I, for one, totally support the implementation of some sort of auto-pilot for travelling between systems, eliminating the tediousness of "turning away from star and pressing J 100 times". I also expect it to be slow, a little dumb and most importantly: optional. That way everybody wins.
Instant ship transfer is ok, but Auto pilot is not.
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Just like the Docking Computer, sometimes it work out fine, other times you need to take actions and override the DC before certain death. I expect the same mechanics here.
It's a great idea! If implemented, it would make me come back - long travel would become fun.
Are DC snafus a conscious design decision or buggy AI code?
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I'm totally ok with it being a NPC Crew Navigator, we will need to pay the navigator just like the fighter Pilot, it will add a cost and if the ship blows up the navigator is gone and you need to hire a new one. Either way if its module or a NPC crew, the AP is optional and will not make you win the game, just make it less boring when nothing happens.
Now imagine playing pong on autopilot
Now imagine playing pong on autopilot
That is an interresting idea, however it would probably end up like this.
I agree with comments above that an autopilot would be even more boring than supercruise. I see more than enough complaints about emergency drops and deaths by stars where they have ALT+Tabbed out of the game when high waking and an autopilot would just add another way for them to complain about deaths whilst on Youtube.
Instant ship transfer probably won't happen as too many seem to be against it and it doesn't even remotely fit with the science of the game. The beta will probably have it and the complaints will fall like rain and a delay will almost certainly be introduced.
Instant ship transfer probably won't happen as too many seem to be against it and it doesn't even remotely fit with the science of the game. The beta will probably have it and the complaints will fall like rain and a delay will almost certainly be introduced.
The player can Alt-Tab out of the game at any point. Players will complain even if it's their fault, this will make the game less boring because it remove the repetitive task of pressing (J) for every jump you make when nothing happens.
The purpose of the game is to make people have fun, excitement, and relaxing game play. Pressing (J) every time you jump reminds me of a time long gone, when I visited a factory in the USSR, in the factory there was a small train choo-chooing around with materials, there were 4 guys on the train to operate it, and one of the guys was the "ringer" his job was to ring the bell once in awhile and only that! We should not keep a mechanic just because this is how it is and we can't change it because it will make the game too easy. I'm sorry, there is nothing difficult in pressing a (J) button, we can make the AI easier because it's too hard, we can make instant ship transfer because we don't want to wait for the ship to arrive, however we do not want to remove a repetitive task like pressing (J) because it will make the game too easy????
There are no reason, no reason other than FD simply can't code the needed code to do it (I find that hard to believe), I want to keep the distances in the game, and I enjoy the time it take to go from A to B, what I do not enjoy is to do the same thing over and over when there is no need to do so, it silly, boring, and not very challenging.
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