Or maybe the CMDR brain has been uploaded and forked, who knows !
But yeah, 160t of sensor sillyness, +1.
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Telepresence lore
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Or maybe the CMDR brain has been uploaded and forked, who knows !
But yeah, 160t of sensor sillyness, +1.
I agree that for proper legitimacy telepresence should have been included earlier. It would make much more sense if our commanders were all on telepresence. That members of the pilot's federation remote controlled their ships/fighters and SRVs from the comfort of their own planetside homes so that there is no-one in the cockpit of anyone's ship, except for NPC crew dumb enough to sign up for a job with a Telepresence commander who won't give a s h i t whether they live or die at the next rebuy screen.
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This^.
Exactly the reason why i want laser raptor launchers and pink elephant cannons in game right now 'cos it seems elite's universe is not governed by any apparent logic. There were several ways to address the issue like some suggestions in this thread but as always FDev goes for the worst possible implementation and excuse.
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A good explanation. Personally I would have just gone with that since the AI wars a ban on automated vessels or vessels control at a distance of more than a few thousands of km was introduced to prevent another AI uprising.
I got no problem with telepresence, I'm just hoping when we get legs we will be able to join our friends with our real bodies.
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I think they went for the best implementation given the current capabilities in the game.
I got no problem with telepresence, I'm just hoping when we get legs we will be able to join our friends with our real bodies.
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I think they went for the best implementation given the current capabilities in the game.
And explained it in a way that pokes more holes in the lore than it patches.
I swear, I did not telejack your brain to make you say this. I think.
This would absolutely be preferable, but even better would be a separate menu item in the launcher equivalent to Arena/CQC.
Apart from that, I have no real issues with multicrew. Balance issues might appear, but FDEV have shown a willingness to rebalance if necessary.
Yeah and we could have ditched those obstructive cockpits, breaking windows and suffocating, such a fun stopper /s
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So you have to log in, in order to be able to switch to crew which involves logging out!?
Smart!
To be totally frank... If such nonsense as telepresence would have been part of Elite lore from day 1, I would not have supported the Kickstarter.
IF a hologram can replace my gunner and fighter pilots, it can replace the pilot. His job is no more complicated than theirs.
IF all commanders are holograms, we don't need life support. Or escape capsules.
IF all commanders can zip to anywhere in the Galaxy, we actually don't need commanders or ships. We need a load of satellites max.
I think what Frontier doesn't get in their great efforts to make the game more 'accessible' for people that will be gone once they have their Anaconda is that one of their main assets is actually the Elite Lore.
Numerous novels have been written, fans have written their own fan fiction. But: Suddenly holograms!
It'd be like World of Warcraft announcing that the Alliance and Horde forces are all the dreams of goldfish swimming in a pool of LSD.
In most other MMOs you pick the appearance of your character once. That's you!
You can't look like Hercule Poirot one day and Arnold Schwarzenegger the next. And then suddenly be Denise Richards.
(Well, SOME let you pay to allow for that... admitted...)
There is simply no way to fit a 'lore' to this telepresence nonsense.
And so many more ways to introduce multi-crew in a reasonable way. (Play as Crew Member)
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I wish they'd drop the half baked lore attempted explanations, and just say straight out that they designed it this way because they wanted to.
A much better explanation and design would be if they simply allowed players to play as NPC crew for hire at any station. Maybe even collecting profits according to rank as current NPC crew.
Technically, CMDR Garbarrage would still be flying around Sag A*, but I can control CMDR Chris Roberts who is currently for hire at Lave Station.
Job done. Lore is intact without the need for messy implausible explanations, and the gameplay is accessible to everyone immediately, as the Devs wanted.
What could be really fun, would be if you allowed us to use the CMDR Creator to make our own character specifically for each contract. You just couldn't name it with your own name.
You're welcome.
A much better explanation and design would be if they simply allowed players to play as NPC crew for hire at any station. Maybe even collecting profits according to rank as current NPC crew.
Technically, CMDR Garbarrage would still be flying around Sag A*, but I can control CMDR Chris Roberts who is currently for hire at Lave Station.
Job done. Lore is intact without the need for messy implausible explanations, and the gameplay is accessible to everyone immediately, as the Devs wanted.
What could be really fun, would be if you allowed us to use the CMDR Creator to make our own character specifically for each contract. You just couldn't name it with your own name.
You're welcome.
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Exactly the same reason old time mob bosses never used telephones! They had fat guys running all over town exchanging information. (does this mean we are the fat guys?)
Well, lesson learned. Never trust a pilot with a landing pad for a forehead.
Sounds reasonable, I would just change the "Telepresence.inc" into "RemLok.Inc" maybe?
OK Who?, While your at it, what is the "lore" explanation for the 3rd person turret operator view? Is it a drone hovering over the ship giving him that view? Can I shot said drone blinding the turret operator?!?!?
They have said it a micro drone in the stream.
But they could have easily gone with computer using the sensors to construct a 100% accurate 3d view of the ship environment. Similar technologies are already being developed and employed today by various armed forces around the world.
So far I have not thought about the LORE consequences of telepresence, but after reading this thread - there is no coming back - but telepresence is even much worse lore breaker than insta ship travel - it makes the whole world and commanders flying ships and nearly all missions we do totally pointless, it makes the world of elite pointless and absolutely unbelievable.