Oh dear what happens if 20 clones of yourself are activated at the same time!?
lol, can't rep you any more.
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Telepresence lore
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Oh dear what happens if 20 clones of yourself are activated at the same time!?
lol, can't rep you any more.
+1 vrep
Not all drones are licensed, to operate at multiples of c however.
Which do you think will do better. A squichy man with a relatively low G-force tolerance, or a drone that's capable of making instant decisions. Here, this vid below is with today's tech:
[video=youtube;WBjY3QGNdAw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjY3QGNdAw[/video]
Sorry, Telepresance creates waaaaaaaay more problems than it fixes. In fact, it outright calls into question the purpose of the game. It's literally the same as Star Trek Into Darkness's cross galactic teleporter, which totally removes the need for a starfleet.
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+1 rep. Great idea. In fact it's more than an explanation, it's a solution.
I fly through space without leaving my desk.
Actually, this solution would create a quite a lot of potential for new gameplay. Normally you would hire NPC crew members to do all kinds of stuff (turrets, SLFs, scanning ships, scanning planets/rings, ship maintenance, navigation and flying). But you could invite your friends or random players to function as crew members too.
You could yield the control of any ship function to your crew member and of course take the control back at any moment if you wish so. As for NPCs, they would need relevant skills to perform the function adequately. A good NPC would have several skills, but not all of them.
Please, create this true NPC/human multi-crew in "Season 3" and I'll buy it in a heartbeat! [heart]
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Exactly. Why does anyone pay a pilot to remote control a ship to take them to a tourist beacon? Why not just telepresance themselves over to the tourist beacon and see what they want to see?
Could we possibly refer back to the original post about lore? You know like in the old days when someone starts a story and others join in adding and expanding the original storyline? Of course not. Let's just go back to another of the dozen threads already with the "I like it" or "I hate it" comments about telepresence. Right...it is much better to complain than actually use any imagination.
Frontier should release a Galnet update about telepresence.
We don't need more separate game modes that splinter the player base into little islands. Otherwise less people will bother to play in open.
Also choosing "crew member" in the main menu is not immersive whatsoever. The main menu takes people out of the game world.
We don't need more separate game modes that splinter the player base into little islands. Otherwise less people will bother to play in open.
Also choosing "crew member" in the main menu is not immersive whatsoever. The main menu takes people out of the game world.
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No. "As crew member" wouldn't be a new mode -- it would be either PG or OPEN.
It's not supposed be immersive. The main menu is the place where you decide in which game you want to immerse yourself: a) Commander game, b) Crew member game or c) Arena game.
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If we were making up a story about an element of the game that made sense, I'd be all for it. But since we're putting a bow-tie on a massive turd..... I'm more keen to point out alternatives.
They don't need to remove the insta join up and play, and they don't need to make a mockery of in game lore and consistancy to do it either.
They can just let players add visual only npc crew into their seats which players want and the coding is already in place to do anyway for multicrew
Then let players insta join and assume control of these npcs (not mind control either as some seem to think this suggestion means, just play the part of the crew)
This way all the mechanics of multicrew remain the same, with no insta high grade telepresence that makes a mockery of the lore and consistancy of the game world, PLUS players get npc crew to populate their bridge as a bonus
They can just let players add visual only npc crew into their seats which players want and the coding is already in place to do anyway for multicrew
Then let players insta join and assume control of these npcs (not mind control either as some seem to think this suggestion means, just play the part of the crew)
This way all the mechanics of multicrew remain the same, with no insta high grade telepresence that makes a mockery of the lore and consistancy of the game world, PLUS players get npc crew to populate their bridge as a bonus
This. The "npc crew" could have his/her dark tinted helmet on, and it could lower when someone joins you crew, to show the new Player crew face.
Hello, it's me...mob. i wanna buy a pitchfork, a torch, tar and some festhers
I can only agree with you here. It would have been better to run it without any explanation at all and just call it simply game mechanic. So people have possibility to imagine some stuff how the crew got together^^ this telepresence fairy tale is just nonsense. Nothing can be remote over hundreds and thousands of lightyears and still be absolute synchronised to each other. Where do the signals travel? Witchspace? This would open up OP's Lore to thargoid manipulations. Why can't i telepresence the fighter over a planet and dismiss my ship? Modern drones get controled also via satellites
Etc...blabla
Sry OP but i think it isn't possible to write any lore to telepresence that makes sense.
You are aware that in the current Beta, when you crew for another ship, the game logs you off, and even puts you through the rotating ship animation before finally placing you in the crew seat?
Hello, it's me...mob. i wanna buy a pitchfork, a torch, tar and some festhers
I can only agree with you here. It would have been better to run it without any explanation at all and just call it simply game mechanic. So people have possibility to imagine some stuff how the crew got together^^ this telepresence fairy tale is just nonsense. Nothing can be remote over hundreds and thousands of lightyears and still be absolute synchronised to each other. Where do the signals travel? Witchspace? This would open up OP's Lore to thargoid manipulations. Why can't i telepresence the fighter over a planet and dismiss my ship? Modern drones get controled also via satellites
Etc...blabla
Sry OP but i think it isn't possible to write any lore to telepresence that makes sense.
Indeed. It takes 160 tons worth of sensors to detect a burning hot ship 10km away (inside visual range) but ships have tech to detect a signal from hundreds of light years away?