Is there finally a easy way to hire crew?

[Hanalyd]

Getting tired running around bases to find NPC for hire and then having the luck to get one with stats you want.
If you cant then reloading save game is the best bet but this is too tedious.
Havent played for a year and still cant find a better way.
So many updates and still no better hiring menu?

[Daddy Shark]

For ships or for stations?

For ships you just dock them at a shipyard and upgrade, there's a slider there to purchase a crew. For stations you only need one manager - and any NPC will do. Station managers level up super fast so you're just wasting time trying to min-max your managers.

[Hanalyd]

I am looking for a 2 Star Pilot for more than an hour now. I know the method you told me but that means that they still haven't made an easy interface to get a list of potential crew you could hire.

[Axeface]

2 star pilots are easy to get, you buy basic and 1 star seminar and only give them to pilots with decent morale. High morale crew are incredibly easy to get, they will be generated in pretty much any of your ships, but you can 'farm' them in builder ships, or aux ships if you want. If you are looking for an 'easy' (as in, immediate) way to get 3 star pilots im afraid you are looking for something that is not there by design (rarely it is if you get lucky finding one on a station)... I suggest you get some cheat mods if you dont agree with the design rather than call it a 'bug' or 'missing' feature. It is by design.

So yeh, 2 star, find an npc with a couple of stars or more of morale and give them a basic and 1 star seminar.

[Xander Tyrann]

its worth mentioning you can find crew in your own stations if they have a population and you dont have to pay for them.

[Dracon]

Originally posted by Xander Tyrann:

its worth mentioning you can find crew in your own stations if they have a population and you dont have to pay for them.

Try to fill an Asgard that way...

[Daddy Shark]

Originally posted by TGITBIB:

I am looking for a 2 Star Pilot for more than an hour now. I know the method you told me but that means that they still haven't made an easy interface to get a list of potential crew you could hire.

As was mentioned, just get any pilot and give them a seminar.

I agree, I would like to see maybe a "job listing" terminal added to stations. You can walk up and pick from anyone that's on the current station. Sort by role/skill/whatever.

Originally posted by Dracon:

Try to fill an Asgard that way...

Can't you just dock at your own shipyard and fill up from the habitat modules?

[Hanalyd]

I get all that and you guys talk about own ships and stations but what about the people that just started out that have 1 ship and 100K in the bank.
I know its easier later on but from a new start its just ♥♥♥♥.
Trying to find a high morale one is a pain in the ass.

[Xander Tyrann]

Originally posted by TGITBIB:

I get all that and you guys talk about own ships and stations but what about the people that just started out that have 1 ship and 100K in the bank.
I know its easier later on but from a new start its just ♥♥♥♥.
Trying to find a high morale one is a pain in the ass.

to be fair, a station can be cheaper than some crew. in fact, the good crew you are looking for may well cost more than 100k. 3 star crew cost 1 mill+ which is why i mentioned you own station as you can build a production station with crew for less than that. For you i would just get some random crew and give them seminars though.

[camus]

Why're looking for crew when can't even afford another ship?

[Sungod1]

In X4 anything easy is Verboten.

[Lapo]

Not sure what you mean? You can hire service crew and marines at any station that can produce or equip a ship using the equipment interface. Depending on racial bonuses they can come from 0 stars to 2 stars.
You can only hire pilots that way when you buy a new ship, but bumping any NPC crew to a 2 star pilot is easy as the seminars to do it are sold at the station traders. For best results use them on someone with high morale.

[Xenomorph]

We're talking some 4K for a nobody vs hundreds of thousands or millions for a 2*. This is not something you wanna do unless you have infinite funds and patience.

Hire nobodies, kill things yourself, loot seminars, teach your braindead nobodies something new.

Or hire nobodies, and deal with it.

Unfortunately, in vanilla X4 you can't hire anyone decent for pennies. Everyone can talk and sound alive, but has the learning ability ability of a rock.

This is one of the worse things about X4, every single NPC we hire is either a cheap disposable or a very expensive disposable.

Lets say, a few hours after starting a new game, you save up for a fancy trader and a very expensive pilot you think it's worth the price, on a ship of your choice.

He goes out, gets ganked. Bummer.

Reality check, even full 5* NPC do that. Just rocks flying ships. They don't do anything special. The only difference is you need * for them to do certain things.

Vanilla, you are forever bound to have a roster of absolute idiots flying your expensive assets.

The only difference i've ever seen in * is marines, because it adds to boarding strength. THAT makes a hell of a difference. The other stuff ppl say better pilots gather rocks faster and ♥♥♥♥, personally, never cared. Makes no difference.

Stop disappointing yourself. Get in your ship, and thing of everything as loot.

[Malkuth]

Originally posted by Xander Tyrann:

Originally posted by TGITBIB:

I get all that and you guys talk about own ships and stations but what about the people that just started out that have 1 ship and 100K in the bank.
I know its easier later on but from a new start its just ♥♥♥♥.
Trying to find a high morale one is a pain in the ass.

to be fair, a station can be cheaper than some crew. in fact, the good crew you are looking for may well cost more than 100k. 3 star crew cost 1 mill+ which is why i mentioned you own station as you can build a production station with crew for less than that. For you i would just get some random crew and give them seminars though.

Well if you have 1 ship and 100k you shouldn’t be worried about crew. Lol. You need to start the game first :).

Crew is easy to get you just buy them when you purchase a ship. Of course you need more than 100k.

Than you send them on sector traders or sector miners. And while they are working on that you do missions with rewards of seminars.

It’s all about building up. It’s not instant. You can make millions with one ship and no crew. Many different ways.