Horizons 3 Ships... Only 2 Pilots?

[Mercury7]

Uhhmmm... wut?

Why carry two fighters, if I can only carry one crew member? That makes 3 ships, and only 2 crew...

 

[Terran538]

One fighter out per ship is for connection reasons, but it also means that if your fighter dies you can immediately send out another one.

 

[Mercury7]

I hadn't realized it could assemble new fighters in the hangar! Awesome feature!

I fired the second crew member - why pay for two if you can only ever fly with one?

 

[CMDR-AD]

I fired the second crew member - why pay for two if you can only ever fly with one?

My hope is that this is designed for integration in v2.3, where NPC crew might (again I hope) take on added roles/value. So then I might have hired a fighter pilot ace crew, and a second one who's systems tech expert crew, which I'd switch out depending on my ship and play needs.

But that's a lot of hoping.

 

[joshman72nd]

i hope i can make a mini carrier one day........... cutter and battle cow will have its true purpose realized when we can launch a fighter a slot.