[Suggestion] Form Companies & Automated Ships (=Railroad Tycoon in space)

[RadiKyle]

Hey, here's a suggestion: I'd like my other ships to be working for me when I'm not flying them. Give them orders for a trade route, mining, search for materials, explore, whatever, and have them do it automated much like an NPC. Difference is their effort adds to my company's credits, after paying the crews' wages/expenses. And I can switch between ships at any time to take personal control over it. (None of this ship transfer or Sidewinder taxi stuff, lol. )

Also note I mention "company" above. Why not? I'd like to have a company that owns ships and does business. Maybe acquire some share of a starport. Or fund my own starport or base. Build something with the materials I gather. Have other cmdrs join it. Compete with rival companies. Etc, etc.

Build all the things!! Seriously I want to *create* something in the ED world but it's not possible at the moment. (If it never will be, maybe I'm just playing the wrong game. )

Thanks!

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Unfortunately, ED is about flying your own ship, on your own path, so having spare ships earning you money doesn't fit with the games design.

While I'd like it, I'm pretty sure FD stated it would never happen.

If you do want a space game like you suggested, I would suggest playing the X3 Games by Egosoft.
They offer empire building, as well as space shooty pew pew. But it by no means a realistic space game.

 

[Lestat]

This game not setup so it play it self. You play the game.

 

[Robert Maynard]

DBOBE is on record as not considering E: D to be an executive control game (interview with The Escapist).

 

[RadiKyle]

Unfortunately, ED is about flying your own ship, on your own path, so having spare ships earning you money doesn't fit with the games design.

While I'd like it, I'm pretty sure FD stated it would never happen.

Interesting... We already have (or soon will) ship transfers, which implies other crews flying our ships to us; onboard fighters that we can switch between, which means we will in fact have multiple ships working simultaneously; crews we can hire; other players on multi-crew ships; wings that let players share bounties... If FD are against the game having a multi-ship aspect they have an odd and seemingly arbitrary way of showing it

And on the second part about ability to fund/construct things, there doesn't seem much barrier for that either as these are already there as CGs. Hopefully we'll see something here in the future as otherwise the game is really only about accumulating credits, with nothing to spend them on except more efficient ways to accumulate credits. It'd be nice to build something will all the credits/materials we gather.

Dreaming I guess... Thanks for the other game rec