devs can you please make it so we can take more than one npc on a ship to train in combat in the fighters and our own ships for solo players like myself to have this feature i think would be better and if we can see the npc pilots in the cockpit with us its alot more realistic that way so we will then be paying them to be useful rather than stuck in the inactive only for the ships that can support more than one seat tho like 2 or 3 dependent on ship
more than one npc pilot in solo play
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ah okies i am fairly new to the game i still learning on how things work i thought would be a fair suggestion for players who play online they have friends to play with and fill up the seats in the ships for solo players like myself to have the same experience where the crew shows up in the cockpit with you i think be a nice edition rather than them do nothing in the crew lounge and eating up your credits so like make them work for there keep
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Greetings,
Asked a thousand times and Frontier says no.
A player can have three crew members but they cannot be activated without a fighter bay. Then only one can be activated at a time. They can pilot a fighter remotely or the ship. That's it. No manning turreted weapons, driving an SRV or seeing them in the cockpit. Combine a crew member with a live player in multi-crew (that is visible in the cockpit) there are advantages. My impression is that Frontier might have had a useful purpose for three crew members but never implemented it. Maybe it was a combat balance test where adding a feature would make one player have too much of an advantage over another not using crew members. What is your guess?
The only use was at one time crew members could die permanently thus having two more as a backup. This upset many players getting their pilots to Elite ranking and Frontier listened. The game was updated so when dying a crew member can be saved on the rebuy screen. Then having more than one financially and for combat ranking is very inefficient.
If they could be activated without a fighter bay they have no useful game purpose except if the player is in an SRV and the crew member is flying the ship overhead with air support. Could be fun! We would like to see them in the cockpit but again Frontier said no. Maybe live players have more polygons than crew members or seeing both crew members and live players in the cockpit is a programming problem causing a crash to the desktop. Then along comes Odyssey...
A Scorpion SRV can carry two live players in multi-crew but not a crew member. Again a player on foot and a crew member in the SRV with ground support. Maybe another in the ship with air support? Awesome even if they are not very good except for specific moments! Oh wait there is that combat balance test Frontier is always worried about. Well we can imagine...
Regards
Asked a thousand times and Frontier says no.
A player can have three crew members but they cannot be activated without a fighter bay. Then only one can be activated at a time. They can pilot a fighter remotely or the ship. That's it. No manning turreted weapons, driving an SRV or seeing them in the cockpit. Combine a crew member with a live player in multi-crew (that is visible in the cockpit) there are advantages. My impression is that Frontier might have had a useful purpose for three crew members but never implemented it. Maybe it was a combat balance test where adding a feature would make one player have too much of an advantage over another not using crew members. What is your guess?
The only use was at one time crew members could die permanently thus having two more as a backup. This upset many players getting their pilots to Elite ranking and Frontier listened. The game was updated so when dying a crew member can be saved on the rebuy screen. Then having more than one financially and for combat ranking is very inefficient.
If they could be activated without a fighter bay they have no useful game purpose except if the player is in an SRV and the crew member is flying the ship overhead with air support. Could be fun! We would like to see them in the cockpit but again Frontier said no. Maybe live players have more polygons than crew members or seeing both crew members and live players in the cockpit is a programming problem causing a crash to the desktop. Then along comes Odyssey...
A Scorpion SRV can carry two live players in multi-crew but not a crew member. Again a player on foot and a crew member in the SRV with ground support. Maybe another in the ship with air support? Awesome even if they are not very good except for specific moments! Oh wait there is that combat balance test Frontier is always worried about. Well we can imagine...
Regards
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thats what i was on about manning the fighters and the ship just to do that as if your mining for example and your outnumbered by pirates for example one npc isnt going to do much to protect you where as if you have another 2 for example it will be fair then thats what im trying to say
Longtime player .... occasional commenter ... I have made this request many times, so I guess I am here to make it again. Can we PLEASE have the ability to have multiple NPC's piloting our ships. The ONE thing I look foward to the most in this game is the ability to launch two SLF's with me in one, NPC in the other and an NPC piloting the mother ship. It would be bliss !
I will say that the feature overhaul - that Frontier have gone somewhat quiet about recently - would be very welcome if it were along the lines of this. It makes so much more sense now for crew member(s) to accompany you at your discretion on foot etc.. I mean, we see our crew on the Fleet Carrier and walking NPCs are a thing now. It would be great to have some onfoot team/squad interaction.
Here's a thought. Has anyone tried launching in the SLF themselves and flying around to the front of the ship to see if the NPC is visibly on the job in the cockpit? I'll have a go next time I'm in a ship with an SLF, but I fear I can guess the answer.
Tried it launched myself in SLF, yes you actually can see the NPC sitting in cockpit of your ship dressed in the standard black suit with black helmet/visor regardless of what he or she is wearing in their pictures, they all look like the male pilot bobblehead in livery.. with a normal sized head ofcourse. On ps4.
That's better than I thought.
