Teamwork Idea

[The space tyrant]

(I'm assuming something similar to this has been mentioned before...)

One of the things I was disappointed to learn I could not do in Elite was to team up with friends in some sort of mining/hauling outfit with shared profits. Here's one idea of how it could go...


*All items received while in a wing, will be "wing owned". Meaning I could continuously mine, two friends pickup the ore, refine it, and haul it back to a station to sell. The price for the sold ore would be shared among the entire wing. Then a fourth player in a combat ship running escort would also get a cut of the pay.

It may not be the most efficient way of earning money, but it would be an activity players could actually do together, and allow them to work together in something besides combat.

 

[Bobio]

I think I know what you're suggesting, and have a feeling that the reason it isn't so simple is: How would the game know that everyone is contributing evenly/fairly to the same operation?

You could have someone just join a wing and get "boosted" by other players, being somewhere else entirely while others did the work.
Right now, even if you earn combat/trade bonds together in a wing, you need to be in the same instance when you cash them in.
I suppose this could also work for mining, but you would still all need to head back and reap the rewards together.

Sorry if I've misinterpreted what you're saying. Hopefully the wing missions supposedly coming later this year will provide something along these lines. I don't think anyone would disagree with more variety/depth to team exercises, or making money as a group in general!

 

[The space tyrant]

I think I know what you're suggesting, and have a feeling that the reason it isn't so simple is: How would the game know that everyone is contributing evenly/fairly to the same operation?

You could have someone just join a wing and get "boosted" by other players, being somewhere else entirely while others did the work.
Right now, even if you earn combat/trade bonds together in a wing, you need to be in the same instance when you cash them in.
I suppose this could also work for mining, but you would still all need to head back and reap the rewards together.

Sorry if I've misinterpreted what you're saying. Hopefully the wing missions supposedly coming later this year will provide something along these lines. I don't think anyone would disagree with more variety/depth to team exercises, or making money as a group in general!

Thanks for the feedback

I don't think it's necessarily important to ensure "everybody gets the share equal to what they contributed". I've by no means "done the math" or anything, but I don't think this would be exceptionally more efficient than just doing everything yourself. It would be primarily for teamwork and actually playing this game with friends IMO.

As for "boosting", I don't see it becoming anything game-breaking either. Having a noob sit in your mining wing doing nothing would be silly tbh when he could get even a cheap ship and help pickup some of the ore, and at that point he's helping and doing some of the work himself.

 

[Nilt]

You may want to check out the live stream from today. I haven't been able to watch the wing mission portion yet but this stuff sounds a lot like that. Anything lacking is likely coming later with the guild system. (I forget what they're calling it.)

 

[Bobio]

You may want to check out the live stream from today. I haven't been able to watch the wing mission portion yet but this stuff sounds a lot like that. Anything lacking is likely coming later with the guild system. (I forget what they're calling it.)

Actually yeah, after watching this, it sounds like Beyond will feature pretty much exactly what you're suggesting.

It also sounds like my concern above about people boosting one another is moot. People will have to be diligent about who they team up with, and if one guy wants to sit on his hands while his pal does all the work, who am I to judge!?

Looking forward to giving wing missions a try once they go live.