Add More Crew so I can buy Mother Earth

[BlackFireFox]

I am trying to buy the Mother Earth Ship and it says I need 5 crew, I have all the members I can recruit at the moment as I have progressed the story to it's full extent, I have defeated 1 full system and take all of its stations and resources, did I miss something to recruit someone?

[[CU] phoe]

I'm not sure how to increase the crew per se, but have you seen the "dome" on your command deck, that lets you add sections to your HQ. I don't know if that might be related as it appears to let you add generals, I just can't find a button to let me do that once I've bought the add-ons.

[japp_02]

You must advance with the storyline, that's a must to complete your crew.
This crew has nothing to do with your WRA faction.

[redsidhe]

Do yourself a favor a do not buy it yet. Its still a bit bugged.

I tried selling mine and still have a ghost copying following me around....

[moe_pse]

please report this ingame via F10 and/or on discord's bug report section.
since we only get to know 4 crew members during the storyline so far, mothership wouldnt be buy-/usable for anyone if we'd need 5 crew members now :(

[Valdyr]

Once I got the second droid character it let me buy the Mother Earth. It's an incredible ship but has some serious flaws. I would LOVE to be able to park it in space and launch one of my other ships from its hangar as seems to have been the intent but you can't really do that at this time. However, the drones in combination with my wing take care of most enemy fighters with no problems and the guns swat enemy cap ships quickly once I can get them into the rather limited firing arc. Fixing the turret issues and adding the ability to launch in a fighter would make it amazingly good. As of right now it's not as effective as the "heavy fighter" corvettes since they have much better firing arcs and maneuverability to get ships into said arcs.

[japp_02]

Originally posted by Rethys:

I would LOVE to be able to park it in space and launch one of my other ships from its hangar as seems to have been the intent but you can't really do that at this time.

Really? I've done this several times and I had no problems, I once left my mothership with a fighter and went down to a planet to do a mission. No problems. However: it's true that I didn't do it in the current game version, so things may have changed and maybe it's bugged now, IDK.
What you cannot do and that's intended is: you can takeoff with docked ships but you cannot use the jumpgates with them, you must first dock to the mothership again and fly it if you want to leave the system via jumpgates (and I guess it's impossible to warp with docked ships to other systems as well, but I haven't checked that).

[Valdyr]

Originally posted by japp_02:

Originally posted by Rethys:

I would LOVE to be able to park it in space and launch one of my other ships from its hangar as seems to have been the intent but you can't really do that at this time.

Really? I've done this several times and I had no problems, I once left my mothership with a fighter and went down to a planet to do a mission. No problems. However: it's true that I didn't do it in the current game version, so things may have changed and maybe it's bugged now, IDK.
What you cannot do and that's intended is: you can takeoff with docked ships but you cannot use the jumpgates with them, you must first dock to the mothership again and fly it if you want to leave the system via jumpgates (and I guess it's impossible to warp with docked ships to other systems as well, but I haven't checked that).

How did you manage that? I don't see any way to bring any of that up...

[moe_pse]

Originally posted by Rethys:

How did you manage that? I don't see any way to bring any of that up...

you need to select up to 2 fighters for the 2 decks of your mothership at one of those ship call consoles. in that console menue you can select the fighters you want to have with the mothership in a small dropdown menue underneath mothership's description. then call the mothership (with the 2 fighters docked) and enter it.

afterwards in space, just exit your pilot seat, walk to your mothership's hangar, enter one of the fighters you've assigned before and take off :)

[japp_02]

It's in the SHIP MANAGER at the station where your mothership is docked: in that console you use the dropdown in the entry of the MS to determine which fighters will be docked at your MS. After this you can use the docked ships in the same system where you MS is.

That's how it worked for me some game versions ago when I was with my MS the last time, if it's buggy now IDK.

[Valdyr]

Holy crap! How did I miss that!? Thank you!

[japp_02]

Originally posted by Rethys:

Holy crap! How did I miss that!? Thank you!

I hope this helps you, tell me if it worked for you !

[Valdyr]

It did. The docking is somewhat awkward, but it works. Looking forward to getting to put it to use!

[viperbx]

Originally posted by BlackFireFox:

I am trying to buy the Mother Earth Ship and it says I need 5 crew, I have all the members I can recruit at the moment as I have progressed the story to it's full extent, I have defeated 1 full system and take all of its stations and resources, did I miss something to recruit someone?

same here.... it ask me for 5 crew members... have no clue... checked patch notes... smh

[japp_02]

You only need 4 NPC crew members: When you get Momo you can get the MS. If the game says 5 then I suppose it means You + 4 NPC crew members:

NPC crew members are (in order of the storyline):

Anka
Drane (droid)
Molyax
Momo (robot)
Jack (AFAIK not needed to get the MS, but I may be wrong, I don't recall...)

https://unofficial-spacebourne-2.fandom.com/wiki/Characters#Main_Characters

(I will investigate when you get Jack and if this NPC is necessary, I don't recall wether I got him before buying the mothership.)

[Valdyr]

Jack is needed for the Capital Station, but not the MS. I have the MS and not Jack.