Player Features and Ideas Discussion

New ships that can be controlled by multiple people at the same time, each individual would control certain aspect of the ship, such as shields, speed, guns, drones. etc.

There would be skill books that support all the ship roles as well as class roles for the type of the ship.

I think this would be very fun as it would create more diversity and put some of the current skill into better use by players.
This can be very broadly developed since the possibilities are endless.

Has been suggested hundreds of times in the past. While the idea may seem cool, it's impossible in practise because the engine can't handle it.

Client doesn't support this in a major way. The level of rewrite that would be required for what is basically a "for fun" feature (and one with majorly problematic balance implications at that) would years of dev time.

If you want that kind of gameplay go find some friends to play Artemis or something.

Also just because something sounds cool doesn't mean it'll make for good gameplay. In practice playing ship's engineer is kinda boring.

The closest thing to that would be a death-star Large POS where mutable gunners took control of the turrets.

Those are going away in a bit.