Crew Complements of Gunboats?

[Tenacity]

My question is, how on earth can you tell that a gunboat or larger contains only one occupant simply by sight?

Believe it or not, some people simply don't like to portray multiple crew members from a single craft talking on a comm channel.

I've got a Gaian Gunboat with a few people on staff & I've got a zoner whale with a couple dozen robots doing everything from scrubbing the toilet, managing cargo hold inventory, to even cooking food in the galley.

I will never portray that in space for 2 distinct reasons: 1- it's a bitch & a 1/2 to type the name of the person speaking every single time I reply to someone on the server, & 2- it's my job as the captain of the ship to do all the talking on the comms and leave the crew to keep their yaps off my radio & concentrate strictly on their jobs.

If other people dig doin' that sort of thing, that's fine, cause that's the fad bandwagon alot of people have jumped on in recent months, but it gets aggravating & tiresome after a while to feel obligated to respond to multiple crew members from a single ship in an RP engagement.

Likewise, I rarely speak from any crew members other than the captain of my ships. Occasionally I'll speak from different crew, but only if it relates to the situation at hand.

People on the comms shouldnt be hearing my chef down in the mess hall grumbling about how I dont pay him enough, or my engineer banging wrenches on the reactor core in frustration when something breaks down, or my pilot talking about how he picked up some chick on the freeport promenade.

The captain does the speaking, the crew does the other things that you dont often hear over the comm channel.

However, I do somewhat like when people speak from the point of view of their characters, because it lets me know the name of the captain commanding the ship and I can then use that in-RP when talking to them.

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