Will a merchant player be able to bribe the character slot NPC crew of their competitor to mutiny against their boss?asked by Rodent Rascal
TL;DRBribing a competitor's NPC crew into mutiny isn't currently planned and may be revisited later, though NPC crew will have hidden stats like morale that can improve over time.
That's a really great suggestion, we're not planning on doing that at the moment. We'll probably take that under advisement once we've gotten all the million other things we have to do for the persistent universe. That we may potentially have fun with down the road, like morale and mutiny. We are definitely planning for the NPC crew to have "hidden stats" not necessarily exposed for players to see. You know, like how good a shot they are, what their morale is, what their competency is. That would effect their sort of AI rating, that's how we do it with enemy aces and stuff like that. So obviously better NPCs would probably cost more money, and then after you're fighting alongside and NPC and you win more battles then that NPC will be getting better and "leveling up". So we have that sort of tracking stuff in there and longer term we can probably have fun stuff with the morale and mutiny, but that's not a 1.0 function or requirement or deliverable, so to speak.