Ok, the Odyssey season is coming soon and I can’t think of a better timing for a request reminder. Ulysses wasn’t alone on his ‘odyssey’ back to Ithaque ; he had a crew and fellows on his ship, and he could see them !
I know commanders can now have a crew too in ED, but when I wrote about it in 2016 (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/npc-crew.227533/post-4023767), I was of course talking about some LIFE in my cockpit, about crew members that would sit next to me in those empty chairs. The lack of that feature had indeed got me to stop playing for years and I´ve only been back in the game for one month, with the announcement of the upcoming next season release (and the ability to walk on planets and stations) ; which gave me back some hope...
Although, with so many players asking for cockpit npc crew, there are a few things I did never understand :
If there’s any good reason why you haven’t yet added that feature nor will ever add it, don’t you think we at least deserve to understand, so that disappointment and pique can fade into resignation ?
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2020 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/put-npc-crew-in-empty-seats-in-your-cockpit-bridge.546316/
2019 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/aes0uv/im_tired_of_empty_seats/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
2019 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/why-cant-we-see-npcs-that-we-hired-in-cockpit.507656/
2019 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/359320/discussions/0/1642041106374383798/
2019 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/c173bv/showing_active_npc_crew_in_a_spare_cockpit_chair/
2018 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/fill-the-empty-seats.444367/
2018 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/petition-npc-crew-model-in-copilot-seat.462709/
2018 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/9qvnx0/why_does_the_vulture_have_a_secondary_seat/
2018 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/7z14pv/can_you_have_copilots_sitting_in_your_empty_seats/
2017 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/7b5f8j/what_about_npc_inside_our_ships/
2017 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/79kvwo/why_dont_npcs_appear_as_crew_on_the_bridge/
2016 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/52rv45/empty_copilot_seat/
2016 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/359320/discussions/0/305509857557332175/
2015 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/37sxrs/we_need_npcs_to_full_the_empty_chairs_on_our_ships/
And so many more...
I know commanders can now have a crew too in ED, but when I wrote about it in 2016 (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/npc-crew.227533/post-4023767), I was of course talking about some LIFE in my cockpit, about crew members that would sit next to me in those empty chairs. The lack of that feature had indeed got me to stop playing for years and I´ve only been back in the game for one month, with the announcement of the upcoming next season release (and the ability to walk on planets and stations) ; which gave me back some hope...
Although, with so many players asking for cockpit npc crew, there are a few things I did never understand :
- What makes it so difficult to add that feature since the characters arleady are modelled for multicrew ?
- Is it possible that the creators of one of the most realistic space exploration games out there be so unaware of the absurdity of being alone for long trips in a three cockpit seats massive ship that they still haven't made fixing it a priority ?
- Why in years did they never take the time (no matter how rude ignoring us customers that way may look) to deign to give us an answer or a piece of explanation about that ?
If there’s any good reason why you haven’t yet added that feature nor will ever add it, don’t you think we at least deserve to understand, so that disappointment and pique can fade into resignation ?
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2020 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/put-npc-crew-in-empty-seats-in-your-cockpit-bridge.546316/
2019 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/aes0uv/im_tired_of_empty_seats/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
2019 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/why-cant-we-see-npcs-that-we-hired-in-cockpit.507656/
2019 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/359320/discussions/0/1642041106374383798/
2019 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/c173bv/showing_active_npc_crew_in_a_spare_cockpit_chair/
2018 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/fill-the-empty-seats.444367/
2018 : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/petition-npc-crew-model-in-copilot-seat.462709/
2018 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/9qvnx0/why_does_the_vulture_have_a_secondary_seat/
2018 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/7z14pv/can_you_have_copilots_sitting_in_your_empty_seats/
2017 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/7b5f8j/what_about_npc_inside_our_ships/
2017 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/79kvwo/why_dont_npcs_appear_as_crew_on_the_bridge/
2016 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/52rv45/empty_copilot_seat/
2016 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/359320/discussions/0/305509857557332175/
2015 : Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/37sxrs/we_need_npcs_to_full_the_empty_chairs_on_our_ships/
And so many more...
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