Have a way to either " store" officers or demote them to crew

[sandytaxman]

I have a swordsman/zealot as an officer. I am considering switching to a doctor/combat medic xx in place of the swordsmen officer.. The problem is two fold:
1. I don''t know if this will work well
2. I would have to dismiss the swordsmen officer forever in order to recruit the doctor as an officer because my officer cadre is full. Even worse, I will have to dismiss the officer before I can even see the doctor stats when I recruit him.

So, what's the answer? The best answer is to be able to "store" officers that we don't want at least temporarily or to be able to temporarily demote them to crew. Also, We should be able to see stats of any potential recruits without having to dismiss an officer or crew member. Please fix this. It is very frustrating.

[wilky]

I also suggested to the dev once that I wish you could "demote" officers to crew (perhaps paying a small $$ penalty and/or perhaps retaining their higher salary denoting they once were officers)

The implementation would be tricky, though, because you would have to re-spec the talents since the officer potentially loses their 2nd and 3rd job classes.

In effect, if you think about it, the ability to demote / promote officers back and forth would also give you the ability to re-choose job classes (maybe not the primary one, but the secondary/tertiary ones)

[Trese Brothers]

Thanks for the suggestions!

Demoted officers simply desert.

[sandytaxman]

Well, if demoting them won't work then how about mothballing them until we need them. Thus,we can clear out an officer spot without having to fire them.

[Trese Brothers]

Originally posted by sandytaxman:

Well, if demoting them won't work then how about mothballing them until we need them. Thus,we can clear out an officer spot without having to fire them.

Mothballing an officer is a death sentence, as they'd need to stay on a grav world, suddenly start aging and be dead in no time. No, they'd haunt the spice hall and take up with another captain immediately, i.e. desert.