Hire NPC ships as transports?

[rabtherab]

Sometimes when exploring a station I will end up on a ship and then they take off and the first couple times I didn't even realize what had happened until I was a hundred km from the station. Flying back was not an option at 3 km/h...

It would be great if you could maybe just have to limp to the closest place and hire a small ship as a taxi to take you to your ship or a station or something, like possibly comming a passing ship to hire for said purpose?

[Imari]

I want a option to hire taxi service for crew change lol.

[AN7AG0NIS7]

Do you not have a relief pilot on your ship? You can just jump out of the NPC ship, then comms your relief pilot to pick you up. Contemplate your life choices while you wait for your Uber to get there.

[rabtherab]

Do you not have a relief pilot on your ship? You can just jump out of the NPC ship, then comms your relief pilot to pick you up. Contemplate your life choices while you wait for your Uber to get there.

Having the ability to take a taxi, or hiring a limo would also be realistic and support more play styles and situations and make the game more robust for what amounts to probably not a lot of effort. You could just say cool idea if your vision is limited, rather than an elaborate version of "get gud".

[AN7AG0NIS7]

Do you not have a relief pilot on your ship? You can just jump out of the NPC ship, then comms your relief pilot to pick you up. Contemplate your life choices while you wait for your Uber to get there.

Having the ability to take a taxi, or hiring a limo would also be realistic and support more play styles and situations and make the game more robust for what amounts to probably not a lot of effort. You could just say cool idea if your vision is limited, rather than an elaborate version of "get gud".

I wasn't trying to be rude with my earlier reply. Sorry if I offended you. I was just speaking from multiple experiences of that particular situation.

Also, I haven't seen any sort of personnel transports in this game like the TPs of X3. I remember flying my marines in one and then ejected them under a Hyperion for boarding operations..

[rabtherab]

No, please, the apology is mine. It isn't your fault the internet is filled with toxic people. I shouldn't have been so eager to be certain.

[Frankenleigen]

Cool idea. Wouldn't be that hard for them to script, surely. Just need to dock at player's location, wait for the ready signal from the player, then fly to destination and wait 20-30 seconds for the player to disembark.