EVE General Discussion

Those are not windows they are sensor panels but they double up as a 'view' prot to a video screen correlated on the inside.

All ships in eve are built for non capsullers just the more recent ones are built with the capabilities in the first place instead of retrofitted. Every capsuller in the eve universe is represented by the players exception to the few named NPC ones that you cant seem to kill pernamently and are tougher than normal rats.

Capsuleer technology basically removes deparment heads and chain of commands which on real ships is a massive portion of its crew. So the only crew you have left are 'grunts' and 'expert grunts.'

Though automation technologies the pod does bring this doubles back into non capsulleer ships as well and those ships arent crewless ception to the infested ones.

Also somone has got to man the nanite pumps and tell each and every single pump what exactly they're fixing instead of slapping in glass stucturing isntead of a power conduit. The nanites in eve are pertty stupid in comparison to some of the VIs/AIs

As for all those saying they want to command the ship though a bridge needs to sit down and rethink thier posture.

When you pod jack into a ship, you become the ship. Every bit of damage the ship receives registers as pain. Warp induces a euphoria, you can potentially get motion sick from breakneck manuvers and your semi sub concious thoughts are transmitted to the crew, afterall you are thier master after god.

Luckily your training from concord on the behalf of your empire sponsorship gets you used to the idea of being the ship.

BTW: The human brain is simply not capable; nor will it EVER be capable (unless its size grows) to control a ship the size of anything larger than a Frigate

[quote=Toshiroma McDiesel]To OP's question :

Because there will never be Brains without the Brawn's.

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?

I think this is the single most immersion-breaking element missing between the lore and actual game mechanics.

1) according to lore, ships have crews

2) gameplay does include any interaction with these crews

In my opinion it would add some spice to have crew as mandatory ship element, to be treated like race-specific fuel. You would need to "hire" (buy from the market) a certain amount of crew capable of doing crew stuffs on your ship (Gallente crew for Gallente ships). These would be seeded by NPC corporations in their space, meaning that availability of crew is dependent on the part of Empire you are. Of course you could buy crew just for sales in other regions.

In addition to market price, hiring crew (loading them in your ship) would incur Employment costs, which would depend on your standings toward the original supplier, and your security status. So in low sec, people with neg status and better standings toward pirate corps would pay less Employment costs for local crews, and in hisec the other way around. Maybe some crew would not even board your ship.

Crew would blow up with your ship, adding crew deaths and mechanics to combat is probably not realistic resource-wise.

Better immersion, an ISK sink, new trade item and not much FiS resource overhead?

This thread got me thinking about crew. Apparently I have thousands upon thousands of crewmembers in probably a hundred ships who have not even undocked in a year. Some of them are sitting in systems I have not even visited in years. What am I paying these people for? Actually, I don't seem to be paying them - how do they support themselves? Meanwhile, the poor crew in a select few ships never get a break.

Brainships ftw :)

I always thought the Brainship series explained the whole human hooked up into ship and crew interaction very well. I sooo love the ship who searched, must have read it 10 times by now.

Now that's a ship repair animation I want to see!

At least on Minnie ships anyway.