Hired crew as cabin mates

[Snowymonk]

Any chance that FDev could include any crew that you hire in the cabin, even if only in a holo-me sense.
I am hiring these crew and paying their wages. It wouldn't be beyond good manners to share the cockpit / cabin when I am flying.

If my ship had multiple seats, so allowing multicrew, and I have hired a crewmate. Why can't they be shown sat in a seat just like there was an active multi-crew session in progress?

If I actively open my ship for multicrew, the in ship crew could at that point disappear (retire below decks) to allow incoming commanders etc.

It just seems a waste to have multiple seats and no-one sat in them, even when I have one / two crewmates in the hold.

 

[Martind Forlon]

This was suggested more times already, and something what I will like see in ED sometime in the future. Let's hope that FDev will also think how to use better/more often also already existing features.

 

[Snowymonk]

I doubted that I would have been the first to think about it.
I guessed that it's absence would have been as a result of Holo-me development and Multi-crew development being carried out by different sub teams within FDev.

The desire to join it together is probably on the wanted list somewhere but not quite at the top.

More a quality of life thing.

(Would look good in promotional videos etc. but would probably get moaned about on these forums as focussing on the 'wrong' things if FDev made too much noise about it.)