Been hunting a couple of NPC wings for the last CG, and I'd love to command my own squadron. Few random thoughts:
* Limit to 3-4 ships. 1 Large or 2 Medium max (e.g. 1 Anaconda or 2 FAS) the rest have to be small
* Select the load out of the wing. Equip a dedicated support ship, ships with torpedos others with only lasers, build an escorted convoy...
* Ability to jump to any ship at any time.
* Basic control commands. Stay in formation, break & engage any, break & engaged selected, engage ship attacking selected target, land on planet, dock into station.
* Adapt missions to squadrons, e.g. spawn enemy ships while scanning a planet outpost so you land a ship and cover it with the others; forced interdiction for your escorted cargo; spawn enemy ships in salvage/rescue operations; spawn enemies close while mining in a RES...
* Train squadron pilots as in multicrew
* Specific squadron livery, emblems...
* Allow squadron vs squadron PvP
IMHO 90% of the logic is already coded, NPC's can fly in a squadron, so the AI is there; We have multicrew and fighters... Also It will revitalize small ships with a new roles..
* Limit to 3-4 ships. 1 Large or 2 Medium max (e.g. 1 Anaconda or 2 FAS) the rest have to be small
* Select the load out of the wing. Equip a dedicated support ship, ships with torpedos others with only lasers, build an escorted convoy...
* Ability to jump to any ship at any time.
* Basic control commands. Stay in formation, break & engage any, break & engaged selected, engage ship attacking selected target, land on planet, dock into station.
* Adapt missions to squadrons, e.g. spawn enemy ships while scanning a planet outpost so you land a ship and cover it with the others; forced interdiction for your escorted cargo; spawn enemy ships in salvage/rescue operations; spawn enemies close while mining in a RES...
* Train squadron pilots as in multicrew
* Specific squadron livery, emblems...
* Allow squadron vs squadron PvP
IMHO 90% of the logic is already coded, NPC's can fly in a squadron, so the AI is there; We have multicrew and fighters... Also It will revitalize small ships with a new roles..
