Now that's a good idea. Basically you would be working as a team and, if nothing else, getting the job done faster.
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Now that's a good idea. Basically you would be working as a team and, if nothing else, getting the job done faster.
It's is possible to have Voiceattack managing a second account, I run my second account on an old laptop, I've not yet done myself, but given the limited things the gunner has to do, I don't see any problems setting up voice commands to control the second account.
Sure, I can also make an app that will feed the second client to do some basic gunner/crewman task, but honestly why not just add it, why make it so cumbersome to do?
to my understanding, the benefit of multicrew is granted already without assigning the co-pilot to any role.
1. insurance reduction happens as soon as crew is present
2. extra pip is granted and can be set as soon as crew is present
so, the things you need to remote control, are "accept multicrew invite" and "set pip to x"
I agree, but since FD seem loathed to put hired NPC crew in those seats, it's a stop gap measure, oh and because it is my second account, I can create the character to look how I want them to look rather than rely on the monstrosity's that appear all too often in the hire menu.
You have to wonder, if someone in FD pushed CQC, and that same person also pushed for Multi-Crew, what is their credibility like now?
CQC should have had its development time instead allocated to adding fighter missions/gameplay into the core game.
Multi-crew is a waste of time unless there's already enough depth/variety in the existing gameplay to allow it to be split up and still offer entertainment. As the majority of the core gameplay is still the same simple placeholder mechanics we had 2-3yrs ago, it's not suprising multi-crew gives little of interest to do. A post of mine from when MC was released - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...s-now-coming-back-to-bite-ED-in-the-boosters!
TBH, some of the design choices/decisions/outcomes from the past 2+yrs really concern me!
Pretty much this.
Also, as soon as Frontier listened to the whiners about players earning too much money from bounty hunting in multicrew, they applied a ridiculous rank reduction to it...
Then they gave Wings complete copies of 100% of bounties instead...
So with those two game design decisions, they effectively destroyed their own update that players waited 6 months for.
A waste of time and bad game design decisions...
1. They should have left the 100% credits earned from bounty hunting, mining, trading as was originally planned.
2. Turrets needed at least a 20%/25% damage buff to be useful for a Gunner - and turret tracking speed need(s)ed a fast turning buff.
3. As already stated, not enough missiles can be carried to be useful in the slightest.
Until they address these issues, multicrew will just be a number penned on the wall of Samarco's toilet lol
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CMDR Pugwash, you've inspired me to give it a try so tonight while I am playing I will have a seat open for anyone who wants to just chill and see some stars near Sag A. I'm not expecting anyone to join in but the seat will be available in open for anyone interested
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CMDR Pugwash, you've inspired me to give it a try so tonight while I am playing I will have a seat open for anyone who wants to just chill and see some stars near Sag A. I'm not expecting anyone to join in but the seat will be available in open for anyone interested
Oooooooh. What time?
Pretty much this.
Also, as soon as Frontier listened to the whiners about players earning too much money from bounty hunting in multicrew, they applied a ridiculous rank reduction to it...
Then they gave Wings complete copies of 100% of bounties instead...
So with those two game design decisions, they effectively destroyed their own update that players waited 6 months for.
A waste of time and bad game design decisions...
1. They should have left the 100% credits earned from bounty hunting, mining, trading as was originally planned.
2. Turrets needed at least a 20%/25% damage buff to be useful for a Gunner - and turret tracking speed need(s)ed a fast turning buff.
3. As already stated, not enough missiles can be carried to be useful in the slightest.
Until they address these issues, multicrew will just be a number penned on the wall of Samarco's toilet lol
So your suggestion to get more people playing in MC, is not to offer more engaging and rewarding gameplay and mechanics, but instead by throwing more CRs at CMDRs, and make ships even more powerful?
Hmmm...
Pretty much this.
Also, as soon as Frontier listened to the whiners about players earning too much money from bounty hunting in multicrew, they applied a ridiculous rank reduction to it...
Then they gave Wings complete copies of 100% of bounties instead...
So with those two game design decisions, they effectively destroyed their own update that players waited 6 months for.
A waste of time and bad game design decisions...
Until they address these issues, multicrew will just be a number penned on the wall of Samarco's toilet lol
- They should have left the 100% credits earned from bounty hunting, mining, trading as was originally planned.
i am ok with the payout as it is now for bounties. but those who paid for the beta access, had no idea what mining in a wing meant, and as such, my most anticipated upgrade to mining went down the toilet
in a wing, the content of an asteroid is generated for every member seperately. in multicrew its synchronised - probably because that "bug" that was reported by those premium testers, complaining that the gunner and helm would not get the "asteroid depleted" notification of each other when a prospector is used... premium testers ftw!- Turrets needed at least a 20%/25% damage buff to be useful for a Gunner - and turret tracking speed need(s)ed a fast turning buff.
IMHO they should have released weapons that are fixed or gimbaled, with the ability to transform into turrets if a gunner is using them.
luckily, there is already a tracking speed buff for turrets if they are used by gunner.- As already stated, not enough missiles can be carried to be useful in the slightest.
oh, missiles are usefull. if you multicrew in assassination missions, quality over quantitiy. to bad the mission payout is not shared with human crew... just NPC crew that you may not even have with you
thanks for the confirmation - i put some comments in your reply
Oooooooh. What time?
Sadly I didn't make it online last night. I'll try again tonight...
Not the guy you quoted but I had a horse in this race (see my sig) and I can speak a little to it.
It's more that the wing thing combined with the multicrew reduction makes it so a credit minded player has literally no reason no prefer multicrew over taking their sidewinder out for a spin with me at a RES.
In my group we do a lot of mentoring of newer players (in this context: get the players who want bigger and better toys out of the early game as fast as possible) and we were all (me especially) very excited for multicrew, especially after Sandro confirmed that everyone was getting paid 100%. To say I was disappointed with the CR nerf doesn't quite cover it. Especially since all you can do with it is combat. To me it's such a no-brainer...
Edit: I suppose this could all be summarised by saying that the choice between fun and progress shouldn't exist. They should both be the same choice.
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To me the whole turret design is a big mistake, for gameplay reasons it should have been more like in IL2 sturmovik but it's not. The Arcady 360 view simply is a wrong design move if you ask me.Pretty much this.
Also, as soon as Frontier listened to the whiners about players earning too much money from bounty hunting in multicrew, they applied a ridiculous rank reduction to it...
Then they gave Wings complete copies of 100% of bounties instead...
So with those two game design decisions, they effectively destroyed their own update that players waited 6 months for.
A waste of time and bad game design decisions...
1. They should have left the 100% credits earned from bounty hunting, mining, trading as was originally planned.
2. Turrets needed at least a 20%/25% damage buff to be useful for a Gunner - and turret tracking speed need(s)ed a fast turning buff.
3. As already stated, not enough missiles can be carried to be useful in the slightest.
Until they address these issues, multicrew will just be a number penned on the wall of Samarco's toilet lol
Had to google that, it looks great.
They would have to completely redesign fitting for that to work though.
Every ship in this game from the Condor to the Cutter is designed to be flown as a fighter. Letting a person man some random turret is not going to be meaningful because turrets are gimped weapons.