Need lots of input

[Tenacity]

All wrong, in my opinion... Here's how I've viewed it;

Gunboat: 20
Cruiser: 150
Battlecruiser: 500
Battleship: 1000+

That's more like how it is on modern day warships... but seriously, why would you need 1000+ people on a battleship in freelancer? Look at them... even if they were scaled up properly you could never fit that many people onboard one, and liberty would run out of population with all of the battleships plummeting into the atmosphere.

The way I see it, almost everything we have is automated now. You have a standard command crew (well, 2-3 command crews for shifts) on larger ships, then an engineering and repair team, launch deck team, flight crew for fighters/bombers, and some basic needs personnel - like cooks and janitors. Past that, I cant see where so many other people would come in, there'd be nothing for them to do. Turrets are aimed by a coordinated computer on the bridge, not by people sitting inside of them =P

Not discounting you, just curious why you think they take so many. The Order is a fairly small organization, numbering -maybe- in the tens of thousands, at most. There's no way we could field as many battleships and such as we do with those kinds of crew requirements. We already have 3 NPC battleships, that'd be 3000+ people there with your numbers, while we still have to put a couple thousand on each of our stations for construction and research, and more on toledo for shipyard work there.

Gunships could be single pilot vessels. Seeing as Freelancers and Mercs have total access to them. The LHGS for example is a very small ship. A single pilot there wouldn't be ooRP. Gunboats are the same way, but could be RPed to have extra crew. I think it's up to you.

I generally view 4 people as the minimum for a gunboat, because the orca gunboat shows 4 people in the cockpit. I would say most military gunboats have twice that many for double-shift work.

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