Feature Request: Crew Management

[swagrid]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there is a mechanic to manage multiple crew members (especially for transfer and hiring). I know you can hire multiple crew members when you buy a ship. But I don't want to buy a new ship everytime I need new staff.

Suggestions

1. Hiring overview at space stations
This would add another menu entry to the main menu when docked on a station. This overview would list all people (or aliens) that can be hired, including their skillset and payment. Hiring would then be possible without leaving the ship and running around across the station desperatly searching for a capable captian.
As it seems, the more experienced pilots or other crew members are flying around in other ships. This shouldn't be changed imo as it should be an effort to find the really good people. However, this introduces my 2nd point.

2. Job scouts
Job scouts should be a special sort of crew member (like marines and serivce members) that explicitly look for other people meeting a specified skill set. These job scouts dock at other ships and stations and search for new members to hire. Once they hired someone, this person joins the ship the job scout is on, and the scout notifies the player (you).

3a. Mass transfer on stations
If two ships are docked at the same station, there should be an option to explicitly transfer crew members from one to another. This could be a simple list, listing all crew members with their role and skills. Select those that should be transfered and confirm the process. Done.

3b. Mass transfer in space
Scenario: two ships are close to each other (in open space). One of the ships has a low tier ship docked onto it (an S tier ship, that, obviously, is owned by the player). There should be an option like in 3a that allows mass crew transfer between the ships by using the low tier ship as a taxi to move the crew.



What are your thoughts on this? Is this a good idea?

[RTiger32]

Dock at an equipment dock or shipyard and just Hire or Fire crew on whatever ship you want through the upgrade menu.

[Tilen]

Agreed. On a slightly related note: I hired a captain for a mission that required a ship to be flown and was then to be destroyed. The mission giver told me to evacuate said ship before and I didn't see any such option as if the crew is unable to leave ship in space. I fired the captain.

Was there a better way to go about this?

[Fayte]

I docked both ships, and moved the crew to the other ship, then flew the sacrafice and then eva'd to the new ship.