How to change crew profession without reassigning?

[Sticky Wicket]

I am trying to change a service crew member to Marine.

Normally I reassign them by *work somewhere else* (but just select the ship they are already on) and change profession but normally there is space on board cause I am docked and shuffling crew around.

This time I'm in space and there is a full crew. If I try to reassign them to the same ship to change profession the game says *there is no space on the ship for them*.

I'm guessing there has to be a way to just change someones profession.

[Wenzilber]

Not in game right now to double check but I think you can drag the Number of Service Crew you got in your ship in Ship Details > Subordinates (menu?).

Then you can just increase the amount of Marines the ship will have. That would reassign your current Service Crew as Marines, and vice versa.

[conrado.lacerda]

In the "crew" tab of the ship's info panel, just click and drag the slider bars; don't forget to confirm.

[Azrelus]

You'll have to move another crew member to another ship temporarily, change the profession of the crew member you want to change, then move the other back.

The options above are for bulk profession change, single crew member profession change has to be done manually.

[Sticky Wicket]

Ya I want to assign 1 specific person (who was a Marine when I hired them and they have high boarding skills but I assigned them to service crew because at least they get some xp instead of just being dead weight).

So it seems you have got to have 1 crewmember short to leave a gap on your ships so that people can shuffle professions cause the game is too stupid to realise reassigning the same crew member to the same ship is not taking up a new space.

If this is really how idiotic this is going to be than assigning a Marine in the first place needs to have some benefit to the ship and the person. They should be allowed to gain some kind of xp when aboard a vessel.