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[Lemonspy]

Just an idea but at this moment in time we cant play as the fighters in game, would there a chance for the development team to implement this in the near future.
On a personal note I would find it useful as the current AI can control frigates and anything bigger well enough to not blow it up, until they decide that ramming is a good tactic, but when they use fighters I have had the experience of a broadsword wing fly directly into a torpedo even though they had a whole four seconds to rethink what they were doing, and so I lost three elite crew men.

In short would there be the possible chance of controlling fighters at some point ?       

[blackfang]

I doubt so, would the admiral of a mighty space armada ever stoop so low as to enter a fighter?

[Lemonspy]

I'm not really suggesting this in a role-playing sense but more of a different way to have fun, after all there are people who have a hound and a onslaught, but would rather play as the hound and let the onslaught do its own thing. 

[Dreyven]

i don't think so... problem is that fighter wings consist of more than 1 ship
each of those ships acts more or less independently
this is why i think we won't get fighter control (sadly)

[factotum]

I agree with Dreyven--it would be difficult to implement anything like this because fighters are generally in wings, not single ships. In addition, some of the faster frigates are pretty much as fast and manoeuvrable as the fighters anyway, and they have the advantage that they don't blow up when the enemy look at them in a funny way!

[SgtAlex86]

thought there was some way using DEV mode? not sure though couldnt find the thread by search q.q

[Wriath]

thought there was some way by cheating? not sure though couldnt find the thread by search q.q

fixed : P

[Flare]

To enable dev mode go into the settings in the config folder and set dev mode to true. I enabled dev mode once, and unwittingly ctrl clicked on an enemy frigate I had nearly blasted to oblivion. What happened was that we switched places and I was the once blown up. Maybe if you enabled dev mode and ctrl clicked one of your fighters you could control it too.

Another way to fly a fighter is to mod in a ship that flies like a fighter. Obviously you won't get any wingmen, but it can be done, see my mod for instance.

[CrashToDesktop]

Yea, you can control a fighter.  It's kinda awesome, with it's epic maneuverability and, like the Thunder wing, have pretty good firepower with that ion cannon.  Also, the other fighters in the wing follow you, so it's no problem getting them to follow you, unless they see the enemy, in which they will break off and fight it.  Besides, it wouldn't hurt to be in control of a fighter, you could use them as a scouting ship to see ahead and then quickly retreat.

[Lemonspy]

Ah OK thank you, I just hope it gets into the main game, it cant be overpowered playing as a fighter, in any case ill go check out your mod Flare, as well as doing it in dev mode.

[LuckStealer]

well i think that piloting a fighter will be a good ideea for some missions, like going in a strike mission, trayning, some low tv show were space battle wil lbe involved. but to pilot a fighter in a huge battle, no thanks fighters are good cause they are a group, you can't pilot mroe than one ship you are not a robot:)

[Upgradecap]

As mentioned above, you can take control over a fighter in a battle, and tr to fly around, and trust me, they are great fun to fly, and you can fly over enemy ships with them

[Lemonspy]

Well then, after a little while of playing as a fighter I have only one thing to say, this should get into the final game, right now in dev mode when you control a fighter, most fighter wings will stay together, meaning you will be the fighter in the middle with the other fighters following you, and to be honest it looks like the AI for piloting a fighter wing is already in game.
I just hope this makes it into the final game (or the next patch could be nice, as it seems only a few lines of code would need to be written to allow you to play as a fighter) seeing as there is nothing more fun than playing as a piranha bomber, distracting frigates from a far, and dropping bombs on any unsuspecting ships which cannot out run you.   

[Aklyon]

This does sound fun.

[Psygnosis]

Piranhas effectiveness goes up quote a bit when in player control.

Though theyre pretty good with AI anyway.