AI Transports goods for you - u r notified when attacked and can spawn into escort to defend

[Destraex]

Will there be the ability to hire or use your own ships as AI traders to do long hauls with cargo? i.e. You don't want to sail for 10hrs and you get the AI to do it between your ports while you are offline? What are your thoughts on trading distances and player sailing time to get goods together to build a ship?

I am not concerned as much with the time it takes to get goods together as the time the players spends doing nothing while sailing vast distances to do it. If the AI could do it for the player then it would release players to play the game while still being aware of losses and having to escort ships personally through dangerous waters. Perhaps even being able to spawn into the AI escorts to defend them when attacked.

 

• I think spawning into the defending escort would be great. 
  
• Scheduling the transport times that they leave ports would be good as well.
  
• If you do not want to monitor your ships then perhaps an APP to let you know when they are attacked so you can scramble to login.
  
• players must be able to draw their trader routes on the map to prevent easily identifiable routes
  
• players should be able to open the spawn resp ok nders to there clan members and even the nation.
  

[Balsafer]

This was talked about for player traders being able to call in for nation support if attacked. We should do that also for players that are transporting goods themselves as well as AI traders.  I like the idea of AI moving goods when I do not feel like doing it myself.

[Destraex]

At work now will clean this up later. But perhaps normal warships should also be allowed to plot a route on the map and then be alerted when something happens... Through the game if they are logged on or through a taskbar app.

[Destraex]

This was talked about for player traders being able to call in for nation support if attacked. We should do that also for players that are transporting goods themselves as well as AI traders.  I like the idea of AI moving goods when I do not feel like doing it myself.

just to be clear. I am simply talking about friends or nation being allowed to take control of player ships being attacked in the middle of the ocean. NOT any extra ships than are already being attacked.

[Fenris]

How about we start playing EVE?

Instead of Naval Action?

Edited October 27, 2016 by Fenris

[Destraex]

I have not played EVE for more than 5 minutes.

But if EVE already has this and it's a good idea why not use it? That is unless EVE has a patent on common sense?

 

What pray tell... do you actually find wrong with this idea Fenris. You did not say.

Besides we do not have to worry about EVE. It has no physics based combat system as far as I know?

[Inigo Balboa aka Ronda]

Many people would like to see this feature, but... 

 

 

 

Player created ai fleets are impossible. 15000 MAU*1 fleet = 15000 bots on the map. 

 

http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/17044-unanswered-questions-on-the-patch-and-future-plans/page-2#entry327486

[Destraex]

In his that case just limit each player to 1ai fleet each and if people spawn into his that fleet to man it remove their other ship if they were in game before. Perhaps only allow each player to either play of have a fleet on auto even if they are logged off.

[Destraex]

Many people would like to see this feature, but... 

 

 

http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/17044-unanswered-questions-on-the-patch-and-future-plans/page-2#entry327486

Inigo as per above. I wonder if the devs would allow it just for merchants and their escorts... perhaps each player only allowed 1 ship in this fashion. With the population being what it is I doubt it would mean more than the peak population of 2k ships.