Games like Guns of Icarus and Blackwake are excellent examples of games built around this sort of content. Which is to say, combat happens much more slowly and with less reliance on twitch skill and reaction time, and the controls are designed such that you can afford to leave your seat and focus on other things for a while. At the same time, the ships are much smaller, with the largest ships being roughly the size of a vulture; a small ship in Elite.
Elite isn't a ship or broadside simulator, it's a fighter jet simulator. Even the largest and slowest ships in elite maneuver and move substantially faster than the fastest ships in these other games.
Elite isn't a ship or broadside simulator, it's a fighter jet simulator. Even the largest and slowest ships in elite maneuver and move substantially faster than the fastest ships in these other games.
....Dude, listen, this all sounds fine and dandy, but honestly, you're comparing apples to oranges, an archaic sea vessel to a space ship that would exist long after any of us are alive. So if you want a realistic approach to ship interiors, then Sea of Thieves is the LAST game you should be getting your idea's from because 99% of everything you'd need to do can be still done in the cockpit. We're not talking about a pirates sea vessel from before any of us were even thought of, we're talking about aircraft, WAY into the future. And in modern aircraft, there will be the captain, the co-pilot or first officer, and a mechanic, and a lot of the times you won't even have a mechanic, depending on the nature and size of the aircraft. The pilot is flying the plane and the co-pilot's primary duty would be the weapon systems who can also of course take control of the ship. The mechanic, as the title implies, is the one performing repair and maintenance on the ship, based on what the pilot tells him he is seeing on his instrument panel. The only one that will need to be running around throughout the ship patching things up at all is the mechanic. He also might be doing a routine check of the entire ship to make sure nothing is damaged, that all the flight control surfaces are working, the instrument panel is working, basically making sure nothing is inoperative before the flight. This can make an interesting gameplay loop for someone playing the role of a mechanic.
...We've gotta do better than that folks. Comparing old sea vessels that aren't even used NOW, to super advanced space craft eons into the future?????.... Come on, give me a break. We should KNOW the gameplay should be fundamentally less archaic, and different just by that criteria alone for crying out loud.
