Warfare & Tactics

The concept sounds nice, but how could it be implemented in an engaging way?


If it's just a flat, fixed stats bonus, it kind of overlaps with implants, links, even faction/deadspace/officer modules if you think about it. All stuff that gives you some +X% performance for a price and/or additional effort and/or risk.

If it's a stat bonus that increases over time:

- If it's just real time, it's not so much about survival, it's more like 'buy ship and crew, leave ship in station for a couple of months, undock with bonuses'

- If it's some kind of 'XP', it could easily become a tedious grind: 'I'll repeatedly shoot my corpmate while he reps, so my crew become better shooters and his crew become better reppers'.


Did you have some implementation concept in mind?

I wish crews would be designed to give the same bonuses as links based on the type of crew you buy. There would a be a minmatar crew member for each bonus you get from skirmish, a caldari crew for each bonus you get for siege links etc.

They would cost isk and die when your ship goes down. (so having a link alt would still be preferable from an economic point of view) But it would allow casual solo pvpers to be competitive.

You realise we Amarr would be half way to thorough breed crews by now

And here I thought sticking implants in my head, buying skill books, and spending ISK on clones would be enough.

Have we forgotten who and what we are? We are capsuleers!

We're able to control the ships without assistance from fallible humans.

Now if you would like to have crews of entertainers, traders, and other non-essential personnel, then by all means bring it on.

But as soon as something, or someone else takes a step onto my command deck I will biomass myself.

I would personally be the largest single employer in all of New Eden. Employment would be so dangerous that I'm sure the thousands of crew members under my employment would unionize and demand that I undergo weekly safety training classes.

(Crews are a stupid concept for this game)

It's already canon that crews are part of the ships capsuleers fly. Adding stat boosts would be cool, based on flying time of attending crews. Losing a ship would result in a % loss of crew, while adding replacements would lower experience. Crews that survive a ship's destruction could be expected to land at the nearest station, then make their way to a 'rally' station at some given time. Crew-base boosts could eve be differentiated between non-combat and combat flight time.

Lots of ways to go with this idea. I've always found it odd that as capsuleers, we've never had any mechanism for crews. It would open another door into rating players and influencing combat styles.

It would be interesting if the crews could cost more if you constantly lost them. Maybe it would work like a tax/isk sink.

I would assume you would get crews from pi universities or something. You would pay the player a set amount and then on top of that you would pay a tax based on how many crews you lost in the last week or something.

Considering the amount of derptrons we lose, my wallet would go negative real quick.

Well, I think mayhap you're all missing the consequences of being able to copy your consciousness into a cloned body.
My ships /do /have a crew. And every single one of them is me.

I like the idea of having to feed your crews, login to your Titan that's been offline for 6 months and whole crew starved to death. 'Whoops.'