There was a suggestion some time ago that involved launching in to open space with your whole (3-4 ship) selection and be able to fight with them. Id love this idea, but it would work better balance-wise if you could “shift” between controlling one ship or another. Or even as if your ship gets destroyed you can just control one of the remaining ships until you are done. This would be amazing to counter the fact that you can’t fly anything alone in invasion without it being a tank or be able to go invis. Any balance issues that it might have caused are solved by the fact that everyone can do it.
Maybe when you control 1 ship, the rest are bots? But skillful bots, or let’s say their skills depends on your skills rating or some of your statistics.
I love this idea, but I don’t feel good about it lol.
This sounds funny, but would cause a lot of balancing issues and since there are more player/bot ships in the sector, less actual players could play in the same sector.
This sounds funny, but would cause a lot of balancing issues and since there are more player/bot ships in the sector, less actual players could play in the same sector.
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
The more players you have in a sector, the more performance it will need. Since once player could pilot 4 ships with this suggestion, the risk is much higher that a sector will be overloaded much earlier.
I agree with Error. Maybe 2 ships only? Fast and nimble fighter, with a big and armored frigate? You know sometimes you need the big ship, sometimes you need the small one.
Just a suggestion! Not sure if it’s good or not!
You are not piloting all ships at once, only one, and having the ability to swap between them if needed; for a cost.
Well, are they gonna be controlled by bots or just flying with you, not doing anything?
Just the basic AI like any other NPC in invasion and trying to follow you around to the best of their ability.
Yeah that is what I thought. It would be interesting. This will actually make the game really make you feel like you’re piloting your own “fleet” which is mentioned in the about game section.
“Take command of varied battleships, from nimble scouting ships to heavy frigates loaded with guns and rockets. In due time, you can command your own fleet”
i believe error was refering to computer performance drop: multiplying each player by 4 increases amount of rendering objects exponentially (4 players in a same sector would mean 16 ships to process+all bots–>huge fps drop for a processor). He could also meant that only a few amount of players are enough to clear a sector (from farming), therefore if you multiply each player effectiveness by…at least 2 the map will be “unfarmable” with many less players (reducing efectiveness of a map to give profit to players).
Any way i find the idea pretty cool and fun, specially with the capability of switching control among your ships. However i disagree with you fox when you say: “you can’t fly anything alone in invasion without it being a tank or be able to go invis”, since i use ships i need to lvl (no matter its class) for most daily missions…of course there are places like solaris wasteland where you get wrecked on almost every ship, but most sectors arent that harsh to only limitate your solo flight with a few classes.
I think a computer can handle 12 bots and 4 players in a “sector” of space ;p
But the open space sectors will get overloaded if there are too many player controllable ships as it probably doesn’t allow anymore than what you can get in PvP. Even though they would be bots most of the time, the ability to switch ships would mean it must be considered a player controllable ship. It would be fun but then you’d need more server allocation to open space.
I think a computer can handle 12 bots and 4 players in a “sector” of space ;p
But the open space sectors will get overloaded if there are too many player controllable ships as it probably doesn’t allow anymore than what you can get in PvP. Even though they would be bots most of the time, the ability to switch ships would mean it must be considered a player controllable ship. It would be fun but then you’d need more server allocation to open space.
It does not only depend on the pc, but also on the game engine.
Also it is far more fun to have a wing of actual players on your side instead of having a team of bots.
This suggestion will have a serious effect on the whole game structure. Right now it’s just not possible.
Yeah, just wait for the big ships… This will be like controlling a whole fleet… I suppose.
Yeah, just wait for the big ships… This will be like controlling a whole fleet… I suppose.
Watch it be that when they come out you still can’t traverse a predator inhabited sector.
Watch it be that when they come out you still can’t traverse a predator inhabited sector.
You know nothing, John Snow.
You know nothing, John Snow.
Who tf is John Snow
Who tf is John Snow
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Who tf is John Snow
