Will we be able to give specific roles to specific people on our ship that only they can access?asked by Vinas

So this is a two-part in that, yes, people will have roles. It'll be more of a designated role either by the crew itself and what the person's good at, what screens they're going to be using on the ship, and then also on the multi-crew side, what station they're going to be using and stuff. So some stations they're talking about where everything is set up to be specific roles, and then other ones are going to be more generic stations where they can actually pull in multiple screens. So it really depends on what the crew wants to do, and then where the multi-crew design ends. So right now, that is the best answer we can give on that part, unless you have something to add.

Well, something that we had also talked about when we were planning out some of these seat stations is overall, for a ship owner, we do want you to have some level of control to say, okay, I'm hiring you on board as crew, be it another player or an NPC, and I'm going to give you access to the engineering station, I'm going to give you access to shield management, and you'll flag your crew for the different permissions that you want. That way it'll be a bit trickier for someone to just run up to the pilot seat of your own ship, try and get in and use it, and it'll be more, well, you didn't flag him for permission, so he's going to just rip you out of the seat, get in his own pilot seat, and start flying.

One thing with permissions actually we could probably mention is that because the permissions are set by the owner of the ship, looking at all the different functions, I created a spreadsheet that we all worked on, and basically every single ship, we wanted to have one person do all the entire functions. It was over 60-something, 70-something tasks that needed to be done. It is really ridiculous. And then with multi-crew ships, controlling the different aspects of the shields, controlling different aspects of radar, sensors, communications, everything, this could be a lot for just one person to handle. And then we started actually narrowing down what we want people to do per role and then break it down to classify everything else. So it was actually a really big task that took a bit, but it was just all exploring just what people want to do within a ship and then breaking it down from movies like Star Trek, Star Wars, and just watching all the sci-fi movies. What roles are these guys doing?