Showing active NPC crew in a spare cockpit chair should be so easy to do and make many players happier, especially those who play alone

Sphinx2k

Sphinx2k
Having NPC crew talk to you but not be seen is such a bummer, it shouldn't be that hard to implement. I'm guessing a lot of the attributes are already there if the RNG avatars are already created for each in the Crew Lounge screens? Their hologram could sit in a spare chair and do their looking around thing that holograms do. Just simply disable this during multi-crew if that is a concern?

Thoughts?
 

dxm55

Banned
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For immersion yes. Would be great to have cockpit or bridge banter.
Could be scripted. 1000 diff lines and stuff by voice actors, and then RNG the convo or topic.

Some nice in-battle chatter too. Like calling out the enemy position.... "10 o'clock high" or something to that effect.

Just depends on whether FD has the time to do it.


My crew is butt ugly though. And come to think about it..... So are all the crews at the ports.
Can't I have a Miranda Kerr or Emily Ratajkowski type pilot to hire?? Jeez....
:p:p:p

Is this something about witchspace radiation mutating the human race into some kinda new ugly? 🤣
 

Sphinx2k

Sphinx2k
dxm55 said:
For immersion yes. Would be great to have cockpit or bridge banter.
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Sure that could come later, but just adding a silent bridge crew would be very easy for Frontier in the short-term. Also they could show up in the fighter cockpits, etc.
The current radio chatter when issuing crew commands is pretty good, but your just talking to a ghost...
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Bigmaec said:
Repeating good things time and again is healthy for the game though ;)
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Big fan of Mrs Doyle I guess - do you want a cup of tea? :D

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Jaylem

Jaylem
Make is so!

One of the things that will increase immersion a LOT more is NPC crew being visible, it would make my ship feel more alive, and yes, as mentioned above dialog would help elevate it to new levels! furthermore if more roles could be fulfilled by NPC crew (rather than just pew-pew fighters) things like a passive co-pilot (they will FSD jump, fuel scoop and scan while you read the latest article of Sagittarius Eye ;) ) while 0% skill is required by the player (except for FSS) it would add a more 'Captain' type role.

Meanwhile I guess my Crew will have to reside in the deepest, darkest corner of my cargo bay....
 

Jaylem

Jaylem
Factabulous said:
Big fan of Mrs Doyle I guess - do you want a cup of tea? :D
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You changed your profile icon since i have been gone! how could you?! I will miss that little hamster....... :(

I do get the humour in your current one though ;)
 

Katzzero

K
That would be so nice! even when we dont have a fighter we could use it with a hired crew ... to use the ground vehicle and get some backup from the air ...
 
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