Will there be big ships in the future?

[Anwar]

And it has a complete internal structure.

[Funpire]

Probably not.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

We never know what they have planned. The recent station changes solved one of the road blocks that made it unlikely. The landing areas are bigger and you can now change ships in a station.

That last part solved a show stopper because if they ever do multiplayer ships, no one can be stranded if they leave that ship. The other show stopper is what you do in a bigger ship.

The transit times, 30s to 90s, don't really work out well for needing a place to walk around in. Just stopping your ship and wandering around inside does not sound like a killer app that would sell more games.

[whitevalfore]

More variety to the normal freighters is possible in part 2.

[Monkey Punisher]

For me the Freighters are more than enought.
They are big and have a lot of custom space. It would be cool that you could aim the weapons and move the Freighters manually in the system, but fot me that's it

[dreamrider]

Highly unlikely within the general structure of the game.

A tandem, or "ride-together" ship seems like it might be possible with modest effort, but I doubt there is any great groundswell for that, given that it is really pretty much a "solo, but you can come talk to me and look at my stuff" sort of game.

[Anwar]

Originally posted by Funpire:

Probably not.

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

We never know what they have planned. The recent station changes solved one of the road blocks that made it unlikely. The landing areas are bigger and you can now change ships in a station.

That last part solved a show stopper because if they ever do multiplayer ships, no one can be stranded if they leave that ship. The other show stopper is what you do in a bigger ship.

The transit times, 30s to 90s, don't really work out well for needing a place to walk around in. Just stopping your ship and wandering around inside does not sound like a killer app that would sell more games.

Originally posted by whitevalfore:

More variety to the normal freighters is possible in part 2.

Originally posted by KIRIKU:

For me the Freighters are more than enought.
They are big and have a lot of custom space. It would be cool that you could aim the weapons and move the Freighters manually in the system, but fot me that's it

Originally posted by dreamrider:

Highly unlikely within the general structure of the game.

A tandem, or "ride-together" ship seems like it might be possible with modest effort, but I doubt there is any great groundswell for that, given that it is really pretty much a "solo, but you can come talk to me and look at my stuff" sort of game.

Ok, thank you guys. I'd like to wait and see how it develops before I consider buying it.

[Asmosis]

Seems unlikely as the big "ships" in the game right now arent actually ships just stationary objects, but who knows. At this point NMS is as much a hobby as a job for the dev team so anything could happen in the future.

[mister_lobos]

the freighters are already huge... park 12 ships INSIDE, and up to 35 full rooms of base building inside the same freighter...
now granted you don't fully drive it, just tell what system to fly to, and send your frigates off on missions from it.

i would say maybe a slightly bigger ship then the regular ones you fly, like maybe two or four people could be in.. since you can have a squadron of computer controlled ships follow you, i would think it wouldn't be much harder to put the same people in one ship instead of 4 or 5 different ships. but you also still wouldn't do much IN the ship i don't think.