Newcomer / Intro I have an emtpy co-pilot chair... how do I fill it?

HappySpaceInvr

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I just upgraded my ship to a Cobra Mk III, and noticed it has a co-pilot seat (it's hard to miss).

But when I go into the Crew Lounge at a space port, although it seems I can puchase crew members , the "Active" box says "Ship Not Compatible" and I get a warning "A Fight Hangar needs to be installed on your ship for pilots to be able to occupy seats". Underneath is a list of ships that support the "Fighter Hangar Functionality" and the Cobra is not one of them.

So... I've obviously missed something somewhere... can my Cobra MkIII have a co-pilot and, if so, how do I get one... and what can/does he/she do?
 

yolomcbobbinz

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You can only hire crewmembers with ships that can fit a fighter hanger, the extra seat is multi crew another player can join your ship if you want them to and do activities with you

If you have turrets the co pilot can opperate them, they can do a few others but I haven't messed around with multi Crew (MC) a lot

You can open up a multi crew session by going to the comms panel and switch to the social tab and select find crew, you will then have a selection of activities to choose from, then a player looking for a the same activity as you will end up joining your ship

You do need horizons to be able to use multi crew
 
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Teh Smoo

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NPC crew are worse than worthless if you don't have a fighter bay. They suck up a PERCENTAGE of EVERYTHING you make, and, very literally, the only thing they do is fly fighters, or take the helm while you fly a fighter.

Multicrew isn't much better without fighters, it DOES allow someone to fire a KWS at any angle, and shoot turrets at any angle, but that's about it. A human in the seat gives you an extra power pip to play with, I guess.
 

HappySpaceInvr

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yolomcbobbinz said:
the extra seat is multi crew another player can join your ship if you want them to and do activities with you

If you have turrets the co pilot can opperate them, they can do a few others but I haven't messed around with multi Crew (MC) a lot

You can open up a multi crew session by going to the comms panel and switch to the social tab and select find crew, you will then have a selection of activities to choose from, then a player looking for a the same activity as you will end up joining your ship

You do need horizons to be able to use multi crew
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Do you happen to know if this feature is in the PS4 version?

EDIT: Forget that - found the answer (which is "yes") here: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/elite-dangerous-ps4/

So if using AI Crew as fighters... are they any good?
 
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yolomcbobbinz

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Their skill is dependent on their combat rating, harmless to elite, an elite npc is nice but it takes a while to get them there and they take like 10% of all credits you make.*


Unless you bounty hunter in a nav beacon your npc pilot will always lose a fighter, if the fighter gets destroyed its ok, your crewman is ok, if YOU die with your crew member on board you will lose him or her and must hire another one

* that's for elite crewman, the lower their rank, the less Their share is
 
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