Warfare & Tactics

We're capsuleers anyways so we can shoot the next OSHA inspector that flies besides us demanding a crew inspection. Also good luck to them trying to dodge any gatecamps.

I carry my crew in cargo, they even have their own box.

If crews are used in the same fashion as the work crews currently do in Industry, it would add another layer of complexity to how ship will work. That can be an interesting direction.

However... what if crews could be used to pilot another ship you own? It could make for an interesting concept... however I can guess that this will quickly be seen as overpowered.

Question is, how to limit the number of crews a single player can employ? A static number? Or by how high your charisma is? Or by how good you are at Leadership skills in general (not counting Corporation Management as that would quickly allow a singular player to get thousands of crews on his side. And if he is wealthy enough, he could literally take over the galaxy with few to oppose him).

Crews could have diffrent training rates, such as some crew are only good as piloting Frigates, while others can possibly command a Command Ship, but the cost diffrences between the two would be most notable due to the time it takes a capsuleer to learn Command Ships from scratch (100+ Days and that's without having Medium turrets and such trained).

This could be an interesting direction, however as I pointed out, it can be quickly seen as overpowered, especially when used by those really rich.

On one hand what if two sides of pirates decides to aquire 100+ frigates with crews and then roam low-sec.... it would make FW look like a firecracker party compared to what could possibly happen. On another hand, a relatively new pilot could find some protection by hiring crews so he has additional muscle, even if it is just one or two additional frigates.

I usually fly with exotic dancers if that counts.

How I roll bro.

You and me both.

No.

Ontop of that, the loss of a crew can be much more painful, especially if you have invested in the crew for a long time.

Question is... what should the limits be? And how would crews act? Would they have one or several traits that makes crew useful in differing ways?

Also are crews hired temporarily or have to pay a fee after a certain time to keep them or should there be a one-time fee to hire the crew permamently?

Year 2016, EVE:

Module Gist X-Type Large Bathroom: +17% to crew abilities. And countless slots in fitting window for similar junk.
Pith A-type Food: Prevent death of crew by starvation for 6 days.



Oh yeah, do not forget the incarna.

I simply don't want this to be world of tanks. Crews are a bad idea IMO. it's never good to assimilate skill structure directly from another widely-known MMO.

The only way I will concede my opinion is if crew skills and advancement are based on usage of said crew; and nothing like the train over time regardless of usage map that normal SP follows. It could provide a little bit of balance if integrated properly to be balanced, it could be a way for newer more active players to build up a good crew to have a small advantage over some older high SP players in short engagements. Maybe make it where crew skills can add up to bonus the things that regular skills do, but cap at the bonuses you would get from that same level 5 skill. So, once you have level 5 in a skill a crew is obsolete in that specific bonus. This should be only acruable by PVP action IMO, or else you have a bunch of people that just farm missions to level a crew, then go jump into PVP leaving the people who PVP a lot yet are still new in a remaining disadvantage.