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Are there any plans to implement a fast travel that would enable players to easily and quickly transport to friends' or guild ships that have multi-person crews?asked by Malkara

TL;DRRoberts says there is no general fast travel to friends' ships, but friends will be able to drop in to crew your ship, while their own ships must fly to you.

Chris RobertsCEO / Game Director

Well, it depends on what we're talking about on fast travel.

I think they're thinking of jumping into the ship, right?

Chris RobertsCEO / Game Director

Which, I don't know, it breaks the immersion, if you're over in another system and your friends are being attacked ten systems over. There's a couple of things that we're going to let you break the immersion on. Friends can drop in and they can drop in on your ship to man it as crew. So if you had an NPC crew, a friend of yours could take it over to control it. But if they were bringing their ships and they were going to fly alongside you, they would have to fly from wherever they were on their ships. But certainly, like you're flying your Constellation, you say, 'Hey, you guys want to fly with me on board my Constellation?', you're not necessarily going to have to fly halfway across the galaxy to help crew the Constellation.

Well, there you go. That's sort of a compromise between immersion and gameplay.

Wingman's Hangar›ep029 . July 12, 2013·
Published on this date.12 Jul 2013
EpisodeMulticrewShips