EVE General Discussion

But back to the topic. Sounds cool, I like it. Try putting this up in the Features and Idea's section and see if it gets picked up.

Changes I would make:

1. Instead of requiring ships to have a crew before assembling (how does a newbie with no standings fly ships) let everyone assemble ships and they will come with a generic crew automatically (gives no bonuses).

2. Once a player has a standing of 3.0 (Arbitrary Number) or better they can purchase a crew from the corp at the station with isk (new isk sink).

3. Allow for different corps to offer different crews. Navy's give PVP oriented crews (guns bonuses....), have others (example: Roden Shipyards) give PVE oriented (armor repair, better social skill bonuses). Maybe mining corps can give mining crews and so on.

I pretty sure you don't have anything insightful to add anyway.

So as has been shoehorned into EVE canon we have crews on our ships. I’ve read a few posts here and there discussing this fact and also discussing ways to actually make use of the crew in ways that make sense. All of this got me thinking about how I would like to see crew effects implemented on our internet spaceships.
In broad strokes, if it was me, this is how I’d do it.

When you assemble a ship for use, at that point you’re going to start assembling a crew. This happen automatically, and since this isn’t the navy you’ll have recruit from the population on the station. This will take time, and that amount of time will be determined by the standing you have with the people who own the station. Higher standing means less time to recruit crew. You cannot fit, or undock the boat until it’s fully crewed. One caveat to this is that a crew can be transferred from one ship to another of the same class. For example you’re PEV fit Apoc crew could be transferred to your PVP fit Geddon and their bonuses would go with them.

Brand new crews on brand new ships do not impact the ship in any way. However they begin to affect the ship positively the more time they spend aboard the ship. Even docked it would be assumed that they are drilling and maintaining the ship etc. The impact the crew has on the ships performance acts very much like hardwires do and impact things like.

~Gunnery~ Tracking, Damage, Rate of Fire, Falloff, Cap use, Mining Yield, Cycle time
~Navigation~ Align time, Base velocity, MWD/AB velocity, Maneuverability, Cap use
~Engineering~ Power Grid, Capacitor, Recharge rates, Shield HP, Shield Resist, Cycle times, Boost amounts
~Mechanics~ Armor & Hull HP, Repair amount, Cycle times, Armor, and Hull Resists
~Electronics~ CPU use, Cycle times, ECM and ECCM effectiveness, Sensor Strength, Lock range.

I’m likely overlooking a few areas so this list is far from comprehensive but you get the idea.

As for bonuses I think 1.5% incremental bonus up to a max of 9% accumulated at a rate of 1.5% per month until max is reached at the end of the seventh month. You get nothing the first 30 days.

Inside of one month (0-30) they are considered Green and give no bonus
Between one month and two months (31-90) they are considered Seasoned and give 1.5 to 3.0% bonus
Between two months and four months (91-120) they are considered Veteran and give 4.5 to 6.0% bonus
From month five months (120+) onward they are considered Elite and give 7.5 to 9.0% bonus.

If the ship is destroyed the crew is considered dead or dispersed and the accumulated bonus is lost.
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