Allow more Ship Launched Fighters when not in a wing

[Arthur Z.]

Hi there!

So, the idea actually comes from Fortnite single player campaign.

Basically in the game, you have an ability to place up to 3x NPCs and give them guns and ammo to help you defend if you are playing solo. The game is up to 4 player coop and with each human player in the team, the allowed NPC count is lowered. And when a new player joins, one of the NPC's simply goes away (fighters can automatically dock if you join a wing).

So, if you are not in a wing, I think you should be able to deploy up to 3 fighters. And it is not imbalanced, since how is 1 player + 3 SLFs more powerful than 4x human players? Also the fighters take a cut from your earnings, so the cash balance shouldn't be a problem.

I mean I mostly play alone because none of my friends are interested in Elite that much and this option is the closes thing to flying in a wing.

Thanks for your time!

 

[Iskariot]

Hi there!

So, the idea actually comes from Fortnite single player campaign.

Basically in the game, you have an ability to place up to 3x NPCs and give them guns and ammo to help you defend if you are playing solo. The game is up to 4 player coop and with each human player in the team, the allowed NPC count is lowered. And when a new player joins, one of the NPC's simply goes away (fighters can automatically dock if you join a wing).

So, if you are not in a wing, I think you should be able to deploy up to 3 fighters. And it is not imbalanced, since how is 1 player + 3 SLFs more powerful than 4x human players? Also the fighters take a cut from your earnings, so the cash balance shouldn't be a problem.

I mean I mostly play alone because none of my friends are interested in Elite that much and this option is the closes thing to flying in a wing.

Thanks for your time!

Seems like a good and fun idea to me.
I am a soloist too. Would be fun to have 2 or even 3 AI fighters protecting my ship.
SLF are extremely vulnerable as they are. Perhaps this would make them more useful against dangerous opponents.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

+1

I often spend a great deal of time alone, even in Open. Have two SOFs up and about would be pretty fun.

I almost never invite CMDRs to multicrew either, mostly because I find it rather pointless (Sorry FD!), and often unstable.

 

[Arthur Z.]

It only seems fair. I can't even think of way to abuse it... only if you have like 4 mates not in a wing with 3 fighters each but with this logic you can also have 12 people in 3 wings with a fighter each right now, so it all comes down to how much friends you have and it's not really a balance point.

 

[Guest 161958]

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[Arthur Z.]

Not sure if approving or sarcastic...

 

[GlitchedVision0101]

+1 to this.

We can have up to 3 npc crew members hired yet only bring 1 with us even though we have 2 fighters available? why? what point is there to having more than one fighter if you can only have one active at a time with npc crew? I understand the multicrew arguement, which I'm all fine with, but let us use npc crew to fill multicrew slots at least, this would solve some of the fighter situation.

 

[Guest 161958]

Not sure if approving or sarcastic...

with all due respect, sarcastic.

I would love to have a squadron of fighters, but then I understand it is overpowered given the intricate combat system this game has.
Also, lore states that commanders only have access to consumer models of the ships with one fighter limitation. The multi crew can be considered already an hack.

Then again we are all admirals/kings.. What a mess.

still having more than one fighter is power creep to me. one elite fighter’s ToT is pretty high.