General Please Allow Us To Deploy 2 NPC SLF's at the same time!

[OneHungryCorvette]

You dont need to change anything about the SLFs, or the pilots, or the Amount of profit they take.

I understand that giving engineering SLFs might not be worth the resource or time to develop.

But just allow us to use 2 NPC SLFs at the same time. We can do it with players so there is no excuse for balancing or resource issues.

And whats the point of giving us 3 crew member slots when we can use only 1?

It would also be cool if we could recruit pilots at the on foot bars, but id understand if thats a no.

Thank you! o7

 

[Tifu]

To save time, I'm going to give a list of the counter arguments that people are going to give:

1. It causes lag
2. It's overpowered
3. This is Elite and it's one solo commander doing everything - just like it was in 1984

 

[OneHungryCorvette]

To save time, I'm going to give a list of the counter arguments that people are going to give:

1. It causes lag
2. It's overpowered
3. This is Elite and it's one solo commander doing everything - just like it was in 1984

To save time in going to give a list of counter-counter arguments I'm going to give to said people.

1. Everything in elite causes lag when instancing, thats a separate issue.
2. SLFs are unpowered, sounds like a skill issue
3. Legs were never in the original elite, move on.
4. We can talk about this outside the corolis, and ill show you why is spent 800+ Million Credits on my fully engineered corvette.

 

[SlickPBW]

How convenient! I’ll just copy pasta my response to an almost identical thread from a couple of days ago.

NPC Crew why only 1?

I am not sure about everybody else but isn't it about time that we could have the same amount of NPC Crew as seats on a ship? What I mean is, if you can have 3 other players along for the ride and each of them can take to the sky, as in teams, why cannot we just have 3 NPC's fighting along side...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[Tryohazard]

They're working on multiplayer later this year. Perhaps these issues will no longer be issues by then.

 

[heathenlamb]

There is a quite a few threads for this request. I know because I have made like 5 of them over the years lol. I think it's a more than fair request. It's literally the only game update I want. I couldn't care less about carriers, colonisation etc. But 2 launchable NPC SLF's would be totally baller.

 

[heathenlamb]

To save time, I'm going to give a list of the counter arguments that people are going to give:

1. It causes lag
2. It's overpowered
3. This is Elite and it's one solo commander doing everything - just like it was in 1984

It's none of these things.

 

[aRJay]

It's none of these things.

Is it that two deployed SLF pilots will not only take around a quarter of the credits they will take almost all the combat XP?

 

[heathenlamb]

Is it that two deployed SLF pilots will not only take around a quarter of the credits they will take almost all the combat XP?

Or perhpas some of us don't really care about that .... and play ... for fun.

 

[Andy Gee]

How convenient! I’ll just copy pasta my response to an almost identical thread from a couple of days ago.

NPC Crew why only 1?

I am not sure about everybody else but isn't it about time that we could have the same amount of NPC Crew as seats on a ship? What I mean is, if you can have 3 other players along for the ride and each of them can take to the sky, as in teams, why cannot we just have 3 NPC's fighting along side...

forums.frontier.co.uk

Why can’t we?
Because it’s [insert any reason]
But no it isn’t.
But yes it is.
Goodbye.

I like your pasta! You can confidently place it under 73.8% of all discussions here in the forum about desired or suggested game content without having to worry that it oversimplifies the preceding chain of argumentation.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

How convenient! I’ll just copy pasta my response to an almost identical thread from a couple of days ago.

NPC Crew why only 1?

I am not sure about everybody else but isn't it about time that we could have the same amount of NPC Crew as seats on a ship? What I mean is, if you can have 3 other players along for the ride and each of them can take to the sky, as in teams, why cannot we just have 3 NPC's fighting along side...

forums.frontier.co.uk

Based on how long SLFs have been in the game and how long this suggestion has been coming up on the forums, I'm going to go with the simpler answer that FDev just don't want to do it.

I'm still waiting on that Cobra mk4 anyway. Got to be any day now.

 

[Tifu]

Based on how long SLFs have been in the game and how long this suggestion has been coming up on the forums, I'm going to go with the simpler answer that FDev just don't want to do it.

Funny, that's what I've been thinking about the Panther Clipper too all this time

 

[Ozric]

As there is a currently active thread on this subject already I'm going to close it. Please don't make duplicate threads.