Exploration as a wing - idea

[stocko1111]

Would it be good to explore as part of a wing, if it was implemented properly? After all, we can hunt, pirate, fight and trade whilst winged.

If four ships took off to uncharted space as a wing then a whole system could be scanned in no time and the rewards shared. The first discovered tags could be done by giving the wing a name and then marking the discovered bodies as that name. Or, the players in the wing could just scan the system and have each others' names spread out across it on various bodies.

I know that there'd be a lot more to it to get up and running properly but exploring as a wing could help prevent lonely explorers going a little insane!

Do you think it could be a feasible idea?

 

[Captain Hammer]

already taken care of try the Elite Wiki next time Exploration as a wing
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[thorn-]

"Hey man! Wanna join my wing?"

"Maybe... what's the mission?"

"We're going to fly a few hundred light years, and scan a couple hundred stars! We might even find a BLUE colored star! We'll be out there for WEEKS! It's going to be a BLAST, guys!"

Checks bulletin board, notices a $1200 contract involving delivering 4 tons of Fish to some random faction of Space Nuns... "Erm... yeah, I'll pass. Thanks though."

 

[stocko1111]

already taken care of try the Elite Wiki next time Exploration as a wing
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Aha! I always forget about the wikis, well that's that taken care of!

 

[Kolato]

I've tried this multiplie times, but wing exploration seems to be broken.
But well, being together with a friend 30000LY from home was alot of fun.

 

[stocko1111]

I've tried this multiplie times, but wing exploration seems to be broken.
But well, being together with a friend 30000LY from home was alot of fun.

I've not seen a body yet that shows up as being discovered by multiple commanders, does it happen when you discover a planet or star while winged? I was wondering about problems too, would hate for an instancing problem to occur while you're 30,000ly from home and lose your wingmen forever! Abandoned in space....argh!!!!

 

[Whiterose]

"Hey man, want to explore in a wing"
"No I dont, sod off, the galaxy is mine I tell you all mine"

 

[Kolato]

I've not seen a body yet that shows up as being discovered by multiple commanders, does it happen when you discover a planet or star while winged? I was wondering about problems too, would hate for an instancing problem to occur while you're 30,000ly from home and lose your wingmen forever! Abandoned in space....argh!!!!

When in a wing, no bodies get discovered by the wing as a whole, despite what frontier promised.
Wing exploration also has this stupid bug/feature? that makes your wingmate disappear when he is more than 5000LS away from you. (Which does not happen in inhabited space, and is stupid for exploration as you have to travel long distances to certain bodies)