Possibly a bug: Crew Supremacy upgrade makes it impossible to buy crew skill upgrade

[OnionBro]

I just got all my crewmembers to mastery 8 and spent the 16 Mastery Points to buy Crew supremacy. After that i prestiged (to unlock new slots in the new base).
Now i think my crew is effectively weaker as it was before the Crew Supremacy Upgrade.
I think the reason is that i am now lacking the crew skil upgrades that can be bought with void matter, but i can't buy these upgrades anymore and crew supremacy doesn't compensate for it. My current Crew Skill is 3.18 and i am quite sure it was at 8 or higher before.

[adeyke]

You're right. I had assumed that, when crew supremacy took away that button, it meant giving a permanent "maxed" crew skill bonus, but it just doesn't give one at all. I haven't prestiged since getting crew supremacy and thus have +2.5 flat value addition from that button for 11.14 total. If I prestige, it drops to 3.18 with no way to increase it.

[OnionBro]

I just restarted the game and it gave me some Points in Flat Value Additions to my Crew Skill, so now my crew skill is at 11.14 and i think my crew is now indeed more powerful than before buying Crew Supremacy. Maybe the game can spend the Void Matter you gain while offline to still buy crew skill (it was set to automatically buy crew skill with void matter before bought the Crew Supremacy upgrade).

[Sylv]

They go away because they cap it out at a high value
If you look in stats and info you should see a new upgrade for it
are you aying you do NOT have that new upgrade thats better after prestige?

[adeyke]

Speaking for myself, before prestige, I have this:

Flat Value Additions

Crew: + 0.06: +2.5
Total Flat Value Bonus 2.5
Stat Total: 3.5

If I prestige, that entire section is gone with nothing to replace it. I don't know if it ever returns. I don't actually want to prestige right now, so I restored my pre-prestige save.

[Sylv]

oh, well yup your right. fixed next patch

[roboticaust]

I feel like that +2.5 is a tad low as well. Was sitting at this mark without even using t13 modules to push it further. I think a different way of addressing this could be nice. Thinking around the lines of allowing both scrap and void upgrades to exist past this point and converting the scrap one into a multiplier to crew skill. Would allow both to remain mildly relevant while barely nudging the gauge.

Imo, having both scrap and void become obsolete so quickly feels odd especially when t13 exists as well as recently acquired fleet bonuses to reduce modules for both while also funneling their applicable use strictly to crew (such as not needing to worry about either one in reactor and compute).

I wouldn't be surprised if this is intentional design with the addition of crew splicing in the future; but without that feature currently, it all feels awkward.

[roboticaust]

Just experimented with this bug while finishing this reinforce for another shard slot. Seems saving then closing the game after the bugged prestige causes it to correct when opening the game back up. So temporary solution until the next hotfix.