Intergalactic Summit

You a sad, strange, little man.

It is true that my slaves are generally unskilled workers, useful for little more than turning a single wrench or lubricating the same valve over and over again. I compensate for this lack of skill by employing huge numbers of them, which has the desirable side effect of causing many slaves to die whenever I lose a ship.

I don't get it... Why would you use an untrained crew when you could use a trained crew to cause more casualties via other peoples ships? We all know what your going to do to your slaves which, as much as I don't like or most other sane people here would like, its what your going to do. But instead of reaching your destructive potential you hold yourself back so you can have other people do what you wish to do, unfortunately like I said most of us are desensitized to it since what other choice is there? Your logics a little flawed...

Well, that makes sense.

Quantity can't replace quality. Even several competent crewmembers on one battlestation can create mess, freedom, and decline of performance. And several incompetents?... That would be total management catastrophe.

And since your slaves are minmatars, who are also drugged, beaten, or whatever else done with, even brainless gallentish drones could be better replacement. As for myself, I won't let any minmatar or drone to touch any component on MY ships (except drone bay doors for my combat drones... and equivalent for minmatars - airlock).

I tend to reduce my crew complements not through technology but in realizing that unlike Naval vessels I don't require the same complement since I'm not usually required to run a vessel continuously for extended periods of time. Once you don't need a triple shift rota of crew to operate a vessel then you really don't need much people at all.

All the extra bunk room means more space for other things -- ammunition, booster charges, armour nanite resorvoirs, shield relays... anti-spalling mesh weaves, and so on.

And until technology reaches a point of complete infallibility then I think no amount of technology can replace a trained damage control team as that last point of redundancy during operation.

Perhaps the solution to the issue lies with the Drifters.

It seems to me that their battleship-class vessels are only crewed by one Drifter pilot. So perhaps withing those ships is a way to produce more powerful ships with no need for baseline human crew?

I did once met a Caldari pilot who employed a different approach to crews and drones, but alas, as he claimed he had no business disclosing this information to a Gallente. Which in itself was a rubbish excuse since I'm obviously not a potato. He did however provided plenty of descriptions while my cutesy looks fooled him!

Instead of a crew, he stripped every superflous system in his cruiser class ship, created an automonous mechanism that opperated the ship, and actually hardwired it to his limbic system and brainstem. In essence, he took capsule interfacing to the next level, to the point his brain was subconsciously maintaining those functions as if they were biological needs.

While he refused to enlight me on how he built the architecture of such a system, and I've spent countless work sessions trying to replicate his claims based on his description. So far, I haven't been able to replicate it...

Another footnote on my long research on this matter I'm afraid!

'average' .... maybe for those who, like yourself, have the body of a 12 year old achuran boy Diana.

actually, i don't even think you would fit in that.

however, to be clearer, perhaps, for some the internal volume of their body is less than 1 cubic metre, but that would require rendering the individual in question down to paste and placing them inside a container of the correct size.

if you weren't aware, people don't work that way.

Here's a challenge: Let's not reduce ourselves to childish bickering again. Or I will be forced to out bicker all of you in the most childish way possible.