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Sparky862 Feb 7, 2022 @ 11:35pm
Hiring Crew
Me again, so far I received valuable feedback from the Community and I thank you guys for that.

I have another question for today.

I saw you can hire NPC crew? Is this a good or bad thing in the game? Or are the NPC brain dead?
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Heimdall313 (Banned) Feb 7, 2022 @ 11:40pm 
Just for Ship launched fighters.

Put them in fixed beam Gelid, or fixed Multicannons Condor with chaff.
lowest rank NPC you can find will be just as good as Expert in those ships, basically an extra Medium hardpoint for a Krait or w/e. They rank up fast, and when they hit master or higher they become nearly untouchable in a Condor.

Edit: they take 10% of your earnings and some combat XP but honestly, never even noticed it
Last edited by Heimdall313; Feb 7, 2022 @ 11:41pm
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Agony_Aunt Feb 7, 2022 @ 11:57pm 
Originally posted by Heimdall313:
Edit: they take 10% of your earnings and some combat XP but honestly, never even noticed it

They take 10% at Elite if you train them up from zero (ideal).

If you train them up from Expert, then more.

They take less at lower ranks.

And yeah, 10% is nothing.

People say "My NPC has taken 1 billion in credits! Its an outrage" meaning they are sitting on 9 billion credits....
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Sparky862 Feb 8, 2022 @ 12:07am 
So Crew Members otherwise provides no actuall benefits for mining, explorations ect.

But will be beneficial IF I get a ship with a Launch Port to fit a Fighter in so the NPC can deploy with the Fighter?

Or should the NPC be in the same ship I am flying?
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Heimdall313 (Banned) Feb 8, 2022 @ 12:44am 
Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:
Originally posted by Heimdall313:
Edit: they take 10% of your earnings and some combat XP but honestly, never even noticed it

They take 10% at Elite if you train them up from zero (ideal).

If you train them up from Expert, then more.

They take less at lower ranks.

And yeah, 10% is nothing.

People say "My NPC has taken 1 billion in credits! Its an outrage" meaning they are sitting on 9 billion credits....

Either way, its tiny lol. My pilot is at like 800,000,000 cr by now and I never noticed.



Originally posted by Sparky862:
So Crew Members otherwise provides no actuall benefits for mining, explorations ect.

But will be beneficial IF I get a ship with a Launch Port to fit a Fighter in so the NPC can deploy with the Fighter?

Or should the NPC be in the same ship I am flying?

The only thing your NPC really does is fly the SLF, if you have one. Otherwise, they just do nothing.

Keelback, Crusader, Krait II, Gunship, are the mediums with SLF options. Krait is the most common user by a lot.
Large ships, the Beluga, Type 9, Type 10, Anaconda, Cutter, Corvette have SLF; the cheaper Large ships like Type 7, Orca, Clipper, do not. SLF are common in Large combat ships, since they have a lot of internal slots, and they use them to put some pressure / extra damage on agile small ships they have difficulty hitting, or to have extra damage against Large ships that can't even joke about hitting them.

Some mining builds, mostly High RES mining rigs, use SLF to protect their ship while mining; that's the only use an NPC has while mining,
Krait is the only Medium ship that would mine with an SLF, while Type 10 / Anaconda / Cutter are common RES miners using SLF for extra protection.
Last edited by Heimdall313; Feb 8, 2022 @ 12:46am
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krashd Feb 8, 2022 @ 1:55am 
Do crew members take some of your profits for ever? Even if they aren't assigned to your ship?
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Sparky862 Feb 8, 2022 @ 2:06am 
Originally posted by krashd:
Do crew members take some of your profits for ever? Even if they aren't assigned to your ship?

Even if they do, it is like 10% of whatever you make.

So it really ain't that much. In easier math 10% of example 100 would be 10.

So if you made 100 credits, the NPC gets paid 10 credits and you get 90 credits.

With bigger totals you wont even notice it because you still pocket hugely.
Last edited by Sparky862; Feb 8, 2022 @ 2:06am
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krashd Feb 8, 2022 @ 2:10am 
Yeah, but I don't want someone who is sitting on their butt doing nothing taking a million from me every time I make 10 million.
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Heimdall313 (Banned) Feb 8, 2022 @ 2:24am 
Originally posted by krashd:
Yeah, but I don't want someone who is sitting on their butt doing nothing taking a million from me every time I make 10 million.

Boss makes a dollar, i make a dime, that's why I poop idle on company time
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Agony_Aunt Feb 8, 2022 @ 2:38am 
Yeah, they are limited to SLFs. I'd love FD to add a mining SLF with some basic mining AI for the NPCs. Or even just having them appear in our cockpits. Maybe having an NPC assigned to turrets increases accuracy of turrets by 10-20%? Or allows turrets to not be affected by chaff.

Quite a few possibilities that probably wouldn't take major efforts from FD to implement.
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AJ24 Feb 8, 2022 @ 2:41am 
Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:
Yeah, they are limited to SLFs. I'd love FD to add a mining SLF with some basic mining AI for the NPCs. Or even just having them appear in our cockpits. Maybe having an NPC assigned to turrets increases accuracy of turrets by 10-20%? Or allows turrets to not be affected by chaff.

Quite a few possibilities that probably wouldn't take major efforts from FD to implement.
Yeah I keep hoping for the same
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Karax Feb 8, 2022 @ 3:47am 
So to role of crew is limited to SLF?

I was also thinking about this, in odyssey, does crew you hire follow you around on the ground?
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Agony_Aunt Feb 8, 2022 @ 4:07am 
Originally posted by Karax:
So to role of crew is limited to SLF?

I was also thinking about this, in odyssey, does crew you hire follow you around on the ground?

No. They sit in some magical compartment where you can't see them.

If you fly the SLF yourself, they will fly the mothership for you though.
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Karax Feb 8, 2022 @ 4:14am 
Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:
Originally posted by Karax:
So to role of crew is limited to SLF?

I was also thinking about this, in odyssey, does crew you hire follow you around on the ground?

No. They sit in some magical compartment where you can't see them.

If you fly the SLF yourself, they will fly the mothership for you though.

I see...well there is a huge opportunity for adding crew for tasks like mining, and following you around on the ground, sort of like in star wars republic commando, it would be a shame not to!
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Edelweiss ✿ Feb 8, 2022 @ 5:51am 
Originally posted by Karax:
Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

No. They sit in some magical compartment where you can't see them.

If you fly the SLF yourself, they will fly the mothership for you though.

I see...well there is a huge opportunity for adding crew for tasks like mining, and following you around on the ground, sort of like in star wars republic commando, it would be a shame not to!
wont ever happen
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Karax Feb 8, 2022 @ 6:21am 
Originally posted by Edelweiss ✿:
Originally posted by Karax:

I see...well there is a huge opportunity for adding crew for tasks like mining, and following you around on the ground, sort of like in star wars republic commando, it would be a shame not to!
wont ever happen

I don't see why not...we already have walking NPC's around right? all we need now is NPC's following cmdr and responding to commands, sort of like SLF works.

Would also love to see SLF shooting and extracting those lodes from cracked asteroids, although that one might be trickier.
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