Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This suggestion seems like it might only benefit me because I have this odd thing I'll call "unwilling to lrn2genocide internet spaceships crew syndrome" UL2ISCS for short.

Back when I started eve the concept of crew was up in the air, leaning towards none, and I was quite happy to pilot large pieces of tritanium and have them divided into smaller pieces of tritanium buy other peoples pieces of space going tritanium.

Now CCP has settled on the idea of crews, and this initializes my UL2ISCS, and that has a negative effect on the local tritanium market and several other ore types too, not to mention Module, weapon and ammunition sales.

The solution
Simple give me an option to select Droid Crews, and I would like a small drop in efficiency in something just so I know they there.
Although even an inactive check box somewhere would cut it, lol.
then I would also like it to show up on my info. "Uses Droid Crews"
And then its just me my pod and a whole lot of tritanium and I'm happy

the above would sort me out but to take it further.......
Other ideas

• A skill to lessen the loss of efficiency the droids cause
• Upgradeable parts to the droids to effectively move the loss of efficiency around, say capacitor to shields
• A simple little screen to fit them

I believe CCP has decided that the notion of crew is (for now, at least) going to remain an element of lore rather than an actual game mechanic. Feel free to consider all of your crew to be droids, bizarre mutant fedos, anthropomorphic slaver hounds or even genetically-altered furriers if you wish - although I must strongly advise extreme caution before considering a crew of genetically-altered furriers. They tend to chew their way through bulkheads and devour other creatures.

This is true. They do have escape pods and they do usually result in the crew safely escaping the ship before it's blown to bits.

You could always stick to flying frigates. Capsuleer-compatible frigates usually don't tend to have any crew.

Only 100000?

I would wager these lifes are lost in a single level 4 mission alone, sure they are criminals but who knows how many orphans they leave!

In the end there are only 3 types of enemys that are okay to kill:

Drones, like rogue´s and sleepers.
Sansha, because they are like the Borg anyway.
And Gallente, because they are born Evil.

So what about the crews of all the other ships you kill, be they rats or players? They're not droids.

HEY. Ensign Ricky is a valued member of my crew, and if it wasn't for his tireless work in...chicken soup dispenser maintenance, the HMS BonerHitler would be in serious trouble!

I like to think that my crew consists entirely of holograms conjured by my capsuleer's mind, which are then fed to a supercomputer in the pod bay inside the ship. The kind of hologram you can literally bump into, and isn't so much light but rather an actual, "real" figment of the mind.

I can make them look funny too, it's rather entertaining. In a The Sims kind of way.

Just kill all the crews. All of 'em!

Blood and guts and crying orphan children. Oh the humanity!

Seriously though, unless you're roleplaying I don't see why you would care so much. There's no game mechanics for any kind of crews, it's all in your mind.
I can understand what you're talking about though. Pretty sure my brother suffered from the same thing back when he was trying Eve. It's just that there's nothing in the game related to crews. No content, no modules, nothing. Implementing ...something because somebody feels bad about killing non-existent crews on internet spaceships seems very, very silly.

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

Grab a calculator and browse though your lossmails.

I'm pretty sure I've lost about 15 million crewmembes over the past 4 years.... but only also pretty sure I've killed well over 50 million enemy/hostile crews.