Required Crew for Larger ships

[Jinx]

that isn t mandatory. - its one of the things that is very much up to the player. - shipcrew is a commodity - and not part of the ship, so you can roleplay a shipcrew without having 300 units of shipcrew in your hold. just the same with fuel, food, water, oxygen etc. - direly needed to survive ( or even a toilet is needed ) - yet we don t have that stuff..... as a commodity.

its like asking fighter pilots to carry all the stuff they need with them all the time, too. - it also takes a sourcefile to show us how much crew what ship can operate with ( minimum, standard and optimal ) - and it must apply to fighters, bombers, gunboats, transports, and all other ships... a lot of work for something that cannot be enforced and is usually roleplayed anyway. - i haven t met many BB captains that RP to be all alone on their ships - even if they don t carry the crew in their hold, they still have it working in the seperate sections of the ship. - often do i hear system calls like "engine room, more power to the weapons!" or "crew, prepare to leave the ship" - imo, thats fine for me in terms of roleplay.

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