Player Features and Ideas Discussion

After talking with some corpmates I found that adding crews to Eve would be a heated conversation but it would change gameplay but only slightly. The mechanics of the mod would affect all players PvP, PvE, Miners, Ratters, Gankers, Distributors, Pirates, and all others.

How it may work.

The crew would vary in size based on ship size and may be mixed.

The more ships you lose the higher the price per crew members (unless using slaves but penalties apply)

Miners – will have a mining crew or militant crew that work increase mining yield for mining crews or increase security/ defense from gankers and pirates.
Miner support ships- the same would apply

Ratters- crews would be militant based to increase standings with the faction they are in and or effectiveness of the guns and shields

Gankers/ Pirates- pirate crews for fighting in high sec increase damage

Distributors- crews to increase hold size because organization bonus or defensive crews to prevent loosing cargo

Command ships- command crew to increase bonuses to its fleet depending on the crew depends on the bonus

Crew could be formed but using slave which would penalize the user and can cause faction standing loss depending on faction

Crews made of specialist would get more bonuses over standard crew

Standard/ basic crews would be able to run the ship but only slight bonus

Command crew increased bonuses over specialist crews

Note: this is not to replace fleeting but to help level playing fields and increase the challenges and realism (if you don’t like the term realism for a game then don’t read the word)

Any suggestions and remarks welcome as long as it is not “THAT IS DUMB” justify your answer so the mod could work better. If you like it say so, so that we can make this work.

then it might as well just be a special slot where you can add the bonus you want

Crews would make sense however. Adding crews for small gains (they need to be really small though) makes totally sense for spaceships. Better than implants to be honest.

I dont like the increasing costs for losing ships though. Thats kinda bullcrap. We don't really need another drawback for doing PvP.

The only problem with this idea is that it goes against the EVE Lore. Witch is, you are linked up to your ship, and control it with you mind. So crews can't work in EVE due to that lore.

No Nope Nope Nope Nope.

This would add pointless more complexity to Eve as all the things you saif are already affected. Not the first time someones suggested this idea and its still awful

But if you PVP, you WILL lose your ship. There is no question about this.

It increases the gap between old and new players, drives up the cost of every single PVP setup, and at best just duplicates the affect of rigs.

ships have lotsa windows....Im just sayn, is all.

Ts go back WOT.

Gap between noobs and oldf. ? in eve? wut

if this is true why CCP adds more and more new skills?

reason 1 : power creep

Ok. Try this.

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Some affecting skills that the capsuleer doesn't have would be off-loaded onto the crew - giving low skill players the ability to immediately compete on nearly the same skillpoint level as older players, but at a reasonable financial cost in the form of crew salary. It would work like this:


- Limited number of crew slots, so not every skill affecting ship performance can be filled-in by crew (3 to 5 slots for frigates)
- You only have Small Hybrid Turrets to, say, level 2. Having a "Tech 1" gunner would make the guns perform as though you had level 5.
- A "Tech 2" gunner would allow you to use Tech 2 guns without the capsuleer his or herself having the prereq skills (because the gunner would be taking over most of the operation of your guns).
- To counter this huge advantage the crew member would have to be paid a high salary in order to operate (perhaps 500k ISK/hr or more)
- Older players would not have a need for crew because their skills affecting the ship would already be maxed out.