Need help for Multicrew / playing with a friend

[Bishop-Six]

Good Day Spacers,

i own E:D now for a pretty long time and have about 350 hours in it. So the most game core mechanics are known for me, but i usually played Solo for my own.

Now a friend bought this game and we wanted to do a session together. We were just confused how to do this and about the possibilities of Multicrew.

I have almost no knowledge about this topics, so could you help me out?

1.) Why cant we see each other on radar or UI when we are not in Supercruise?

2.) How can we find each other easily?

3.) What are the possibilities for Multicrew to help him getting money? (I have good ships, he not)

4.) How does mining work together? Better Multicrew or 2 ships? Do you see my asteroid information?

5.) General explanations and tips appreciated

Thank you o7

[Laurreth]

Instancing can be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You best determine a system to meet in, and then both jump into that system. Once you see each other in supercruise as hollow icons on the scanner, form a wing, and one of you enabled navlock; when the other person drops out of supercruise, the other one should automatically drop into the same instance.

You should also be instanced together if you drop out at the same navigation point (stations, signal sources, RES, etc.)

To make money together, your best bet would probably be wing hauling missions assuming one of you has a big ship. Other wing missions aren't a great place for a new player. You could also derp around at a RES together since bounties are shared between wing members. Multicrew is AFAIK not good for money.

[Planewalker]

Wing + Wing Beacon = ON

[Bishop-Six]

Originally posted by Shadowdancer:

Instancing can be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You best determine a system to meet in, and then both jump into that system. Once you see each other in supercruise as hollow icons on the scanner, form a wing, and one of you enabled navlock; when the other person drops out of supercruise, the other one should automatically drop into the same instance.

You should also be instanced together if you drop out at the same navigation point (stations, signal sources, RES, etc.)

To make money together, your best bet would probably be wing hauling missions assuming one of you has a big ship. Other wing missions aren't a great place for a new player. You could also derp around at a RES together since bounties are shared between wing members. Multicrew is AFAIK not good for money.

Where do i enable navlock?

Originally posted by Planewalker:

Wing + Wing Beacon = ON

Uh...what and where? Sry, playing german version

Thx so far o7

How does or can mining work together?

[Witcher]

Multi crew = friends telepresence into your ship (not in their own ships). You mine and share profits to some extent.

Wing = invite friends into your wing. To switch on Wing Beacon, go to Ship tab in right panel (bottom left).

In both Multi Crew and Wing, you and friends need to be in Open mode or same Private Group - not possible to co-op in Solo.

[Bishop-Six]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Multi crew = friends telepresence into your ship (not in their own ships). You mine and share profits to some extent.

Wing = invite friends into your wing. To switch on Wing Beacon, go to Ship tab in right panel (bottom left).

In both Multi Crew and Wing, you and friends need to be in Open mode or same Private Group - not possible to co-op in Solo.

Ok thx that helps! And mining with 2 ships? When i analyse an asteroid, can he see it? And is he able to collect the pieces when i blow up an asteroid?

[martydaparty4u]

Multicrew hardly ever worked for me plus its whole telebs is a turn off for immersion on many levels vs the rest of the game. Just wing up but it still has instancing problems at times.

[Bexx]

Wing Beacon = on müsste Signal = Geschwader sein...

Saludos Bexx o7

[Bishop-Six]

Thank you guys. I think we can figure out something now :)

[thesecrazykids]

I think you mean Wing, not Multicrew