Do we lose the option to deploy SRV in multi-crew? I know crew can't but can the captain?

[CMDR MadRaptor]

Just came to mind, seeing as we can't use crew members for those with multiple srv's, I was wondering if the option to use any SRV, even for the captain, will be blocked? I can see them thinking that because all CMDRS can't use SRV's, and, that if the captain is out using the SRV the crew is just sitting there that the best decision would be just not allow srv in multi-crew at all. It may only be temporary, until they get srv and multi-crew working together, but that is still going to be way lame and def a reason for me not get involved in multi-crew at all until fixed.

 

[Ian Phillips]

How about waiting until the beta and testing it yourself, before pre-emptively stating that you will have nothing to do with multicrew until "it is fixed", whatever "IT" may be ?

 

[Barking_Mad]

We'll have to wait for confirmation, but it will be odd if the pilot lands and can then drive off in a SRV but a co-pilot with no SLF and no ability to drive an SRV will end up twiddling their thumbs or returning to their main ship.

Does anyone have a direct quote or the timestamp from when SRV's were mentioned in the stream? I've didn't catch it myself but have seen conflicting quotes about what was said...

 

[Ian Phillips]

No timestamp - but pretty sure it was towards the end of the stream. Sandro said something about it I believe.

 

[babelfisch]

We'll have to wait for confirmation, but it will be odd if the pilot lands and can then drive off in a SRV but a co-pilot with no SLF and no ability to drive an SRV will end up twiddling their thumbs or returning to their main ship.

Does anyone have a direct quote or the timestamp from when SRV's were mentioned in the stream? I've didn't catch it myself but have seen conflicting quotes about what was said...

According to Golgot around minute 34:

'Multicrew doesn't work with SRV at the moment. [34mins]'

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/329650-2-3-Livestream-Summary-with-timestamps

 

[CMDR MadRaptor]

How about waiting until the beta and testing it yourself, before pre-emptively stating that you will have nothing to do with multicrew until "it is fixed", whatever "IT" may be ?

Perhaps fixed isn't the best term but I do remember them mentioning that in the live stream them saying srv implementation is not yet there for multi-crew but I thought that was in regards to other crew members and they weren't clear on wether the pilot could or not. I'm an explorer so it'd be nice to take my crew to planets and have the help me search the surface then i'd deploy the srv, if this is not the case in the initial release then I think it's okay to state I won't have anything to do with it till it gets fixed or implemented.

Again, I know it's not released and I hold judgement until I see it for myself, but again they already said no srv for crews so the concern arose that that means no srv for captain either which really give me no use for multi-crew since i like to hunt surface features on planets and like to cruise around the sites I find. Again, if this is not possible at all in multi-crew then i have no use for it...yet, until it gets implemented.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Cheers. Sadly some have repeated this as "no SRV ever". I'll pointlessly speculate that there will be a multicrew SRV at some point.

 

[CMDR MadRaptor]

Perhaps fixed isn't the best term but I do remember them mentioning that in the live stream them saying srv implementation is not yet there for multi-crew but I thought that was in regards to other crew members and they weren't clear on wether the pilot could or not. I'm an explorer so it'd be nice to take my crew to planets and have the help me search the surface then i'd deploy the srv, if this is not the case in the initial release then I think it's okay to state I won't have anything to do with it till it gets fixed or implemented.

Again, I know it's not released and I hold judgement until I see it for myself, but again they already said no srv for crews so the concern arose that that means no srv for captain either which really give me no use for multi-crew since i like to hunt surface features on planets and like to cruise around the sites I find. Again, if this is not possible at all in multi-crew then i have no use for it...yet, until it gets implemented.

Using logic, I feel it is just going to be disabled outright, seeing as if you were to get a certain distance away the ship would depart and that could cause issues. So maybe that is my question answered, no srv use at all no matter what in multi-crew till they figure that out.

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Cheers. Sadly some have repeated this as "no SRV ever". I'll pointlessly speculate that there will be a multicrew SRV at some point.

I don't see it as ever, but I do see it as the disappointing, "coming soon."

Not to add to the noise again but that really limits group surface exploration in multi-crew and again makes it just another combat addition which me, as an geyser and fumarole hunter do not participate in that much if at all anymore. Oh well. Hopefully the wait isn't too long for SRV implementation.

 

[Kirth]

Let's say that even the captain can't use the SRV whilst in multi-crew configuration, why would that stop you at least trying the feature? There are other things for you to do. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

You may find that space-based multi-crew hooks you so much, that you find other ways to achieve what you would've achieved with your other crew members deploying on the planets in their SRVs. (Which I admit would be cool).

 

[CMDR MadRaptor]

Let's say that even the captain can't use the SRV whilst in multi-crew configuration, why would that stop you at least trying the feature? There are other things for you to do. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

You may find that space-based multi-crew hooks you so much, that you find other ways to achieve what you would've achieved with your other crew members deploying on the planets in their SRVs. (Which I admit would be cool).

I can honestly say that nothing multi-crew space-based will hook me. My interest lies solely in going out in the black and exploring undiscovered worlds and what geysers, fumaroles, and organic structures they may hold or just the beautiful vistas , canyons and mountains you come across while traversing the landscapes.

Not having access to my SRV while in Multi-crew stops me from doing this and so I have no use for multi-crew...yet. Again, I'm sure it's being talked about if not worked on and when it comes to the light of day I may change my song but as of right now, what may be in beta and release, I will have no use for this feature if I can't use an srv. I don't want to have to disband the crew just to cruise the ground of a planet while out exploring. Let alone how are they going to handle first discovery rights in Multi-Crew? I don't like combat, the times I do have to do it, I quit pretty quickly or just find it tedious or boring...sometimes. My main thing is planets and their secrets.

I'm an explorer, through and through so if I can't do everything an explorer does in multi-crew then I won't use it till I can...hoping it's not too far off.


Edited to make better sense....hopefully!