[FeatureRequest] "Come back onboard"

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[FeatureRequest] "Come back onboard"

Post by vvvvvvvv »

"Come back onboard" or "come to my ship". The NPC could be then placed into unassigned category, I guess. Or assigned role based on his stats. Or he could have some data stored indicating what his default role is. Or he could be placed as marine if it was a captain.

This was done in X rebirth. Basically, when capturing ships, you send engineer/defence officer(?)/whatever to the ship, and when they're done, you comm them and they travel back to you.

Currently if you're doing a lot of ship capturing, the process of getting NPC back is convoluted. You can quickly claim ship through menu which will send a marine, that is good. (Marine blowing up half the equipment is not so good, but that's another story). Difficulties arise when:

* You claimed ship yourself and want to send a pilot over there. --> In this case you'll have to go through "Work somewhere else for me" which is clicky, or use crew transfer, which less clicky but still not optimal.
* You want to get marine back. --> In this case the only optionis "Work somewhere" menu, as you can't take captain away via crew transfer screen.

Similarly when we assign NPC through the map, that brings up popup menu, so I have to click on the ship, click on the menu, click button... why just not have top level menu "work here as crewman", "work here as marine", "work here as captain". Less clicky.

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