All of this doesn't help when my Wife gets booted out and lands thousands of Lightyears away at her last station.
Another plea do finally do something about the unstable Multiplayer Situation.
- Thread starter Einar Donarsson
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When the disconnect happens, there really should be an option to reinstance on your friends ship..
The only other option I can think of is for the two of you to have your own personal fleet carrier. I'm assuming here that if she does get booted off then it's back to the carrier for her and not to some godforsaken system thousands of light years away.
This already works for telepresence. Maybe they consider putting it in for Physical Multicrew as well.
There is no problem. I just disagree on the "no point in existing" point. It's not like I don't play with others from time to time, but I wouldn't mind Elite to be Single Player game at all. For me that would get rid of a few things like Carrier upkeep when I'm actually not playing and I could have multiple saves and so on and so forth. Also: Mods.
But it is what it is and I'm okay with that too. Otherwise I wouldn't be playing for almost 10 years now.
I sunk endless hours into Frontier on my Amiga in the 90s. I would do the same in Elite single player.
In reality, the maintenance of the carrier does not depend on it being an online game, nor the use of Mods (aesthetic mods can be used in online games)... Those are just decisions that Frontier opted for when using its game.There is no problem. I just disagree on the "no point in existing" point. It's not like I don't play with others from time to time, but I wouldn't mind Elite to be Single Player game at all. For me that would get rid of a few things like Carrier upkeep when I'm actually not playing and I could have multiple saves and so on and so forth. Also: Mods.
But it is what it is and I'm okay with that too. Otherwise I wouldn't be playing for almost 10 years now.
I sunk endless hours into Frontier on my Amiga in the 90s. I would do the same in Elite single player.
They can't opt for deducting fees ingame when the game in question is not an online game an no time passes when I'm not running it... so.
But that was still not my point. I just wouldn't mind Elite to be a single player game and would play just the same. I actually don't think there's anything to discuss here.
These decisions are clearly downstream from the always online wannabe-MMO decisions, though, and are generally justified/explained away as such whenever they become the topic of discussion.
More crucially: for many of us the loss of online functionality would be a worthy tradeoff if it translated into a moddable client, multiple save slots, etc.
If you want single player Elite just play Oolite; mods and as many save slots as you want. You're not missing much. Slightly better graphics, better galaxy and foot (which many players say they don't want anyway). Pretty much the rest is all MP stuff. Landing on planets is neat but largely pointless, engineering is pointless in a SP game (and nothing you can't fix with mods). Fully open source so put your money where your mouth is and change it to what you want. I'm sure the Oolite players will enjoy the action. 
I played Oolite and I like it. I recommend the 3D version of First Encounters though. I pretty much disagree on the rest actually.If you want single player Elite just play Oolite; mods and as many save slots as you want. You're not missing much. Slightly better graphics, better galaxy and foot (which many players say they don't want anyway). Pretty much the rest is all MP stuff. Landing on planets is neat but largely pointless, engineering is pointless in a SP game (and nothing you can't fix with mods). Fully open source so put your money where your mouth is and change it to what you want. I'm sure the Oolite players will enjoy the action.
Good for you, seriously. I quit wasting my time and nerves on the Crew/Teams garbage years ago.
We would rather play Elite with a stable physical Multicrew experience. Or at least the option to return to the Ship you got disconnected From. This works only for Telepresence atm.
I would too, trust me.
Elite is surely the master of wonky workarounds.
I'm really glad Elite wasn't given up on <<<<< Talk to XP and PS owners who love this game and see if they share the same view.