Please, Please - - If we hire Crew, can we have them man the empty seats?!

WindWpn

WindWpn
On the wishlist, and perhaps for Beyond, can we please have a major gap filled in the ED experience, regarding hiring crew members, or perhaps even taking passenger missions. Basically, lets provide a option to fill empty seats so we can "see" others on our bridge. With all the requests for spacelegs, atmospheric landings, C&P, etc... simply an expansion of existing functionality seems feasible given ED currently supports an avatar in the crew seats.

The thought being, if I hire a crew member (should be available for any ship which hosts a crew seat even a Cobra), I will see that avatar sitting next to me. Additionally, if I take a passenger mission and can choose the seating compliment (current functionality), add slots for crew seats which the CMDR can choose to man. For example, if I take a passenger mission, I could choose to host the lead POC in the mission (pictured avatar for the mission) in a crew seat. That way, when doing passenger missions or hosting hired crew, someone will be sitting next to me who I can at least see, if not be able to interact with.

Basically, the core functionality is there given CMDR avatars can be seen now, so why not get the NPCs there?

Beyond the "pie in sky" wishlist requests, this one seems fairly grounded and will add immensely to immersion.

thoughts?
 

Syrelai

Syrelai
I'm for it! If not passengers (as some of them get rather cranky...) your Crew should be able to at least optionally man a seat, just like Multi-crew does.

If you've got the power to randomly generate crew portraits... why not?
 

edgepixel

edgepixel
This one looks like a very easy one to do, as all the required assets are already in the game. Just put a second meat puppet in the other chair.
 

Von Roerich

Von Roerich
I agree, and also think it would not be to difficult to go a small step further. Can we have a timed mouth/lips animation on OUR cmdr and the crew member .
Much the same as how the hand and fingers move on our cmdr if static for a while. This would enable more creativity and effect when making short vids.
I have struggled with 'camera shots' when trying to create conversation.

Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOK56j6oIA
 
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ZeroAi

ZeroAi
WindWpn said:
On the wishlist, and perhaps for Beyond, can we please have a major gap filled in the ED experience, regarding hiring crew members, or perhaps even taking passenger missions. Basically, lets provide a option to fill empty seats so we can "see" others on our bridge. With all the requests for spacelegs, atmospheric landings, C&P, etc... simply an expansion of existing functionality seems feasible given ED currently supports an avatar in the crew seats.

The thought being, if I hire a crew member (should be available for any ship which hosts a crew seat even a Cobra), I will see that avatar sitting next to me. Additionally, if I take a passenger mission and can choose the seating compliment (current functionality), add slots for crew seats which the CMDR can choose to man. For example, if I take a passenger mission, I could choose to host the lead POC in the mission (pictured avatar for the mission) in a crew seat. That way, when doing passenger missions or hosting hired crew, someone will be sitting next to me who I can at least see, if not be able to interact with.

Basically, the core functionality is there given CMDR avatars can be seen now, so why not get the NPCs there?

Beyond the "pie in sky" wishlist requests, this one seems fairly grounded and will add immensely to immersion.

thoughts?
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Awesome idea - seconded!
 

CMDR Yates

C
Yep. Agreed.

I think part of the reason they haven't done it is because bridge seats are supposed to be connected to escape pods, but your AI crewmembers die when your ship explodes. But that's hardly a good enough reason to forgo something as cool and seemingly de rigeur as being able to see your NPC crew.
 
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