10. I just remember hitting an upper limit...

double would be nice. but 32 would be even better! :-D

Having been making a couple plugs in relation to this very thing (expanding groups via plugins to allow larger groups than VO has) I understand where you're coming from from a racing perspective.
+1

+1 not just for races, but battles involving capships as well. I would like to stuff them with actual gunners

sounds like an exploit to me ...10+ bots in a group

when is the last time 10 actual players grouped

Drevent, FYI, we HAVE hit that upper group limit in events before. Also, the hell does grouping bots together do?

As an event host this would benefit, I +1.

sounds like an exploit to me ...10+ bots in a group

I don't understand what 10 bots in a group would even do. How is this even exploitive?

As luxen says, we have have 8+ members in a group before, and so event officials have to use alts to create more groups.

I think there was some issue with UI, which is why this hasn't been added before.

Edit:

"The UI basically starts to break over 8 people, with lots of overlapping data on some of our supported HUD resolution/font/aspect configurations. " https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/30740#368748

It stands to reason that anything that facilitates a sense of a team is worthwhile in an MMORPG, particularly in this case because this game is remarkably isolative in its experience.

Even if there are UI issues, it's not often anyone would go over that number in a group anyway...

I've seen very large groups for some missions (Deneb and Hive skirmishes maybe?) where the font goes tiny and unless there are backend issues, or client issues when groups exceed a certain number, I'd say I'm willing to deal with the UI related quirks on the rare occasion when large groups are used.

I'm perfectly willing to send the racetrack code to Inc or Ray to look at if they want to gauge the usefulness of large groups for that one use case. Heck, I'll give it to pretty much anyone that asks ;-) More feedback = better product.

EDIT: Grammar are important.

Wait, wait! Did We all float give this a +10? I swear I saw a 10+ in there somewhere. oh, and a 8+! WOW! that's almost like a +18!

:-D