I’m curious to hear what people’s opinions are on multiplayer etiquette. I usually have multiplayer turned on and have had some really fun experiences with it. Sometimes other players will follow me around a bit. I remember getting really excited when another B-25 bomber joined me on a flight from Britain to Germany! I’ve also been in a few games of chicken with other players too, sort of a chaotic tag in high-speed planes.
On the other hand, I’ve had to reload my game because a helicopter was flying over me at the gate and sending my plane flying through the air (not sure how that worked), and I’ve had to reload the game because someone spawns on top of me at a gate and doesn’t reload.
Are there any unspoken rules that new players should be aware of? Is it rude to follow someone closely or chase them in the air? Should we all be waiting until the runway is clear before taking off?
Also, one of my favorite activities is to sit at Lukla and watch people take off with comically oversized planes. Know that I’m always rooting for you!
The potential for good times is almost limitless in MP. Unfortunately, the potential for trolls is just as high. If the MP server is un-moderated, there’s nothing to stop someone from just randomly picking your plane to troll until you decide to drop.
Back in the FS9 days, I was an admin on a private FSHost (Chocolate Software) server used by a virtual flying club. We’d get together on Saturday nights and fly from some random point A to another random point B while telling jokes and just shooting the breeze on TeamSpeak. Every once in a while someone would find our servers and try to troll, but they didn’t last long before getting booted and banned.
These days I just stick to AI to populate my skies. I’m way too much of a curmudgeon to put up with the shenanigans that happen in MP.
As to your original question… Only spawn in designated parking spots. If you can start a flight and then connect, you might even consider spawning, then slewing to an out of the way spot on the ramp to avoid spawning on top of someone else. After that, if the tower would ask you to take down a phone number for doing something in the real world, don’t do it in the sim! And in general, remember the words of Thomas “Neo” Anderson: “Be excellent to each other!”
You will find trolls trying to wake turbulence your aircraft into crashing. Even when parked and stationary the wake turbulence can lift your aircraft off the ground. The wake turbulence is poor and add to that the trolls and you get a messy experience. I’ve turned MP off
I’ll occasionally take a fighter jet up and establish a loose formation with an airliner that has “failed to check in on the radio”. I waggle the wings, then break off.
I’d say this is harmless and acceptable. The pilot of the airliner can choose to ignore the encounter or play along. I don’t interfere with their flight path and I’m gone soon enough.
For me, the important “rules” that come to mind are:
don’t spawn on runways
don’t spawn in occupied parking spaces
use the active runway or be prepared to wait / yeild to other traffic using the correct runway (thank you to the business jet at Cardiff yesterday who maneuvered so I could exit the active after landing my Ryanair 737 – MSFS 2020 )
Try to space yourself properly with other arrivals / departures (the in-game ATC obviously can’t / won’t do that for you and it would prevent a lot of go-arounds )
It can get pretty… let’s say interesting while livestreaming. Some folks really want to see themselves and/or give you grief. One thing I’ve noticed is that the dust trails are WAY too apparent. I’ve seen a Caravan generate them at 130 knots and several hundred feet AGL. Asobo really needs to tamp those down.
One I would add is if a group flight is very obviously GA centric, don’t spawn in a 747 just be a pain. I’ve seen many times people trying to crash the line up at the end of the flight, where the streamer who organised it is just trying to get some nice shots for a thumbnail, for example, and they are stream sniping so they can get in the way of the shot. Or just sitting nearby spooling their engines up to full power just to annoy those nearby.
Nobody needs that, and you have to wonder at the mentality of those that do it.
I turned off MP. The last straw for me was waiting at the hold short at the take off runway. I was waiting for clearance from the tower because of landing traffic. The MP behind me decided he was tired of waiting and drove through me and took off. I’d rather just see AI traffic from BATC.
Gets quite lonely flying without other players to populate the sky. Only had one “■■■■■” deliberately crash into me, so far. My biggest bugbear is when in a group flight with an assortment of aircraft the sim cannot handle diversity, portraying the model as a standard Asobo aircraft, often of the wrong kind. For example, a recent canyon run as a group had all types of taildraggers in use, about 10, but for my view most were portrayed as ATR’s that were sitting on their tail. Surely if FS24 is streamed then the correct aircraft can be streamed even if the user does not have the specific aircraft on their platform. At least match like for like.
Wake Turbulence in Assistances.
also just hit "back to fly’ when flipped over
or use slew mode… its a video game, not real life, dont waste time on reloading..
you can go back to role-playing after that.
This thread paints a pretty pessimistic view of things, and to be fair it can be, and I have seen that, but for the most part it’s actually very cool to see other users in the sky, or taking part in their own group flight.
I’ve been flying in the middle of nowhere, and then spotted someone in the distance, and wondered what they were doing, or where they were going. On one occasion it was a random person coming in to land at Bugalaga, where I was practising landing with a new plane. Spent about an hour alternating landing together.
Rarely I have spotted some forum members in flight, and on one or two locations flying something that I knew was coming but not actually released yet. A bit like a UFO sighting, if you will.
A simple blocklist would do. Present a list of users in your vicinity with a ban/unban button. They remain on that list, but you don’t see or hear them in the world if they are banned.
Present it like that list you see for private groups.
This. But I’d add the ability to “kick for session” as well as permanently. Also to “kick all within (radius),” again, for session. Could help with the people who are just sitting on the runway or at a gate unaware, but doesn’t necessarily require the permaban a troll would.
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