So I was incredibly excited for multicrew. It really looked like it'd bring something really fun and new to the gameplay, essentially giving us the tools to play a modern Artemis lite. What we instead got...is something in need of improvement, and this thread discussions one very specific proposal to do so.
When I first jumped on multicrew, my friends and I couldn't wait to all play together. Two jumped in my Anaconda, and we quickly realized we were powerless to link up with the third except by manually meeting them at the same location, which is fine, but I just don't see why we can't wing up for simplicity.
Per this thread from the subreddit which in turn cites a Frontier livestream, "Roles are balanced so that a fully-crewed ship is on par with 4 CMDRs in a wing."
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/5hd9n5/what_we_know_about_23_multicrew_so_far/
That was back when we thought we would get four man crews and were of course disappointed but that's another issue. What does this essentially mean? That theoretically, a ship with, say, 2 crew (3 people total) and one friend flying around should, depending on the ships, be able to duel with a traditional 4 man wing without issue. Thus...why can we not do this?
This is a decision that clearly has some reasoning behind it which I look forward to discussing but still don't understand, as in my view it turns multicrew into one of the most antisocial social features I've ever seen if meeting up and fully playing with (i.e. sharing bounties) friends outside your crew is so hard.
When I first jumped on multicrew, my friends and I couldn't wait to all play together. Two jumped in my Anaconda, and we quickly realized we were powerless to link up with the third except by manually meeting them at the same location, which is fine, but I just don't see why we can't wing up for simplicity.
Per this thread from the subreddit which in turn cites a Frontier livestream, "Roles are balanced so that a fully-crewed ship is on par with 4 CMDRs in a wing."
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/5hd9n5/what_we_know_about_23_multicrew_so_far/
That was back when we thought we would get four man crews and were of course disappointed but that's another issue. What does this essentially mean? That theoretically, a ship with, say, 2 crew (3 people total) and one friend flying around should, depending on the ships, be able to duel with a traditional 4 man wing without issue. Thus...why can we not do this?
This is a decision that clearly has some reasoning behind it which I look forward to discussing but still don't understand, as in my view it turns multicrew into one of the most antisocial social features I've ever seen if meeting up and fully playing with (i.e. sharing bounties) friends outside your crew is so hard.
