Make ejection pods a real thing with the addition of multi-crew.

[5PIDER]

Would be pretty neat if you were in a wing, got blown up and your buddy scooped up your ejection pod (only if you want to eject and if your bud has a multi crew ship with open seats).


Eventually you would still need to pay to buy a new ship and return or spawn back at the station BUT you could keep fighting using multi-crew and make more money for a while.

This would also let you keep your earned bounties/ fines/ crew/ ect as long someone takes you back to a station (any station/satellite probably).

The pods would be shootable by enemies in PVP, so it would add another mechanic to big PVP battles.

This would actually let you rescue people (whether they are you friends or a random person you found)

if nobody comes or you run low on oxygen (based on life support module maybe?) you could just self destruct, but you would have talking/calling abilities until then...

I dont know I've been playing this game since beta just a random idea, i like the game as is

 

[space pilot]

What if he drops you into a star, how do you explain that one back at the station?

Cool idea though.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

At this stage FD are not going to add anything like this. Maybe in a future update, but i wouldn't hold your breath. Adding actual escape pods as interactable objects would open a can of worms.

Having some sort of non-interactable escape capsule animation occur where you get into one as your ship blows and you zoom away and high wake before being shown the rebuy screen might be nice and without issue, especially if not targettable or damagable by others as it flies away.

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

I really like the idea! The only two things I'd say is a timer to dictate if you get scooped up in time or if you get teleported to station via rebuy screen, and that rebuy screen would need to be reworked to become visitable once your docked at station after your multi crew rescue. This is probably best done with an insurance broker added to the contacts part of starport services.

I also like the idea of having the insurance broker contact added, as it creates an avenue to add different levels of insurance based on your track record, and risk aversion you could either have higher subscriptions to your insurance but lower rebuy costs or reduce subscriptions but increased rebuy costs,

 

[Pyrobee]

Can we scoop up the pods of the enemy players to sell them into slavery

 

[Conch]

jettison the multicrew? how does that work with teleprecence?

JETTISON THE SSD?