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Assign loadouts to AI slots

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Naoura:
Sold, give the man a cookie.

I remember when I first saw the "you will be joining as an Engineer" warning when I tried to join a ship. I'd forgotten that I'd been gunner last match, and left that as my class. It was surprising and incredibly helpful, and I was relieved that it was added.

I like it. It'd give the cap a load more control over the match, though I do see the chance for some abuse with troll caps. Keep the notif if a joiner declined your loadout? Or else, you have to accept the loadout to join, and if you decline, you're sent to spectator?

HamsterIV:
Muse will implement or not implement this idea how they see fit. In my vision when a player clicks on an AI slot mid match they get the current load-out suggestion popup with "Accept" allowing them to join the ship with that load-out and "Decline" reverting them to the previous state where they can see all the slots but are not attached to one. The player can then shop around the available AI slots until they find one that they like. If the captain has not set a load out the player will see their current load-out with the same Accept Decline option as sort of a final sanity check before joining.

Muse has historically been against forcing a player into a roll at the behest of a captain, so if they do implement it I suspect it will be a softer "Accept and Join", "Decline and Join", "Cancel" option. With the ability to join with your current load out.

As for trolling. If the captain sets some sort of bad load-out for mid game joiners, players could see it before joining the ship and know the captain is either stupid or intentionally trolling. Either way experienced players would probably look for a different ship and save themselves the trouble of loading into a game that is guaranteed to be a bad experience. The worst case is a captain abandoning a lobby mid game with a trash build. However in this scenario there is very little anyone can do to salvage the situation. Not even Zill could turn a game around with a 5 harpoon mobula (Zill I expect you to take that as a challenge).

Naoura:
That works. I definitely like the ability to see what the cap is wanting from joiners, as that saves a little bit of a headache. I'm not sure about players being allowed to decline the recommendation... then we're just back where we left off.

Sanity check I wholeheartedly agree with. There have been times where I thought I changed my loadout to Hwacha build and accidentally took Gatbuild...

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