Population on Cap ships?

[.Gypsy.]

Hi, I'm working on some RP for some CAP ships I have, I was wondering what you guys think is a "Comfortable" or normal population amount for Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships?

For example a cruiser can hold, 50 people? 100 people? 20 people? I'm just curious.

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[Sabru]

in my opinion,

cruisers would be in the mid-high hundreds (BCs reaching around 1000), and battleships/carriers being in the thousands.

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[Lonely_Ghost]

Depends, what ship you talking about...
IMO, LibDrd has les crew and population capacity, than KuBS and RMBS. Exact number, Im not sure about thousands, if we check for a sizes... I say LibDrd from 70-120 crew need. BMBS around 200. ZonerDrd, well, he could be around 1000, it's kinda colony ship.
Also, keep in mind, that ship in ~3000 year can has some automated systems, and less ppl would need to operate it.

Also2, why here, but not in general discus?

[SMGSterlin]

I think that's a bit high.

The population should be somewhat proportional to base size/base population.


And the cap ship's cargo size, that also should be a bit of a factor.

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[Lythrilux]

Inb4 Pavel.

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[.Gypsy.]

Personally I'm wondering about:

Cruiser: Zoner Destroyer "Fearless"
Battlecruiser: Kusari Battlecruiser "Komainu"

But I'm also just curious in general about all class cap ships.
For a Gunboat, is it a crew that runs it or a single person do you think?

EDIT: The population on bases seems kinda low IMO, but then they probably only have necessary personnel on them.

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[Lonely_Ghost]

Wow, I just checked my registration of LNS-Tahoe, and I wroute max crew over 2K ppl, MEMAD?

About fearles, If Im not mistaking, mighty Jinx had RP infocard about some ships he made. Ship lore or something, I believe, I have seen fearles too, but, can't say for sure.
KUBC~50-60ppl. (took from ma head, honestly).

About GB.
I 100% saw in Jinx' post about Gaian GB, and it was 1 person ride, same as 86 Bnouse. Not sure about Tridente....but also could be 1-3 ppl ride, like other small ships. Large one, can have 8-10 or more ppl, like RM's; IMG's; Bret and so on.

[Arioch]

Inb4 Pavel.

NINJA'D

Also, I think that with advances in tech, a smaller crew would be more advantageous and reasonable. The couple hundred for a BS/Dread sounds about right. But, also depends on which ships as well. I imagine a bigger crew for a KuBS than a LbDr. But an even bigger crew in a Lib Carrier.

tl; dr - Heavy caps in the low hundreds

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[Jinx]

the idea for the fearless is to be optimal with only around 10-15 ppl. - mainly due to the fact that it is essentially not a warship - but an armored transport. in its usual state it does not require rotating shifts or high alert levels - so the crew is mainly a small bridgecrew, some gunners and cargo workers.

no idea about the BC, but around 100 seems right depending on the alert level and deployment - so yea - 50-100.

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Shipdesigns made for DiscoveryGC

[RedEclipse]

Few hundreds. Future and stuff.