I suspect that pilot seats being populated, passengers and roles for the Dropship and Orca will be added when they add walking around ships, or thereabouts. I expect that will be a paid for expansion. This is just my guess, mind. I don't have any hard facts.
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I think you may be. Unless said trader has joined an opposing faction, there will be absolutely no change as to how things are now. Of course if they are in an opposing faction they are fair game.
I don't think you will be forced to enter a combat zone unless you want to actively push that faction in that way. Traders can push their influence via trading and if all else fails they pragmatically switch trading factions.
Philip Coutts
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I'm interested in how working for one of these factions will effect my overall reputation with the major powers? I don't want to work for Factions if it's going to damage my reputation with the glorious empire.
I expect (hope) that you would have to choose which imperial faction you support which might help your reputation with some parts of the empire and harm it with others. Only time will tell just how nuanced and deep it's going to be.
(Posing, shallow, slave trader.
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You for real?
Exactly. Key difference which ensures viability and fun, and not exploitation and a drive to permanent solo...
No you can't, cause my annac is fitted with 5 railgun and my first shhot will raise your shield, my second will put you at something like 60% hull, and my wingmates will focus your drives, and we'll breack your cargo hatch... Players are a real threat, npc are just something near nothing..
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dayrth
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Do i hear a big sigh of relief from the PvE'ers among us ?
Finally, it seems, ED receives some structured PvE mechanics, giving visible, "hands on" feedback to player actions.
The days of "just a dot on the map changing color, or just a stat changing by a decimal" might almost be over. No more (or at least much less) of that "use your imagination" business.
Something concrete and purposeful at last.
To me 1.3 looks promising, and very close to what i have been hoping for.
Need to see it all in action first of course, but at least a sense of anticipation has returned now.
Finally, it seems, ED receives some structured PvE mechanics, giving visible, "hands on" feedback to player actions.
The days of "just a dot on the map changing color, or just a stat changing by a decimal" might almost be over. No more (or at least much less) of that "use your imagination" business.
Something concrete and purposeful at last.
To me 1.3 looks promising, and very close to what i have been hoping for.
Need to see it all in action first of course, but at least a sense of anticipation has returned now.
I think if you read the newsletter again it says this was an earlier development screen.
The newsletter mentions deploying troops but doesn't explicitly confirm passengers?
TL;DR Sorry if a repeat.
TL;DR Sorry if a repeat.
digitalscream
Banned
Not sure about the other missions, but they've already said that assassination missions will involve both USS trawling *and* finding your target in SC (so you'll need an interdictor module for those missions now).
No apparent plans for releasing the Fed Corvette for what seems to be such a faction-heavy update. While Imperials get a second ship, leaving the Feds stuck with the heap of a dropship as their only faction-specific ship. Hard to stay excited when I've spend the last couple months saving up funds, grinding up to Post Commander in preparation for this ship they announced that's just nowhere to be found now.
Both new vehicles look like cargo haulers to me. The Corvette's counter would be Cutter. Unless that last coffee I had was one too many.
I disagree with your lone wolf statement. If a trader decides to be a lone wolf for the sole reason to protect his secret and profitable trade route, it's only natural that he has to deal with the higher risk of potentially having to fend off attackers alone. I think it's very good that trading players have the option of this tradeoff between more safety and larger profit margins and can decide for themselves how much risk they want to take.
I do agree with you on NPC wingmen, though. Being able to hire those would be a great addition to the game and open up all kinds of interesting gameplay possibilities - in addition to allowing solo players to play in wings and protect their trading vessels.
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