The crew compliment doesn't work in Battle.

[BicRazor]

The crew compliment needs to be increased.
At present it hasn't been thought out.

This just happened to me.

I went to board a Capital ship and there were fighters nearby that I engaged.
So I'm lucky that 2 of the fighters bail and allow me an opportunity to Claim them.
But wait I can't as I have a Captain on Board for the possible successful boarding.

So I either can fire the Capt and race back to buy 1 pilot,then claim 1 fighter,race back and look for another Pilot somewhere and then go claim the second fighter and then I still need to now go look for a capt somewhere so I can claim the Capital ship or I can just capture the Capital ship and forget about the fighters.

How stupid is that system!!!!

Allow us to carry upto 6 Pilots and a Captain please.
Not one or the other.

[Mauzi!]

But isn't success of a game measured in both coins earned and playtime people spend on it ?

You know, making things tedious without need is the way to keep people busy without having much actual game content. It's needed to guarantee the game's success. NOT.