Playing With Others

Playing With Others
Being an Online game, you will have plenty of interactions with other players, both good and bad. At some point you may want to friend someone you meet and work towards mutual goals. Or perhaps you have a friend or two that also plays RDO and you want to play together. Whatever the case may be, you're gonna need a posse.

There are two types of Posses - Temporary and Persistent. Depending on what your intended activities are, you may decide to use one over the other. The information below can help you to make that decision and how to go about setting one up.

Temporary Posse
A Temporary Posse is exactly that - a posse that you can set up on the fly and once disbanded, has to be set up brand new each time you want to use it.

Temporary Posses can have up to 4 people in them - 1 Posse Leader and 3 Posse Members. You cannot change the name of a Temporary Posse and it will be named The_Player_That_Set_It_Up's Posse.

Temporary Posses are great when you want to join up with a random you just met and are not sure of yet. Not inviting them to a Persistent Posse means that they cannot rejoin you unexpectedly.

Temporary Posses do not count towards the total number of Posses you can Lead or be a Member of.

Setting Up a Temporary Posse
To set up a temporary posse, press Left on the DPad and select "Posse" from the left menu. Press Square to open the Posse setup sub-menu and select "Temporary" as the Type to create a Temporary Posse. You can also set the Privacy (Open or Invite Only), Friendly Fire setting, and Camp Location from this same screen.

Persistent Posse
When you want to have more posse members or allow your friends to rejoin you when you reform your posse, you will need a Persistent Posse.

Persistent Posses are semi-permanent. You can be a member of up to 5 Persistent Posses at a time. If you are already a member of 5 Posses (including any Persistent Posses you are the Leader of), you cannot be invited to a 6th posse. If you want to join a 6th posse you will first need to Abandon one of the current Posses you are in.

You can have up to 10 Members in your Posse however the largest an active Posse can be is only 7 - The Posse Leader and 6 other Posse Members.

Abandoning a Posse
To Abandon a Posse means to leave it and not be able to rejoin unless the Leader sends you another invite. You will need to Abandon Posses from time to time, as you are limited to being a member of 5 simultaneously, if you want to join a new posse.

To Abandon a Persistent Posse you are a member of press Left on the DPad and select "Posse", then highlight the posse you want to Abandon and press X. On the posse screen, go to "Settings" and select "Abandon Posse" at the bottom.

Rejoining a Reformed Posse
If you are a member of a Persistent Posse and the Posse Leader reforms it, you will see a notification pop up on the right side of your screen that will say "Name_of_Posse was reformed", even if they are not in the same session.

To quickly rejoin them as a member of their posse, press Left on the DPad and go to "Posse" and select the Posse that was reformed. There will be a "Rejoin Posse" option on the following Posse screen. You will have to confirm that you want to leave your current session if they are not in the same session you are in and you will be loaded into their session if you press X to continue. If they are already in your session, you'll just become a member of their posse.

Should you rejoin a Posse while you have your own Posse active and you have 1 or more Posse Members, they will be pulled into the new session with you but won't automatically join the posse that you do.

etting Up a Persistent Posse
Unlike Temporary Posses, you have to pay a nominal fee to set up a Persistent Posse in the amount of $RDO 200. To set up a Persistent Posse, press Left on the DPad and select "Posse" from the Left Menu. (Keep in mind that you can only be a member of 5 posses at any given time and if you have reached that limit you'll need to Abandon one of them in order to set up a new one.) On the Posse sub-menu, press Square to open the Posse setup sub-menu and change the type to Persistent set up a Persistent Posse. You'll be able to set the same options as for a Temporary Posse and also be able to name it. Press X when highlighting the "Form Posse" option and your new Posse will be formed! Now you just need some Posse Members!

Inviting Players To Your Posse
Whether they are friends that you have had for a long time or random people you have met while playing, there will come a time when playing solo won't be as lucrative as playing with others in your Posse. Maybe you are altruistic and like to offer low ranks the opportunity of making a little $RDO by joining you on a Long Distance delivery... Whatever the case may be, they'll need to join your posse.

You could just leave your Posse set to Open and wait for someone to join you, but there is no guarantee that anyone will. Additionally, leaving your Posse set to Open is not a very smart idea. The reasons why are explained in full detail on the PvP page.

Since leaving your Posse Open isn't a very good idea, you are left with only one option and that is to send invites!

When You Can/Can't Send Invites
There are a few different ways of sending someone an invite, but before we get to that you need to know when you are able to invite someone and some possible reasons why you are not able to send an invite to someone.

You can invite anyone who is currently in your session so long as they are not currently participating in active content (completing a mission or other activity) and they are not maxed out on the number of posses they can be a member of. If you are unable to send someone an invite, this are the most likely causes.

Friends not in your current session can be invited as well, but there are some limitations. They must must be showing as being online and also play RDO. To see how to tell when someone is online or not, see Left Menu Secret Tips.

Inviting Players
There are two main ways to send an invite to someone in your current session, from the Players List in the Left Menu and from the Posse sub-menu. Of these, it is slightly easier to do this from the Posse sub-menu, but both will be described here.

To send an invite from the Posse sub-menu, Press Left on the DPad to open the Left Menu and select the Posse sub-menu. Make sure that you have reformed your Posse and highlight the name of your Posse and press X to open the sub-menu. Here, select the Invite option and you will see a list of players in your session. Highlight a name in the list and press X to send them an invite and a little envelope icon will replace their rank in the list. If you are trying to press X and nothing seems to happen (no little envelope appears), that means that player cannot be invited at this time.

You have a limited number of invites that can be sent out at a time. Once you reach that limit, you will need to wait a minute or two while the previous set of invites are either accepted or become expired before you can send more.

The other way to invite someone to your Posse is to open the Players sub-menu by pressing Left on the DPad twice or pressing it once and then selecting "Players" from the Left Menu. While looking at the list of players, highlight one and press X. This will open the sub-menu for that player and if they are able to be invited, the "Invite to Posse" option will be shown in white rather than being grayed out.