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Ship Crew

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:17

ForceUser

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If we want to make Freestars even more Realistic Twisted Evil

we could make it so that each hull would also require a certain amount of pop. This would make thousands of chaff a bit more... costly to lose and make PGR a more critical factor.

I'm only talking minimal crew. Automated scouts (Probes) would obviously not have any crew but say a frigate hull, It would need 100 crew. A destroyer would need 200. Freighters could take a bit more. And a nubian could need more that 1000 crew. Starbases would also need a lot of crew with Carriers (If it were ever incorporated) taking the most.Certain races could need more or less crew for certain hulls for example.

This crew would permanantly be "Locked" into the hull. If the ship was originally created by the owner (aka not a tranfered ship) then the pop would be resettled on the planet it was scrapped on. If not then the pop would "dissapear" so that this cant be used to transfer pop.

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Re: Ship Crew

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:39

Sotek

Chief Warrant Officer 2

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Registered: November 2002

That certainly does interesting things... if you do that with carriers, you'd make carriers act as fighter generators; a unit of pop and X minerals (in hold) produce fighters, and if they survive the battle you keep them.

Fighters need an incremental cost to loss if you want them to be different in any rational way.

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Re: Ship Crew

Tue, 04 May 2004 14:43

Orca

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We already have an entry for "crew" - you'd just need to modify the components file for the appropriate components to bring crew above 0. Note that high growth rate *already* has an advantage as it is however - do we really want to increase that dominance?

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Re: Ship Crew

Tue, 04 May 2004 16:19

Hyena

Master Chief Petty Officer

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Registered: January 2004

Why would frigates require a larger crew than destroyers? They're a higher tech level and they're usually all-around more effective, but they're smaller and cheaper to build. I think they would take up the same if not less.

If you compare them to actual navy these days, destroyers do take more of a crew than frigates.

And, by the way, you kind of contradicted yourself there. You said that the crew idea would make chaff more costly to lose, yet you said scouts wouldn't require any crews. If that's true, players would just use scouts as chaff and suffer no penalties.

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Re: Ship Crew

Tue, 04 May 2004 16:42

ForceUser

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Stars! Nova developer

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Registered: January 2004
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I said that a frigate would need 100 and a destroyer 200 while FREIGHTERS would need more (To move around the cargo and serve as Medics for cryo pop)

Besides, these numbers are just examples.

With the (Probe) thingy I meant a new hull with only an engine and a scanner slot with extra feul built in. None of the probes that Humanity has ever sent out of earth's atmosfere has had a friggin weapon Laughing

I think You could actually have a new "Chaff" Hull almost like a mini frigate with 1 engine, 2 general slots apart from each other so that you can get 1 feul pod or armour or shield or whatever with a gun.

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Re: Ship Crew

Tue, 04 May 2004 20:53

Coyote

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Location: Pacific NW

It would work okay as a LRT maybe, for HE especially, where your mineral costs are reduces at the cost of having to provide people. Call it "Primitive Robotics" or something.
Simply requiring this to be the case will just decrease balance.
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