If I have multiple game packages and multiple characters, say Han Solo and Chewbacca, could I play one and have the other as my NPC crewman, or vice versa?
TL;DRThe design idea is that players can play any of their characters while others act as NPCs or are played by friends, but Roberts won't give a total number because instance player limits are still being optimized.
Yeah, actually, the conception of the design would be that you can specify your characters, and the ones that you aren't playing, you could have as NPCs, or you could control them. But you're not limited. The conception of the design was that, say, I've got five characters, right? And I've got Han Solo and Chewbacca, or Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia and C-3PO, whatever. I could play any one of those. I can have any one of my friends play the other ones. Or I can have them operate as NPCs.
[Audience: How many total?]
I'm not going to tell you how many total. We don't know. We haven't ascertained how many actual players we can get in one instance yet. We want to get as many people as possible. That's the process we're going through right now: optimization on the game server side and on the characters you're running, so we can get as many people and as many ships in an instance as possible. But it's a pretty big ongoing optimization job.