Multicrew Mining Problem

I went with a friend who bought ED a couple weeks ago. I thought it'd be a fun change of pace and introduce them into mining in a less intimidating way if they could be my copilot and see how things work.
First off - if they're in the gunner position they can't change the Turret settings at all. Forward Facing, Fire at Will, Target Only. I could switch between them if they were idle but neither they nor I could adjust them if they were in the gunner position.
Secondly - they couldn't fire the turreted guns. They could assign them to a fire group. They couldn't do anything with it. They got no crosshairs, no HUD of the mining turrets, nothing.
After an hour or so of being unable for them to do anything other than sit there and watch me shoot my prospector limpet at stuff we gave up.

 
Last edited:
I went with a friend who bought ED a couple weeks ago. I thought it'd be a fun change of pace and introduce them into mining in a less intimidating way if they could be my copilot and see how things work.
First off - if they're in the gunner position they can't change the Turret settings at all. Forward Facing, Fire at Will, Target Only. I could switch between them if they were idle but neither they nor I could adjust them if they were in the gunner position.
Secondly - they couldn't fire the turreted guns. They could assign them to a fire group. They couldn't do anything with it. They got no crosshairs, no HUD of the mining turrets, nothing.
After an hour or so of being unable for them to do anything other than sit there and watch me shoot my prospector limpet at stuff we gave up.
Yes.
 
Had fun flying around in fighters with my spouse and that same friend I tried to take mining. The payouts were irregular but only got shot by the system authority unprovoked once XD
 
I have tried a couple of times multicrew mining, and it was a complete nightmare. It was simply unplayable.
 
Really big missed opportunity.

Tried getting some new friends in my Conda about a year ago and gave up when it kept reporting their using of my turrets as crimes. In essence this is a huge feature with so much potential. Really hope this is included in the fixes 2020 patching.

Could be a lot of missions and scenarios built around multicrew plus mining could be really cool.
 
Multi crew, The most used ED feature but only slightly ahead of CQC

t3wtIM1.png
 
Back
Top Bottom