EVE General Discussion

I sure am.

That's what I consider the "Thermodynamics" skill to be on an Amarr ship. Whipping the slaves to make them work faster.

I do pay my crew, just not in isk. I use whatever that peasant money is.

Even NPCs understand the importance of saving highsec, which is yet another proof that the Code always wins. As for the survival rate...

Stat. Avg. Survivor Rate is a notional average value for crew members and passengers combined, based on typical ship-to-ship scenarios. In cases where a ship gets one-shotted by a Titan super-weapon, for instance, there would most likely be no survivors at all; however, if a ship is slowly whittled down through armor and hull before blowing up, we can assume that maybe 80% or even 90% of its crew would get away in escape pods. (Source: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/New_Eden_crew_guidelines)

As all of our gankers are higly qualified professionals who have mastered the ganking and CONCORD manipulation techniques to absolute perfection, our brave and muscular crews know exactly when to abandon their posts and flee the vessel in their escape pods, with the ship's functions that are used last (locking, tracking, and firing) assigned solely to the capsuleer.

I can't say the same thing about the slothful and cowardly crew members of carebears' mining barges, though.

Even NPCs understand the importance of saving highsec, which is yet another proof that the Code always wins. As for the survival rate...

Code "always wins"??? Seems to me you and your kind are soooooooo misguided by the truth that not even the "LIGHT" will save ya.

Sorry OP, trying to get this back on topic...

I enjoy CODE's RPish shtick, and their retort on this thread was satisfactory.

I do think it might be interesting to develop a crew mechanic - perhaps have crew racial bonuses, set up recruitment centers on particular planets, the latter might having certain +/-s, and humanoid crew members can increase their skill over time. Or, perhaps mechanical crew members could be a thing to craft of varying quality, but their skill doesn't increase. It may lead to some more decision making in-combat (give the abandon ship command to save a higher % of the crew for future use).

I like complexity and recruiting/managing your crew amongst your fleet of ships seems like a natural augmentation to this game.

One angle I've read is that ISK is worth so much to non-capsuleers that even grand rewards for the crew of their ships would not make a noticable impact on their wallets, so they actually get paid very well if they survive.

In which case they are basically just risking everything they have in hopes of a big payout. Given the very good chances of never seeing that payout, you gotta wonder what kind of people would sign up for that, but it's their choice so whatever I guess. This sounds weirdly familiar.

*points to pretty much every dystopian game ever created*

Hit me up if a position opens up on your ship.

Always keep exotic dancers in cargo, you never know when you'll need to jetcan a few as a sacrifice to Bob, the God of wormholes. I can supply you with some male ones if you like.

Bob may be the God of wormholes, but he happily accepts sacrifices in K-Space.

Generally, you can imagine everytime you get some isk, a part of it is already substracted to payout yourcrew / technicians / employers / etc.

Also concerning ganking, it's fully within reason to expect a ship with the singular purpose to gank can run fully automated because it doesn't have to run any complicated maneuver or action (this was confirmed as viable RP towards ganking by CCP in another crew debate)
And if you really want your gank ship to be crewed, it's perfectly normal to assume that the moment your ship opens fire, the crew is already on the way to the escape-pods assuring a 100% survival rate & ready to board your next ganker ship -> look at that! You get an experienced crew, serving multiple ships with no risk involved!

Also Eve is a dark, cold & harsh universe with a high degree of poverty / unemployment / low wages. This makes serving aboard Capsuleer ships attractive despite the high risk.
High value reward for high risk never stopped humans, see the various gold rushes & other searches for valuables.

Edit: here is a link to the crew guideline discussion in the Fiction Forum (warning, text!)