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Please remember that Braben is an old-school assembly language programmer. One zero zero is actually FOUR, which seems about right.
Would you eat your socks if NPC crew gets implemented?
The NPCs on board are in the ships bar waiting to play Star Fighter which is why we don’t see them.
I suspect the reason they don’t survive the destruction of the ship they were on is that their escape pods don’t have the Pilots Federation equivalent of the old goolie chit on them so they get picked up by somebody and sold into slavery or used for target practice. The ones who weren’t active probably died of liver failure from spending all their ill gotten gains in the station bar.
Indeed, though I would never say they don't care, that's not true, if anything, the core game David Braben created was Elite (even the entire company name was Elite themed). More likely, they don't have enough human resources or are spent on the game elsewhere.
This is great, and probably more true than we think.
The first part of your post is true. The second part is purely your own conjecture - FDev have never stated nor implied they will work on NPC crew and wings only after working on interaction. Actually, they've never said anything about NPC interaction being done first. Fact is they've simply abandoned any discussion and plan on NPC wings and crews. They were planned to be in the game before Horizons if you were around back then to remember the facts correctly.
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Wrong.
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I think it's more the case, npc crew in the seats won't be around until spacelegs arrives proper with all the supporting code and infrastructure that comes with it. Multicrew on arrival was limited, but it along with holo-me could be seen as also the preliminary stages of spacelegs modelling and instancing.
Which would be 256 from 0100h where h representation is more used in assembly. (can be seen as exaggerating the other way
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Which would be 256 from 0100h where h representation is more used in assembly. (can be seen as exaggerating the other way
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Should have been done from the get-go (when you could first hire NPCs) rather than an attempt at persuading more people to do multicrew. Multicrew should have stood on its own merits.
Better yet, our ships should have a minimum crew as part of operating costs to offset the profits. Something like 12-40 for a Conda. (even if you never see them they should be a stat).
Your crew could develop experience, some could get killed and require replacements, lowering experience. Crew experience could improve response time for a whole bunch of things that the crew should be required for but isn't because "meh...j-j-j-j-j...GAME!". Unable to launch without minimum crew. Suffer penalties if below minimum crew from getting them killed. More like ammo or fuel than names and faces, except for your "officers".
Instead we have telepresence and overwatch style colors with "laser-wing" fighters.
Better yet, our ships should have a minimum crew as part of operating costs to offset the profits. Something like 12-40 for a Conda. (even if you never see them they should be a stat).
Your crew could develop experience, some could get killed and require replacements, lowering experience. Crew experience could improve response time for a whole bunch of things that the crew should be required for but isn't because "meh...j-j-j-j-j...GAME!". Unable to launch without minimum crew. Suffer penalties if below minimum crew from getting them killed. More like ammo or fuel than names and faces, except for your "officers".
Instead we have telepresence and overwatch style colors with "laser-wing" fighters.
^ I guess if you leave stuff as-is long enough it will eventually be set in stone. If fdev ever change what you suggested I can already see tons of "it was better before - my story/open letter" essays. This NPCs thing should've been done long ago. But yeah, it's never too late, afaic. E.g. Conda begs to have tons of officers onboard, it's that type of ship.
It would also be kinda cool if I'm flying, say a Cobra or Adder, and I take some rich guy on a tourist trip, that rich guy / gal gets to sit in the seat beside me to take in the sights. His servants can sit in their windowless cabin, but the dude giving me a million credits to see things ought to get a front seat view. It's not something I'm going to insist on, but I very much enjoy running passenger missions, and I kinda wish I had a bit more personal connection with my passengers. Just dreaming! 
I can see this...It would also be kinda cool if I'm flying, say a Cobra or Adder, and I take some rich guy on a tourist trip, that rich guy / gal gets to sit in the seat beside me to take in the sights. His servants can sit in their windowless cabin, but the dude giving me a million credits to see things ought to get a front seat view. It's not something I'm going to insist on, but I very much enjoy running passenger missions, and I kinda wish I had a bit more personal connection with my passengers. Just dreaming!
Imagine all those wanted criminals holding guns to your remlok helmet if you don't organize them their desperately needed consumer electronics.
Yep. When you ask NPC to pilot your fighter, you see a figure in black suit and black helmet in it's cockpit. When you fly out yourself, you see that black figure in the cockpit of your mothership. And if you don't have active NPC crew on board, I believe you would see empty seat there. So the game, actually, does sometimes place your NPCs in seats of your cockpit.
Why don't they try to boost sales of cmdr detalization packs using that -- is a mystery as great, as why those remote controlled fighters have cockpits
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Yeah, a host of passengers crowding around you, getting in the way & begging for consumer technology as you try and fight off a pirate!
Wrong.
Beyond: Beta – Q&A
Sandro Sammarco answered a long list of questions regarding both the upcoming Beyond series of updates and the general future of the game. You can see some selected ones below. Note: There has been…
LOL And... no. Not wrong. Like I said, you are changing the context here, per usual to fit your own personal narrative, as even this example certainly does not say FDev is going to work on said features right after they do "x". What you've posted is more of the standard drool that's been spouted with the "we want's to" and stuff...
You do know that "want's to's" and actually "plan to" or "will do" are different, right? Right?
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Even if you deploy a fighter from fighter hangar and switch with lights on with order hold position to your npc and look in to your cockpit you will only see a twin
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Sorry but the quote almost says exactly what I said.
