Crews for ships…

[Tahiro]

while i would like to get more depth to the fitting and or piloting, i have some concerns though.

a passive stat boost without any combat related tradeoffs could potentially trivialize pve (powercreep).

adding an active effect with cd sounds a lot more appealing to me, because there is more decision making involved. ppl have to anticipate the best moment to use it instead of just adding the best stat to a certain fit depending on the task. sadly i cant see how a crew could act as an on use effect.

@Rail_J_kar

• The mechanics surrounding the handling of officers will be something like this screen shot I’ve stolen out of a BattleTech gameplay video. These officers have traits which will provide different effects to the ships they are stationed on, and those ships will have requirements for the officers which are commanding those ships. (A rookie ship wouldn’t have any requirements, while a battlecruiser would be much more demanding.)
• A minimum of a 1 month contract will be signed for an officers employment, (that payment will be paid by the tutorial npc during the npe for the first batch of officers the player receives.)
• … an officer market place would be required to sort through the available candidates from a local and global pool of applicants. (I imagine this as a mix of the EVE market with the filters of contracts.)
• If the player does not keep up with the contract when payment is due, the officer will remove itself from the player’s employment and list itself in the officer market. Player’s could also voluntarily allow other players to buy out their officer’s contracts ( … set price … plus the additional minimum 1 month contract price.)
• XP will be gained on a per ship basis, based on the events that that ship partakes in. While the officers crewing the ship will gain traits based on the events they partake in, the experience the ship earns may additionally be spent on the officers to level them up even faster. This experience can be also be spent on upgrading basic crew to officers, as I mentioned earlier. (I suggest creating a template which will automatically level up the crew as it happens, so the player doesn’t have to mess with it mid battle.)

to be honest, to me it just doesnt sound like an exciting gameplay loop, but annoying af to maintain. i dont want a ton of meaningless boring clickery everytime before i undock, or switch the ship. hence no to space tamagotchi