I was curious about some aspects of gameplay with multi-crewed ships. Will the pilot be able to "shutdown/restart" individual engines while in flight? For example, if one was piloting a Constellation on a long exploration trip would it be possible to shutdown two of the main engines. Allowing the Constellation to cruise on the remaining two engines to conserve fuel, and then if needed the pilot could restart two cold engines to engage in the flight?asked by Squirrel

Yes. That's the entire point of multicrew, taking the flight game and splitting it among multiple people encouraging teamwork. A consequence of that is that not everyone has access to all of a ship's systems, and not everyone NEEDS access to all of a ship's systems. That way a player has a lot more granularity/ability in an individual ship system. For example, with shields and radar, those controls will have a lot more ability to dig into exact what they're doing when they don't have to worry about weapons/targeting/not crashing.

If your shields get shot up, or your weapons do, we're going to have to give you some way of managing that within the ship, and yeah turning those systems off/turning off different engines, rerouting power etc, that'll all be possible.