Max crew size?

[linepride79]

Where do I go to see what my max crew capacity is? So far all I see is the “2” under crew when I open up my ship menu and 1/2 when I open up the crew menu. Does vasco not count cuz I have him and Sarah assigned to my ship. I ask because I’m reading around the internet and I see that the crew size doesn’t necessarily mean I can only put 2 on the ship. Thank you in advance.

[magickmynd]

The max crew you can have depends on your ship and your skills.

With the largest ship and max skill set you can have up to 8 crew members at a time.

By default without any skills if you have a ship that is capable of it I think you can start with like 4 crew members.

The starter ship is really small, so you would have to buy/build a bigger ship to get more crew.

[linepride79]

Originally posted by magickmynd:

The max crew you can have depends on your ship and your skills.

With the largest ship and max skill set you can have up to 8 crew members at a time.

By default without any skills if you have a ship that is capable of it I think you can start with like 4 crew members.

The starter ship is really small, so you would have to buy/build a bigger ship to get more crew.

But is there a way to see what my max crew can be?

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Crew size is determined by modules like grav drive, reactor, and weapons systems (also later on you get a comspike and em field generator which give 1 crew each)

Weapons give .5 each individual module (so if you use dual lasers you'll give 1 crew slot) if I recall correctly

Highest crew count I could get was 13, but useless since skills only allow up to 8 lol

Originally posted by linepride79:

Originally posted by magickmynd:

The max crew you can have depends on your ship and your skills.

With the largest ship and max skill set you can have up to 8 crew members at a time.

By default without any skills if you have a ship that is capable of it I think you can start with like 4 crew members.

The starter ship is really small, so you would have to buy/build a bigger ship to get more crew.

But is there a way to see what my max crew can be?

In the ship Builder, in the bottom, it'll say Crew Size

[c.s.skyliner]

I guess the max is 10 with adding weapons and maxing out all the ship parts. I haven't been able to go more than 10. 🤔 Maybe there is a mod on Nexus to increase crew capacity.

[wolfarius999]

I have maxed out the skills and in ship menu it shows that I can have 18 crew members. But when I try game says that I reached the limit. Why why is there limit 8. That should be like if you have max skills for crew, so you should be limitied only by ship parametres and not the nonse 8 crew limit.

[MrFizzlepop]

First, Sarah doesn't seem to count against crew count.

3 crew is the max without increasing the Ship Command skill in the social tree. This means you can have 4 crew if Sarah is one of them and the ship has 4 crew or more capacity.

As mentioned, in ship builder you'll see both Crew and Crew capacity on parts.

I just added more weapons and a battle station to increase the crew size till I found out about the skill cap.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by MrFizzlepop:

First, Sarah doesn't seem to count against crew count.

3 crew is the max without increasing the Ship Command skill in the social tree. This means you can have 4 crew if Sarah is one of them and the ship has 4 crew or more capacity.

As mentioned, in ship builder you'll see both Crew and Crew capacity on parts.

I just added more weapons and a battle station to increase the crew size till I found out about the skill cap.

Sarah does not count. That is by design. Nether will your companion. But you won't be able to "assign" a companion to your ship if you have reached the max number. But they will still be on your ship as you travel. Sam's annoying daughter does not count ether.

[Coco]

There's an achievement that you get for hiring 10 different companions. I guess you must have them all at the same time, but I'm not exactly sure, because I don't have this one yet.

So, I would expect that you may have a crew of 10 at least.

[MrFizzlepop]

Yes, crew and passengers are not the same.

I found the only way to verify passenger size easily is to check the mission terminal for a passenger trip mission and see your max passenger size there.

Companions are passengers on your ship, not crew.

So yes, you could have Vasco, Barrett, Andreja, Sam, and Sarah on Board with Sarah not counting and one of the others there as your companion. This would require a 3 crew ship. The adoring Fan fills a passenger slot when on your ship.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Coco:

There's an achievement that you get for hiring 10 different companions. I guess you must have them all at the same time, but I'm not exactly sure, because I don't have this one yet.

So, I would expect that you may have a crew of 10 at least.

The limit on the ship is 9, as someone already mentioned.

There is no achievement for having 10 "crew". The achievement you are thinking of is for recruiting 10 "companions", which doesn't require them to be assigned anywhere, neither to a ship nor an outpost. You just have to recruit them.