We've been hearing lots more lately on the macro game, where factional organizations interact competitively and cooperatively. This seems to mean that, if we so choose, we can have many NPCs reporting to us, either directly or indirectly through a hierarchy.

How do you feel about that feature? Is it something you look forward to, building a civilization-spanning web of organizational management opportunities? Or are you more interested in remaining free of factional responsibilities, experiencing the universe as personally as possible?

7-24 sounds good to me. We'd be the Tunnel Snakes. That's us...and we'd r-r-r-r-rule.

Mini fleet of raiders, or just solo flights. Hoping for some large scale NPC activity to just marvel at.

I hope to manage a small fleet (30-40 ships) after I'm done doing solo pirating and bounty hunting. Some of these ships might just run pipelines for me as they collect ore and fly it back to our HQ. The rest of us will either be collecting information on troublesome NPCs or well be hunting them down.

ThymineC wrote:7-24 sounds good to me. We'd be the Tunnel Snakes. That's us...and we'd r-r-r-r-rule.

I spent way too long listening to that song.

OT: I chose 25-99. Although I wouldn't mind managing a few factions that got me over 1k ships.

Just one or two. Backup is nice for small escort missions, trade runs, smuggling excursions, mining exploits, or attempts of plundering and piracy.

That and a small number is easy to kill off if for some reason they decide to turn on me, or ask for more than their fair share.

I'd be shooting for 7-24.

This poll makes me wonder how ship ownership will be displayed. For example, will the helpless victims of my piratical ships/fleet know that these ships are affiliated with my above-board mining/industry faction? I'm sure this will have come up previously so I shall turn to the 'search' function.

Fake edit: I see some mention of IFF systems and IFF spoofing but, unless my search-fu is weak, I don't see anything about the above.

The poll makes a pretty shape for a stats geek right now.

McDuff wrote:The poll makes a pretty shape for a stats geek right now.

Does it have a name? It looks like a Gaussian except for the tails.

I'm not actually sure if there's a specific name for a Gaussian distribution with bumps at both tails. It's probably called "a basically even distribution except you put your bins in a funny place."

I hope to have a small group of NPC's working with me. Now, if I really take the pirate thing seriously, I may have the NPCs work on managing things and leading teams. I hope to use droids (or whichever is almost as smart as humans) as cannon fodder to keep my real guys alive. That way I don't lose a battle of attrition as easily.

I'll have either 1 or 2 with me realistically.

Of course, I want to have 1m with me just to see how the game scales and how the engine holds up under extreme circumstances.

Originally I was thinking of answering it like this.

How Many Factional NPCs Will You Manage?

ALL. OF. THEM.

However, I will start small.

Man-age?

Mannij?

Mahnaaaahhhge?

No.

COMMAND.

ThymineC wrote:

McDuff wrote:The poll makes a pretty shape for a stats geek right now.

Does it have a name? It looks like a Gaussian except for the tails.

Gaussian/Normal with some outliers?