Allow remote piloting of ship from SRV

[wstephenson]

Now that we have remote control of the ship from the external camera view, why not* allow piloting a nearby ship from the SRV? We've all seen those dropship scenes in Aliens. And who wouldn't want to fly a thousand tonne RC aircraft? Just add the ability to tell it to auto-land itself as with Recall Ship, because that's going to be a bit fiddly without the cockpit's landing assist UI. If the ship is flown out of range, it auto-dismisses to orbit.

* Ok, ok - we know that under the hood, when you're in the SRV, that is your ship, and 'your ship' is an NPC impostor. But I know you're amazing, and no invasive refactoring of 4 year old game structures is beyond your abilities. Just let us fly the impostor, and if it does anything that would kill it, automatic safeties revert it to the 'Dismiss Ship' behaviour.

 

[space voyager]

I'm not against the proposition but I do believe FD will at some point redo the whole SRV and SLF mechanics. First of all, they are both remotely controlled but both have the place for the pilot, SLF is range limited while SRV is not, SRV's shield does not mitigate physical damage while SLF's (and all ships') does... Too many incomplete stories so IMO it needs a complete rethink and redo. Whenever.

 

[wstephenson]

Yes, this would be a fine thing. Make all vehicles completely symmetrical in gameplay, allow Multicrew and NPC Crew to use SRVs, and put in special cases to protect the 'main ship' as needed to prevent CMDRs being needlessly marooned.