Boarding Group

A **Boarding Group** is an alternate way of entering Cog Buildings or a Cog Facility, the other being Toons manually entering an elevator and waiting for its countdown to expire.

## Mechanics

Boarding Groups can contain a maximum of four Toons for most Cog Facilities, and eight Toons for Cog Bosses. When a Boarding Group is used, its GUI will appear with the following options:

* "Start a Group": Creates a Boarding Group.
* "Invite":
	+ "Invite Friend": Invites a friend from your Friend list into the Boarding Group. If they accept, and are not currently in the same location as you, and the server for the District you are in is not full (if they are in a separate District), they teleport to you.
	+ "Invite Others": Pulls up a list of all other players in your immediate vicinity who currently do not have a Boarding Group. Players can then send an invite to these players. Alternatively, players can click on other players' Toon profiles and invite them to their Boarding Group.
	+ Toons that are already in another Boarding Group cannot be invited until they leave their current Boarding Group, and the "Invite" option is greyed out in the GUI.
	+ Toons invited will see a message e.g. "[Player name] has invited you to join their Boarding Group to enter [Location]".
* "Enter": Enters the Cog Facility with the current Boarding Group.
	+ The "Enter" option will always be disabled if one party member is currently in a Trolley Game, in a Cog Battle, or in another Cog Facility.
	+ For Street Cog Buildings, the "Enter" option is disabled if the Cog Building is already occupied, or if one of your Boarding Group members walk away from the Cog Building.
* "Location": Only toggleable if the current lobby has multiple Cog Facilities.
* "Disband": Disbands the current Boarding Group.

Players can also view the members in the Boarding Group, and can Chat with them directly, teleport to them or Kick them from the Boarding Group.

The Boarding Group is automatically disbanded once the group has managed to enter the Cog Building / Cog Facility.

Boarding Groups work differently depending on whether a Toon is attempting to enter a Cog Building on a street, a Cog Facility, or for a Cog Boss.

### Street Cog Buildings

Boarding Groups can only be accessed when a Toon stands in front of an unoccupied Cog Building. Upon doing so, the Boarding Group GUI will appear.

### Cog Facilities

Boarding Groups can be accessed anywhere from the courtyard / lobby of the Cog Facility. If more than one Cog Facility exists in each Lobby (e.g. Coin Mint, Dollar Mint and Bullion Mint), the "Location" option can be toggled.

For the Sellbot Aerodrome and Cashbot Stock Exchange, two Boarding Groups of up to four Toons are required to commence the respective stage. If one Boarding Group is complete and another is not, Toons in the first Boarding Group will see a message on screen "Waiting for another Boarding Group..." appear.

### Cog Boss

Before Cog Boss Boarding Groups may enter the facility, all members must be present in the courtyard / lobby.

## Tips

* Always practice good Boarding Group etiquette: if you have been invited to a Boarding Group, do not enter a Trolley Game, Cog Battle or other Cog Facility on your own, unless doing so is okay with the other members (e.g. if they are waiting for another member). Doing so would prevent the entire Boarding Group from entering the Cog Building / Cog Facility.
* Only the leader / creator of the Boarding Group can Enter, Disband or Kick.
* However, any member of the Boarding Group can teleport to each other. This allows them to restock and reenter the Cog Facility on the go.
* Teleporting away from a Cog Facility Boarding Group does not disband the Boarding Group. The leader can enter a Cog Facility even if all other members of the group are not in the same courtyard / lobby as the Cog Facility, provided that the leader is in the same courtyard / lobby as the Cog Facility.
	+ However, this does not apply to Cog Boss Boarding Groups.
* Provided that the Boarding Group has not been disbanded, a player who disconnects automatically rejoins the same Boarding Group when reconnecting to the server.
	+ If the player disconnects when in a Boarding Group, and the Boarding Group subsequently enters a Cog Building / Cog Facility, the player is automatically teleported to the location of a random Toon in that Group as long as they reconnect within 5 minutes.
	+ However, they will not gain credit for any Cog battles won or any rewards gained by the team during the time they have disconnected.