Another save slot?

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Another save slot?

Postby Malphator » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:46 am

Think we'll ever see that? For having a second CMDR? Or more save slots, for three or four? A dedicated trader, a dedicated bounty hunter, a dedicated explorer? Some people like to roll that way. I dunno. Heh.

The simple solution, at the moment, is to just purchase a secondary copy of the game for a second login, and go from there. Not all that unlike how you had to do it with EVE if you wanted to follow yourself around in a salavager. Ahh, those were the days. Haha.

I guess I'm indifferent either way. What are your thoughts?
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Re: Another save slot?

Postby Manny72 » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:58 am

I think when it is implemented, there will be no interaction between characters. Each has to start from scratch on it's own. And I think that will be fair.
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Re: Another save slot?

Postby Flip » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:58 am

It was planned to be able to have up to 4 commanders at the same time, IIRC. Not sure if it's ever going to be implemented. I would like that, though. Especially if you could transfer credits from one to another.
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Re: Another save slot?

Postby Malphator » Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:11 pm

Flip wrote:It was planned to be able to have up to 4 commanders at the same time, IIRC. Not sure if it's ever going to be implemented. I would like that, though. Especially if you could transfer credits from one to another.


Even if we couldn't, I could still live with it. For me, it'd be more about having options. Haha. A secondary or tertiary CMDR to alternate crap with.... as an example, take to Empire space. Or just someone to happily do nav beacon bounty hunting in, while the primary CMDR is knee-deep in unexplored space. Something like that...
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Re: Another save slot?

Postby Emanon » Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:00 pm

I honestly don't know why they didn't do this, i.e. a Ship Selection screen just like a character selection screen to jump in the one you feel like doing that day and even share the wealth of the account. There really is nothing you can exploit from it other than parking near an interesting area and only going in that ship if something is going on, thus traveling a vast amount of distance in a short period of time. Its one of those mechanics that just gives players more options.

I know they are designing for character avatars that can walk about outside of ships down the road but if that is the case you just "switch" the ship selection screen for the character selection screen. And if you are really worried about it, limit it to the number of ships/chars each account can have. People won't really make credits *that* much faster, slightly yes, because they don't have the slowing element of traveling somewhere to another ship to do something else, they can just continue from where they left off, but accumulation of wealth is pretty tapered in this game anyway, so I don't see why it is the way it is.
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Re: Another save slot?

Postby Combiseries » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:18 pm

Why not buy another account? I think the game is worth it. However, I wouldn`t say no to a couple of free slots.

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Re: Another save slot?

Postby General Specific » Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:57 pm

I would like to see multiple CMDR's. I don't want to wreck the rep of my current character but want to go out and cause mayhem in a federation backwater somewhere. It would be nice if you could choose which CMDR you fancy playing at the start screen then you can have two or three scattered around the place. No interaction between them like credit sharing etc and completely different instances of the game.
And yes I could just go and buy another copy but being a miserly old tight wad I would rather not :-)


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