EVE General Discussion

Who is the DEV who first floated the idea that our ships are crewed?

it makes no sense
every facet of our ship's operations is governed by our skills, not the crew's skills
the podster operates all the weapons, support and defensive systems

lets imagine for a moment that you are a lowly yeoman on a calradi BC and you need to so see the captain about something

do you go to a little room with a pod in the center of it and talk to a speaker in a console?
is it like John Carpenter's Dark Star where we open a little hatch and talk to the frozen body of our captain?

do you see that this makes no sense?
if theres dozens if not hundreds of people running around my ship like its some kind of office building, then why am I sitting in a bucket of goo isolated from, but lording over them like some sort of clone Svengali

really, how was it decided that ships have crews?

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/New_Eden_crew_guidelines

Table comes from a fanfest presentation by CCP, which I'm too lazy to look up. It's on the youtubes.

well that might be a decent answer if the question was "why do we have pods"

but it wasn't....

Someone has to keep the fedo population down, lest they eat your artificial neural networks, ammunition, engine tubing and hardener controls. They're yummy to them.

No, I don't see that. What's so silly about the idea of crew communicating via appropriate technology to the pod pilot? They could use a terminal within their own section of the ship - no need to visit the pod. How do pod pilots communicate with npc agents in station, without leaving ship? How do pod pilots communicate with each other while flying? If they can do these things, why do you think there's any problem with the crew on a ship communicating to the pod pilot?

I like my sci-fi with ship crews. My ships have crew - but I do not pay them.

honestly?

that was terrible, really....
but at lease I know where this silliness started

The thing is, we don't interact with them nor do they contribute in anyway to ship stuff. The only way I see it is they're the peeps who move the ammo from the cargo hold to the turrets clips. And since the BS sized weapons are so big, I imagine all the crew just carrying one bullet at a time.

Until they incorporate the crew in a more interactive manner, that's all they do.

The capsule pilot is the bridge crew, everything else on the ship is still run by regular people. There is way too much going on for a single person to do, especially on ships as big as battleships, let alone capitals.

You're not alone OP, deal with it.

My crew is pretty awesome.... They play poker with me every night.

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