Suggestion: Barracks and Naval Academy modules

[jmrc]

I suppose this idea is not new: how about having modules of the Habitation type (but the blueprints were acquired only through buying) for recruiting and developing Marines and for Service Crew? As habitats, they would require food and medicines according to the race, to increase population, and each race would have specific products to increase training speed. Also the chances for certain stats could be in play: Split get higher chance for better marines but produce less quantities, Teladi get higher Management stars, Paranid higher engineer stars Humans produce many people but with low quality overall... something like that.

[Raptor34]

I would actually like a full on Naval Academy.
Not just giving them food or what. But you can assign pilots and ships to them and they'll do actual flight training.
Even better if you can assign high level pilots to act as trainers.

[jmrc]

I would actually like a full on Naval Academy.
Not just giving them food or what. But you can assign pilots and ships to them and they'll do actual flight training.
Even better if you can assign high level pilots to act as trainers.

That's a great idea!
Still, I would like to have the ability to recruit and train all kinds of skills without requiring a training ship, even if the evolution wasn't so fast.

[-=SiR KiLLaLoT=-]

I suppose this idea is not new: how about having modules of the Habitation type (but the blueprints were acquired only through buying) for recruiting and developing Marines and for Service Crew? As habitats, they would require food and medicines according to the race, to increase population, and each race would have specific products to increase training speed. Also the chances for certain stats could be in play: Split get higher chance for better marines but produce less quantities, Teladi get higher Management stars, Paranid higher engineer stars Humans produce many people but with low quality overall... something like that.

I wonder what game have you played so far?

X4 already has all of this and you can get it via Terraforming ....

In addition to Marines you can also have 5-star pilots ...

[grapedog]

I suppose this idea is not new: how about having modules of the Habitation type (but the blueprints were acquired only through buying) for recruiting and developing Marines and for Service Crew? As habitats, they would require food and medicines according to the race, to increase population, and each race would have specific products to increase training speed. Also the chances for certain stats could be in play: Split get higher chance for better marines but produce less quantities, Teladi get higher Management stars, Paranid higher engineer stars Humans produce many people but with low quality overall... something like that.

I wonder what game have you played so far?

X4 already has all of this and you can get it via Terraforming ....

In addition to Marines you can also have 5-star pilots ...

While not wrong, terraforming is an extreme end game thing usually. Even something like terraforming memory of profit still requires the PHQ with wharfs to build drones.

A reliable way to find/develop skilled crew in the early game would be better.

I don't know if I would use this idea too much, as marines can be recruited from defense stations,and how many marines do you really need at a high level. A single cobra full of 2+ star def station recruited marines will cap 70% of the L and XL ships in the game. Spend 30 minutes and get 2 cobras full and that will cap like 90 or 95% of all L and XL ships.

Pilots early game i don't need stars beyond 2 really, and i can use seminars for that. Pilots train up pretty quick on gate defense duties as well.

Simply, they need to populate stations better. I should be able to find a bar on any station and recruit pilots of 2 stars. I should be able to go to engineering and find engineers. Security should have a few marines.

These things above are already in game, just not used. Instead of creating new assets, just expand on what we have. Need 10 decent pilots, you might have to visit 3 or 4 different bars. Need 25 marines, might have to check out a few stations security areas.

[-=SiR KiLLaLoT=-]

A fairly late game (not at endgame) you will find all these figures in your stations.
I often find marines and pilots with 2-3 stars and in the case of pilots they can easily be brought to 3-4 stars with a few simple guild missions.
Also just yesterday I found a lonely Asgard on the opposite side of terran space. It had 3500 of boarding power.
So I bought 10 cobras filling them with very scarce Marines (between 0 and 1 star) and I managed to get 4000 boarding power in a few minutes.
That Asgard is now part of my fleet and you can do this at any time, obviously having the necessary funds

[Nort The Fragrent]

For a new station module, I would like a privet medical facility.
This is where I could send my employees, to get plastic surgery,
turning them into the race look I want to see. ( or gender )

Then there could be a fashion shop, to change the way each employee is dressed !

Move away from the armaments business, and get into normal life stuff.
Fleets of space Debis cleaning ships like Rubbish trucks.
Highway maintenance crews, and their Orange cones.
Church’s providing free food for the mutealated war veterans all of you must have.
And then there could be Hospitals for the cross race Baby boom, that must be rife by now !
Where are all the children?
Schools.
We all know after a war, there is a surge in Babies being produced, where are they ?

[NightmareNight91]

I would actually like a full on Naval Academy.
Not just giving them food or what. But you can assign pilots and ships to them and they'll do actual flight training.
Even better if you can assign high level pilots to act as trainers.

1000x this, the sheer immersion factor watching your new recruits undergo flight training for real would be amazing, even if they just fly around in formation with some radio chatter.

[Raptor34]

I would actually like a full on Naval Academy.
Not just giving them food or what. But you can assign pilots and ships to them and they'll do actual flight training.
Even better if you can assign high level pilots to act as trainers.

1000x this, the sheer immersion factor watching your new recruits undergo flight training for real would be amazing, even if they just fly around in formation with some radio chatter.

I imagine they could also do things like patrol and policing too.
And even responding to attacks.
Of course the higher the risk, the faster they learn.