So totally agree with this. Thanks for the Dev Update Sandro and Ed! I do hope they keep coming, even if they only come out monthly.
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News 2.3 Dev Update
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So totally agree with this. Thanks for the Dev Update Sandro and Ed! I do hope they keep coming, even if they only come out monthly.
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Posted elsewhere, but if this is the thread the Dev's wade through;
I'd love to see a means of limited clients added to a main game account that allowing my kids/ others to operate fighters and SRV's solely from my main ship - in fact it would be the only reason I'd trade up from my Python TBH.
Letting them operate turrets is fun too - but distinctly limited appeal when compared to operate fighters and SRV's independently.
I'd love to see a means of limited clients added to a main game account that allowing my kids/ others to operate fighters and SRV's solely from my main ship - in fact it would be the only reason I'd trade up from my Python TBH.
Letting them operate turrets is fun too - but distinctly limited appeal when compared to operate fighters and SRV's independently.
I like how people always find vectors for spouting griefing hysteria.
I'll side with you though if it means knocking out this obnoxious power creep. Well, less of a creep, more a F1 race.
I can think of several things-though the avatar would be enough for me.
-Gunnery Officer: Yes, sure your turrets are already automated, but with an NPC gunner, you can hot-swap between the helm & the turreted weapon(s).
-SLF Con Officer: like with PC crew, the option to launch *two* SLF's-possibly whilst leaving a third crew-mate piloting the mothership.
-Tactical Officer: An NPC whose role would be to deploy secondary systems (ECM, Shield Cell Banks, Chaff, Heat Sinks), Shift shield strength to parts of the ship that are under the heaviest fire & changing target priorities for you based on which ship poses the most threat (or is the easiest to kill).
-Navigation Officer: The Commander could create a number of "Way-points", at the system level and/or within systems, which a navigator could plot a course to automatically. Navigation Officer NPC's might also be able to reduce fuel costs for your travel, by doing it more "efficiently".
Engineering Officer: They can run diagnostics on your systems to squeeze improved performance out of them. They can manage heat/power use for things like Silent Running or Boosting Super Cruise speeds. They can also do reboot/repair for you during combat situations.
Science Officer: They can improve the scan ability of regular scanners, surface scanners & discovery scanners. They could also take scan data (from USS's, PoI's, Exploration, NPC ship scans), put them through a science module, & gain some kind of benefit from doing so-increased exploration data pay-outs, clues about the Thargoid/Guardian mysteries, info about persistent PoI's on planetary surfaces, mission tip-offs & things of that nature.
Those are the ones that immediately come to mind, & all positions that could benefit from having either a human or an NPC in the seat.
Ed, Sandro and whoever else Dev-wise is reading this thread.
I have an observation to make that can feature as a question to be asked on Livestream:
In this Dev Update it mentions 3 multi-crew roles - Helm, Gunner and Fighter Control.
HOWEVER, in the artwork posted on Zac Antonaci's thread here, there are some discrepancies to this arrangement.
Observe
Here I can see Helm on the left at the front looking absolutely normal.
On the right at the front I can see the Gunner, which looks like a really cool interface concept.
At the back however is this guy:
This guy is not controlling fighters.
In fact, I don't see any fighter control at all. This guy is most definitely controlling ship defences/shields, which is a role that is not listed in the Dev Update.
Why the discrepancy? What's that guy actually doing? Will there be a ship defences station allowing control of shields that has deliberately been left out of the Dev update? Is this a very early concept that has since been abandoned?
I'm sure we would all appreciate some clarity, especially considering there were only a few days between Zac's teaser thread and this one.
I have an observation to make that can feature as a question to be asked on Livestream:
In this Dev Update it mentions 3 multi-crew roles - Helm, Gunner and Fighter Control.
HOWEVER, in the artwork posted on Zac Antonaci's thread here, there are some discrepancies to this arrangement.
Observe
Here I can see Helm on the left at the front looking absolutely normal.
On the right at the front I can see the Gunner, which looks like a really cool interface concept.
At the back however is this guy:
This guy is not controlling fighters.
In fact, I don't see any fighter control at all. This guy is most definitely controlling ship defences/shields, which is a role that is not listed in the Dev Update.
Why the discrepancy? What's that guy actually doing? Will there be a ship defences station allowing control of shields that has deliberately been left out of the Dev update? Is this a very early concept that has since been abandoned?
I'm sure we would all appreciate some clarity, especially considering there were only a few days between Zac's teaser thread and this one.
So grade 5 engineered ships, already operating at nigh on 100+% improved damaged/health, would now get raised buffed by adding NPC crew?
I assume we'd be able to train/augment these NPC crew to improve the amount they improve our improved performance?
If you look carefully, you can see he's just got a single button infront of him? It's got something like "Cargo Hatch" or something written on it?
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72 Pages to read... Camon people, I read the first 10 more or less and then I quit.
So many people crying... noo immersion is broker, why telepresence ahhhhhh, Elite will lose a lot of players...
If you want immersion, so you don't use multicrew. Stop.
If you want to play in group and are you part of a Corporation, so Multicrew is absolutely good.
So many people crying... noo immersion is broker, why telepresence ahhhhhh, Elite will lose a lot of players...
If you want immersion, so you don't use multicrew. Stop.
If you want to play in group and are you part of a Corporation, so Multicrew is absolutely good.
Concept artwork almost never aligns with actual content. In any industry.
It's a concept, an idea. Always subject to change.
That picture dates back to, at least, Newsletter #104 ( around mid-Dec last year ).
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Ok, so it will be content for combat and multiplayer only. I expected to be disappointed, but i also expected that there will be at least something in for other roles than combat/multiplayer. Meh! Sorry, for being negative. But i guess i have to way for another season to see any improvement in the exploration/trading area.
will the asp explorer be crewed?
What about use that advanced sensor system to scan when out exploring so one ship can explore two objects at the same time? Payment for exploration data should pay out when ship dock and hand in the data to all commanders in the ship when scanned.
Will a ship be able to land and deploy srvs for all the crewmembers?
Defiantly look forward to this update, create work��
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Probably, two seats showing.
Interesting if we will be able to sit in other positions to pilot the ship, would like to sit in the lower char when searching on planets.
Seems to be the case, from the limited information presented in the OP.
But it's all good, for this arcade game. No need to worry about it.
Another reason to avoid open unless you are very social and have so many friends someone is always there to join up at any time.
To the devs.
For 'telepresence' to keep being used as an effective way to explain things in game a separate model should be used to help the lore/immersion concerns.
This way a generic artificial construct can be standing on the ship in place of the full characters in game model. Unless of course in lore we have full holographic capabilities able to shroud the constructs appearance to look like the commander in question or full printing capabilities to make the construct a replicant, which opens up a whole new realm for authors of Elite fiction.
For 'telepresence' to keep being used as an effective way to explain things in game a separate model should be used to help the lore/immersion concerns.
This way a generic artificial construct can be standing on the ship in place of the full characters in game model. Unless of course in lore we have full holographic capabilities able to shroud the constructs appearance to look like the commander in question or full printing capabilities to make the construct a replicant, which opens up a whole new realm for authors of Elite fiction.
Dude it's concept art.
Will this feature give a brief detail about the type of activity the player is looking to do? It would help to match play styles of CMDR's, to avoid someone looking to explore ending up in a combat zone and visa versa as one example