I'm there with you. Me and 2 friends (who haven't done Skolas before) spent 4 hours but it got too late to continue (2am) so I ended up leaving. My friend was going to get another to join to finish the job and she got booted to orbit. Why are there no checkpoints? I cannot understand the reasoning behind it. Scared of people sharing Skolas checkpoints? What about raids? It's the same thing - "anyone have a Crota hard CP?" It just promotes unhealthy gaming where people try and fail for hours staring at a screen. Shame on you Bungie. I have done Skolas before in around 2 hours but you have to have a team who know what they're doing - how are newbies supposed to do it without having all day and a billion synths to waste? Just add checkpoints.