crew

Currently when you hire crew, you have 3 slots, but there is only utility for 1 crew at a time. I want Frontier to do something else with crew. I want them to have a deeper purpose in the game. My suggestion is that when you hire a crew, you can choose for them to stay on your ship...

Good morning! These are some suggestions for the current NPCs we hire that so far have almost zero actual reason to exist based on features found in other games: 1. Allow us to send the hired crew members (NPCs) on material gathering "quests" using our owned ships and we'd choose the material...

Hi. I've suggested this before, I'm sure, but perhaps I never explained it in a way that truly conveyed how completely game changing this simple feature would be and how vital it would be to player retention. So here I go again. The change would be that a player can switch to one of their...

There are some things that are still incompatible today when it comes to fihgters. See some problems: 1- Fighter bays incompatible with the crew. -We have the capacity for 3 crew members, but can we only use 2 fighters in the 7D Fighter Hangar? - Why is the 6D Hunting Hangar so similar to...

Dear FDev, When will our Hired Crew take a seat in our spare cockpit seats? We know from Space Taxis and Dropships that the tech and capability is there. NPC pilots have all their dialogue recorded. ... So why not? This will really help give our cockpits some more immersion, atmosphere and...

I remember when crew first came out, the images generated were probably all done in 2d, so obviously seeing them in the copilot seat wouldnt make sense. But now? Now I think that the crew avatars are probably models. And since NPCs can occupy other seats in the game... I dont think there's...

Hi, I changed my Ship in a Station from Annacoda to my Imperial Cutter, after some Transport Mission, I re-installed the fighter hangar. Wanted to multiplay with my son, took 4 hours, because I couldn't invite him and He has too look for my Ship... Well after that I QUIT the multicrew and...

Sorry but I pay my crew and everything what they do is just sleeping of playing with tablets.

I understand this is something that has been up before but this is something I feel should be in the game. while both arguments for and against have valid points I feel the balance is fairly easy to maintain while making minimal changes and to those who are worried about balance I will provide...

Greetings! The Wrecking Crew is looking for Commanders to join our Independent Cooperative, PvE player group that is focused mainly on combat and missions, with an occasional foray into other ventures like mining and [redacted]. We are looking for very active players who love to have fun...

Greetings! The Wrecking Crew is looking for Commanders to join our Independent Cooperative, PvE player group that is focused mainly on combat and missions, with an occasional foray into other ventures like mining and [redacted]. We are looking for very active players who love to have fun...

Greetings! The Wrecking Crew is looking for Commanders to join our Independent Cooperative, PvE player group that is focused mainly on combat and missions, with an occasional foray into other ventures like mining and [redacted]. We are located in 82 Pegasi, with Darwin Orbital as our main...

Greetings! The Wrecking Crew is looking for Commanders to join our Independent Cooperative, PvE player group that is focused mainly on combat and missions, with an occasional foray into other ventures like mining and [redacted]. We are looking for very active players who love to have fun...

So after a long break I've recently returned to the game (taken after obtaining my Cutter/Corvette), I've played the game mostly solo and as such get bored quickly something I'd like to change going forward. Since my absence some new ships have been released including the Type-10. As someone who...

Greetings! The Wrecking Crew is looking for Commanders to join our Independent Cooperative, PvE player group that is focused mainly on combat and missions, with an occasional foray into other ventures like mining and [redacted]. We are looking for very active players who love to have fun...

Greetings! The Wrecking Crew is looking for Commanders to join our Independent Cooperative, PvE player group that is focused mainly on combat and missions, with an occasional foray into other ventures like mining and [redacted]. We are looking for very active players who love to have fun...

Hello Frontier and Cmdrs, I'm actually traveling the galaxy with a fellow cmdr as a crew member in his Fleet Carrier. At the moment I can only help him by donating Tritium but I was thinking: It is possible to create a "Crew" section where the Fleet Carrier owner can add other players as...

Currently there is no reason to hire more than one crew member. I propose that we use these crew to be in multiple places at once, such that each player can potentially be in four places in the galaxy. Basically this would work by adding an option to switch viewpoints between the different...

On ps4 Noticed my slf crew member was not in my Carrier crew lounge after purchasing. Tried going to a station to see if I had to pick her up there... Nothing. She's completely gone.

Hey there, so I just learned, that NPC crew in fighters take half of the earned combat exp. I think that's pretty damn bad.. atleast lower it to 20% or something? I love playing with fighter crew, but the amount of dps and distraction they bring to the battlefield, does not justify that huge...

Currently we can hire and train up to 3 AI crew, but there hasn't been a reason other than completionism to hire more than 1 so far. Could this update be the reason? Are we getting AI players in the FPS modes?

I trained them all up in the expectation that you guys would release content that would require them and I wanted to be prepared, but now I'm thinking I've been duped.

What is the point of the 3 crew members when we can only have 1 on board at any time? So I have a very rich Elite crew member and put her into retirement whilst I trained up another to deadly. I am currently training up my 3rd and final crew member. But what's the point of having 3 crew members...

Fellow CMDRS and Devs (if your reading) I have a gameplay feature id like to put forward, wether or not it's been mentioned in the past i don't know. // Bridge-Cockpit crew // So my idea would be that at stations, you can hire NPC CMDRS to fly with you on your ship, the amount of NPCs you can...

Current state Right now, ways to get a crew are: "Open" search Sending direct invite Coordination via other channels (chat, Discord, voice, etc.) There is no way to find wingmates except for other channels (and direct invite) Problem statement I have a squadron and a large set of ingame...

When completing trade or other types of wing missions I think it would be good if I could make use of the hired crew or hire npcs to take along as part of the wing. They could use my spare engineered ships or have access to their own grades of ships for differing costs. They could be cast as...

Hey Fdev and community, I was thinking about what the near future will bring for Elite and noticed that there were very little details about what to come. I have thought of a couple of things, either new or improvements that perhaps might make the game feel even more alive than it already is...

I've vocally supported the new exploration tools, but I've also strongly advocated for giving us NPC crewmates in a (near) future update. Having just scanned a system with 80 planets, even I thought, "Wow, that was tedious!" So here's my idea: Why not allow an NPC crewmate, one who sits on the...

I've loved the idea of being a large ship, with tools to support my wing with strike craft, and utilities, as well as support the strike craft. (I'm working on a healer/disabler support platformer with my Cutter now in fact.) Battlestar Galactica Online had player carriers, which was one of my...

No cheats, exploits, nor macros involved. Just feed your favorite NPC (non-player cyborg) concubine/janitor 10% of your gross income and you'll never have to deal with PvE combat again. Apologies for the sloppy camera work, I was eating a plate of French toast while Alynna (affectionately known...

WHERE WE STARTED: I am CMDR Jayce Reveur, founder of the CESS and GalCom. For those of you who are not aware, CESS (Cone Expedition Support Service) was a community project aimed at gathering as many of the players interested in taking part in the Cone expedition in the one place. This allowed...

Greetings Commanders, and welcome to the Cone Expedition Support Services. A Cavaliers Le Chardon and Prismatic Impirium community initiative. Although the expedition out to the permit locked zone is an exciting prospect, it is not one that everyone is ready for or willing to commit to for an...

Greetings Commanders, and welcome to the Cone Expedition Support Services. A Cavaliers Le Chardon and Prismatic Impirium community initiative. Although the expedition out to the permit locked zone is an exciting prospect, it is not one that everyone is ready for or willing to commit to for an...

Greetings Commanders, and welcome to the Cone Expedition Support Services. A Cavaliers Le Chardon and Prismatic Impirium community initiative. Although the expedition out to the permit locked zone is an exciting prospect, it is not one that everyone is ready for or willing to commit to for an...

Greetings Commanders, and welcome to the Cone Expedition Support Services. A Cavaliers Le Chardon and Prismatic Impirium community initiative. Although the expedition out to the permit locked zone is an exciting prospect, it is not one that everyone is ready for or willing to commit to for an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_cPiVHepc Time to go get someone killed.

Ok, so i've started using the npc crew recently, mostly just to test it out and i have noticed two very GLARING and annoying things about them. They have HUGE ego's that dont match the whimpering they do when under attack. 1) So i have had to hired a few npc's mostly i use them whenever i need...

So I had a strange accident happen the other day.. https://youtu.be/HV6zA3Lf-ZE I showed this to frontier and they have offered to not only refund my rebuy, but also save my crew member. Again, thank you so much for this frontier! (It's so hard to find a decent looking crew member!) While...

could you introduce escape PODs for crew members. when your ship is destroyed instead of your crew member being killed, put them in an escape POD. the POD will last for X number of days... who knows what X is, should it be a month or a week.... to be decided, maybe by have different classes...

Before I start this is more so directed at the navy vets here who have seen shows like Battlestar Galactica. I find that the weapons deploy with no klaxon no lights nothing plus I’m looking at npc gunners that get to turret room and not locking crews behind fighter bays. Like I fly a viper and i...