Crew?

[HomeworldFan]

Outside of the pilot, what does the crew do? I'm still in the starter ship, I'm guessing this will be more important in the bigger ship but what does the service crew do?

[Nexuscrawler]

That is completely unclear and we only have speculations.
Apparently they help with repairs, because some are gaining Engineering skills when the ships get damaged.
Maybe they help with turrets as well.

[HomeworldFan]

In a way, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that doesn't know.... but also, that really isn't a good thing.

[Methexonion]

Arghhhh Didn't know that they get engineering points when they are repairing. I'm gonna boost my way through that hideous asteroid field and put this on a test. thanks!

[Yzandor]

They make NOISE!! They cant stay sitted for more then 10 sec, causing chair noise, crazy!

[Methexonion]

They make NOISE!! They cant stay sitted for more then 10 sec, causing chair noise, crazy!

I have my twisted bull penis whip on my hand all the time mate. You can't even hear them breathe.

[HomeworldFan]

Just built my first medium ship (MIN Teladi Vulture) with zero crew, just myself as a pilot, and so far, I'm able to fly the ship to my destination. I'm guessing the marines are there to counter any boarding party, but what does the service crew do?

[Requiemfang]

Just built my first medium ship (MIN Teladi Vulture) with zero crew, just myself as a pilot, and so far, I'm able to fly the ship to my destination. I'm guessing the marines are there to counter any boarding party, but what does the service crew do?

There doesn't appear to be anything the AI uses to board other ships in the game to steal them. There was a mod in X3TC and AP that actually allowed pirates to jump into a sector with boarding capable ships that would attack and actually capture npc ships, if there was such a mod in the future developed that does this I would see the reason to equip all your large ships with marines. Mainly though Marines are for the player to use to cap ships.

Gonna pose a question, does the service crew do anything really? like do they repair the ship when it's damaged? like say the ship has a certain % of hull damage do they actually repair it over time?

[Nikola515]

I liberated one of ships from evil people stealing art (I asked nicely and pilot left it there ) Anyway ship was on 1% hp so I hired five crew members and they didn't fix anything.

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Surrender dialogue actually works

[Requiemfang]

that about sums up my feelings about how many 'features' weren't implimented, I would not have mind waiting another 6 months for the devs to have given us a less broken game with less left out features.

[KextV8]

I dunno. They seem to gain exp tho and missions ask for skilled engineers/managers and such so that's what I di with them.

[Nikola515]

Some of them are bugged and unfinished as well... For example we should give them gifts to increase skill (not implemented yet). At the same time I have same manager for over 40h that haven't leveled up yet (known bug). Anyway I'm actually surprised that game is in this shape and working somewhat ( I expected it to be broken as XR).

[Requiemfang]

Lease ES learned part of a lesson with XR. Don't release a completely broken game to the public, I feel they could have tried a little harder though with X4 before releasing.