The Wings discussion thread

[Sir.Tj]

Welcome to the wings update discussion thread.

Feel free to chat, cogitate and discuss the forthcoming wings update here.


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[fergal]

The Wings update discussion thread

I was hunting around for the old forum thread from gamma on the wings features.

here it is if anyone else hasn't seen it.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795


*edit, here are the posts from the FD employees:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1159064&viewfull=1#post1159064
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1159512&viewfull=1#post1159512
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1159615&viewfull=1#post1159615
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1159799&viewfull=1#post1159799
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1159886&viewfull=1#post1159886
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1159926&viewfull=1#post1159926
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1160135&viewfull=1#post1160135
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1160248&viewfull=1#post1160248
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1160724&viewfull=1#post1160724
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1161120&viewfull=1#post1161120
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69795&p=1172579&viewfull=1#post1172579

 

[Jason S]

Hopefully it will make a lot of people happy that they can play with their friends then.

 

[The Plainsman]

Wings (Coop/Team Play)

Is there an ETA on the Wings(team/coop play) feature? I am finding the bounty hunting and conflict zones to be increasingly monotonous without any integration to play and thrive together with others. I have this fantasy of a squadron of vipers(maybe eagles) engaging a pirate in an Anaconda, but that wouldn't be fun unless the squadron can share in the spoils.

 

[Monk]

There is no ETA but FD have said that it is a high priority expected early this year. I'm hoping by the end of March.

 

[rdizz]

Uhhhg.... There as far as I know is no ETA on anything. But I'm with ya.

 

[Dabba]

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We're at now now.

 

[Asgaurd]

properly 2018 if you are lucky. But its for the devs to enlighten us with there awesome plans. (erm sorry that dont happen)

 

[krysohmyz]

Please think about ship to ship fuel transfer once wings are up

..because wouldn't it be awesome if a squadron could have it's own tanker?

One C6 fuel scoop and giant tank for the three wings of fighters, that's what I call awesome.

 

[anikaiful]

..because wouldn't it be awesome if a squadron could have it's own tanker?

One C6 fuel scoop and giant tank for the three wings of fighters, that's what I call awesome.

Seconded.

 

[Arktac13]

Never thought about that, good idea!

 

[Bambi]

Really I just want to be able to help friends who might be stuck somewhere without fuel, or even with damaged engines.

 

[Tommyp2006]

Fuel tankers or even fuel refinery ships would be a cool addition to the game.

 

[Wedgetail]

It'd be a cool wing vs wing pvp scenario, using the tanker as a capture the flag or kill the general type mission

 

[krysohmyz]

Fuel tankers or even fuel refinery ships would be a cool addition to the game.

That, too, yes.


And destroying the wing's "flagship" would indeed be a nice tactical challenge.

 

[johnUK]

yeap, good idea.
Could also sell fuel to stations, wouldn't get much cash perhaps, but an additional way to make credits.. the more the merrier.
Perhaps could sit outside the station and sell at 10% less than the station.
John

 

[krysohmyz]

Hehe, be careful, sitting quietly next to the station, selling fuel could be dangerously close to that "grind" thingy everyone talks about.

 

[maxcorwyn]

Don't forget basic ship-to-ship repairs.
At least for those poor souls who got their thrusters shot and been left to die.

 

[krysohmyz]

True. I dream of EVAs where we could repair everything on the ship by ourselves.
...just a dream, though.

 

[yezhub]

Grouping / Wings / Drive Slaving - Any timetable or ETA?

I don't think anyone is asking for some super easy casual way to group or follow each other that removes skill or game knowledge from the equation, but what I would like is to be able to actually get into the same instances as my friend in Open.

I've had so many times where we drop back out into SC, and can't find each other, or we simply don't see each other even if we are literally in the same location, forcing us to relog or travel to a nearby station and starting over. Or being unable to follow his FSD wake when he jumps (this seems to work sometimes, but far from always). Nevermind the fact that sometimes you are in a place in SC with tons of different FSD wakes, and no way to identify which one belongs to your friend. This isn't even touching being unable to properly share credit for missions, bounties, etc.

I think grouping at the moment is glitchy and barebones at the very best of times. And it's a damn shame, because even like this, we can see the potential for fun if group instancing were to actually work. I can see myself enjoying ED for a long time like that.

I was looking around for threads about this, because it seems like such a core feature and I'm surprised to see so little discussion about it. All the threads I found relating to it seems buried in old archived Gamma forums. Can't link any of them because this is a new account apparently, but one of them did have an update from December, by Sandro, stating that Drive Slaving is out.

Is there any more recent official update, estimate or information on when multiplayer/grouping improvements are coming? If not, is it possible to get some official word or comment on this?