Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Imagine you were building a real spaceship: What kind of monster would you need to be NOT to add windows?

I almost wish they would just change the lore of the "pod" to be more of an escape pod when seen in conjunction with CQ and fully clothed characters in pods to naked cable filled characters in space corpses.

even if you have bullshit artificial gravity you're thrusters are down and the nose is up, it's space. orientation is irrelevant so you should stand against your acceleration vector.

You don't put windows on a submarine because the pressures the submarine has to withstand are far greater than what a spacecraft has to sustain. Also, because deep under the ocean there's no light.

Meanwhile, on real spacecraft (such as the ISS) windows are a major feature and extremely popular among crews.

Of course a crewed ship is going to have windows.

You don't put windows on a submarine because the pressures the submarine has to withstand are far greater than what a spacecraft has to sustain. Also, because deep under the ocean there's no light.

Meanwhile, on real spacecraft (such as the ISS) windows are a major feature and extremely popular among crews.

Of course a crewed ship is going to have windows.

Marauders

Crew

Marauders are often more cramped than their basic counterparts due to the interior space devoted to Bastion operations. The crew of a Marauder is typically a little less than that of other battleships, ranging from a little over a hundred essential personnel to nearly a thousand crew members and their families. This is usually dependent on the nature and location of deployment. However, due to Marauders being especially utilized for lengthy tours of duty, the latter is more common. Despite the risks, a space faring family can etch out a rigid but reasonable life aboard a Marauder, having access to basic services and commodities, employment opportunities for menial tasks, living quarters only marginally smaller than on some stations, and in the event of a Marauder's armor and shields being neutralized, priority to escape pods which launch long before the danger of a catastrophic hull breach.[5]

A more significant difference between the crew complement of a Marauder and that of other battleship class starships is the distribution of crew members in the gunnery and engineering sections. A Marauder's dual-hardpoint weapon systems utilize advanced automation, which means only a handful of seasoned and skilled gunnery personnel are needed to monitor the dual-hardpoint subsystems and oversee their operation. This makes a large, dedicated gunnery crew unnecessary. Due to the presence of the Bastion system, a Marauder generally possesses an enhanced engineering contingent that carefully monitor the flow of power. Alongside these crew members are assorted groups of technicians, mechanics, and wreckage retrieval specialists that are essential to the self sufficiency of a Marauder. They are able to make use of most salvage recovered whether it be to to perform repairs, enhance ship systems, replenish supplies or even for use in trade.

Generally, the experience and service records of crew assigned to Marauders vary greatly; the one exception of course being the gunnery and engineering crew. Nevertheless, serving aboard a Marauder is usually considered a prestigious opportunity, and as such any inexperienced or rookie crew members assigned to the core ship systems tend to be either naturally skillful or intellectually superior to their peers.

... I do not understand what you're talking about, nobdy ever said there were no crews aboard capsuleer ships. We were arguing about the necessity of windows and tiny pixels moving behind other tiny pixels...