News from Lavecon 2016

[Loriath]

No NPC crew? Does that mean ship launched fighters are for multiplayer only?

Dear FD ...

IIRC ship launched fighters can be AI controlled, or you can fly the fighter and have the AI control your ship.

I think this just refers to 'bridge crew'

They aren't going to see many people bothering with fighters if this isn't the case.

Sandro has said on several occasions the the Fighters WILL be AI controlled, or you can fly it and the Ship will be AI controlled.

I totally get why you can't hire a NPC crew for the rest of the stuff. The only thing I wonder, is if there are a few of us in my ship, and I want to send out my fighter, can it be one of my friends? So base attack, me in my ship, 2 in buggies, and another in a fighter. That would be cool.

[Schmobius]

That would indeed be cool.

[Xebeth]

IIRC ship launched fighters can be AI controlled, or you can fly the fighter and have the AI control your ship.

I think this just refers to 'bridge crew'

They aren't going to see many people bothering with fighters if this isn't the case.

Sandro has said on several occasions the the Fighters WILL be AI controlled, or you can fly it and the Ship will be AI controlled.

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From the manual for the Commander Log feature coming in 2.2 (hidden away in the appendix)

log appendix.JPG (16.14 KiB) Viewed 854 times

That seems to answer the question of AI pilots, also module storage!