I'd think roleplayers would actually enjoy consequences. It makes for far better stories.
Third crewmember to die after tons of work- sad but no more crew for me, im not good enough.
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I'd think roleplayers would actually enjoy consequences. It makes for far better stories.
damn, ouch heh. OOps.
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The one time I did have a 27mil buy back in the past year I am pleased I was transporting for engineering and in a trade config when I accidentally hit galaxy map boosting instead of brakes landing on a 1.5g planet.
Other than that, I love my SLF pilot
glad he was at home that day.
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My one toon charges me 16% and about 120mil invested so far.
The one time I did have a 27mil buy back in the past year I am pleased I was transporting for engineering and in a trade config when I accidentally hit galaxy map boosting instead of brakes landing on a 1.5g planet.
Other than that, I love my SLF pilot
glad he was at home that day.
I've yet to hire a crew member.
I have a perfectly good copilot seat in my Python, yet they refuse to sit in it.
If they can't even cope with that, I'm not trusting them in my seat.
Not that it would have mattered, I got blown up this morning in a suprise torpedo strike. I assume safety regulations are much more lax, and they've long since forgotten about the Titanic incident. So one escape pod is plenty for a ship that can carry hundreds of passengers. Lol
I have a perfectly good copilot seat in my Python, yet they refuse to sit in it.
If they can't even cope with that, I'm not trusting them in my seat.
Not that it would have mattered, I got blown up this morning in a suprise torpedo strike. I assume safety regulations are much more lax, and they've long since forgotten about the Titanic incident. So one escape pod is plenty for a ship that can carry hundreds of passengers. Lol
If you've ever done any passenger missions you'll know that passengers get escape pods. Some of the more annoying ones start threatening to use it and leave without paying you at the slightest provocation.
Really? Wooh. Learnt something new.
I haven't done many. 5-6 and I had to abandon 2 of them, one for lack of jump range, and the other... well, because I decided I couldn't be bothered.
Basically, everything in your ship gets an escape pod EXCEPT npc crew.
Your engineered modules do since they survive to the rebuy screen.
Your materials do since they are still with you when you blow up.
Your passengers do because they threaten to use it all the time.
The captain most certainly does since you hear "Eject Eject!" all the time.
But hired crew? Nope. Makes zero sense.
Your engineered modules do since they survive to the rebuy screen.
Your materials do since they are still with you when you blow up.
Your passengers do because they threaten to use it all the time.
The captain most certainly does since you hear "Eject Eject!" all the time.
But hired crew? Nope. Makes zero sense.
Wait.. what? Crewmembers die on ship destruction 'cause there is no pod for them? OK I could accept that on small ship where the bridge has only 1 seat, but i.e. an anaconda or t9 has 3 seats (including yours) and the ship has not enough escape pods? What are we flying? Titanics? %D
And on the side, maybe someone can answer me this question, does crewmember payment scale with their experience or will it stay on the level you hired them (i.e. a novice with 2% payment scales to expert, will it have still have 2% payment, or 12% as when you hire an expert directly?)
And on the side, maybe someone can answer me this question, does crewmember payment scale with their experience or will it stay on the level you hired them (i.e. a novice with 2% payment scales to expert, will it have still have 2% payment, or 12% as when you hire an expert directly?)
I do not lose my ships unless I am fooling around. So I havent lose a single crew member and the whole issue stands on a matter of principle, kind of. I just do not like that for convenient gameplay reasons to twist the lore and in game common sense. That speaks as being non committal with your universe and overall lazy.
I know that you will think this is and it is ok. I am just voicing my opinion in the forum.
And about the fighter blowing up, well, when you hire them they speak of how cool they are and the battles they have survived. So I assume they have escaped before and therefore, escape pods do exist for them. But not when in a commander ship for "reasons". That's lazy.
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Payment scales with experience but it's slightly cheaper to 'home grow' them than buy at higher levels if you are going to keep them around
When they gain experience their wage increases, but not with as much as you'd pay had you hired them straight at that level. And yes, crewmember dies if the mothership is destroyed. Havent lost one myself yet, trying to keep it that way.
Personally I think we should have the option to order them to escape at a certain situation, main ship very low on health, they use escape pods.
could be cool. Even more cool if we could, actually, see the escape pod fly away. Would make our own loss and escape more believable... I only believe in what I see and the rebuy screen is a bit too "use your imagination" for my tatse.
Surely its a ship-launched drone?
Every crew member ever: "I am not flying with that maniac again. Tell them I died in the explosion or something. I'll find other work"
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Rescue crew: "I'm sorry commander, it's a tragic loss, there was a problem with the 2nd escape pod, it... er... wasn't installed"
Commander: "Noooo!!!" [cry]
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Rescue crew: "I'm sorry commander, it's a tragic loss, there was a problem with the 2nd escape pod, it... er... wasn't installed"
Commander: "Noooo!!!" [cry]
Play dark souls or subterfuge and you will learn how to deal with massive losses ingame emotionally