[2.20] Shipyards/wharf ship templates do not remember crew amount

[mr.WHO]

I created custom loadout template for some ships and I notice that the templates remember all things that I set-up (e.g. weapons, amount of missiles, amount of consumable) except the crew amount.

[Alan Phipps]

Correct and intended. That is because crew members have to be hired and are not 'manufactured'.

[mr.WHO]

Correct and intended. That is because crew members have to be hired and are not 'manufactured'.

Does it make any sence? I Can manually define the ship to have 10 crew then select 10x such ships at purchase, but I can't save this to build template?

[Horux]

Correct and intended. That is because crew members have to be hired and are not 'manufactured'.

This is completely nonsense and absolute annoying. I have always to use the sliders for the crew. And if anyone thinks I hire all the crew for all my ships on the landing platform, he/she would be completely crazy. I only do this for special ships. But all other ships have standard crew layout. A CEO of a big company does not hire ship crew personally.

This really needs to be changed. Since it is not even close to logical and a unnecessary time killer like mass crew transfer.

[radcapricorn]

This is, indeed, nonsensical, and a counter-intuitive inconsistent design. Either the crew complement needs to be moved out of the equipment loadout and into a separate billing category on the order, or it needs to be remembered. The same UI should perform the same function. This is something that is routinely disregarded by the game.

[Imperial Good]

I think crew in general needs an improvement. Currently there is no incentive not to max crew out at ones own warf/shipyard as crew is completely free.