Has there been given any thought to NPC crew after the multi-crewed ship DFM release later this year? Is it only possible to fly your, let's say your Cutlass, with your friends or is there a way for us to hire NPC crew somehow? I know this is the idea for the PU but what about DFM specifically?asked by Swift Omnium

Longer term, potentially in Arena Commander we may let NPC crew be in the multi-crew ships. Right now the first stage of it would have to be your friends only. The development of multi-crew and NPCs is actually down on the Squadron 42 / Foundry 42 side, because they obviously need to do a lot of that for flying about the big ships in the Squadron 42 campaign where most of the other crew members are actually NPCs. So they're sort of charged with leading development of the big cap ship systems, the cap ship setups, and also how NPCs move around and operate those ships. So when that is at a certain point we would probably fold it back in a little bit to Arena Commander to test it, and then later on obviously it would be to the Persistent Universe.