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Raid groups would be nice although through experience... I cant say I'd ever want to return to unorganized groups of more than 25 players. I'd more so love solo or smaller 6 man groups seeing as how gathering an amount of people that size would be much easier to manage and not as stressfull

I've played WoW, and other mmo style games and found that they work really well for pc, but it is not something I want for an action fps, despite the ability for groups and mmo style community they'd be able to implement. Personally I hope that this game will not alienate lone wolf style gaming. I love playing with friends and randoms, but far too often do I see the potential for good lone wolf gameplay killed by the overemphasis of the massive mmo groups and raids. My personal vision for a game like this would be having areas like enemy camps and patrols, but make them tough, real tough. Make the fight one that you might not want to engage in, make the player question the choice of mindlessly wiping out a squad of enemies. Perhaps you do team up with a buddy and take out a small camp with ease. Should there even be anything there but scraps? Why would tons of money or awesome weapons be standard issue for our enemies camps? Should killing an enemy camp even be worth the ammunition? I think that a world where charging in and blasting a poultry wave of enemies is, in my mind, not a very compelling world to explore, to fight for and defend, to risk my character's life to save or take back. If charging in and dying has no penalty, then I see no reason not to just bum rush every enemy I see. My accomplishments would be trivial, and so would my experience. I want to be able to play alone, but I also want to be able to benefit from having/making friends in the game. 25 people on xbox live or Psn is a tough crowd to handle, even 10 is tough to speak to when you have a keyboard at your disposal. Point being, 10 and 25 (not to even mention 40) man areas and group quests exclude many players, some people play mmos just for the leveling. I know this. I've done it. But it hurts to be excluded by even the game itself when you don't have the best gear and honed skills. Raids and dungeons can split communities and make playing a chore. I just don't want my experiences limited because I don't feel like taking the time to grind for gear. There's my 2 cents, do with it what you will.

what about a stealth mechanic? It would make soloing a good bit easier, and harder at the same time, and give some very interesting group battles goin at the same time. A 6 man ambush on a small battalion of cabal by hiding in trees and tucked behind cave walls and the such, maybe if you can go prone then hunters in over grown areas.

I'm going to stick to a three man firefight team and keep away from big groups. I'm hoping to find a Indiana Jones and a Laura Croft type set of players to go spelunking with into some major firefights and thievery against the Ai. Also I'm doing big bunny hops on the Moon if Bungie keeps the gravity as real as possible on their off world maps.

woot. 2 ideas up there ^ lol i know i dont have the most but it keeps me thinking lol

Think outside the box a bit here people. I see a lot of regurgitated MMO systems cropping up. Think of a Dynamic Encounter system that allows the same areas to be reused with new and different effects each time. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Destiny will be about Spontaneous Moment of Awesome that crop up because things will be dynamic. We won't know what's coming at us or what's lying in wait for us within the Fallen Stronghold because each time may very well be different. That, more than anything else mentioned in this thread, will keep me playing Destiny.

Whats PVE? Sorry im not big enough nerd for you fine fellows here on B.net but im curious. Thanks!

I'm hoping for world events that we could organize for kinda like we had to do with the ARG. Say if we knew of an upcoming event we could organize a large group of willing and able players thru bnet or something. Adding a whole new dimension to console gaming. Another example would be if we maybe captured a base and we had to hold it for a real long time. So long that a new shift of gamers would have to take up the mission to hold it. But it all started because a group of people exploring the planet found it and captured it, not necessarily because it was a mission assigned by the game. Which leads to an idea that we could create missions. Like the base example, if my friends and I came across a fortified Fallen base, and we start trying to take it over, we could activate a beacon that shows up on other gamers' HUDS as an available mission. That sounds a little too crazy tho because think of how many missions would be popping up. So maybe it would only pop up on your HUD if you are a player in the vicinity. And if the mission becomes this huge deal, it could spread to more players.

Technically, wouldn't it be a 30-Man raid? 5 parties of 6, since 6 is the party cap as far as we know.

i understand this idea that there are alot of solo people out there, but then you will only have those people to play with. If you allow other people to play, you may find more people you want to play with. Also for those of us that wouldnt mind more then 4 people playing at once i think a bigger raid style might be refreshing, so i think a 10-12 person would be fitting.

When will people learn that MMO-like =/= MMO?

World Bosses would also be quite fun and they could be good sources of end game loot or cool items. For some reason watching people take world bosses to enemy faction cities on youtube always made me crack up. And those pre-expansion events were always a favorite of mine

I could easily see a 25-man-raid-type game in Destiny. It could be super fun, now that I think about it. Kind of like WoWs "Looking for Instance" feature they have now, you'd have people register as a certain class (DPS, Tank, "Support" (heals), Ranged) and once that all fills you could go into the game. That's the one type of game I would be okay with a lobby for, just to make sure you had all the right classes to go up against the Raid... boss... army... enemy force... thing.

uhm yes, but aparently its a small few of us that want large group raids, not 6 man strike teams.