Recruitable Wingmates flying your ships in your wing.

[Amoebo]

My suggestion is to be able to use the recruitable copilots to fly your owned ships beside you in a wing.

Of course we would need to be able to have tactics we can assign them ie. try to run when under X amount of shield health or hull health.

To balance things I suggest:
1. If their ship is destroyed you pay 50% insurance.
2. Jumprange is limited to the lowest jumprange of the group.
3. If their ship is destroyed you have a chance of losing the pilot.

 

[Elyssaen]

Culturally, Elite seems attached to the idea that you're alone out there. It's not essential to players like me, but I'm not that opposed to it either.

Technically, I'm not convinced it's realistic for their engine given how they did SLFs. "One fighter per ship" doesn't scream "our engine can handle player fleets" to me.

 

[Chaparral]

I think this is 100% a great idea, but I agree with E, this engine could not manage such a feat. Remember the hoopla with Thargons and how just a few lines of code were governing the movements of the swarm. They were patting themselves on the back for quite a while for that. Seems like the solution was born out of the limitations to the engine and netcode. They do have CZs with opposing factions, but they've had issues with factions not being hostile to eachother, failing to spawn, etc. Remember the dancing cap ships?