No matter how I move the slider or check the checkboxes, I always get some red error message and the Confirm button is always grayed out. Why does a simple operation like this have to be such a convoluted mess? Am I stupid or is this still not easily possible? All this needs is a single button in the middle to swap captains. Is that so hard to implement?
The other thing that bothers me is if I claim a ship or get a ship as a reward without a captain (e.g. the first mission for Hatikvah), when I upgrade the ship, it is not possible to add a captain. You have to add a service crew or marine, then promote him/her to captain. Are you kidding me? And then on the opposite end when I buy a ship the captain is mandatory. Why? The checkbox for the captain is completely useless and disfunctional, how was this not fixed yet?
Seriously, this whole crew system needs a complete rethink and rework from the ground up. I feel like I'm repeating myself and others, but this is a constant source of frustration.
- Crew recruitment is tedious and doesn't make sense
(Personally hiring random people from the streets to be your slaves forever, sometimes for stupid amounts of money, or personally injecting the "cheap ones" with anti-retardation seminars, the whole concept is just so wrong and immersion breaking. Is this how you hire people in Germany? Why are clueless people allowed to fly multimillion credit capital ships? Where is the Naval Academy? Or the interstellar version of LinkedIn?) - Experience gain is inconsistent
(The captain sitting behind me doing nothing while I control the ship gains XP much faster then a pilot who actually makes profit by mining and selling and doing stuff.) - Crew transfer is annoying at best and broken at worst
(Is there even a reason not to buy a full complement of slaves... khm, service crew for your ships all the time?) - And dumbing down the AI is just plain stupid and only creates frustration
(Honestly, this design decision baffles me the most, it's just unbelievable someone would intentionally dumb down the AI they wrote...)