Social-district-standing

[Fayeth 3]

It is just way too often to see at least 25% of the population staying in the social district and do absolutely nothing/afk for a long period of time. I don't mean those that are making trades on the marketplace, designing their avatar/vehicle appearance, or even just having small talks with others, but the ones that do ABSOLUTELY nothing in-game. What is the idea behind this such "social-district-standing", so to speak?

[Seadee 107]

for a moment i thought you meant that being in the social district gave you a Standing and that you could level up the social contacts by just being in social, there would be no actual benefit from doing it, but you'd be able to see how long someone had spent in social by what Rank their social standing was at.

[Speedz 147]

Some people show off their outfits, some chat in clan / group chats and seem to be AFK for you and some literally just stay AFK.

This happens in literally any MMO out there.

[Havana 216]

Yea, I have never understood hanging out Social. But whatever. 

Still looking for card, casino games, gun shooting/testing gallery. Ability to organize my weapons, give some of my Joker box weapons away to noobies. A lottery system from the ridiculous 20% sales tax and a million other things.

Soo much potential and Zero imagination. 

I know, I know Engine upgrade. 

 

[Fayeth 3]

6 minutes ago, Seadee said:

for a moment i thought you meant that being in the social district gave you a Standing and that you could level up the social contacts by just being in social, there would be no actual benefit from doing it, but you'd be able to see how long someone had spent in social by what Rank their social standing was at.

LOL should LO really planned to do this Social Standing thing, this may be the greatest achievement of LO that will be beneficial to most people of the community so far

 

1 minute ago, Speedz said:

Some people show off their outfits, some chat in clan / group chats and seem to be AFK for you and some literally just stay AFK.

This happens in literally any MMO out there.

Sure I know about that, as I come up with this term with the correlation to the renowned and historical Bank-standing in Runescape among the global MMO community. It just gets on my nerves in the case of APB because the population here is way smaller than many MMOs and they are becoming a significant part of the playerbase, while other districts cry for missions and fight club participation.

[vsb 6171]

probably most just leave the game running because its easier than restarting, especially if they arent going to run missions/fc where performance would be an issue

[Eisena 86]

It is to get as much standing as possible

 

;3

[MaxJedburgh 18]

If I'm making a coffee and drinking it, I'll head to social so I don't get kicked from action district for idling.

Any reason that will make me afk for more than 5 minutes: Social. Because I don't want to have to re-log.

Can't speak for anyone else.

 

[Seadee 107]

1 hour ago, Fayeth said:

 

Sure I know about that, as I come up with this term with the correlation to the renowned and historical Bank-standing in Runescape among the global MMO community. It just gets on my nerves in the case of APB because the population here is way smaller than many MMOs and they are becoming a significant part of the playerbase, while other districts cry for missions and fight club participation.

Asheron's Call had a similar thing in what was essentially it's market town, a whole servers population could be there at any given moment, lagged the server so much they introduced something called "portal storms" which would teleport you randomly away to a different cluster, usually into a pile of monsters... stopped people going afk, but they used bots, SO they blew the town up with a meteor and everyone moved to a nearby dungeon (as dungeons were not instanced, but they were on different clusters) eventually they actually added a Market place to the game... but it was more fun when it was player driven.

tl:dr - shit was standard in MMO's back in the day.

[Seedy 324]

to socialise.

[CookiePuss 5378]

For some people APB is like a poor man's Second Life.

They are only in it for the creations and socialization. 

 

 

 

Edited July 23, 2019 by CookiePuss

[Ketog 1031]

1 minute ago, CookiePuss said:

For some people APB is like a poor man's Second Life They are only in it for the creations and socialization. 

Oh boi, i would rather play apb than second life, like, that's not even a question for me.

[Nickolai 206]

Its to get hours on Steam so you can flex that you got over 4000 hours (but really you spent half of that time doing nothing in Social)

 

Gotta flex yaknowwhatimsayin

 

 

[Queen of Love 452]

i like go around social for see familiar faces still login in apb

(Citadel USA tourist meet KellyNera, wallet stolen)

[Ohshii 215]

Wah people are playing the game the way I dont want them to LO do something about it!

 

 

hahaha cmon man, grow the fuck up already lol

 

[Goabea 196]

Sounds Like An Elaborate Excuse To Be A Furry But Okay

 

[vsb 6171]

SLAEETBAFBO?

[NotZombieBiscuit 3146]

6 hours ago, Ketog said:

Oh boi, i would rather play apb than second life, like, that's not even a question for me.

If you're only playing APB for social district then you should be playing SL instead, and why would someone even play APB just for social district in the first place.