Multiple player ships

[Sloth]

Since I cant find any new articles about it: are there 2 player+ ships in this game or has each player his one person ship?

[Dirak2012]

Personal ships only

[Zeno]

I have to think 2-person ships would be difficult to implement and perilous to use. Imagine being the passenger in a ship belonging to and piloted by a friend whose game then crashes or otherwise disconnects. What happens to you?

[Mr. Bufferlow]

There would need to be some significant changes to every feature that involves ships...so a lot. They could go with the clown car/Tardis concept but I think that would turn most players off. There are some other user dangers that would need to be locked down.

All the work for a 30 second ride to the next planet....probably not worth the trouble.

I think it would make sense to revise at least some of the exocraft into two or four seaters.

[Know Won]

It could be done, motivation to do so tho ...

[Almost Last Place]

Originally posted by Zeno:

I have to think 2-person ships would be difficult to implement and perilous to use. Imagine being the passenger in a ship belonging to and piloted by a friend whose game then crashes or otherwise disconnects. What happens to you?

The easy solution would just be to have ships that are effectively carriers as multi-player ships.

Multiple people can board and assist on one bigger ship that acts like a carrier... and any player can launch their own ship to act as a fighter escorting said carrier (or just flying away.)

Maybe make carriers have special weaponry that helps you capture some base or point of interest but have limited anti-fighter capabilities requiring players to use their own ships to defend them while they do their thing... maybe a mining operation or something... and then you re-dock to travel to the next place.

I'm just giving a couple of ideas obviously.

[Dirak2012]

Any of those ideas clashes with the fact that you don't spend more than a few seconds inside your ship before you reach your destination.

[Lindy Bomber]

Freighters sort of function as multi player ships. You can land on your friend's freighter (command ship) and warp together, but there is really nothing to do in space as a group so multi players ships are a moot point.

[Idaho]

Originally posted by Zeno:

I have to think 2-person ships would be difficult to implement and perilous to use. Imagine being the passenger in a ship belonging to and piloted by a friend whose game then crashes or otherwise disconnects. What happens to you?

Star Citizen does it just fine. There's ships in that game that can have up to 14 different people doing different things, piloting, gunnery, engineering, medical, etc. If the 'owner' disconnects, someone else can just pilot the ship. And yeah, you can walk around inside them (the bigger ones).

[Dhanen]

Originally posted by Lindy Bomber:

Freighters sort of function as multi player ships. You can land on your friend's freighter (command ship) and warp together, but there is really nothing to do in space as a group so multi players ships are a moot point.

Your imagination is so poor then. IMHO, there are many things to do together in the space: missions in group, explore together, being pirates or mercenaries, help a friend to rise some point or do some dangerous stuff that will alert sentinels, confront together enemy ships (one concerned in piloting ship; other one using shields/weapons/repairing/feeding systems... Like Han and Chewbie, dude, like Han and Chewbie!

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Dhanen:

Originally posted by Lindy Bomber:

Freighters sort of function as multi player ships. You can land on your friend's freighter (command ship) and warp together, but there is really nothing to do in space as a group so multi players ships are a moot point.

Your imagination is so poor then. IMHO, there are many things to do together in the space: missions in group, explore together, being pirates or mercenaries, help a friend to rise some point or do some dangerous stuff that will alert sentinels, confront together enemy ships (one concerned in piloting ship; other one using shields/weapons/repairing/feeding systems... Like Han and Chewbie, dude, like Han and Chewbie!

Elite Dangerous has multi-crew ships (they should since ED ships are stupidly massive), but after 5 mins, multi-crew isn't that fun.

[gNg]

Originally posted by Dhanen:

Originally posted by Lindy Bomber:

Freighters sort of function as multi player ships. You can land on your friend's freighter (command ship) and warp together, but there is really nothing to do in space as a group so multi players ships are a moot point.

Your imagination is so poor then. IMHO, there are many things to do together in the space: missions in group, explore together, being pirates or mercenaries, help a friend to rise some point or do some dangerous stuff that will alert sentinels, confront together enemy ships (one concerned in piloting ship; other one using shields/weapons/repairing/feeding systems... Like Han and Chewbie, dude, like Han and Chewbie!

That may be true...but Lindy's talking about NMS. You can't do any of those things in NMS.

[Dirak2012]

Originally posted by Dhanen:

Originally posted by Lindy Bomber:

Freighters sort of function as multi player ships. You can land on your friend's freighter (command ship) and warp together, but there is really nothing to do in space as a group so multi players ships are a moot point.

Your imagination is so poor then. IMHO, there are many things to do together in the space: missions in group, explore together, being pirates or mercenaries, help a friend to rise some point or do some dangerous stuff that will alert sentinels, confront together enemy ships (one concerned in piloting ship; other one using shields/weapons/repairing/feeding systems... Like Han and Chewbie, dude, like Han and Chewbie!

One player can be attacked by a pirate, but the rest of the party can't see the pirate. How fun is that again?

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by Dhanen:

Originally posted by Lindy Bomber:

Freighters sort of function as multi player ships. You can land on your friend's freighter (command ship) and warp together, but there is really nothing to do in space as a group so multi players ships are a moot point.

Your imagination is so poor then. IMHO, there are many things to do together in the space: missions in group, explore together, being pirates or mercenaries, help a friend to rise some point or do some dangerous stuff that will alert sentinels, confront together enemy ships (one concerned in piloting ship; other one using shields/weapons/repairing/feeding systems... Like Han and Chewbie, dude, like Han and Chewbie!

Nice neco.

You can already do most if those things without multi crew ships.

To make multi crew ships work they would first have to completely rework the networking and invest in servers to fix synch'ing which is currently terrible and makes MP utterly pointless. Then they would need to rework combat and any other game mechanics multi crew ships would interact with.

Have different players crew different parts of a ship sounds good in theory, but in practice one player per ship work much better. Controlling a whole ship is always more fun that controlling part of a ship.

I can imagine a lot of crazy stuff, but that doesn't mean any if it will actually work.

[Jaggid Edje]

I've played quite a few games with multi-crew ships and/or other vehicles. And I always found the experience boring as hell.

Controlling just 'one thing' basically means you're idle most of the time unless you are the ONE person actually driving/flying. And, of course, the most aggressive, selfish tool that you are playing with always insists on being that person so, unless you are that ass-hat, you end up just being 'along for the ride' half the time.

[Xautos]

oddly explorer ships have a main canopy below a smaller second canopy, just sayin'.