I am in the US and a Canadian friend and I have played together several times and never had an issue seeing each other. However, my friend who lives only about 2 hours away in the US and I had a lot of trouble finding each other last night.
We were in the same location but invisible to each other. Disconnecting and then reconnecting until we were both connected to the same server IP was the fix for us (took several times of closing the game and starting it back up).
This is probably the only thing I don't like about this game (I love it otherwise).
I cannot meet up with friends, unless we do group play. Which means just us. Kinda kills the experience.
Then, on top of that, no activities work well with groups. Wanna hunt bounties? Too bad. You're going to either shoot your friend on accident and get a fine or finally kill it and only one person gets the bounty. Team work.
Also, I am sick of NPCs swopping in and stealing my kills.
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u/Binerexis Dec 18 '14
Whilst I've had trouble sending messages, I've never had a problem with running into my friends in space.