Feature request: NPC crew members for all ships with two or more seats.

[dumbo]

I also seem to remember Frontier being pretty firm that NPCs would not be able to fill the same role as players for multi-crew ships. And that their plans are firmly set on it being a player crew only deal.

AFAIR that is exactly correct.

Personally, I think "crew" are a huge element of this genre and I'd love to see NPC crew in 2.4/season 3.

 

[Infidel Deity]

Why is NPC crew limited to ships with hanger bays?

I was excited to hire crew members and have NPC co-pilots in my Python, Asp Explorer and Cobra MKIII because they'd be useful covering me from the ship when I'm in an SRV, deploying countermeasures when in combat and — the most important thing — filling the empty seat(s) on the bridge.

Even if all they did were fill said empty seats, I'd be OK with it.

Amen to this! [yesnod]

 

[EUS]

Seeing as how I'd rather look at the beautiful canvas of stars, nebulae, etc., than the ugly mugs, I'd vote for NPCs filling chairs to be optional.

 

[Chazzie]

Pretty sure that comment was to do with having multiple PLAYERS manning a single ship. So that a ship with 3 players in would have performance gains somewhat equivalent to having the same as 3 ships.... otherwise except for 'cool points' there would be absolutely no reason what so ever for having multiple players in a single ship versus just bringing more ships flown by those same players.

I also seem to remember Frontier being pretty firm that NPCs would not be able to fill the same role as players for multi-crew ships. And that their plans are firmly set on it being a player crew only deal.

And yes multi-(player) crew ships is one of the main feature points of 2.3 I believe, alongside the character avatar creator.

Don't quote me on this, it is possible that FD are considering NPC crew for the next update - although I doubt they'll be anywhere near as good as a human player! I really, really hope that NPC crew happens though.