I agree. For the sake of roleplaying: Losing a rank (=skill) might be a consequence of the crew member's recovery.
I don't keep crew anymore. They are hire and fire for me, as I described above. I certainly do not keep multiple pilots on my payroll anymore, That would be a serious waste of money. I got attached to the first two pilots I hired, but then I discovered the enormous amounts of money they were leeching, even when I did not use them. They are multimillionaires now. It was a hard decision, but I fired them and decided that I would not make this mistake again.
I very often use ships without SLF and I do not want to pay freeloading crew members for doing nothing.
As a consequence of that I do not train my pilots anymore either. I use them and fire them before I cash in.
Lately I even tend to completely forget hiring a pilot when I use my Corvette, which is the only ship I have with SLF on board.
In another thread I noticed that I am not at all the only one who uses pilots in this way now. It is the logical consequence of the way pilots are implemented.
A change is needed. We need to be able to put crew on hold, and we need a logical crew survival mechanic.
My other idea about non-crew NPC's ejecting ties in pretty well with this one.
You can rescue downed pilots, then offer them jobs.
That is an awesome idea too.
What if we combined that with our own crew's survival mechanic?
For example: your ship gets destroyed. You respawn in a station and most of the time your crew is there too, but there is a 20% chance that your pilot is still out there floating in space in a rescue pod.
You then get a mission (perhaps via mail) to recover your own pilot.
I would love that type of gameplay.
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