Multi-Crew feature request - Taxi Service

[edgar]

Hi FDev.

I posted this thread a little while ago discussing possible Taxi Service features for Multi-Crew ships. It was suggested I post it here.


Please consider the following for Multi-Crew:


Commander Taxi Service - allow guest Crew Member players to access the Shipyard whilst docked at a Station. This would let Crew select ships to purchase, or select their own Stored Ships, and transfer from the Multi-Crew ship into their own.


Let ship owners optionally restrict Crew access to Ship controls, so they are restricted to being a pasenger sat in a seat on the Bridge.


An example of this in play would be:

1. "Passenger" player requests to join the "Taxi Driver's" Multi-Crew.
2. Taxi Driver allocates the Passenger "No Permissions", or similar, in regards to accessing Crew Roles (instead of "Weapons", or "Engineering" allocate "Passenger", or something).
3. Passenger sits in a seat on the Bridge, can chat to Driver and look about, maybe have Read-Only access to Ship UI.
4. Driver proceeds on journey to Passenger's requested destination.
5. If the ship encounters trouble en route allow the Driver to reallocate the Passenger some active Multi-Crew roles (allow them to man Weapons turret if an emergency occurs for example).
6. Driver docks at destination port and the Passenger is then able to access the local Shipyard in order to vacate the Taxi for either a newly purchased ship, or a previously stored ship.

Cheers for reading! Hope the idea is feasible as this could blossom into beautiful Fuel Rats style emergant gameplay


https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=231295&p=3545993