What are doing the crew members exactly ?

[shadejh]

I have a Cobra MK3, so I can hire a crew member. But what the point ? He or she pilot the ship or else for example ? They can do things in the ship like targeting or/and firing ?

[HamakiBCN2]

All they can do is fly your Ship-Launched Fighter if you have one. Or fly the ship while you're flying the SLF. Mind you, if you train them to a high combat level, letting them fly the SLF is a pretty good amount of guaranteed damage on the enemy. But it takes quite a while to train them to that level.

Other than that, they're just wasted space. Not only that, but they take an outrageous amount of your earnings, EVEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT ACTIVE.

[neock]

Originally posted by HamakiBCN2:

All they can do is fly your Ship-Launched Fighter if you have one. Or fly the ship while you're flying the SLF. Mind you, if you train them to a high combat level, letting them fly the SLF is a pretty good amount of guaranteed damage on the enemy. But it takes quite a while to train them to that level.

Other than that, they're just wasted space. Not only that, but they take an outrageous amount of your earnings, EVEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT ACTIVE.

a bit of missed info on this. they are restricted to fighter craft you can store in hangers, unlike player crew. but getting them from harmless rank means they willl charge you less when you rank them up to deadly. wish you could pause payments to them tho when they wornt on crew... because fireing them means they are basicly deleted and you need to stat from scratch again

[shadejh]

So it's not like the old Elite game, where you needed crew member depending of the size of the ship.
Thanks for all.

[HamakiBCN2]

Originally posted by neock:

a bit of missed info on this. they are restricted to fighter craft you can store in hangers, unlike player crew.

I don't know what you mean, all SLF's are stored in hangars. Players can't fly your SLF's either if there's no SLF stored in a hangar on board.