Given how the universe/instance server is being setup to match-make on the fly and determine who will see who when entering a given area of space, are we guaranteed to instance with pilots in our friends list & organization (preferred method), or will there be some gameplay mechanic (such as creating a squadron or something similar) required in order to force that to happen?asked by Zengrinn

No, the whole point of having organizations and being members of them like I mentioned in the previous answer, essentially your friends list would be an organization, it would just be a less formal organization.Here's my list of friends, and that would probably be something you would keep as an affiliate organization when you're a member of a primary organization, which would would be the Imperium or something like that.So what it does when it match makes and you're flying around, it looks around and says"I'm going in here, and these are the other members that are a part of your organization," and it tries to put people together that you know, it tries to put people together that you've designated as a person of interest.You can also, before you start out, you can basically hook-up and say we're flying as a group. Say me and this friend, this friend, and this friend, this is our little unit that's flying as a group, to let the game know that you're flying together.Then it will do things, like determining based on ping would be another criteria, but of course if you say "I'm flying with this group," that takes priority over everything else.Then also what your preference is in terms of combat, whether you want to be doing PvP or want to be fighting NPCs in PvE. That depends on what sort of area of space you're in, but we're not going to match up someone who just wants to be doing PvE in a fairly safe area with someone who just wants to be doing hardcore PvP, 'cause that wouldn't necessarily be a lot of fun for the PvE side, and on the PvP side, there'll be plenty of opportunities to fight other people because we're making sure that there's a lot of benefit to being in the less regulated areas. More risk, more reward so to speak.All those criteria are factored in when we're doing the instancing. We decide, this group of players is coming from here to here, and they may intersect this other group. You run through the matchmaking criteria, and if you determine that they should see each other, you create an instance, you put the groups into it and let the conflict resolve itself, then they go back onto their journey.