Hire NPC Crewmates (shown in cockpit) with Vanguards Update

CMDR_Raikkonen

CMDR_Raikkonen
FDev,

Why are you sleeping on the NPC crew mates situation?

Vanguards would be the ideal time to slip those guys in. The tech is there, we literally have NPC taxi drivers lol.

A single NPC crew could either:

  • Fly the ship if you plot the route like an Apex Instellar ride
  • Take control of the gunner role and they could fire and manage all weapon systems
  • Repair systems as they become damaged with AFMU
  • Operate drones

Where could they be seen?

  • In empty seats of the cockpits
  • Stood in the hangar bay outside the ship (doing repairs, or leaning on cargo lol)
  • Within a crew accommodation quarter (as a new level on the lift in stations)

Make crew uniforms purchasable for ARX. Lots of money for FDev Towers. Lots of money.

Do it. Dooooo it!

Peace be with you,

Raik
 

Outrunner85

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Agreed.

In addition, I’d like to see NPC wing mates. Wing bounty hunting with wing mates, flying my ships or their own, for escort during mining or trading, etc.

Lastly, NPC on foot crew makes sense as well. They can be ordered like ship launched fighters to attack, defend, etc. Raiding settlements and such would be so much fun, like a Star Trek away team.
 

vicwarrior

vicwarrior
Feels like the hireable npc pilots is completely wasted, yet they built entire mechanics around having other players run your ship when they could be running their own ship.

Could be interesting to have them "automate" certain parts of the ship, like giving them a thermal vent beam laser turret and telling them shoot at any hostile in range, auto eject sinks at certain heat or full caustic or whatever...

Being able to call fire missions when settlement defenses are down....

Having them haul up goods to your carrier, or to construction sites while you literally do anything else more engaging....
 
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