Upgrade crew tier?

[Serpent]

are there anyway to upgrade crew tier and unlock level cap? it kinda waste to just replace them with another one with higher cap.
won't it be super boring when at end game everyone have to same crew?

[Mixedbeats18]

Singler player game ... we dont care much about each other playthought, besides last stages of the coliseum are when things get heated

[Stoibs]

To be honest... the game already has a balance issue with the ship combat in that a lot of it ceases being interesting or a challenge due to how easy it is to level up crew and how relatively cheap it is to upgrade the ship. I wouldn't stress too much over this.

In chapter 2 you can leave Honolulu with a maxed out Pirate Rank, with Lvl 2 Shark cannons or Lasers, and a crew of about 80 right off the bat.. and this is before you've even engaged in proper pirate battles.
The game's pacing is whack.

It was a little awkward a few times of the main story when Majima/Jason/Noah are stressing about 'Not being strong enough' to take on Mortimer when I had cleared out the Pirate Colosseum and done all the 4 cursed Instruments storyline by that point And then they send you out in a mission to get a cannon which is worse than you already have

The Amon ship fight was the best in the entire game, and the one that I actually died on at first. Wish there was more stuff like this which required full use of your manoeuvrability and repair/smoke bomb usages etc.

[Sentient_Toaster]

The simple answer to the actual question is no.

Crew tiers are never upgraded. The very specific crew that have Drink Links associated with them will have their level caps increased by 10 (or, for a support character, rank increased by one star) when you have completed all their Drink Links; and that's it.

[Kosmodisk]

Originally posted by Serpent:

are there anyway to upgrade crew tier and unlock level cap? it kinda waste to just replace them with another one with higher cap.
won't it be super boring when at end game everyone have to same crew?

you upgrade you 20/20 crew member by getting a completely different 1/30 crew member