Your crew uniforms

[conTeXT]

How are your crews dressed? I end up with specific uniforms for specific roles -- for example, navigators and pilots get the "Starfleet" blue uniforms, e-techs are in yellow, doctors in suits or the black and grey hi-booted jumpsuit, scientists and commanders black and white jacket/cape, gunners in green jumpsuit with cowl, pistoleers and swordsmen red pirate, smugglers and shock troopers in leather jacket. I also tend to use armbands for conscripted crew, and a few hats here and there.

Setting up the uniforms is a small but fun piece of the game for me, it adds a lot of charm as well as buy-in to the roleplay aspects. How about you? Do the uniforms matter? Are they individualized in different ways in your games?

[Trese Brothers]

Most recently, I've been setting a uniform for the entire crew and then as different officers and crew members do things within the game that make them stand out, that's when I give them a custom uniform. That's kind of the most fun for me at the moment from an RP standpoint.

[davea]

A few times, if there is a group that forms in my head for RP, I'll give them the same uniform. For example, I had an officer gun deck boss, and she got a circle of craft pilots and crew dogs. Or, one contact from a foreign faction gave me a good officer and a bunch of high level recruits, so they all got a common uniform type.

[John Hadley]

I don't change any of the unforms except my captain's at the start of the game. Fate will guide them.

[Füchsingeist]

I outfit specialists mostly, regardless of vessel I am on. Merchants and smugglers shouldn't wear military outfits. Diplomats... Well, I prefer them to be stylish. Pirates - luxury clothing, especially if it's Captain or an Officer. Fleet outfit for MOffs and Commanders - without and with regalia, etc.
Non-specialist crew, when I care - that depends on the career. If I am with military - welcome uniforms.
Combat guys typically wear armor where applicable - assassins, saboteurs and occasional spy would wear clothing.

[Invisible]

I usually use a clone crew. Same girl face with same clothing. Officers get are customized.

[addictedtotanks]

I like to set specific uniforms for crew...the only downside is I wish the "set for job type" button also worked as a "save" function, so when I brought on new crew they would automatically have their uniform set to the new type.
It gets tedios setting the uniforms as you go along, or when you get a new big barracks and can get more sailors.
Or worse, when you have a particularly bad battle that causes death and desertion.

[Füchsingeist]

Originally posted by addictedtotanks:

I like to set specific uniforms for crew...the only downside is I wish the "set for job type" button also worked as a "save" function, so when I brought on new crew they would automatically have their uniform set to the new type.
It gets tedios setting the uniforms as you go along, or when you get a new big barracks and can get more sailors.
Or worse, when you have a particularly bad battle that causes death and desertion.

+1 for that

[conTeXT]

Originally posted by Füchsingeist:

Originally posted by addictedtotanks:

I like to set specific uniforms for crew...the only downside is I wish the "set for job type" button also worked as a "save" function, so when I brought on new crew they would automatically have their uniform set to the new type.
It gets tedios setting the uniforms as you go along, or when you get a new big barracks and can get more sailors.
Or worse, when you have a particularly bad battle that causes death and desertion.

+1 for that

YES. Even cooler if you could carry it between games...

[di eshor ribly]

I tend to set my crew to have the "Starfleet Blue" uniforms with the beret, combat officers get the combat armor with the newer tactical helmet, and the remaining officers get customized with either the Admiral style uniform, a doctor style outfit, or whatever.

In my case, it's definitely due to prior military service. Having a standard uniform is just second nature.

[conTeXT]

Something that would be handy would be if on the visual screen the symbol for the crew job appeared. Not exactly top priority I'm sure, but if you're in there tinkering under the hood anyway...

[Cutlass Jack]

All my officers get custom looks.

The rest of my crew usually gets a standard uniform, but I'll often use a certain hat or eyeware option to show what job they have. So I can tell them at a glance. (For example having all Crew Dogs wear a wooll hat, and all navigators wear the same tech glasses)

I'll also further rename the crew to put their jobs in there. For example changing the name of a navigator to "Navigator <surname>'

[ibanix]

I would like the ability to apply a uniform to the entire crew. At the moment I can only do that to a specific job, AFAIK

[conTeXT]

Should be able to apply it to entire crew except officers, but each "all crew" only applies to same gender as template. So you'll have to do it 2X.

[mark.r.hendrickson]

Originally posted by Invisible:

I usually use a clone crew. Same girl face with same clothing. Officers get are customized.

Like the fembots?

[Greythorn]

The ones with matching uniforms are the ones we shoot at. Yarrr!