I finally took multi-crew for a spin recently. The feature itself more or less works for the helm, but the matchmaking is a disaster.
Anyone else think it would be a good idea to be able to prevent people from taking the gunner position in multi-crew? I am tired of gunners who can't find the bang switch and have no idea how to use SCBs stealing the controls from me some times in the middle of a fight. Giving them the turrets... fine whatever I can clean up that mess with the fixed guns or run. But the SCBs? Sure just forcibly give control of the most important defensive measure to a rando with zero stake. That was always going to be a good idea.
It's not like they add anything. I think the whole position is pretty poorly thought out for PvE.
Right now what I do is give them 120 seconds to swap out and then they get blocked. I also have to turn off letting people drop in while I am in combat and it's a huge hassle managing that especially as people are constantly connecting and disconnecting. This should all just be automated or not necessary.
And you know what the biggest complaint is from everyone who joins? There are no ships available for matchmaking. Gee I wonder why.
I don't get multi-crew at all really. Crew members have no skin in the game and they can drop out at any time keeping their gains leaving helm to eat the rebuy and repair. It's not like they will stick around once they realize things are going south. So we get matchmaking for multi-crew which is a broken design, but wings which actually work? Nope no matchmaking.
I still make more money and have more fun flying solo then I do with multi-crew because I spend less time flying to get repairs and more time playing the game.
Anyone else think it would be a good idea to be able to prevent people from taking the gunner position in multi-crew? I am tired of gunners who can't find the bang switch and have no idea how to use SCBs stealing the controls from me some times in the middle of a fight. Giving them the turrets... fine whatever I can clean up that mess with the fixed guns or run. But the SCBs? Sure just forcibly give control of the most important defensive measure to a rando with zero stake. That was always going to be a good idea.
It's not like they add anything. I think the whole position is pretty poorly thought out for PvE.
Right now what I do is give them 120 seconds to swap out and then they get blocked. I also have to turn off letting people drop in while I am in combat and it's a huge hassle managing that especially as people are constantly connecting and disconnecting. This should all just be automated or not necessary.
And you know what the biggest complaint is from everyone who joins? There are no ships available for matchmaking. Gee I wonder why.
I don't get multi-crew at all really. Crew members have no skin in the game and they can drop out at any time keeping their gains leaving helm to eat the rebuy and repair. It's not like they will stick around once they realize things are going south. So we get matchmaking for multi-crew which is a broken design, but wings which actually work? Nope no matchmaking.
I still make more money and have more fun flying solo then I do with multi-crew because I spend less time flying to get repairs and more time playing the game.